WalMan

Yesterday on the balcony before we went out we had: - Kick The Kangaroo poppy tunes from an album I found on eMusic years ago then some Electric Boys. Later on after wifey got quickly bored at the Neon party and we went back to the room I sat on the balcony, watched the stars and listened to Lifesigns - Altitude on headphones with a nightcap. I rather think that people walking past thought I’d been banished for forgetting to get a card or some such 🤣

Based on the email thread it was 6 October. Got a pair of One10’s and BB2 so spoilt for choice…I still may need to find a was to unobtrusively sneak it into the gear corner. Started by rearranging the speaker stack for less than obvious space after the last gig 🤣

Email this morning (he’s been on hols) my cab should be ready to collect in the next week - so when I’m back from my hols 😁

First one back for the new year as vox was away in January and we were a guitarist down, so there was a bit more space to fill but generally went ok. Good crowd singing and dancing so that was good. We had a rehearsal last Monday to clear the cobwebs and check adjustments for songs minus a guitar. I decided to run: bass->Anagram->Baby Sumo->Barefaced BB2 and with the Anagram di’d to the PA but got the usual amp and spare out anyway as I had a previous issue with the Baby Sumo (not repeated since) so wanted to be prepared. No problems last night and it sounded great in the wild and through my IEM’s. Massive cramping in my fretting hand in the last couple of numbers which was a trial and I ache this morning. Now I’m away for some r&r after a crazy couple of months at work, and I get back just before the next gig so will be going into that with no rehearsal and a couple of weeks not playing

I suspect it’s a combination of all of the above - move, Christmas and supplier issues. My order was early October and I was hoping it might be here for my gig tonight but as I’m then away for a couple of weeks and I’d said I’d collect but couldn’t mid February I started another email to check a couple of days ago then didn’t bother. Hopefully it’ll be here for the first gig after I get back 🤞

Ordered mine before that. Last email I had mid January said: They were hoping for the end of the month. As I’m also local, was going to collect, but said I was going to be away early Feb maybe they were a bit more relaxed on mine.

Barock Project at Trading Boundaries. Great Italian prog band and hugely underrated(IMO). Only UK gig again as Michael at TB brings them over. Almost missed them last time as we were gigging until the second night was announced. Going with #2 son and his g/f plus others

I was just spinning down the thread and thought similar, though I have a P and MM pup to use that I need a body for. Then again I started off thinking all black ‘stealth’ mode

Yes it’s a Status neck and I love it 🙂 I have one coming from Kiwi’s graphite venture that I was going to put on the Hard Puncher but Ihaving played that a bit I like the original on that so it’s going onto a bitsa in planning

Made some noise tonight with my first proper bandmates from 40+ years ago. We have been getting together every few months since lockdown just to make some noise and play through the songs from back then but haven’t managed to do so in over 6 months so there were quite a few senior moments. Took the Darkglass Anagram, Barefaced BB2 and Baby Sumo plus Frankenjazz, Hard Puncher and Status S2 along with my regular amps as backup as the Baby Sumo had played up previously but tonight it was fine. Much fun and noise made for few hours. We might not have played for a while but we worked together long enough all those years ago and are still damn tight when we remember the songs structure (knowing nods help). Always good to get together and blast through some choons, maybe a little slower than in the 70’s.

The same 20 second jazz loop of my pension company hold music for the last 2 effing hours - and still only got to number 9 in the queue [EDIT] and after two hours 10 minutes the lines closed and I was cut off [/EDIT] Earlier I had 40 minutes of HMRC's hold clip

Currently loving the FrankenJazz -> Darkglass Anagram -> Darkglass Microtubes -> Barefaced BB2 Nice bright, slightly gritty sounds with thump

Hope it all goes well for you.