WalMan

Anyone else going to this, playing or watching? I've been for the last two years and wasn't sure if I'd be able to go this year because of work, but I've pretty much got everything I need to to done (famous last words!) and said to my boss last Wednesday I'm going to book the Friday & Monday as holiday unless you have any objections (no says he) to block the days, and we'll play it by ear if there's going to be a problem. I'd been telling wifey I couldn't guarantee we could go this year, but today we had a final 'sod it' moment and booked for the weekend - 27-30 Jan - so off to Minehead Butlins we shall go with the vocalist & one guitarist from one of my bands for a third year of vast quantities of music and gin In particular I'm looking forward to (in no particular order other than the poster) Steve Hackett, Ian Paice/Purpendicular, Gun, Dare, Pretty Things, BJH & Bernie Marsden, but we've seen some great new bands as well in the past. I just hope there's not too many clashes of bands I want to see between venues!! SO, pray for my liver and I might see you there

[quote name='Dropzone' timestamp='1483627065' post='3208785'] The strings are about an inch away from the fretboard. The wood has been carved with various designs, I am not sure how to get a pic on here???? I have eternal guitars recommended to me, who are about a mile up the road, it is big effort to get to brighton so may well go with the least line of resistance. [/quote]Mike I've used Graham and currently have the L2500 for repair with Dave at Eternal (who's done a load of work on guitars for my son that he's been pleased with), or there's Ian mentioned above by Nik who's even closer. We have a surfeit of options near us at the mo

A looooong time ago I played in a prog instrumental band that rehearsed at least two nights a week in the drummers ground floor flat with the full PA (for the keys I think it must have been) kit and backline. Never did work out how we got away with it

Bass bashes & LBS in the flurry of notes topping & tailing otherwise perhaps it's too close to home but it left me cold when I watched it after someone tagged me...or perhaps I'm just a miserable old fart

Blue Murder / John Sykes with Tony Franklin was a lot of fretless as I recall

Great night, but I ache all over this morning. Nice friendly pub listening to the fairly lad back sound of my originals band and not at all bothered that there was only one cover in the set (and a weird one at that Mary Poppins).That and it was all sounding good from where I was

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482152789' post='3198024'] I should retract my post. I dropped my 1951 MIJ reissue Fender P Bass face down onto asphalt while standing in front of the case. No damage, a few small scratches. A set up and new strings and all is good. I was lucky. Blue [/quote]DOH!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482090037' post='3197577'] Word to the wise, your bass should go from your hands to the case. No in-between stops. Blue [/quote] I had to put it down to get the case. In the meantime I picked up a bombproof Status S1 with a graphite through neck to tide me over. It's beaten up and I don't need to worry abut it, but it sounds great and plays really easily (even if Iit makes me go for spending on more expensive basses ) [quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1482145634' post='3197929'] Are they also fixing this crack in the side of the body? [/quote] Should be, yes. It's a complete refinish taking the top back & building up from bare wood. I'm pretty sure the crack was in the lacquer not the wood. We shall see...photos to follow

Well it's been a while, but I had an email today to say she should be back by Christmas. Finish is on and dry, and the fine polishing starts next week

I survived my last one with that particular band all the while trying to talk the dep drummer through the set and endings - easy as he's a pro & really good and tight, though the second set got looser & looser as it progressed as many songs just stopped by falling apart (the main reason I've finally had enough and knocked it on the head to become another member of the huge "survivors" group ). How does one try to explain the odd endings (that really shouldn't be) all the while trying to do the odd backing vocal and keep it together...car wreck disintegration it'll be then. Used the SmoothHound radio for the first time, having decided to get back on the radio bandwagon after selling all my kit last year having not used it for a while. Now it was a small venue and I never got more that 10 feet away from the receiver, but all good and solid and sounded fine. Next up replacement IEM's So that's the last gig where I get to do a couple of lead vocals unless I happen to be asked to dep...and actually give in and say yes. Rather bizarrely I was told the I had been accused of ruining the pool table at the previous weeks venue by putting some superglue substance on it - apparently he'd been through the CCTV and reckoned it was me did something. Utter BS of course as all I have is cases full of bits of wood and wire, not a drop of liquid of any sort in there. Ah well. Shame though as I was going to go in and try to get a gig there for my main band. Looks like I'll have to send one of the others in...so no gig there then as no other bugger seems to do much to chase up gigs

Happy days. We're supposed to be recording a new album across the continents this year, though it's hard work herding the cats to get it all together. In the meantime a load of old live videos are being dripped out on a weekly basis. Can't remember what amp I had at the time. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was a Peavey Megabass biamped into a Peavey 1516 cab (2x8 +15). All things considered for a video from 26 years ago and the sound rescued as best as possible it doesn't sound too bad. We had some bloody good fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl4ys-zeYkI

I have a lined G&L L2500 fretless. Still can't always intonate properly in the heat of battle but it's fun to have around

I'm tempting fate, but we do covers and have had a YT channel for a few years now with an assortment of covers (funnily enough) and to date have not had a copyright hit, perhaps we've just been lucky or selected songs from bands on labels or with lawyers less like Mr Rickenbacker at hurling Cease & Desist warnings at the slightest sniff of a potential infringement. Even got a "[color=#000000][font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]great job.. Rock on[/font][/color]" comment from one of the lesser known bands covered in the comments section If I upload them I always refer back to the original artist. Whether that helps or not I have no idea ... and you know that the next thing I'll find is we've had a hit next week

All of mine are similar in terms of what they cost : replace as new and they're all insured for current list (for the L2500's) and best estimate on recent sales for the Wal that I suppose could be replaced now Paul is building again but to me is virtually irreplaceable. I suppose there is a reasonable trail of sales for the Wal that I could/should be able to rely on as back up along with decent photo's that I have. Had to claim on damage to one of the L2500's recently (see elsewhere) and while the claim form asked for what I paid and the insured value was I had no problems with the company on supplying photos of the damage & a quote to strip & refinish - all approved within a week. Perhaps not the same as replace as new if one were stolen, but it was reassuring all the same

[quote name='funkgod' timestamp='1477307675' post='3161207'] hi specto, Wal-elitism (Walism)..... welllll, i did not want to say so .... but yea, i like to think so Joking aside, i use my G&L more than my wal now, been using mine for 30 years and the poor thing has done it all without a single moan, when i say done it all, to put that into perspective, its on its 3rd wal case, its done ALOT, so now its sort of retired, I did have a problem replacing it, the only thing i found ( and i have alot of basses to choose from) is a G&L L2000 the heavy older ones. (But esp the E series with mk 1 pre amp) has not got the tone scope of the wal but has the power and feels right[/quote] Funny that as that's pretty much where I'm at as well Love my Wal as it is a joy, so easy to play and sits so well in a mix. She's semi retired now after 35 years of hard graft with me for the L2500's, but still comes out to play for the occasional prog gig and rather more regular & laid back originals band. It'll be the last bass to leave me. My youngest son, who is a pretty good guitarist (fr more technically proficient than me) started noodling on bass and borrowed a couple of old passive basses from me when he was teaching himself. I came home after a holiday and he admitted to having sneaked a go on my Wal while I was away. His comment was "now I see what all the fuss is about". That said I will happily admit to having tried a couple out at the Bass Centre in Wapping before I got mine in around 82, and really did not get on with them. Then I got mine and fell in love. Nearly fell for a Geddy Lee 4 a month back that similarly was a joy to play, sounded great and completely blew away the other bass I tried in the shop that day (an M series G&L Tribute that stood no chance)

From the entirely opposite direction I saw GUN at the Wedgewood Rooms last night and they had at most one small combo on stage. Bass player had a Sansamp & tuner in a rack and one guitarist had just a Kemper sat on top of a flightcase and no cabin sight, so really it was just the kit coming off stage and everything else through FOH. Stood near the front in the middle it was a little unusual. Great gig though

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1476909195' post='3158461'] The Tubes in Gateshead tomorrow for me. [/quote] Brilliant show both nights for me. Think they may have run out of merch unless they've sorted a resupply though. Sunday they only seemed to have XL t's.and DVD's Roger Steen's using a Kemper, which sounded great and Rick Anderson's got a Markbass rig that was also sounding immense The favourites, the costume changes, some songs I've not heard before and a funky James Brown medley. I love this band (can you tell) and they were a huge influence on me & my band mates in a different incarnation back in the day. Spent the whole of Saturday night turning to my vocalist and saying in unison "this'd be a good one for us to do". We spent a while 'educating' the masses by covering WPOD a few years back, which was always fun Interesting to watch Rick and his almost minimal style at times that really locks in tight as with Prairie Prince.

GUN @ The Wedgewood Rooms tomorrow night. It's been a busy week for gigs for me with Saturday & Sunday gigging in two different bands as well

Of course I found the page, but can't work out which vol pot it needs, or how to remove them from the body (do the vol & pan knobs just pull off?)

I've got a Superbass 100 that I believe dates to 68/69. Still going strong after a bit of a rebuild about 10 or 12 years ago because it hadn't been used for a while and (I believe) the capacitors had dried out - well that's what the repair guy said. Just seen what they go for sadly mine is hardly pristine because when I bought it for SFA 40 years ago it got used & hurled around the van unflightcased, but it still sounds HUGE! It might go a way towards funding a Wal 5 I've seen nearby though

Well, after The Tubes last night in Brighton (bloody marvellous as ever) it was to be Gun in the Wedgewood Rooms, on Thursday, BUT had a message from my guitarist this morning while I was rehearsing with another band to say he has the lurgy and can't make the gig tonight so I have his ticket for The Tubes in The Brook tonight instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMveLJ489XA

This is the first track released of an originals band I am in. Very different from the other stuff I do, but I like it. The track is G&L US L2500 fretless top & tail and Wal in the middle soloy type section [url="https://soundcloud.com/vaughan-watson/kickin-up-dust"]https://soundcloud.c.../kickin-up-dust[/url] It's been through some iterations of mixes with a couple recenlty where the bass had almost disappeared, but it's back now

Easiest question ever to answer...PB1680

Depends which band I'm playing with: the classic rock band, the prog rock band or the laid back originals band. Normally manage not to mix them up

It rather depends who/what I'm playing with at the time, but generally something enjoyable and something I'm happy to be doing