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I was at the Hammersmith show as well. Good stuff! Getting a bit used to HCE in its entirety now though. Also in attendance: Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Jakko Jaksyzk, David Cross, Al Murray (a huge prog fan who used to come see my Genesis tribute band back in the day). I was in the middle of row K and there were about a dozen unused seats in front of me across three or four rows. Shame, despite the uncluttered view I had.

This month's instalment takes place as usual at Tooting Tram & Social on Thursday February 4th. Free entry! We're supported this month by local jazz fusion trio SpeakUs Corner. Doors at 7pm, music starts soon after 8pm. Full details on the facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/533480040148485/.

Make sure all the rest of the band know, especially the drummer who won't have noticed and the keyboard player who will have noticed but will stick to the correct number of bars regardless. Or, make sure in advance that the guitarist knows in advance to cue out of the solo regardless of how long he's going to do it and that everyone else is awaiting the cue. I remain yours the eternal optimist, tone.

2x screwdrivers (flat head, phillips) 2x allen keys (1 for adjusting a Badass 2 bridge, the other for adjusting every other bridge ever) fresh 9v battery string snips string winder pencil ...all in a Muji squishy travel sponge bag bag type thing.

Aha, well that makes sense. He and Lawrence were there to handle my sale and part-exchange. In fact Tom and I bumped into each other near Tottenham Court Rt tube as I struggled out with the PX guitar (a bulky Shergold 4/8 double-neck), and he offered to take it the rest of the way to the shop. Nice! (I declined, what with being British and everything). Another strand of the story: once I'd bought the Tak, the PX Shergold took centre stage in the Wunjo window. Next thing I know, session bassist and facebook friend Phil Mulford has posted a pic of himself playing the Shergold in the shop, saying something like "Just what I need for The Commitments. now all I need to do is work out which neck goes with which strings".

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1454051626' post='2965733'] So that was you! I heard all about your purchase at the time, and again when I bought mine. I had no idea it was another Basschatter. [/quote] Hiya! Read all about it... first towards the tail end of the Kate Bush thread: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/244008-kate-bush-at-the-hammersmith-apollo/page__st__60__p__2554876#entry2554876 And then picking up a few months later: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/254282-more-love-for-wunjo-and-basschat How did you hear about it? I wonder if you know someone that I know.

Playing catch-up a bit, just found this thread. I've got a TB-10, bought from Wunjo about this time last year. (In case you didn't see the thread I posted at the time, it's the one used by John Giblin on Kate Bush's "Before The Dawn" gig). Mine is used mostly for at-home practice, solo and with friends on acoustics. I can see it being used for acoustic jazz or country/americana gigs at some point, it's been tried in my electric jazz outfit but it didn't really fit. The only gripes I've had is that the pre-amp rattles a bit in its cubby hole, but it's only really audible when you're playing acoustically. I've used the end-pin for "upright" playing, but only when seated and positioning the bass like a cello. Standing, there's not enough body size to stop it rotating in place while playing.

Steven Wilson at Hammy O tonight, Nick Beggs on bass.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1453903523' post='2964019'] Crikey...those 2 rehearsal rooms will sound a bit live won't they? With all those breeze blocks Why do none of these studios publish their rates? [/quote] Premisis: http://www.premisesstudios.com/rates/ John Henrys have the rate on each studio page, as does The Joint This might be a bit out of date but see how you get on: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z201mRNiUCuI.kBQlk563mVdE&usp=sharing (I'm not saying they all have stages btw, but it's worth exploring)

Also, John Henrys http://www.johnhenrys.com/rehearsals/studios and Premises http://www.premisesstudios.com

The Joint? http://www.thejoint.org.uk

Here's the extended version of Tony Visconti dissecting Heroes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx

Yep, even if it's old music that I've not heard before.

[quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1453590451' post='2960940'] Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Well, Trevor Horn [/quote] See also 90125, A Secret Wish and Lexicon Of Love. All brilliant albums done by Trev and some blokes/frauleins.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1453555607' post='2960498'] Just to give you an idea of how it might pan out, [url="http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/paul-simon-and-sting/2014/united-center-chicago-il-3c2b1d7.html"]here's a setlist from the last time Sting did this, with Paul Simon[/url]. [/quote] Were both Sting's band and Paul Simon's band there, or was there one uber-band for the whole lot?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1453510968' post='2960294'] That'll be because they play for four hours in the US, not just the 90 minutes we get over here. [/quote] Oh I see. They who? Sting and Peter Gabriel, or everyone?

Sell it back for a profit. You know, to cover expenses.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1453325831' post='2958550'] Oh yessss. Worth having just for Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down. I keep meaning to get the DVD. [/quote] Think I've got it on tape somewhere. It's ok, but it makes you love Sting just a little bit less in all the "documentary" cuts between songs. Can't remember exactly why but you know, [i]Sting.[/i] I'm gonna add Consider Me Gone, Low Life, Driven to Tears, Moon Over Bourbon Street and especially Dream of the Blue Turtles/Demolition Man to your choice for top tracks from that album.

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If you're on the petergabriel.com newsletter mailing list, you'll have already seen the presale links. Front and centre seats are yours for $250 each. I'm not sure how this sits in the scheme of US gig ticket pricing, but that's £180 at today's exchange rate.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1453304506' post='2958268'] I wish I'd seen Sting on the Dream Of The Blue Turtles tour. What an incredible band he had alongside him. [/quote] Yeah, agreed. You've got live album Bring On The Night, right?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1453284287' post='2958005'] That was all a bit hand wringing & worthy though, wasn't it? The fact that Tracy Chapman was on the bill was a deal breaker for me too, I think she's bloody awful. [/quote] Nah, it was a good laugh. Went for beer during TC, PG did Games Without Frontiers and Family Snapshot. Sting was still on his Nothing Like The Sun tour so that was pretty jazzy (ie still quite good, no sigh of lutes). Springsteen's set was only 90 minutes or so, so just about bearable. And it was nearly 30 years ago so my memory is hazy.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1453243637' post='2957866'] If they'd done this in the 80s or 90s I would have gone. Neither of them has done anything remotely interesting (IMO) for donkeys years so I won't be bothering. [/quote] They did, kind of. At the Amnesty International Human Rights Now tour with a show at Wembley, 1998. Some bloke Bruce Something headlined. Pretty good!

Catch up with the other Jaco Movie thread here... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/250058-jaco-the-movie-pledgemusic/

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1453214687' post='2957470'] Go for a curry first, miss the support, then elbow your way to the front. Everyone else at gigs I go to seems to do it. [/quote] Watch the video. It's both of them, then one of them, then both again, then something else I forget.