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Rock Family Trees. Get the books, you'll learn everything there is to know and time will disappear. All three (a new one was released last year) are on Amazon. The first one is brilliant.

I bought Ovi's Aguilar Tone Hammer pedal. Really nice guy to deal with, and he was really helpful with carrying out an international bank transfer. Really quick delivery as well. Recommended!

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I bought my second ever bass (an Aria Pro II Mab-40) and a still going strong Trace Elliot combo from Andertons in the early 90s, and always enjoyed good service. Anyone remember it from its previous location on Haydon Place?

Ticketmaster had a couple of O2 Arena tickets, 5th row Block 101 (raked section) a couple of hours ago. Gone now of course. Ticketweb are selling the £200 "Tour Package" ticket, there's a Row C Block A3 ticket in there. Ticket sales, all a bit of a mystery really. Thing is, like album sales, remasters, etc etc there's no one making you buy. My tip would be to wait a while and keep your eye on things like TicketMasters Facebook and Twitter feeds. Previously I've got extremely good tickets within days of the event when something like "production seats just released" (or similar) notifications are made.

It's exactly the same cost as it was last time at the same venue, with two years in between ticket sales, and it seems to be on a similar par to a similar size acts. In a perfect world it'd be a standing gig where you can get more people on the arena floor, keep costs down, and get as far to the front as you're prepared to get there early and queue.

There was a fan club sale at 9am, ditto O2 Priority.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1337075152' post='1654823'] Which is what I was getting at (although I would guess that the average age of a Rush member is higher than the average age of a Basschatter). The idea of committing over a year in advance to something as ephemeral as a gig date is a completely alien concept to me. [/quote] See your point, but for me it's a case of buy ticket, stick date in diary, forget. Look at diary some time later, hurray I'm seeing Rush this week.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1337028013' post='1654397'] How do we know they'll still be alive? [/quote] I think that goes for all of us to be honest.

[size=4]"[color=#000000]priced at £60/£75 (subject to booking fee)" according to the Roadrunner announcement, which looks about the same as last time.[/color][/size]

[size=4]Clockwork Angels tour gets to Europe next Spring...[/size] [size=4][color=#000000]Wed May 22nd Manchester Arena[/color] [color=#000000]Fri May 24th London, O2 Arena[/color] [color=#000000]Sun May 26th Birmingham, LG Arena[/color] [color=#000000]Tues May 28th Sheffield, Motorpoint Arena[/color] [color=#000000]Thurs May 30th Glasgow, SECC [/color][/size] [size=4]Tickets on sale properly on Friday with assorted pre-sales beforehand. That's a full year and a few days before the gigs.[/size]

To the ears of the teenage yet-to-be bassist me, the bass here sang louder than Aretha. Which is saying something. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis[/url]

Daddy of my "without whom" team. Thanks for the good times Duck.

Are non-bass submissions allowed? The 12-string guitar into to Genesis' The Cinema Show requires dDgGaDeGbbee. Yes, the "D" and "G" pairs are tuned to different notes. Aieee.

Check out the live album with Richard Sinclair (also of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc) called A Live Record - brilliant stuff.

Like before - they're great musicians but I don't like their music.

No I think it's this one.

This just whizzed by on facebook... "We are thrilled to announce that Jack Bruce will be joining Staxs as their very special guest for the evening. Don't miss the chance to see some of the finest musicians in the business performing High energy soul and R'n'B." http://www.halfmoon.co.uk/event/226 £15 before p&p - take that, Ronnie Scott's