stingrayPete1977

[quote name='BassApprentice' timestamp='1493885486' post='3291472'] Just to buck the current trend of dates....1991, anybody think of a particularly special bass from that era? [/quote] Got to be a Flea era Stingray, black and rosewood complete with the proper 'Flea' bridge?

I'm still torn on that one, I can see the legal side but it's not what the distance selling rules are for imo, I'd never buy something that can't be resold as new if returned, an opened aftershave is only fit for the charity shop.

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1493627368' post='3289441'] Musicians performing live on TV is good. [/quote] Even that woman banging a drum?!

On it's way.....woosh!

I never use mine!

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1493570436' post='3289168'] Just out of interest. A few months back my nephew bought some aftershave on ebay. The sellers conditions specified 'no returns'. My nephew returned it regardless. After a protracted dispute my nephew won and got his money returned. The seller wasn't very happy, made various threats of legal action/CCJ's and started an action through small claims court. The court case is next Friday? [/quote] I remember that one, I wonder how it will go?!

I wonder what it sounds like?

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1493229185' post='3286773'] He he! You might wanna take a screen shot of that as the chances of anything else witty coming from me for the rest of the year is unlikely! [/quote]

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1493226016' post='3286737'] Just spotted this in an episode. I chuckled, thought I'd share it in case others missed it. [/quote] http://youtu.be/i46vNV9RraE

As with most family guy stuff it's really him too.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1493224316' post='3286717'] Any more than four is for people who [i]can[/i] play something else. [/quote] Ha touché, brilliant!

5 strings is right, everything else is wrong

I like some Jamiroquai stuff but he came across as a bit of a penis as usual on top gear.

Beth "did one song ages ago" Ditto, not great. A woman with a drum, awful. Robert Cray, blues jam boring. A woman that looked like that northern Poet bloke, decent singer. French lass with a computer. Amazons, jeez that guy cannot sing.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1493072970' post='3285463'] My two basses cost me about £300 each, and would probably fetch even less if I decided to sell them I've got no funeral plan, but no family either. Makes me feel smug when I see all those daytime adverts for funeral plans. Who's going to bury me when I'm gone? The Council can just chuck me in a skip with the rest of my meagre possessions. Haahaa! [/quote] You'll like what my nan always used to say, "you never see any left on top".

[quote name='Tonteee' timestamp='1493033194' post='3284943'] Toots and the Maytals, surely....? 🤓 [/quote] Well we do the specials version

That's the most important factor for me, we played you really got me by the kinks on Saturday and the audience loved it, do you play interesting and different to an appreciative audience mainly sat or stood watching maybe with a foot tapping or do you watch them go bonkers for monkey man by the specials?

I've done a set of obscure numbers or originals in pubs, it's fine if the audience are in there for that, if it's just a group of random drunks out for a good night it can be harder work than the typical wedding slog. My band does town/city centre pubs without playing any classic rock, we sometimes put hard to handle in but that's about it.

What was that slim lady with short hair doing?, I could barely hear her but I think that may have been for the best?! The band mainly girated on one song.

You definitely need a bit of room for the string to move around for magnetic pickups to sound their best. Also I've never seen a tickler that can rock out very well, bit of action, plectrum and giving both barrels is the only way sometimes

I'd second cake by the ocean, fits in with the other stuff and keeps the younger crowd interested, check out some live versions with the shred guitar, that will rock a pub out of your guitarist has the skills!

I've never bothered with gumtree or shpock, wherever I've searched for something I've found the same item listed all over the place with the same pictures, I doubt any of them are real!

Compared to classical instruments electric basses and guitars have not been around long, with modern music becoming less and less 'band' orientated will they be popular at all in twenty years time?

I saw Larry Graham at KOKO in London around the time that clip was from, he had that same band with him, man it was funky! All the best music is MOBO, I doubt I own an album that could say it has no influence from a music first heard in black communities

[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1492847245' post='3283568'] Don't feel guilty about this for being white, instead concentrate on awful dancing and being slow sprinters. I am mixed race (Scots and Caribbean) as I used to love the guaranteed sports day win, until someone who was fully black joined my school. Only time I ever cursed one half of my heritage when I stopped winning..... [/quote] But I bet you looked cooler than him sprinting in a kilt!