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    Fair play then! I stand corrected ha ha! And it is a good song really...
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    Now sold
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    And in fairness it's a pretty decent song too!
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    True - it looks and feels cool but it's all a bit anonymous as you can't see anyone properly beyond the first few rows. Still, big gigs usually mean big PA and proper soundmen and lights etc, which is always a treat!
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    We were a five piece rock covers band, all blokes about 40. Woman comes up mid set to ask "do you do any Girls Aloud"?
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    Cool. Yeah Aynsley and Steve are both good lads, who (mostly) also share my enjoyment of daft jokes (or are too polite to tell me they don't) ! Hope the weekend goes well.
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    I think my biggest to date was playing at the Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland in summer 2016. We played to about 1,500-2,000 people in a park in the middle of the town. I was depping on bass for a blues guitarist called Aynsley Lister. A cool weekend away!
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    Cool - which band was that?
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    Yeah I love Stewart Copeland's playing - really enjoyed the show and looking forward to Tina Weymouth.
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    A gentle bump... accepting full well this is a bass forum and none of us have been paid since Christmas yet...
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    But which era of P bass is it for?
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    NOW SOLD Up for sale is my 2015 Epiphone limited edition Gary Clark Junior "Blak and Blu" signature Casino, now discontinued and rare to find. It’s an upgrade on a regular Epiphone Casino, with real USA Gibson P90s, Grover tuning pegs and Switchcraft pots, as well as this rather dashing, tasteful dark blue to black semi-transparent burst colour scheme. Its got a 14" radius fretboard, slim taper 1960s D-profile neck, mahogany neck and five ply birch and maple hollow body. As signature models go, its very subtle. Other than the blue label visible through the upper F hole, there’s no reference to Gary Clark Junior at all. It’s in tremendous condition, and having had a pro set up shortly after I bought it new in early 2016 it plays very well indeed. Particularly nice dark, smooth, rosewood board too. The USA P90s are fairly hot and give it a really wide sonic range too – the bridge pickup is biting, raucous and very rock n roll, while the neck pickup is creamy and smooth and leaning towards Les Paul territory. Sounds very good indeed through my Fender Blues Deluxe. It’s currently strung with Ernie Ball 11s. It comes with its original fitted hard case, which is plush and fur lined, complete with keys. There’s slightly darker patch on the outside of the case where I’ve removed a sticker, and a small white mark, but there’s no residue and the surface of the case itself is unaffected. I’m selling it because I don’t gig on electric guitar (I'm an acoustic player). I’ve only played it live for a handful of songs ever. These don’t come up often at all as they were a limited edition at the time, and there are currently none for sale on eBay, Gumtree or Reverb as far as I can tell. You'll be hard pressed to find one of these available anywhere let alone in such fantastic condition. I’m looking for £475. Not willing to post this one, so collection from Leicestershire or meet up only this time.
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    My first actual gig: Swansea, Christmas 1988, when I was 14, at the sixth form room of my school (my brother, who played guitar in that band, was a sixth former) We played a bunch of covers - Wild Thing, Every Rose Has Its Thorn etc. First pub gig - about nine months later in the Biko Bar at Coventry Polytechnic (as it was at the time) with another covers band with my brother. I think we played Georgia Satellites, Marillion, Bon Jovi etc. Felt like a superhero after each one! For both gigs i played my Westone Spectrum bass - I had to borrow an amp for the school gig but had bought a Peavey TNT130 by the time of the pub gig.
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    People in work who know I'm a musician keep asking me if I've seen X Factor or telling me I should go on it. Once and for all, no I've never watched it, and I have no plans to ever go on it. Thanks.
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    I think they died out around the same time as white dog poo and Pacers.
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    Slash's 2010 solo album is brilliant. He collaborates with a bunch of different singers so every song has a different feel but all feature some smoking guitar playing and cool hooks. I'm less keen on the stuff he has done since tho - preferred the variety of the first one. Excellent contributions from Ozzy, Lemmy, Iggy, Fergie and also some people with two names, like Ian Astbury, Chris Cornell and Andrew Stockdale.
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    Yep - another acoustic guitarist here. (I dabble with electric, but my voice is definitely on acoustic). I really like the late, great John Martyn of course - his playing on albums like Bless The Weather and Solid Air is exceptional. There's a young Scottish chap called Kris Drever who has done some solo albums and also plays with a band called Lau - great fingerpicking style and one of the best live guitar sounds i've every heard. Also from Scotland, singer songwriter Karine Polwart has a great command of alternate tunings and fingerpicking - check out the albums Scribbled in Chalk and This Earthly Spell.
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    Last night I played bass at the annual David Bowie tribute night called Let's Play Bowie, in The Donkey, Leicester. We were the house band (The Donkey Dorys) and we played the Hunky Dory album in its entirety, with a rota of guest singers and musicians joining us onstage. It was awesome. The gig was sold out (about 200 capacity when the place is rammed) and there was a real good vibe. Took the opportunity to glam up with a bit of eyeliner and scarves etc (if not at Bowie night, when?) and had an excellent time. Through learning the album over the last two months I got a real appreciation for Trevor Bolder's superbly tasteful and inventive playing too, so it was time well spent. A top night.
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    I've never listened to a Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Judas Priest album. Ive also never listened to an Oasis or Blur album - they completely passed me by at their prime and I now just associate them with pub indie bands. Until recently I'd also never listened to a David Bowie album (sorry!) and still have not knowingly listened to a Prince album. Crikey what the hell was I doing all my life?
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    Good work. That's lovely. I can only manage the CBS-era version. Glad to see you're gigging it too.
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    Tokai Thunderbird - same weight as a Volvo estate and impossible to play for an entire gig. Lasted a couple of weeks i think. Lull PJ4 - very meh, sterile and uninspiring, despite the price tag. Sold it at a £800 loss after a year. Ouch. My first ever bass - a short scale Satellite made of plywood - was an absolute plank too, but it was £60 new so i can't complain. Tho it was rubbish.
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    Can she do it while playing bass tho?
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    I will miss HMV. It's one of my regular lunch time visits working in the city centre. Its also in quite a prominent spot on our High Street so will mean another empty property. Probably end up with another coffee shop.
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    Christ alive Suggs can't sing to save his life can he? Is he 'refreshed?' Cool venue tho innit
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    In terms of equipment, not much really. I find headphones are better than speakers because you can separate out the various studio sounds going on a bit better and often pick out the bass more easily. Other than that, just patience and lots of listening. I tend to listen to a track a few times so I know roughly how it goes, and start to notice phrases and runs that help me understand how it's working. Then try playing along a few times, stopping to write down anything off the wall or tricky. Learn those parts, then run thru again. Once I've got it sketched out nicely, I tend to listen on the bus to work etc (without playing along) to then pair up what I'm playing to what's on the track, and gradually keep refining until I'm happy we are playing the same. Then just keep practising along to it until you can play it without the track for guidance.
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