joeystrange

Most of the basses I have now I bought from new however I had a flight case that my friend bought from a guitarist in Saxon. Apparently. That same friend has Iron Maiden's custom built 1979 AMEK mixing desk in his studio that he bought from their FOH engineer about 6 or 7 years ago. THAT'S a piece of history. He found out recently that a couple of their live albums were recorded with it too!

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' timestamp='1333290752' post='1599602']Joey, you should've hit us up for gigs. We have them every couple of months, I'm sure you played with us there while you were in PWG? [/quote] Yeah, I did one with you whilst I was in PWG. I'm sure we've spoken to Joe or Dan about it before but I can't remember! I'll mention it to the rest of the band again though. Cheers for reminding me!

The Squier VM series is incredible! I got a new P Bass for less than £200 a couple of years ago and the sound and feel of it is fantastic!

We use our guitarist (and have done for years before I was in a band with him) who is an incredible designer. Check out his site: [url="http://www.bingercreative.co.uk/"]http://www.bingercreative.co.uk/[/url]

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1332864713' post='1594156'] I wasn't a member of BC so didn't know it at the time, but I saw Thom(Bassmonkey) playing with the James Warner Prophecies [/quote] I didn't know Thom was on here. Seen and played with JWP a bunch of times too.

I listened to the isloated bass from Helter Skelter with John playing a Fender Bass VI last week and it was terrible! Sounded awful and the playing was really sloppy.

I head about this yesterday. This was their official statement... [quote][color=#333333]As of this afternoon The Old Bell, Derby will no longer be managed and run by the current team. This is due to a difference of opinion in regards to the future plans from the company who own The Old Bell. [/color] [color=#333333]The Old Bell has always fought to bring the best Live music to Derby, and following the way the company want the venue to head would compromis[/color][color=#333333]e the integrity of what we stand for, undo the hard work we have all put in over the years and change the Old Bell into something that it is not. The Old Bell are a team in every sense of the word and we are all sticking together. Currently we are in talks to acquire another venue within the city where we will be moving all our equipment, shows and team together to a new home. We are confident that this will be resolved quickly and we can carry on with our program with minimal disruption. Until then we are talking with local venues to try and accommodate some of the shows we have booked in to avoid disappointment. What has been missed by the company is that The Old Bell has always been about more than the building, it has been about the devotion of the team that works within the building, to provide a great place for music lovers of all genres to reside and to always make sure we put on the greatest shows we could. It was also about the dedication and knowledge of the promoters to provide the shows that the people want to see instead of what is going to make easy money, as well as providing the support to bands and musicians at all stages of their careers. These are the morals that we have always lived by and these are the morals that will be following us to our new home. We would like to thank everyone who supported us in our time at The Old Bell, all the bands who have graced our stage (often on several occasions), and especially all the people who have turned up for shows. It is because of this support that we are 100 percent dedicated to coming back bigger and stronger in a new home and look forward to inviting you all to join us again as soon as were operational again. THIS IS NOT WHERE WE END, THIS IS WHERE WE EVOLVE. SEE YOU SOON.[/color] [/quote] Sad to see it go, we had some pretty good gigs there. Although it seemed almost impossible to ever get a gig there!

I've seen (and played with) Big Red X's band, Dick Venom & the Terrortones, a few times and they're just f***ing brilliant! There's another guy on here who plays in a band called NG26 that I've seen a bunch of times but I don't know his S/N.

Not exactly 'tone' but adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood by Future Of The Left has an incredible sound! In fact, that whole album sounds great. As far as pure bass and amp tone I love pretty much everything on No Push Collide by Serafin.

Last time I played a venue with a noise limiter the bass kept tripping it so I kept having to down down and down and down until I could barely hear the amp so I just switched it off and ran direct instead. I hate those things.

[quote name='coasterbass' timestamp='1331631951' post='1576029'] I was there!!!! Reading '95 was my first festival and it was awesome. I spent the whole weekend in the moshpit - White Zombie were the best. Anyways, yeah I went to see the Foo Fighters. To this day I've never seen such a crowd. I was expecting a lot of interest but from about 2hrs beforehand there was a general shift away from the main stage to the marquee. Perhaps because (if I recall rightly) they were on at the same time as Bjork! I managed to get in the marquee (the crowd went back for miles outside) and was about 25m out wide stage left. My enduring memory was of a guy (guys?) climbing right to the top of the central pillars of the marquee. The whole gig was mental though. I wasn't aware of a recording - not that I ever looked. If its available somewhere and you have a link then please PM me. Would be great to hear it in a more chilled setting. [/quote] That's cool! Yeah, he keeps telling people to get down or they'll get kicked off stage but apparently they didn't listen. They put it online a few days ago, probably as a precursor to this year's announcement. Here's the link: [url="http://reading.foofighters.com/?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=awe.sm-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=foofightersreading-foofightersreadingtwitter"]http://reading.foofighters.com/?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=awe.sm-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=foofightersreading-foofightersreadingtwitter[/url]

I'm currently listening to the Foo Fighters set from Reading '95 and wondered if anybody here was there? I think it would have been a pretty cool thing to see!

Mike bought my Vox bass from me. Really nice guy and a real pleasure to do business with.

I kinda like it. Looks more like a Ric and a Mosrite to me though.

I just remembered watching REM getting it wrong too. On a pretty big stage!! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvxTJFIz18s[/media]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1330016124' post='1551509'] You've been lucky then.[/quote] For more then just being able to take it in the cabin. I know plenty of people that have taken guitars into the cabin on transatlantic flights and been held for 8-12 hours in customs before finally being let into the country. I'd hate that to happen. Even if I didn't have anything to hide.

Oddly enough, on the subject of clicks being restrictive, a few of my friends went to see Rammstein in Nottingham last night and apparently at one point their click track messed up mid-song so they had to stop and start again. So it even happens to the best of them!

Like others have said, it depends how good your drummer is. A lot of drummers assume they can play to a click because "It's just playing in time, ain't it." and then fail miserably when they actually try. I've seen that happen a lot! As long as the songs are at the right tempo it'll sound fine. It might take you a little while to get used to playing the whole song at the same tempo though. My band don't play to a click live but we always do in the studio. We'll write, rehearse and gig a song for a while and get it tight then when we play it to a click to work out the tempo for the studio it sometimes sounds odd. I think there are certain parts of songs where most people naturally speed up a couple of bpm (usually choruses) and usually you don't notice but when you start doing the same song with a click it can make some parts seem fine whilst other seem a little bit fast or slow. When you get used to it though, it's fine. Our drummer plays in another band that do play to a click and he loves the freedom of playing with us without one.

I've been watching the new Future Of The Left video today. That's as good as I can get until the single gets released.

That should work fine. Ive seen it done by moving the bottom strap button to the top corner too. The nose dive was one reason I stopped playing my Thunderbird.