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Err... nice helmet Mart ^^^^ Is that your band playing sometime in June at The Kings Arms in Newport ,Brough by any chance?

If it’s bespoke stuff you want,you need to try Stagewear Unlimited. Based near Rotherham, you can get pretty much anything made to order, and the boss Neil Crossland has a mass of experience making stuff for all sorts of bands as well as theatrical costumes for televison and theatre. Tel. 01709 892893 www.stagewearunlimited.com

Pictures or it didn't happen?

A few years ago, the trumpet player in a band I was in used to go onstage dressed as a bishop, full kit including mitre. Not that outrageous, but certainly got a few people's attention at corporate functions etc.

OK, and I'll raise you - Brian Wilson, Suzi Quatro, Alan Gorrie, Nick Lowe, Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, Justin Curry, Peter Cetera, Glen Hughes, Randy Meisner and Timothy B Schmit, Rick Danko, John Wetton and the guy from OMD whose name I can't remember.

Haven’t seen many for sale recently, but reckon you’re spot on with pricing.

The second one certainly changed mine.....

Here's another great song where the bass is pretty sparse throughout, with the exception of a slight wig-out in the middle section!

Bill Black in the mid 1950's with a singer called Elvis something or other.....

Loving this topic! How about this one? Some tasty fills here and there, but economical where needed. Love it!

Absolutely. Played with some jazz drummers / bassists who couldn't stop themselves from playing as many notes as possible, and berating simple pop tunes when they couldn't actually just play the lines to support the song as required. Country stuff is a prime example of this - most of the top players in the genre could whip the more out there flash players into a cocked hat. But don't.

Free's 'All right now' is another great example. So economical that it's not even there in the verses! Then when the chorus kicks in it's so effective, and the 'solo' part has more weight too. Andy Fraser - what an amazing player. Joined the band when he was 15, co-wrote and co produced this track when he was 17. Genius.

This. Always loved the sparseness of bass in much of the AWB stuff. Alan Gorrie is a master of playing what's needed, when others would have been all over it and killed the groove completely. Hamish Stuart (when he was with them) was equally adept at this as well.

Looks like a cracking band Michael, but don't think for a minute you shouldn't be there too! Have a great time.

Forgot about this - my band mate does it all the time , making really unpleasant noises (he is a drummer though) Think someone ended up gaffering the button in place .....

One of the guys in my country band uses the same model, primarily as just a vocal monitor for his vocal mike. He got it (with some irony) after his Mackie SRM150 packed in, which is basically what the Behringer is based on. He just uses it with the XLR in/outs before the FOH mixer, and says it's as good as the Mackie but over £100 less. Useful bit of kit.

Mate in a band had a Linebacker combo for his keyboards, 50 watt I think. That amp got used for everything over the years - keys, bass, guitar, small vocal PA / monitor,etc - and never missed a beat. He still has it and it still works great.

Perhaps so, but I think the track referred to by QJ was recorded and released in 1970. Regarding references made about Richard Pryor , Marlon Brando etc in the interview, there was a great quote from Richard Pryor's ex-wife Jennifer Lee Pryor about the time - "It was the seventies. Drugs were still good, especially Quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you'd f*ck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning"

Yeah, I think so. Love all of GC's versions of Jimmy Webb's great songs.

Great, great song Shell. I only have a chord / vocal part somewhere but not a tab version I'm afraid. We do it in my country band, and the bass does follow the chord sequence fairly logically I think.

Am loving the amp the guitar is plugged into

For me this is unthinkable really, unless due to amp failure etc. Whilst I'm not a diva when it comes to what I'll use, having at least an acceptable stage sound is paramount to my overall satisfaction for the gig. Of course the FOH is of major importance too, but having things sorted with your sound onstage affects this - how you play and the overall vibe - and is essential to the whole band sounding good. IMO of course...

Nice one Michael, hope it's a good one!

In case you're wondering, I use the Sansamp as a straight DI rather than the amplifier's XLR in case of amp failure. Should my amp have a problem, the feed to the FOH is unaffected and I could manage with the monitor mix for the rest of the gig.