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Exactly - but then why do people spend a fortune on an expensive amp to only use the power amp section? Beats me!

And then I remembered this, truly dreadful stuff. Okay, I'm done here.....

Don't mind a bit of Quo, but thought this was rather too bizarre for me. As a massive Beach Boys fan I was amazed they agreed to it too, even Brian is in there! Not one of either band's finest moments, that's for sure.

Come on, keep up.....

You see, having that amount of controls would instantly put me off the amp! I struggle with the 4 bands on my GK stuff but know pretty much to mostly leave them alone. Still can't understand too why some people buy an expensive amp with lots of tonal options and then choose to run it with a preamp with even more going on.

Ah, okay. I must get round to trying some flats, don't know about tapewounds though! Love a PJ combo too.

Apologies

Minimal really Mart. The body (agathis) on mine was quite light, but the neck didn't seem overly weighty so it balanced okay, with a good strap. You know you want it.....

Here's one I'd forgotten, got a mention on Radio 2 this morning. Plus rather, errm... interesting Wogan TV show clip.

Nice bass, just like mine. TBH do try the stock pickups before shelling out on replacements - I found them okay, and along with the rest of the bass just fantastic for the money.

This is just one of many reasons I don't do stuff near the audience like pedals / power supplies

Know what you mean. Gave up all that faffing a while ago now, nearly always just set the eq flat and make slight adjustments if necessary on the fly. Works for me

But did Rod Stewart really play harmonica on Millie's 'My boy lollipop'?

+100 Also quite sad how few acts featured live musicians, just tracks.

RW also played piano on T.Rex's 'Get it on' (despite the TOTP appearance with Elton John miming it), and perhaps bizarrely played on Black Sabbath's 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' album.

Agree with Paul S - I have a gen1 Compact and it's a brilliant thing. I was one of the original guys who had the demo cab which Alex sent around the country, and was / still am blown away with it's quality of sound. If the rest of the range are as good or better it's really a no-brainer, but as cetera says , try before you buy as your personal preferences may not be met. Couldn't see why though ( Disclaimer - I am currently saving up for a BF Super Compact....)

Yeh, t'was him. Was on a recent Mick Ronson documentary showing how he played it, and what a wonderful chord progression it was. It was also Mick's first attempt at writing and arranging strings, amazingly!

Rick also played wonderful piano on Life on Mars.

Elton John and Eminem - Stan KLF and Tammy Wynette -Justified and ancient David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Little drummer boy

Keith Richards has recorded with some maybe unlikely artists, including Feargal Sharkey, Max Romeo and Tom Waits. Keith also played bass on Billy Preston's album 'That's the way God planned it'.

Manager of a function band I was in quite rightly used to say that if the audience saw any of the musicians with even half a beer, they would assume the whole band was pis*ed. Vodka in the bottled water maybe the answer...

Mentioned on here before - Rick Wakeman famously ate a full Indian meal. "It was 1973 and we had released Tales from Topographic Oceans, which I didn't particularly like. The third piece in the show was a particularly long percussive piece and I didn't have much to do. Now, I used to have this roadie that worked for me, he would lie underneath my keyboard ostensibly to fix things, but mostly he would just mix me drinks and pass them up. So on this occasion he asks me if there's anything I need, but I heard it as him asking what I felt like doing after the show. I just replied 'oh, I'll probably go for a curry' and then he asked me what I would have so I started naming various menu items, 'onion bhaji', you know...and then, 20 minutes later there is this smell. Of course you know that curry is a smell that wafts, you detect it. And he's standing there under the keyboard rig with these bags of takeaway curry." The story, a classic pull-the-other-one, is "absolutely true". And Wakeman says he proceeded to "lay out the meal across my keyboards to have some." If you are thinking Spinal Tap right now, remember this is 10 years before that film. And Wakeman chuckles as he adds the coda, "I've probably been offered curry at gigs a couple of dozen times since, I don't have it on stage, but I'll arrive backstage to find that someone's sent a takeaway curry to me, or it's been ordered, or there's a takeout menu there. It's nice. It's funny.

Great stuff, cheers. Always liked Ronnie's Zemaitis basses, looked so cool.