Billy Apple

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1375264672' post='2158930'] - by comparison I am Sid Vicious) [/quote] Yeah, but Sid did look good... Just like you Mr C!

I can't believe I've just come home out of London, with a free weekend to see what's going on and all I should have done was to stay in town [size=4] . Have it large, sorry to miss Nige too.[/size] [size=4]Hope to see you all soon [/size]

Canny service that!

Hippo Birdy, two ewe's [size=4] [/size]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1374064461' post='2144857'] Amazing. So one of the most expensive marques has a plywood bass? I find that very gratifying for some reason. [/quote] Aye, but it's not like he bought it from Wickes. When is plywood, plywood, and when is it laminate?

[quote name='Icunningham' timestamp='1373921119' post='2143275'] Really really tempted by a matamp 212. Can anyone shed some light on them and how it would cope with my svt classic [/quote] It would sound the Mutts.

I have a swamp ash custom P and it's super light weight. And with a TV Jones pup. its a powerful output and bags of tone.

[size=4]1. Hamster - Tea, coffee & biscuits[/size] 2. Silverfoxnik - BC Rich Eagle, Schecter Diamond P5, Levinson Blade B15, amp & cab tbc 3. Happy Jack - Matamp GT120 with Barefaced stack 4. Bluejay - something left-handed 5. OBBM - Bergantino CN212, Aguilar TH500, A couple of old Fenders, perhaps a Sadowsky UV70. 6. chris_b 7. Clarky 8. Russ - Sei 5-string, Spector 5-string, Markbass 6x10"/Ampeg SVT-7 9. Irvined - Retrovide RV4 and home brew bass pedals 10. xilddx - 1983 USA Fender Jazz / 2010 USA Fender Stratocaster Deluxe V-Neck / POD X3 LIVE 11. Sibob 12. Tayste_2000 - Rickenbacker 4003, Overwater 5 string, [1970s Ampeg B-15, Custom Matamp GT200 MK2, Matamp 8x10], the pedalboard 13.Barneyg42-Status S2 Classic five, Ibanez BTB 6-string fretess,TC BH500, TC BC 2x10, Barefaced Compact and various pedalage! 14. Walman - the usual culprits - [i]though it rather depends on where if anywhere gets booked for the long hols as that is the last Sat of those so I may have to bale[/i] 15.Paul S - some stuff. BF rig, maybe a Westone Pantera X790 in case anyone wants a look? 16. BetaFunk - I will bring a selection of British 60s basses (Vox, Burns, WEM) plus my Shergold Marathon. 17. Billy Apple. Matamp GT200 Rig. Ruttmoth P Bass, TBird too maybe. Some Pedals. 18. 19. 20.

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1373645657' post='2140176'] Are the depth and drive knobs actually rotary switches? Billy, did I play your rig at a bass bash the other year? [/quote] The depth and drive knobs notched. Depth is a tone switch, bassiest to the left, trebliest to the right. The drive is a pre-amp gain, increasing to the right. The new GT200 might have this on a smooth pot. I had my rig at last years SE bass bash, but alas it was not working, for the reasons explained in the OP. [size=4] [/size]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bacUxrVxHs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bacUxrVxHs[/url]

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1373478904' post='2138138'] Met the bassist from The Damned. He came into my university to talk about the music union. Deaf as a post now due to his ears dying on stage but a very nice chap. [/quote] Which one, there's been a few?

I enjoyed the feel of the 'monel' roto flats, but they are very high tension. I recommend chromes too, and easier on the pocket.

Can't resist it... All after the service the other day [size=4] ....[/size] [size=4][/size]

Exact same front as my GT200, but mine's sans effects loop. No stand-by?

You'd think with 2 million, we'd finally know which bass is the best for metal? And put paid to the 'valves v solid state' once and for all.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1373190359' post='2134431'] [/quote] Outstanding rig!

f*** your POD, I've a Matamp outside.. [size=4] [/size] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8[/url] For no other reason than just for the fun of having it.

Fender=Basses. Precision=[color=#000000][font=Arial][size=3]The state or quality of being precise; exactness.[/size][/font][/color]

Nickel, Chrome or Gold?

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1372166306' post='2122365'] It's a 100W all-valve jobbie .. [/quote] How's the new head?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1372629238' post='2127973'] I went to the first one in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_(1914%E2%80%931925)"]1914[/url]. Although the lights were going out all over Europe, they weren't going out in Glastonbury since mains gas had not yet reached the town and there [i]weren't[/i] any lights. Apart from candles and precious few of those. Accompanied by my old friend Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, I drove down in my De Dion at a stately 17mph, arriving just as the spectacular Arthurian pageant began. To the astonishment of all present, Dame Nellie Melba emerged from an artificial lake costumed from head to foot in snail shells and pondweed and bearing on high a replica of the sword Excalibur. The cold water having affected her delicate throat, the antipodean songbird rendered 'God Save The King' in a rasping pizzicato twang and was duly canned off in a hail of piss bottles thrown by a splinter group from the Bloomsbury set. Darkness fell. In keeping with the traditional 'Merrie England' nature of the event I cudgelled some peasants into building me a bower of willow and fern within which I passed a comfortable night, lulled to sleep by the loud Sapphic exertions of Miss Vita Sackville-West in the neighbouring tent. The next day mighty thunderheads loomed over the Quantocks and it commenced to rain. Such was the precipitation that large puddles formed wherein a man might drown. Panic spread accordingly. Despite the piteous entreaties of the festival organiser Mr Rutland Boughton, the motley crowd of harlequins, troubadours, faire damsels, 'picturesque' rurals and fully-armoured knights-errant stampeded for the exit. Over-running a police cordon set up in anticipation of such an outcome, the crazed festival-goers fanned out through the town, pillaging and looting as they went. As Glastonbury lay beneath a lurid canopy of flames and smoke, the Mayor read the Riot Act. The while, a company of the Somerset Light Infantry fired a succession of shots over the heads of the crowd. Tragedy struck with terrifying swiftness. A mis-aimed ball took my pal Drax in the breast at the precise moment he was unplugging himself from AE Housman. There he lay as the crimson gore flowed over the cobbles, a Shropshire lad cut down in his prime. Housman was beside himself and must perforce be restrained from throwing himself upon the permanent way of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. It was carnage on a grand scale and it's put me off festivals ever since. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [/quote]*wipes tear from eye*

[quote name='Deep Thought' timestamp='1372627489' post='2127949'] I was also there in 1987, my only visit thus far. I went to see Hüsker Dü, which I did, and very glad I am that I did. Otherwise I don't remember much else except That Petrol Emotion, who I also enjoyed. I have a vague recollection of Elvis Costello, although I confess I was out of my head at that point. My most enduring memory is of the sh*t I had when I got home, having clenched my buttocks together for four days being unable to face the festival toilets-no Portaloos in those days. [/quote] I totally forgot about Husker Du, and we went out of the way to see them. Bob Mould was playing a flying V as I remember, and I've just recalled I have some pics of him buried somewhere! +1 on the pan-cracker