tomhunt

Sounds good mate! Have you checked out a band called By The Rivers? I saw them warm up for The Specials last year. They are getting a real good name for themselves at the min. From Leicester.

I'll have whats left if you'll accept me paying the postage ? And I'll donate some money to a charity of your choice

Think you"re right. Cheers for the input guys. Going to buy the bits I can, and hopefully a black badass II pops up Tom

Its my Geddy Lee jazz, last owner had all the hardware replaced with gold stuff Wilkinson and Hipshot stuff. Iv got a threat in the Wanted section on this forum seeing if I can get some sort of trade going. I can get everything but a black BadAss II Bridge. My girl friends uncle sprays motorbikes, and was going to see if he could do anything, but thought Id see what was what first. Tom

Do any of you know if you can spray/paint hardware such as bridges machineheads blah blah..? Got all gold stuff on mine and want to have it all black, cheapest rout could be to get them sprayed. What ya think? Tom

hahaha, classic

I'll play the gig for you...

I find a lot of The Specials tracks are great to play along to, and a few Madness songs. Horace Panter from The Specials is a very underestimated bass player if you ask me. Heres one of my favourite's to play along to http://youtu.be/B4JFmkB3CSE I also think a lot of The Jam stuff is great to play along to. I normally start off with some kind of Soul/Motown stuff, head off to Ska/Reggae and then end on a lot of stuff by Rush (favourite band). My band cover Band of Gold by Freda Payne and thats a great song to play along to. Tom

I'm currently working with my first band called The Hedge Pigs. We are a Ska, Soul, Mod, Motown, Reggae tribute act. 5 piece band, two singers, guitar, bass, drums. Currently writing our own Ska based tracks. Worked on one track which I would say is more along the lines of Rock, but, I think its a great track and we get a lot of good feedback about it. We are based in Leicestershire, a small town called Ashby De La Zouch. All the bands from round here do the same old thing, so we put this band together to get something different going, and at the minute, we are doing rather well. Although, I love the style we do (basically a Scooter lad myself), I'm more into playing the likes of Rush on bass, but Iv enjoyed doing what we are doing, and have found some of the songs arnt as easy as I thought. These videos are from our 2nd gig, excuse the timing and the other noticeable bad things - all sorted now.. lol And yes, the singers are more of a "X Factor" thing. Male singer is a tribute act to Michael Buble so.. Link - www.facebook.com/thehedgepigs Video of a Who cover - http://youtu.be/jsQDKTXgoV4 Video of our own song - http://youtu.be/exc3DD4T-Yk Going to be working with a guitarist called Vinny Burns (youtube, google him) who worked with Ultravox, Dare, Ten, Bob Catley and so on. He lives in my town and we have always said we would do something and never have, but its all being sorted now, so in the new year, I will be in his studio working on some of his new solo stuff. Can't wait! Cheers, Tom