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Posts posted by el borracho
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Good find. I think I posted earlier I've never come across another single pickup one apart from mine.
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It's My Life by Talk Talk. It was that bridge between verse & chorus - I had a mental block on it when I played it live. Fine at home but in the band I struggled with it for months...until one day it just worked.
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21 minutes ago, owen said:
(a U in O level Chemistry and 2 Us in O level French come to mind)
Us in Chemistry, French & Maths for me 😄
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Primary school was quite good. There was a good music teacher who I learnt from & I started playing the violin (badly - Grade 1 second attempt) & played in the school orchestra. After moving to secondary school I was made to feel like I couldn't play at all. Looking back, the teacher quite simply bullied anyone who wasn't good at playing. When I announced I was giving up he lost it, screaming his head off at me "Ahh poor little diddums is finding it all too much isn't he - it's all too much for him... etc etc" - actual quote that sticks in my head to this day - I was only 11 or 12 & was quite bemused an adult would behave like that.
I lost all interest in playing music until I was at college when my friends inspired me to take up electric guitar. After a switch to bass a couple of years later there was no stopping me.
I probably learnt some basics of theory from school but overall it turned me away from playing music.
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Chris Stainton, who has been playing piano & keyboards for the last 50 years, with the likes of Joe Cocker, The Who, Eric Clapton, the marvellous Boxer & countless others was originally Joe Cocker's bass player.
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One of my favourite 80s bands - The Playn Jayn
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2 hours ago, Nail Soup said:
So the story goes: Phil (thy animal) Taylor of Motorhead fell backwards from his drum stool off of a high stage.
Doctors said his injuries did not include a fatal neck-break only because he was so drunk/wasted that his body was totally relaxed and he hit the ground like a rag doll.
OK, if you want to be picky being drunk/wasted may have contributed to the fall in the first place !
I saw this happen to Joe Cocker's drummer - I forget who he was, someone might know - at Gateshead Stadium in about 1991. It was particularly noticeable as he was the only one playing at the time during a song intro. All of a sudden everything went quiet & he'd gone.
He appeared from the back of the drum riser holding up his broken stool to great applause!
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Sound of Status - a Swedish Quo tribute who recorded an original album. In my opinion it is what Quo should have sounded like in the Just Supposin' era.
Another Swedish Quo tribute - Big Fat Mama - are following suit & recording an original album this weekend. I look forward to it.
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5 hours ago, Bassassin said:
I think the MC800 & the active, twin-pup MC900 were only around for a year, after which they were replaced by the MC924 active and (on occasional years) MC824 passive. Both were twin pickup/24 fret. Ibanez used the same numbering to differentiate active/passive & 24-fret necks on their Roadster, RoadStar II & Studio series basses too.
I sometimes worry that I know all this stuff, but nothing remotely useful.
But always interesting!
I like an old Ibanez - I also have an RS824 I bought 35 years ago & my go to bitsa has Blazer bridge & knobs (my first bass was a Blazer)
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12 hours ago, Woodwind said:
A friend of mine got exactly one like this from Macari's in London in the early 2000's and I was horrified to hear he moved it on a few years after.
I would have bought it off him in a heart beat.
Musicman position for the pickup gave such a great sound.
Incredible construction standard.
Lovely, lovely bass
I've never seen another one with the single pickup - they're usually the twin pickup active ones. Got mine in the early 90s & was my main bass for 10+years. Gigged heavily & has a lot of battle scars.
Best £195 I've ever spent!
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On 14/07/2020 at 12:21, Muzz said:
I'd take both with me all the time, 'just in case'.
I do 😁
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Ibanez Musician MC800 (apart from the finish) but you're not having mine - if I went down to one bass, from 10, this would be the last one.
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25 minutes ago, CameronJ said:
The only practical benefit I can see for stringing through the body is for a bass like certain Rickenbackers with a crap bridge which wants to lift at the back. String through the body = problem solved! Other than that, it doesn’t change the speaking length of the string so I can’t see it benefitting me. And I’ve owned basses with through-body stringing.
I had this with my G&L M2500. It had always had strings through body but when I put some from the bridge it lifted enough to slide a plec under the back. Straight back to through body!
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I listen to Arrow Rock while I'm working. Being a Dutch station you get the usual suspects but the odd Dutch band as well. I've discovered Brainbox, Livin' Blues & Anouk along with loads of Golden Earring (not just Radar Love!)
A bit off topic mind as they don't have presenters.
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I probably learnt bits of songs when I started but the first one I learnt in it's entirety, for my first proper band rehearsal, was Chatterbox by the New York Dolls.
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I still like the look of them. Maybe somebody was having a bad day!
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I rang enquiring about Overwaters in the early 90s but the guy was so offhand it put me off.
I wanted to know prices/availability etc but he wouldn't tell me & just kept asking how much exactly I had to spend.
Not knowing their prices (pre internet days remember) I guesstimated £1000 ish (I had a LOT more available having just sold a house)
His reply - "you're not gonna get a lot for that here" - I said I had more if necessary so he took my address & said he would send a price list.
He didn't & I bought elsewhere!
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On 04/07/2020 at 10:36, el borracho said:
Another one was Dan Baird, who toured with a 1950s Fender Esquire for many years that had previously belonged to Steve Marriott. He retired it a couple of years ago then, sadly, retired himself.
I wasn't looking for this but a link appeared on Facebook with the full story. He did indeed play one guitar, live at least, for most of his career.
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I have used the Super Compact in various bands & been fine but I did play in one band where it wasn't enough. They were way too loud with no monitoring & a very loud drummer. Solution was to use a second Super Compact.
I don't play with them anymore!
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Been a couple of mentions of Quo's Telecasters but none of Alan Lancaster - in the main he played the same Mustang from the early 70s & then during the FF tours, having been sunburst, natural & now a purplish black.
Talking of the FF tours, I saw Wilko supporting them & mid set he had to stop playing while the tech fixed his Tele - apparently he doesn't carry a spare. Was a great opportunity to see Norman solo for a few minutes though - him & Dylan Howe just carried on playing.
Another one was Dan Baird, who toured with a 1950s Fender Esquire for many years that had previously belonged to Steve Marriott. He retired it a couple of years ago then, sadly, retired himself.
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I need to get some more of Deke's books as I always like these snippets. I bought Rhinos when it came out and enjoyed it. I've got an early signed copy (55/109) - why 109 I don't know - there's probably a very good reason!
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McCartney did it as well
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I never realised the French version of Trust's Antisocial was so different.
At around the same time I was listening to Ocean, another French band. I still like the album now. It never really occurred to me that I didn't know what he was singing about.
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You've got me thinking now !!
Fed up with carrying a fretless and fretted bass to a gig?
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There's always Westone's interchangeable neck option. Not the most practical mid gig though!