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  1. stewblack
    I will be opening up my RM for the first time on Saturday. I have the combo with the 12" speaker + the 12" extension. Does the job at bedroom levels but when we meet for a socially distant rehearsal I'll be able to try it in a band setting. Of course I also want to try my Trace Elliot Elf but that serves me right for being greedy.
  2. stewblack
    God, even when I'm not trying. Quick get the London Palladium on the phone
  3. stewblack
    That's a pain. I had a Peavey used to eat batteries, and it took 2 of them 🤦🏼‍♂️ Have 2 active HBs don't have this issue, damned unfortunate. Maybe some sparky here can shed light on the possible causes
  4. stewblack
    As you say let's leave it here, I can't debate with someone who can publicly say something this silly. Unless it's a joke in which case 😂😂😂
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    You will be very very happy. Its not that big, it's soo light and it sounds amazing.
  6. stewblack
    Interesting reading the above how differently we can all see similar things. I still see cheap or modern lightweight stuff denigrated and treated with contempt often by folk who don't actually use it. Yet the last post speaks of Harley Benton hype! I would love these quality, inexpensive instruments to get the recognition they deserve. Price tags don't interest me unless something is astonishingly good or astonishingly poor value for money. Anyway I don't sacrifice anything to get the sound I want, but I have made decisions which take into account weight and size. As a working musician I have no choice but to use the cheapest possible car. So my three cab Trace Elliot stack had to go.
  7. stewblack
    But of a makeover?? @Al Krow that's a whole different ball game.
  8. stewblack
    This is gone, pending the last bits and bobs
  9. stewblack
    These really are excellent basses, and with the prices for new ones shooting up recently I'm surprised this one is still here.
  10. stewblack
    I know not. I had the Whammy and that was good too. The Ricochet I very nearly sold but its just too good. My soul band has no guitar (JOY) and if ever we really really felt we needed a couple of chords somewhere I could in theory provide them. Say the intro to me Nutbush for example.
  11. stewblack
    Best octaves I've used. For a pure octave up which I can use to play chords and sound like a guitar: Digitech Ricochet. For OC2 like synthy stuff: Valeton OC-10 General all round octave up/down : Joyo XVI I've also owned POG, Sub'n'up, EBS, various Zooms.
  12. stewblack
    I don't doubt it. If I hadn't recycled the book I'd find the exact quote to give context. Disco was indeed a hugely significant musical force
  13. stewblack
    I will check it out
  14. stewblack
    I could ... but it's prettey spectacularly unmusical. More of a sound effect. The reason it made me happy is because it's the first time I've set out to create something specific and achieved it. Up until now I've more stumbled on things.
  15. stewblack
    Purely out of interest. Those Specials bass lines are, well special, because a lot of them were collaborative efforts between sir H and the legend that is Jerry Dammers. JD would come up with the rootsy ska stuff but Sir H, a lover of disco would add those popping disco climbs. Wish I could remember where I got that nugget.
  16. stewblack
    I have had a major breakthrough (for me it is anyway), sent a song to learn for saturday's socially distant rehearsal. BL had some kind of weird oscillating digeredoo / broken squueze box being played at the bottom of the sea type sound at the intro to the track. This band is all acoustic instruments bar me and the piano. So I thought, wonder if I can recreate that sound on the FI? And boom, straight there first go. Looking forward to surprising them all.
  17. stewblack
    I was in a book shop once photographing interesting looking covers on my phone so I could look for them cheaper online. Not proud of it at all, far from it, realised what I was doing and felt like the heel I was. So I don't do it any more. I never had the chance to show the appropriate loyalty to my local instrument shops because people doing the exact same thing I did in the book shop had already helped them go out of business.
  18. stewblack
    Allotments are cool
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    That's great!
  20. stewblack
    Only teasing, sorry I assumed that was obvious.
  21. stewblack
    Yes but you can't argue with the truth though. Awful, awful songs.
  22. stewblack
    One way I just remembered that I would sometimes cop out was to not always play the octaves Just follow the pattern hitting the root twice. It gave my wrist a rest for the odd line.
  23. stewblack
    I used to be in a tribute to the Specials and some nights I dreaded that song. The repetitious octaves at that speed used to cause endless pain and cramping. But it taught me about the importance of finding a way to play with relaxed hands. Good luck with it fantastic tune. But not as much fun to play as Monkey Man.
  24. stewblack
    Don't know what an ipad is but I use a tablet with ireal Pro. It's either a straight forward set list or chord chart depending on how I want to use it. Can't imagine going back to paper. But excel? Seriously? What is it with that bloody program. People go bonkers after using it I have a friend even designs spreadsheets...... for fun! Like it's some form of relaxation. I think it's enough to get him sectioned personally. Spreadsheets are not rock n roll.
  25. stewblack
    If I can bear to carry on (82 has been a difficult trudge) then The FGTH songs will definitely make my shortlist. It's really difficult to maintain perspective. As the general standard plummets then passably good tunes seem suddenly amazing by comparison. As Chris's post illustrates there were some great artists (Talking Heads) but also some absolute stinkers (Robert Palmer, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen) who knows at another point in time, without that awful 80s production, even some of their stuff might have sounded half decent. But it's pretty doubtful
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