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KevB
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McVie & Fleetwood have been pretty lucky to have intially got a talent like Peter Green on board and then in later years (when the band was once again getting a bit directionless) the Nicks/Buckingham package . And then there was Christine chipping in with some quality songs of her own to boot.
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Agree on the entertainment part up to a point but it does depend on the occasion and style of music too. I've come away from plenty of pub gigs being slightly embarassed by overactive looning - sometimes less really is more. I also feel that most (not all) really good bands have a single identifyable focal point, usually the singer but not always so. Some covers bands I've seen might have 2 or 3 people in the band interchangeing doing lead vocals and it can be quite distracting and never as effective as an out and out 'front man'. All personal opinion of course.
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[quote name='OldGit' post='636768' date='Oct 26 2009, 10:27 AM']Where does it say they increase the musical instrument insrance up to £200 for next day? That could be handy in some cases. The £150 musical instrument insurance limitation is hidden well away on theiir website under "wrapping guidelines" and is only known to a select few PF employees, mostly in the claims department. You don't need to take any risk if you use Post Office Special Delivery. Tons of cover and the same price as parcelforce and they take it in at the post office too ..[/quote] I don't think it was because it was a musical instrument, I was just told that if I did a next day delivery before 12pm then the cover went up to 200, I think the total for that type of delivery to mainland UK was just under 25 quid. I had to speak to someone at PF about it though, the website is lacking detail in the right places. -
I tried to buy a DVD HD recorder via Amazon at a really good price a couple of years back. I got fobbed off three times until they finally came clean and said they were still expecting the shipment and it could take as much as 6 MONTHS. They'd obviously completely cocked up their pricing on the item and were now reneging on every order placed for that item. Got a full refund and ended buying a similar model (half the memory size but at same price as the one on Amazon) from a high street shop I could have got it from 6 weeks earlier before the whole debacle began.
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If you do next day delivery with Parcelforce they increase the insurance to 200 but that seems the max they will do for a musical instrument. It's down to whoever buys it to decide if they want to take the risk. I recently sold an expensive bass and sent it parcelforce as the buyer was happy to take the risk. Arrived perfectly OK.
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Sorry not to have replied earlier. It's taken this long to stop laughing at Entwhistle, Bruce ansd Squire being listed as 'also-rans'...
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I might be being a bit stupid here but if I've understood the original post correctly you have an unlined neck which you like and which has the dots in the right place but would prefer the extra security of having lines on the neck. Can't someone just put some lines on the unlined neck for you? -
The guy at my local jam session had his Hartke 4X10 combo converted to to a 1X18 using the same cab, sounds fine but it is in a pretty big room. I'll get more details, I don't even know if it has a horn installed but there certainly seems to be plenty of top end.
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'Hey You' from Floyd's The Wall. Not much to it but I think fretless basslines work best when they are relatively sparse. And check out some of Kate Bush's older material, think it's John Giblin playing on those.
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I took out insurance with Endsleigh specifically for music gear, think I'm insured up to 2-3K for under 40 quid per year. Almost as soon as I took it out the band folded and I've not been regularly gigging since!
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Not really being an officianado of old instruments I was struck by the headstock logo as it looks so 'modern'. I assume fender have in recent years simply resurrected what was in fact a very old logo for the newer ones? I tend to associate 'vintage' with the 70's ones that have the block capitals Fender logo. Is there a link somewhere with a time line of when the headstock logos changed in style?
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I noticed they had a natural one in Fuzz or whatever it's called in Nottm. Didn't play it, not even sure they have a decent bass amp on site yet. No price tag that I could see but I did have a quick stroke of the neck (trying not to look like some shifty perv) and it felt OK on the finish.
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Started using a Samson plug in bug transmitter when I got into using midi bass pedals in a couple of bands, the normal lead always seemed to be getting stuck under a pedal and generally in the way. Never had any problems with the Samson unit except once at a works do when it mysteriously picked up the University's home grown radio station that must have been transmitting on a very odd frequency.
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Lee bought a bass off me, no haggling, paid up front before receiving any goods and provided sensible questions and communications throughout. Top bloke all round. And I think he got a good deal
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I see Jack Bruce's EB3 is still there, seems to have been on sale forever. Shudder to think what they are asking for it. Maybe I'll email and offer 200 for it, then when they think I mean 200 grand I'll bring them down to earth ^_^
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I usually bus it to the city but on Sat had to make a quick getaway to go up north so drove in and parked at the Fletchergate multi storey. I was there about 2 hrs 15 mins and was charged 4:50 !!
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Seen Bravado a couple of times but when I saw them Pod was making up a twin neck by bolting a steinberger lookalike on to the top of his ric lookalike. Brilliant musicians.
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I'm in town briefly this Sat morning, I'll try to pop in if I can. Not been in often so I never even noticed a G&L. If my next selling deal comes off I might have some spare cash to chuck about.
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I'm on the verge of selling to someone on this forum who I don't know (and he equally doesn't know me) and there's a sight more money involved than in lemmy's deal. Gettin all twitchy about it now...
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I tried a set of the Hartke 45-105 they had in stock and was pleasantly surprised at how good they were for the low price so I've been back and got a 3 pack set for £30. never found it a particularly bass friendly shop, most of them are too far out of reach to even get one down for a closer look. I asked for a price on a shine violin bass out of curiosity, gave an email address. Still waiting...
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[quote name='RhysP' post='611134' date='Sep 28 2009, 07:08 PM']The main thing that has been revealed about "Made in Japan" is that it wasn't recorded in Japan.[/quote] Sorry, I don't think that's correct. Can you let me know where you read that? I thought that Made In Japan was put together from 3 concerts recorded in Osaka and Tokyo on their 1972 tour of Japan. All 3 full concerts from which MIJ was generated from was later released as 'Live In Japan'. Are we talking about the same band?
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If there's anyone in the know I'd be interested in Deep Purple's 'Made In Japan' album. It's pretty much a classic of its genre and I don't think much of it was fixed in the studio. It took them until a rematser years later to fix the fact that Blackmore was put onto the 'wrong' side of the stereo mix so I doubt they tinkered too much with it at the time. Some of the tracks on that album are for me the definitive versions (Smoke, Strange Kind Of Woman) over the studio versions.
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Don't dismiss the beatles too much, some of Macca's basslines that he sung over aren't all that simple. I can happily play All My Loving, I can sing it. Both together? hopeless...and don't get me started on the stuff C Squire and G Lee manage to sing and play simultaneously, not much simplification for live versions either!
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Almost correct Russ, in fact you dangle a 10kg counterweight from the optigrab to keep the neck up
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First proper rock gig I went to was Gillan in '81. Budgie were the support act. McCoy was a bit of a character,very solid bass player. I think he may have dabbled in jazz in his early days, I do recall he could play trumpet or something similar. Gillan were a very hard working band from 79 to 82. If this is too status quo try something like Fighting Man, the material was actually quite diverse.
