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[quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1438351712' post='2833821'] We play AYGGMW, and it seems to go down quite well. I don't mind playing that, it bloody Highway to bloody Hell that bores the living $hit out of me. Eff all in the verses, so I have to stand there like a pork pie at a vegan wedding,then plodding quarter notes in the chorus. Hate it with a passion. Complete and utter rubbish. [/quote] It's not obligatory to stand doing nothing in the verse to HtH. I use it to reprise my younger rock disco days - dip twice with the left shoulder, arch back and swing right-left then dip right shoulder twice etc.

Just remembered - when we had the previous drummer, we did "Dance with the devil" by Cozy Powell.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1438307317' post='2833483'] Now that I will agree with. When 20 somethings walk in on one of our gigs ( we do 70s hard rock & blues ) they leave immediately. That's ok, we have enough of an over 50 crowd to support the band. We don't need them. [/quote] They stay at ours. If they left immediately, I'd be curious why. And the sight of fifty or sixty 18 year olds in fancy dress leaping up and down to "One way or another" will stay with me for a long time. I'd rather not take a contemptuous attitude to a potential audience, although I appreciate that as it isn't going to affect the amount you'll get paid and because they're too young for you to have any regard for them then it won't bother you.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1438295616' post='2833440'] I don't understand where this whole 'young people don't get the Beatles' idea comes from. [/quote] Old people.

Another happy Puma 900 owner here. Plenty of power and an EQ that works for me (the more complex an EQ is, the more chance I have of messing it up).

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1438245737' post='2832781'] That sounds like it's worth attending then [/quote] If you're at a loose end, it's pretty entertaining, though it won't knock you out. KevB, could you distinguish much difference in the bass tones between P and J? He seemed to have put a lot of grit on the amp when he played at the Flapper and if there had been any significant difference in the sounds of the two before the signal went down the lead, it got lost by the time it hit the speaker. Bassist was Randy Hope-Taylor, incidentally.

[quote name='funkle' timestamp='1438250725' post='2832854'] I'm still interested, though TBH it would have to be a pretty amazing amp to retire my Tecamp Puma 900, which works perfectly well with my CN112 x2. [/quote] Ditto (well, AE not CN). Don't think it's a CE issue as it's not in stock at any US dealer either, and Bergantino (other than a blog and Facebook posting) don't acknowledge its existence on their website.

You haven't got a Warwick yet.

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1438110482' post='2831771'] Dear deirde , I mean bass chat ,How many is to many basses ,I'm upto eight ,granted two are in bits for restoration ,couple nice yams and the others I can't even remember half of them , I just buy them and don't even play them ,do i need counciling or something [/quote] Just make sure they all look different. They'll all sound the same, after all.

[quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1438032273' post='2831123'] And, if im not much mistaken, "Band Names - A Fresh Approach" hasn't been taken yet either [/quote] Rather reminiscent of "Star Wars IV - A New Hope". Can we expect "Band Names II - The Apathy Strikes Back" and "Band Names III - Return of the Random Words"?

Mustang Sally.

Waving at him so you've got his attention and then pointing at the DI box/amp/bass and then looking querulous does it for me on the odd occasion when I've had a soundman and he's been too far away for me just to shout the question "OK to unplug?" at him.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1438198454' post='2832518'] [size=4][font=Arial]My point, some of us were just born at a time that gave us wisdom and a perspective on rock that future generations would not have.[/font][/size] [/quote] Alternatively, it means you're older and more opinionated.

Well, it was an enjoyable evening - Randy Hope-Taylor rather than Yolanda Charles on bass (I was rather hoping it would be her). Although he apparently played both Precision and Jazz basses during the evening (I know he did because I could just about see him), they all sounded the same to me. So much for the desperate search for the perfect tone, eh?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1438134372' post='2831989'] Agreed but rock doesn't happen on Youtube or on an iPhone. Doesn't matter, I don't think the younger generations know what "Rock" is , no matter how you define it. You'll never convince me they do. [/quote] Don't worry, I'm not going to bother trying.

[quote name='ben4343' timestamp='1438070659' post='2831269'] Received an 'order confirmed' for the acoustic fretless, which is pretty exciting! Anyone else snag anything? Twit; do you have fret markers on the side, or will I be flying totally blind? [/quote] I've got the 5-string acoustic fretless, which has side dots but in fretted/lined fretless position - ie. between rather than on the unfrets.

If the hideous random router attack wasn't bad enough, the neck has a repaired crack in it. So, if you replace the body, the neck, the tuners, and the pickups and electronics, you could get it back to near original condition, and you'd have some pickups and electronics you could sell.

A couple of oldies. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhOmFwp7tc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhOmFwp7tc[/url]

I use a Tascam GB10 into a Behringer mixer into the computer hi-fi (Technics amp and reasonable bookshelf speakers or headphones).

Lined fretless - dots are between the lines. Except on my Sei because I had them moved. Unlined fretless - could be either. My Harley Benton acoustic has them between where the frets would be. In the past I've had unlined with the dots where the frets would be, and unlined with dots between the unfrets.

I'm unclear about the subject of the question. Rock and roll as in Teds with a supertanker of hair gel on doing strange dances in blue suede shoes, or rock and roll as in rock, the all-encompassing popular (and loud) beat combo music? While Minus Zero doesn't go to the pub to watch bands (not even us), he does have an iPhone full to overflowing with music, of the modern rock variety (eg. Slipknot and Lacuna Coil) and he's been to a couple of festivals. The youth of today are still listening, it's more that they don't go down the pub but choose to stay in playing on their PlayBoxes and xStation 3s.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1438023691' post='2830991'] This truncated version is to found on the soundtrack album (track 11) but - being end-credit music - would have been the penultimate piece heard by the cinema-goer as they extinguished their Capstan Full Strength and stumbled through drifts of Westler's hot dog wrappers out to the street where they caught the bus home. [/quote] Ah yes, the desperate rush to escape before the National Anthem.

Similar taste, rock in general, though she likes some of the more modern growler bands like Rammstein that I can't stand. We also disagree on the relative merits of The Who and Led Zeppelin, as the dulcet tones of Mr Daltrey and Mr Townshend's tastefully concise guitar parts are clearly superior to Mr Plant's wobbly-pitched caterwauling and Mr Page's interminable widdling, though Mrs Zero appears unable to perceive this.

We're female fronted and do quite a few from the Groundhog Day list. Mrs Zero is perfectly happy to sing songs sung by male singers as well as female ones, though I don't think there are any Groundhog Day songs where the original vocalist was female (unless "Zombie" has made it onto the list).

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1437767676' post='2828983'] Other candidates might be Highway Star (Deep Purple), Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John), Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf), and of course Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen). [/quote] That reminds me, Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Meatloaf) is another rock operetta.