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[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1389375526' post='2333597'] In that case, have you thought about joining the circus and becoming a clown ? You get to do all those things a lot more than you do being a bass player. [/quote] Oh no, you've played the clown card! Things could get messy :-0

[quote name='Ian Savage' timestamp='1389269137' post='2332070'] This is a few years back: [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/smokingbeagle/ianbddrink.jpg"]http://img.photobuck.../ianbddrink.jpg[/url] I'm an inch or two higher than that now, but not by much. [/quote] Keep it low, Ian

[quote name='simes' timestamp='1389222532' post='2331705'] Mentioned it the guys at rehearsal tonight they're not keen [/quote] Spoilsports!

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1389205237' post='2331374'] But that's easy for me to say because I've ever felt the allure of spandex. [/quote] Freudian typo?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1389183417' post='2330947'] In my Spandex wearing days I looked like I had a 30ft monster emerging in front of me.... [/quote] Bingo! BC'ers never disappoint

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1389184116' post='2330965'] My hero. [/quote] I thought he looked as though he was trying to do the Highland Fling at one point. He he

Spandex isn't a good look for anyone, really. Nothing to stop you doing the monitor thing though. You could always pretend you were doing it ironically

Great news. Your wife sounds like a lovely person. :-)

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1389119016' post='2330284'] You sound like an expensive date, Shelly. What about a bottle of Blue Nun and some pork scratchings? [/quote] Ooh, you smooth talking lothario

Thanks for all your kind comments, guys! BC'ers are so encouraging!

Cheap lambrusco, Dingus? Pinot, please! You think I've got no taste or summink?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1389095983' post='2329765'] If you got a drummer you enjoy playing with then it looks like you're the winner. [/quote] Yes, I'm really lucky. We both started playing about the same time, so when we joined Spectrum we were both quite new. But neither of us was letting on to that at the time! I think we've been gradually improving together which has been great.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1389089034' post='2329647'] Every dark cloud has a silver lining, or in shell's case a little puddle of sun [/quote] Thanks Kev It's only just dawning on me that I need never play the lamentable 'Rourke's Drift' ever again!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1389084285' post='2329604'] You gave up the chance to have your own performance poet? [/quote] What we really wanted was a Mime!

Well, it had to come in the end. We had been growing apart and we didn't have much in common any more. There had been the occasional arguments, but in the end the split was quite amicable. We felt it was time for us all to be free to meet other bands. So we decided to call it a day. I've got custody of the drummer. Alas Spectrum, the first band that would ever have me, is no more. Drummer and I are in another band anyway. We'd both been thinking we'd quite like to split, but we didn't want to let down the guitarist as he is a nice chap. But luckily for everyone, it was the guitarist who told us yesterday that he didn't want to carry on. Singer had one foot out of the door anyway as he is also a performance poet, and that had been taking up loads of his time recently. I'll always look back on Spectrum with great fondness. We were a band of limited talents, and a somewhat ill matched little foursome. But I am so grateful to the guys for giving me my first 'break'. It's not everyone who would have taken on on a middle aged woman who had only been playing for just over a year. However, onwards and upwards for 2014! Drummer and I can really concentrate on the other band now.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1388963921' post='2328302'] you're getting reported for making me look stupid as well [/quote] No I'm the one who looks stupid! It took me so bloody long to tap out my reply on my fiddly little phone, you had already figured it out! :-0

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1388963622' post='2328298'] Just to elaborate on what Dad said ...you have to click on the offending post as if you were going to quote it. Then you'll see the report button alongside the 'quote' and 'multiquote' buttons. But not if you're using the mobile version. You can only get the 'quote' button on that. [/quote] Sorry Les, simultaneous post.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1388951952' post='2328101'] OK, I'll bite, although I've never been moved enough to want to press it it, where is the report button ? [/quote] Just to elaborate on what Dad said ...you have to click on the offending post as if you were going to quote it. Then you'll see the report button alongside the 'quote' and 'multiquote' buttons. But not if you're using the mobile version. You can only get the 'quote' button on that.

It was a mid life crisis that got me playing bass in the first place. !

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1388917366' post='2327515'] Heh, heh, heh. Would you like to see some puppies..? [/quote] Mods! Mods! He's at it again!

I didn't realise that leaving comments on people's profiles was possible. I have now had a look at the profile settings thing, and I see there is a setting to disallow anyone from leaving comments. So I have now selected this option. I don't like the idea of comments in my own profile somehow. Seems a bit too 'Twittery' to me. Any old troll or stalker could start leaving comments. Although that does seem unlikely I'll grant you, since nobody seems aware of this function! (except icastle, but he know everything, lol )

[quote name='paulconnolly' timestamp='1388886170' post='2327402'] I have the Bass White Pages. Very thick, loads of bass tabs. It's very good. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Pages-Leonard-Publishing-Corporation/dp/0634033263"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Pages-Leonard-Publishing-Corporation/dp/0634033263[/url] [/quote] I've got this as well. It's really good. I like it cos it's got the dots and lyrics as well as the tab, which makes it easier to get the rhythm.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1388592822' post='2323789'] I thought you'd already done that! Ooh! Ow! No... I'm sorry! OOF, me spuds. [/quote] I just set 'em up for the punchline..

My plan is to try to come up with a way of combining comedy and bass playing. I'd love to be able to get up and entertain people with music and laughter. I want to carry on with the band. We all enjoy playing, but I'm not entirely sure that anyone actually enjoys listening to us. So as a sort of sideline I'd like to start doing something a bit different. I think there is a possibility of making this happen I know a few people on the comedy and drama scene in Brum who also play a bit of music of one sort or another. I'm going to put out a few feelers in the spring to see if anyone would like to join me in a music/comedy project of some sort. That's the goal! We'll see of I can get anything off the ground. :-)

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1388519286' post='2323077'] Have you still got the outfit? [/quote] Alas no. In various pantomimes I have also appeared as a panda, a bat, a mouse and a winged monkey. Animal impersonations seem to be my speciality!