KingBollock

I’ve got a Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdrive, which is their version on the Tube Screamer. It’s good. And very cheap. The only worry that people seem to have about it is the plastic chassis, but if it’s going to be always on, that doesn’t matter quite so much.

About 30 years ago we bought a 120 year old upright labelled as Jackson’s of Coventry (which I have never been able to find anything about). It was overstrung with an iron frame. It sounded nice and worked fine apart from one of the end keys that had been used to repair one of the more central keys. Moving it was an absolute nightmare. It was unbelievably heavy! Unfortunately, when we moved to Wales, 17 years ago, we just couldn’t bring it with us. We ended up having to skip it, which felt like sacrilege.

I use 3mm Dunlop Primetone picks and get a very fingery sounding tone from them. They do a rounded tip version, too, which sound even more fingery. I never actually play with fingers, I keep a selection of picks for getting different tones and attacks.

I got mine three weeks ago from Anderton’s, they were the only place that seemed to have them in stock. It only took two days to arrive. I have to say that I love it. I had been thinking of building my own, until I saw that Anderton’s video. If the EBay prices do really sell for silly money, I might consider building my own anyway, compare the two and sell the Beringer if they’re close enough. Although, if I could get silly money for the Behringer, I could sell it and get one of the new ones. I don’t care about owning a rare pedal.

Could you tape a set list to the back of your bass? The first thing that popped into my head when reading your problem with the pedal screen, was the Gameboy magnifying light. Maybe not one of those exactly, but I thought it worth mentioning in case it might give you an idea.

Westone Raider I in silver/grey… I keep looking on Google but all I ever find is a BassChat page that was posted while I was on a break from internet forums, so I missed it! I believe that there is a chap on BassChat that owns one, that he mentioned he keeps in its case on top of a wardrobe. But I can’t for the life of me remember who it was! I think he may have said that it was his first bass, so I felt it would be too cheeky to ask if he would sell it. Especially with how much I regret selling mine.

Have you tried uv resin? You’d still have to use heat, or a lot of patience, to spread it. But with the use of a uv torch it sets immediately. Meaning less retraction. And if it did retract a little bit, it’s a quick, seamless fix. You’d probably be able to use it to fix the edges of that pedal. I bought the stuff for model making, but I am finding all sorts of uses for it.

Just the one for me. Front. Back. Headstock. Her name is Angelbane.

The individual boxes would be metal. I’m sort of envisioning each side having a couple of small, embedded magnets, to hold the enclosures together and also for positioning, to keep them aligned. The instrument connection, from box to box (apart from the end/terminal boxes, which would have a jack socket, too), which would be a couple of metal pads. It would eliminate the need for patch leads and take up less pedalboard space. Of course, you’d be stuck with only that type of enclosure.

That’d be cool if each pedal was separate and each in its own box. With each box being exactly the same shape and size with perfectly squared off sides, they could be joined together with magnets, so that they would fit snuggly. This would allow for them to be joined, electrically, by metal plates, or more magnets, instead of jack sockets and plugs. (I hope I have described that well enough) You’d end up with something similar but more versatile. Slowly trying to think this through… You’d need “end boxes” that allowed for extra connections. They could be used to allow leads to be plugged into jack sockets, and also power. You would need four of them, I think. One for the end of each row. You’d need a patch lead to go from the end of the bottom row to the start of the top row. I’m sure I am missing something else…

I got it, I’m just rubbish at remembering to react to stuff! Unfortunately, all my Motörhead vinyl got really badly water damaged. It included over 40 albums (including compilations and bootlegs) and I can’t even remember how many singles (12” and 7”). Including several coloured ones, even my beautiful blue Bomber album. So, so gutted! They were kept separate from my other vinyl. The only ones that were saved were the leather sleeved No Remorse (thanks to the leather) and the 10” St Valentines Day Massacre, which was on display elsewhere; lost the 7” and 12”, though.

I am so glad they went with a healthy Lemmy, rather than the very obviously sick and dying one in the Rainbow Bar & Grill. I think he’d have hated that one, but he would have approved of this new one. I will be going to see it as soon as I can get up to the Midlands.

Oh how I wish I could contribute to this thread! It would be cool if people linked to videos or websites of their bands. It’d be great to see you all in action (without me having to leave the house…).

What have you got against people with long legs?

I have a list of words and phrases that I often add to, that I would like to use as band names, effect pedal names or knobs on effect pedals (should I actually get around to building any more…). Some of the pedals I have built have very long and pretentious names. Dank & Fetid Earth Beneath A Doom Coloured Sun, being a favourite. It’s two different kinds of Big Muff in one box (a Musket and a ‘73 Ram’s Head). I always liked the idea of a punk band named KingBollock & The Danglies. Which sounds fun but doesn’t really work if you think about it. I was once in a death metal band called Bum F#ckers From Hell. Which was suggested by a friend of the band, who was actually quite homophobic (not nastily, it was just something he couldn’t cope with. Lovely fella otherwise). Then we had an opportunity to support Bolt Thrower and suddenly everything got serious and our name got changed to Cerberus, which I wasn’t happy about. Especially as the reason we got the opportunity was because of another band supporting called Dirtbox (who were brilliant. I so wish I could find the demo of there’s that I had). Anyway, sadly, it all fell apart and it never happened. Thinking of using paint names… I do a lot of model painting and use a lot of Citadel paints, which often have interesting names. I do my wife’s head in when we’re out and about and I keep pointing out and naming the colours of cars by the Citadel paint name. The trouble is that Games Workshop are extremely litigious, so probably best not used for a band name. There is actually a link between Bolt Thrower and Games Workshop/Warhammer, including their name and the release and artwork of their early albums.