KingBollock

I have official permission, from my wife, to keep my hair even if I go the full Terry Nutkins skullet. The other day she rather proudly pointed out that I was sitting on my hair. Which I wouldn't have minded if I'd have had pants on at the time...

V.V.Brown - Samson and Delilah. A couple of people mentioned her in the favourite vocalists thread and I have had this album on constant rotation ever since. I got her Travelling Like The Light album, too, but it isn't really my kind of thing, though there are a couple of songs that I like on it. Samson and Delilah is bloomin' brilliant, though.

I like the idea but they don't often look all that good. Even liberal use of LEDs doesn't seem to help, and I believe that [i]everything[/i] can be improved with the addition of pretty lights. Back in the 80s I really wanted a BC Rich Warlock with a clear body with a crackle design sandwiched in it. Kirk Hammett has a Telecaster in clear acrylic that is hollow and has a blue liquid in it, which is quite cool but I have thought of something better... (It's a living Ant farm)

That makes me think of when my wife started working for the police, she was amazed at the amount of people that would call to complain about music venues actually playing music. And not venues that had just opened up or started putting on music, or people that had just moved into houses near to the venue, but people that call every weekend year after year. Apparently the phones went nuts when Llanelli had the Eisteddfod last year, people expecting the police to go and tell them to turn it down!

I have to say, randomly hacking chunks of wood out of your bass is quite a novel way to make it light enough for a woman to lift...

Oh no, he owns other instruments too! Quick, someone call the RSPBG!

Both my actives came with vol/blend. I converted my passive P/J from vol/vol to vol/blend, just for an excuse to fiddle with it, not really thinking it would work that well, but I like it. I'd covert my Aria J/J too but I intend making it active at some point and the preamp will come with a blend anyway. Also considering doing it to my twin humbucker skinny stringer. I wonder how a blend with a tone pot for each pick up would work? Can you get blend pots that you can pull, that would work as a kill switch?

I got that book as a gift when I very first started. Didn't have much use for it back then, but it gets cracked out every now and then for inspiration.

I built my own and only have that to go on, but those controls are quite subtle, but they do make a difference. I did try a guitar (as opposed to a bass) through it when I first built it, but can't remember if they had a stronger effect with that or not.

I don't have the latest Guitar Pro 6, just 5, but all the online resources are now for 6. Which is a bit of a git. Anyway, I have started playing tuned to C# standard but occasionally dropping the C# down to C. I tend to prefer to play over the fifth and seventh frets for comfort. It is easy to transpose a first fret on one string to the sixth fret on the string below. However, it is throwing me slightly with that C string because that sixth fret should now be the seventh. It's not a huge problem, but it has always bugged me that when transposing in Guitar Pro it will always go for a first fret over moving to a lower string, ignoring the surrounding notes. A: --5----1-- ----------- B: --5------- -------6-- It will, seemingly, always choose example A over B. So, I am trying to find out if there is a way to keep its fingering together in a chosen area of the fretboard.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1432146143' post='2778654'] Also, Bass players = Royalty [/quote] Indeed...

I have a T-Max 500 and a 410tx, they sound great. As has been said, though, incredibly heavy, especially as the amp is in a packed 8u rack along with a stereo power amp. I suffer with a bad back and even if I had lighter gear I would still need someone to help me move it (all the bands I ever played in used to help each other with moving gear, it just makes sense) anyway, and this stuff is perfectly manageable between two.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1431299992' post='2769842'] one night I had removed a battery from a pedal and put it temporarily in my pocket... and forgot about it. After soundcheck we go to find some place to have dinner and during the meal I notice a discomfort in my pants... and I jump out yelling! The battery made the coins in my pocket extremely warm!!! Fortunately I avoided a case of roasted nuts... So, yes... be careful how you store them! [/quote] Good job your pocket didn't have a lot of lint in it! It is possible, and quite easy, to start a fire using an AA battery and some foil backed paper from a stick of chewing gum. The 9v Procells I have came with little rubber caps on one of the terminals, so I keep them, just in case.

I remember looking over the bookings board at a rehearsal studio and, right next to Black Sabbath, there was a band called Funky Plankton, which tickled me. I once helped an artist friend of mine design a CD cover for a band called Psychotic Sand Embroidery.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1431203663' post='2768831'] The drummer Rob Peasant was pretty bald. The guitarist was Danny Willson. We played all round Leicestershire and beyond from 1985 to 1995 Edit: No Mercedes van. We had a white Transit for a long time and then a trailer [/quote] Ah, oh well. I have a feeling they had more members anyway, I seem to remember there being a keyboard player, too (we were actually a Roland service centre repairing mostly keyboards, but I do remember installing crossovers in a bunch of said band's pa cabs). the name of that band is going to have to go on bugging me!

The Chase? You didn't happen to have a bald headed front man and a huge Mercedes van, did you? I worked at an electronic music service centre (Central Sounds) in Hinkley back in the early nineties. I remember doing stuff for a Leicester band with a name that was short and started with Ch. For some reason I was thinking about them recently and I couldn't quite remember the name.

I know it's not rude (probably), but the band name I hated the most, that I played in, was 66Crush. The same vocalist (I refuse to call him a singer...) that came up with that, later suggested the name John Doe for a different band. WHY DID PEOPLE KEEP LISTENING TO HIM?? I remember him writing a song about him and a girl he'd picked up "crawling into the back of his three wheeled van..." [i]He didn't even own a three wheeled van!![/i]

[quote name='bassix' timestamp='1431174818' post='2768494'] You'll be saying you don't like the name Dirt Box Disco in a minute.. [/quote] There was a cracking band called Dirtbox from Coventry back in the early nineties. I had their demo but some ...one nicked it.

I'd try longer saddle screws.

There was a band called Vaginal Croutons who did a splendid cover of The Littlest Hobo theme tune. I have a live version with the best bass solo ever. Edit: Found it on YouTube! http://youtu.be/u4iOR1CmUmA

I was once in a death metal band called Bum f***ers From Hell. I was gutted when they changed it to Cerberus.

Wow. Very impressive.

[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1430680737' post='2763679'] Need help DIYers. I'm building a Poodle Pedal Parts Rat for my friends birthday. Soldered all the parts in today [not switch/led/dc power] but connected it up as in the instructions to check the pcb was working as it should. There is effected sound coming through, but there's major hum - louder than the actual sound. Anything obvious I should be checking tomorrow? I'm thinking it'll be something to do with grounding perhaps? Cheers all [/quote] Have you tried it in its metal enclosure? That always makes a surprising amount of difference, especially with dirt effects. Also, are you trying it with a battery or power supply?

The first band I ever put together was looking for a second guitarist. Our biggest influence was Motorhead and we wanted to be heavy. My brother brought along a girl who brought an acoustic guitar with her and tried her level best to get us to change into a country and western band instead. She was genuinely surprised when she didn't get the job.

[quote name='Leon Transaxle' timestamp='1427984718' post='2736705'] 35 years ago so a bit half-remembered. One or more of these.[size=4]Take your pick.[/size][list] [*]Loads of guitarists and no bass players at school. [*]Two strings less when starting from scratch so easier to play right handed for a lefty (LH guitars were rare and expensive at the time). [*]Instant gratification. I tried a guitar and couldn't cope, whereas on a bass I could play something recognisable immediately. [*]JJ Burnell, Entwistle and Foxton basslines heard through a crappy bass-heavy radiogram. [*]The picture on the back cover of "This is the modern world". [/list] After a couple of no name horrors my parents bought me a Westone THunder I for my 18th. I still have it. Strung with flats and an ashtray fitted to stuff a lump of foam under when I don't want an active roundwound PJ sound. At home I plugged in to the aux socket of my mother's home organ. I have part shares in a 100W selmar solid state bass amp and 4X12 cab. The guitarist had a matching 100W selmar guitar amp and the same cab. The other co-owner of the bass amp & cab lived the other side of Colchester to me so we moved it the two miles or so between houses using a 'borrowed' Sainsbury shopping trolley. The quickest route by far being off road over Abbey Fields (past the assault course for anyone who knows Colchester). We did a few gigs, he did none. So fortunately never had to deal with a clash of bookings. [/quote] Yeah, I "borrowed" a trolley from the local co-op. It wasn't a shopping trolley, it was a heavy duty thing from the storehouse. It wasn't very high, about six or eight inches, and easily slid under the big gates out the back of the shop. Little thirteen year old me was only just strong enough to lift my 1960s 4x12 onto that trolley and I used to push it the hundred yards to the local youth-club where loads of bands rehearsed. The trolley, despite having heavy duty wheels, squealed like a banshee the whole way there and back; fortunately I only had to pass four houses.