pete.young

Urban explorers web sites will give you some possible locations, but whether you can get permission to go and film at these locations is another thing entirely. www.28dayslater.co.uk for example. You'll probably have to travel: Hertfordshire is not exactly renowned for dark satanic mills.

How about something like this - bonus is it comes in handy for putting up banners, lighting rigs, ... https://www.screwfix.com/p/work-platform-aluminium-600mm/5892p

Very hard to find a decent Durham, especially for a band in Essex.

I bought a DHA VT1 Pro from Walshy. It arrived promptly and was very well packaged indeed. Paul is pleasure to deal with and I'd certainly trade with him again.

I've bought two basses from bassmanady, and somehow never got around to leaving any feedback. Time to put that right. The term 'basschat legend' seems entirely appropriate for Ady, an absolute gent and a pleasure to know and deal with.

Sorry Al Krow, I don't know what to say.

I think he means this is a 2003 bass. Can't understand why someone would vandalise such a lovely instrument. I'm interested in acquiring one of these, but not in this condition. £250-300 tops.

In a pub party band doing soft rock/pop, soul, funk? I'd be running away at this point. If he was truly accomplished he'd realise that double-kick is totally inappropriate for any of these styles.

Here's a clip of the late, great Roy Buchanan doing just that, with what appears to be a Fender Twin Reverb. What fantastic tone! Skip the first minute.

Yes, I've got one of the pewter ones, just like the man himself.

Aha, so this is now my fault? I was just trying to be helpful, honest :-) I'm glad it's gone to a good home - it's been there for a little while, lurking at the end of the 'weird stinky poo' rack full of old Vox phantoms. It does look lovely in black - one thing Yamaha learnt from making all those concert grands is how to do a gloss black finish. It took me a little while to get the hang of the pre-amp. It's capable of seemingly huge amounts of boost and cut on all 3 bands, and it seems to respond to dialling in small amounts gradually and seeing what effect it has. you can achieve huge tonal variation just by adjusting the pickup balance from one extreme to the other.

It's officially called 'Pewter'. They made 50 for the NAMM show in 2011. Wunjo Bass has a brand new black one which is down to £1995, they've had it for a while.

Gigskinz medium mixer bag would be a good shout. I've got one with an EA iAmp in it, they're very sturdy. Think it might be just too big for the small size.

Especially the Sting bit.

It's in page 16 of the big Smoothhound Innovations thread in Accessories and Misc. I tried to post a link, but the stupid forum software replaces it with a picture of the first post in the thread.

Whereabouts are you? There might be someone local who could help. I've had reasonable results using a bench mounted hand drill, and some decent-quality bits. Not quite the same as T-Bay's milling machine though.

Still would have been wrong. This is a Banjo Mandolin, not a banjolele. A uniquely awful sound, even for a banjo.

Wikipedia says 1972, with their first album coming out in 1973. Fascinating history coming out of this thread, I'm really enjoying it.

Why, what happens after that?

What about Newtone?

Seems harsh. I've seen a lot worse.

Well done, an absolute bargain and should sound great with the TE.

According to the report in the Guardian, he did wear ear plugs and suffered hearing damage despite that. Also according to the Guardian, there were a number of breaches of legislation relating to noise. An orchestra pit is a workplace just like any other, and the employer is responsible for carrying out the necessary risk assessments and if necessary providing safety equipment.

Enjoyed that immensely. When's your book coming out?