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Now I have posted this reply without any problems, but in other topics that I have tried to contribute to I've had the letters missing bother. To the extent that I'm not really interested in participating any more. Life's too short. It's only BC where I'm getting the problem.

I'll bring my walnut end pin. The metal bit is 10mm dia.

I'll try to get my Bryant and the Upton in the motor, and there'll just be room for an AI Clarus amp and Crazy 8 cab.

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I've got an enquiry out for a place off J25.

not kind!

Good to know you're still exquisitely mashing it with the greats, Bilbo.

Count me in. A location close to the M1 as a 'spine' would be helpful. With this in mind there is the Walnut Tree at Blisworth,close to J15. It has a good large room and a few Saturday vacances. Or would somewhere more northerly be preferred?

I suppose it's very much down to whether the composition has legs. I wonder how much Alan Hawkshaw gets from the Countdown jingle.

Great musicians on the show; I particularly liked the last sax player - who didn't win, incidentally. The only one not attending a music school, rather doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Music at St Pauls. My pal did those and promptly got sent to GCHQ where he went quietly mad. The young bass player had some excellent solo chops but his walking lines were a bit choppy rather than having a strong sustained flow. That'll come with age and maturity; what is he, 14? Blimey.

Hi Pete I have seen several Martin basses and they are nicely finished. Not too sure what happened to mine. It's completely matt, there are lumps and bumps in the applied stain and I don't think there are very many coats so the thin finish is very vulnerable to rubbing and scuffing. That said it plays very well. Is yours fully set up or will they have it back to adjust? Their best luthier took mine back in and reduced the string height at the nut after it had been played in. Then he reprofiled the fingerboard where there was a bit of resulting buzzing. He did a good job while I waited. A very nice bass indeed - just as long as you get a well finished one. You can easily get rid of any rosin cake by cleaning the strings with industrial alcohol which you can get from Maplin. Wishing you a lot of joy with a very nice bass. Roger

Having missed the last two bashes due to gigging commitments I was wondering whether there will be an event this year.

Well done, Pete, you'll get a very nice bass. The Martins thin the table down quite a lot which means the bass has a great punch to it. Just tell George to make sure that your bass is finished a lot better than mine - which is probably the worst looking bass around. For miles.

Treat only one ear on any one day. I did both my ears together once and finished up deaf for a week.

[quote name='dand666' timestamp='1399465927' post='2444474'] For me I need the iPad just to remember the first opening chords, or what key a song is in. For our upcoming cruise we only need 150 songs, but for the bigger, longer cruises they won't accept you if you don't have at least 400 songs. I'm not a robot! :-) [/quote] What's the definition of a cruise liner gig? - [i]two [/i]reasons to throw up. Sorry, it just had to come out.

I was in,er, quite a good band (jazz) for a few years and when the drummer had a lift to the gig my heart used to sink. Because he'd get just a bit pissed. No great problem in that but it meant that he wasn't able to hold the guitarist up. By that I mean the gtr was 'digging in' behind the beat on the slower numbers. Our trumpet player did a nice feature 'Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You' but complained that when he got to the final chorus the tempo had got so slow that he was having to play twice as many notes just to fill the bars. As a bass player I'd like all guitars to be four stringers.

Was certainly good on [i]my [/i]bass!

Anyone know/heard Pasquale Votino. He's in the Bristol area, recently from Italy. He sat in for a couple of tunes last Sunday. He's a great player and it was good to hear my bass played by somebody else. He made it sing.

If you have only one bass it should be a 3/4*. But if you feel that the shorter string length (slightly) would be of benefit to you needs then go for it. There are a few guys on BC who have one and there is a slowly growing trend in that direction. A longer end-pin with a 6ft-plus player should attract no comment at all. And so much easier to get in and out of the car for gigs. *The 3/4 size is not definitive anyway: some are larger and some smaller.

What a coincidence, Gafbass, because I was in Cheltenham only two days ago (Sun) at a jazz jam session. Now, I usually get plenty of work in the jazz field but it was worth a 35 mile drive to get a sharpener of tunes I don't often play these days - bebop stuff by Hank Mobley, Clifford Brown and others. I was a member of the house rhythm section (p/b/d) and we were joined by two very good saxes and a couple of singers. All very well organised; the running order was put on a flip chart and charts handed round. In the middle four young guys from Bristol came in (Italians) and played a great set. It was good to hear my bass played by someone else.......and it sounded marvellous!

Don't know about the notion of best, but way back Louis Armstrong said if you're forming a band get the right bass player before choosing the other musicians. Should give us a bit of a warm glow perhaps.

I saw the bass guitar with a pro covers band fitted with an XLR socket some time ago. I don't know too much about BGs; is this generally done? Seems a good idea if you can accommodate the bulkier socket.

Could someone please recommend an inexpensive tablet that I can use on gigs to display iReal Pro. I won't really need it for anything else, that's why it can be inexpensive. But it should be reliable. For instance, Maplin offer an 8" Android at the mo. Thanks in anticipation.