taunton-hobbit

I'm watching the Pyramid stage live on I Player, and wondering quite how it can take so long to do the changeovers? Seems to me that there's a lot of manpower involved here - I'm expecting that by now (this is 2016) everything this side of a drumkit should be (literally) on wheels? Please tell me if I'm wrong (don't bother pointing out 'this is a festival', please)

Thanks Paul, I'll check it out when I get in from work - Laurel Aitken had a good double album with the Skatalites (them again), It's a little different & worth a look (I'll ref it later) - a lot of the stuff came out when he was doing a load of skinhead gigs. :

Marley is widely regarded as 'white man reggae' - he was packaged and sold very much in the fashion of Rock musicians back then. No black kid in the UK would give it space (you had to be there). Reggae is a HUGE subject - cast around & see what you are comfortable with. The 'early' artist stuff is sometimes amazing - listen to Ken Boothe, Ernie Smith, Errol George, the Skatalites, Mighty Diamonds, U Roy/I Roy (different people) - Max Romeo, Hopetown Lewis...I ran and played reggae sound in the 60s & 70s - explore the progression, from calypso to ska, through Blue Beat to soca to rock steady to 'commercial' reggae (think Desmond Dekker, Bob & Marcia, Althea & Donna)- it's an interesting journey - I wish you well (and I haven't touched on heavy dub yet). Granted the early stuff with Peter Tosh is very good, but this has been almost lost along the way (I also have Marley with Bunny Wailer, somewhere) - I'm sure that the Skatalites were the Band of Choice in JA at one point....... vvvvvvv

I've been (not quite) watching this years offering - I liked Madness, but then, they are of 'my time' - turned off a lot of prog-rock noise and a fair number of females who seemed to think that 'talent' consists of stamping around the stage with spread legs (yawn) - Tina Turner did this stuff fifty years ago....anyone fancy coming in (maybe I'm just too old)?

Off we go again (!) - I've a couple of Dubsters (gen1, 2x15) - for their size and weight they do what I require fairly well. They do not have the same 'heft' as a couple of 18s in heavy thick ply cabs, but I didn't expect them to. I'd do the try-out offer & see what you think - also, you might like to email Alex & get a conversation going - he's intelligent, easy to talk to and has the knack of getting to the nub of this stuff........

Let us know how this goes, please.........

I wonder how many varieties of ormat there are? (scratches head and exits left, murmuring the opening bars of 'One Step Beyond')

Great for metal - the handles are good too......the stack (at present) comprises a couple of built to order series 3000 (circa 280 watts each) & one Matamp slave 300 (again 280+ - these are all using KT120s for output).....one OR100 circa 1970, and one Orange Custom shop 30/50 plus a bit of electronic trickery/crossover in a matching cab that Jeff kindly built while I watched (impressive). The 'green' slave was bought from Oli Foxen, I promised I'd leave the crosses on the front, it seems they are part of its history.... Now you may understand why I run two Dubsters!

Try FleaBay - there's a couple or three new ones on there with UK availability.

I've got several different makes (or badges....) I've yet to find any real difference between them, but I only use for general housing & car/van transport. I wouldn't trust my amps to a plastic box if I was looking for them to Go International - I'd want 'proper' plywood & metal kit...........

Are we having fun yet?

Try carpet underlay felt (not the synthetic 'Tredaire' type) - works a treat and can be fixed with drawing pins (!).

DPD were total sh1t until my major supplier (who is VERY major) decided to use them - suddenly we get stuff around midday with smiling 'happy' drivers - as opposed to the taciturn two days late rubbish that we suffered before......money talks & carriers don't give stuff about ordinary mortals.

On the (very) rare occasion that I have amps in my car overnight, the load cover is over them and I reverse back (gently) into a stone wall. I'm still relieved to find it all intact the next day..............

I had the same thing back in the day - I wrote & offered to sell them the name (which I had coined for radio use) - never heard from/of them again......

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I did a few gigs at the Nags Head - it's a hotel now, I believe - Red Lion Wooburn Green has gone - Wycombe Trades & Labour was eminently forgettable (is it still there?).........never did the White Horse (not sure I missed much).........

Pretty well all of the pubs that I played back in the day seem to have been demolished or burnt down (must prove something. but I'm not sure what).

Someone nicked my HobNobs - Barefaced cheek of people............

I've got a new packet of chocolate Hob Nobs.............

Cor - there's teknikal....I'll stick with my KT120s & let everyone else fight............

I'm delighted to see Alex 'getting there' - his attention to detail & customer service is first rate, as, in my opinion, is the product. (I've just run up my Dubsters on a couple of Ormat 3000s, and I might get my hearing back to normal by Wednesday). Well done mate, it's not easy to start a business from scratch (I know, I've done it a couple of times).

Noise meter tip - plug your extension lead into the cooker wall socket - they all have a13amp outlet - and they feed off a high amperage direct line.

I will kick this off by saying that I can't stand Chris Evans, but I'm trying to stay detached here. Am I the only one who thought it was more-or-less the same programme, with just a change of presenter? ....might as well got Kylie Minogue as far as I'm concerned - at least she's easy on the eye (& don't seem to shout much)... I await to be told that I've missed a nuance or five - your opinions please? Mods - Pls move this to the off topic thread already running?

I knew someone would get Heft in before me.....I wonder why valve amps [i][b]sound [/b][/i]louder? I've got a few, and they easily trounce my Crown Class D - p'raps someone can come up with a credible answer?