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Is the tag line this lot used to sell tickets to the last gig I went to....one of the best gigs I have ever seen!.... It's fabulous to see a mate doing well. Bill, the guitarist, was a (brilliant) drummer in a band I was in a few years back...The Steve Mcgill band. I hope some of you enjoy it!

I'm not averse to a bit of the old Tom Robinson band ….life was simpler then🙂 I saw the man ,on his own, when he played what is now called the Splendour festival ( I think it was then the plain old Heineken Music festival ) in Nottingham a few years back. His solo rendition of "War Baby" was mightily impressive.😎

Hmmmm Nice! ….spoken in a Whispering Bob Harris style😎

I always loved The Barony bar...particularly gigs by Bedford Falls .. .has jazz on now according to their Facebook page but I think that they still have bands on . The standard was always very high. http://whatpub.com/pubs/EDN/23/barony-bar-edinburgh

Mine has to be a favourite place I used to play as I don't gig anymore..... Rock City Nottingham... Iconic Rock venue, just about every famous Band you can mention has played there at some point. The Stereophonics tribute band I was in has played the main stage there 5 times. It was an all day charity event ( I'm far from famous 😉) but the crowd loved us. it was always a sell out (2450 capacity) raising thousands of pounds for the relevant charity but the best bit was the on stage sound. There was a front of house soundman AND at the side of the stage, a sound man that just gave you a monitor mix ...he was BRILLIANT ….anything you wanted in your monitor at sound check was delivered in seconds. I know the combination of Tribute band and Charity gig is an anathema to many on here but they were the gigs of my life and I would do them again, at the drop of a hat , If only I was well enough.

I get the impression that Prowla quite likes Rics and their copies.😉

I'll tell you who I didn't see last ...Flippin' Del Amitri ! Somehow I had missed the fact that they were touring and they played Nottingham last night.😢

I Must be alone in liking Ric's aesthetically rather than for their "sound". I put plastic strings on my faker and loved the deep smooth sound that emanated. I don't really like the Clankey sound that so many people seem to crave.😨 What's happened to the "hiding because I am fearful of the response emoji that we used to have?

Send me a PM of where the court is and I'll do my damnedest to get there. I don't care where it is in the country, I enjoy a night out and hotels are cheap enough.😉

My first decent bass was an Arbiter ric copy ( purchased new in 1975, on finance, at £5.00 per week) prior to that I had gigged with a £29.00 Audition P bass copy purchased from the mighty F W Woolworth and co. I loved the shape and colour but couldn't even dream of owning a real one back then. I am rubbish at model numbers but I think it was a 4001 copy...it was stereo ,with a Y shaped lead supplied...I used to send one signal to my Laney 100 Klip amp clean side and the other to the distorted "Klip" side ..oh what fun! Red Sunburst type paint job ...I loved it but ...a certain lady came along, my band split up and someone offered me £125. for it ...I think I paid £165.00 a year and a half earlier) Oh how I wish I could travel back in time.🙄 For the past 27 years I have used a MIJ P Bass bought new, but I always drool over a Ric.

I have always loved " Blue is the Colour" but then I am old😜 I am not Irish but I love the Saw Doctors and this was adopted by the band as a footie song during the world cup in America where they have a big following...

Yep still going The guy who owned it sadly passed away a few years ago but his wife carried on in business. I don't know their names ,which is weird because I have been buying from there ( along with Jack Brentnall's, Clement Pianos, Carlsbro and Dave Mans!) since 1972 🙂 Whenever I go in She always recognises me, but doesn't know my name and we do that "hi how are you?" thing and go through the sales process in a very friendly manner without ever using each others names...very "British" 😂

Because it's amazingly brilliant and a must hear for any aspiring bass player? 😜

That makes me smile ….. it's a great feel good pop song....cool😎

On my way for lots of beer with my old school friends ( we left school in 1973, we meet up every six weeks or so!) I was a tad early so I called in to Music inn (in Nottingham) I ended up with a Fender electro acoustic bass that I had to leave there and come back into Nottingham the next day to pick up. Still my efforts weren't wasted ..I have lent it to Brook-fan of this here parish, in his hour of need ,which resulted in a great night on the beer in Bath...bonus! 🙂

Cool😎 Nothing else to add really!

A friend of a friend ( I have actually met him and spent time having a beer with him...it's not made up!) , Played drums with Jason mraz. Jason himself insisted that he wanted him to be his drummer, he made Warnerbrothers pay for him to get an "excellence in his field" visa so that he could move to America to be in the band. He toured the world, supported The Stones in Rio etc etc BUT The label insisted that a session drummer recorded the albums,even though he "wrote" the drum parts during the writing process of the songs. Eventually he quit the band because the management were inflexible on this point. Jason hasn't had a hit since over here ...coincidence??? 😉😁

It seems to me that the OP Arrowsmith...joined only to post his complaint...he/she has visited several times since posting but not added to the debate. I asked a question that has not been answered...I think we should ignore this thread until the OP engages in the debate.....Ask yourselves.."when Have I ever started a thread on Basschat and not joined in with the answers? "

Mmmmm you weren't playing in the Nottingham area on Saturday were you by any chance?

Bugger I completely forgot about that! A few years ago I went to the one headlined by Donovan. It was a lovely festival.

Surely that should be … irregularly?

He never said anything like that to me ...I think it was just his way of hinting at who he played with ...it's a bit confusing in places ...lot's of things being repeated but a worthy effort at documenting a great guys life.

Here is a look back on the life of a friend that many of you might have seen....especially people from Nottingham,Weymouth and the West Midlands. I hope you enjoy his story of life on the road in music.

I was in a Stereophonics "tribute" band ...we didn't look like them ..though weirdly I played in an originals band at the same time whos's singer was the spitting image of Kelly jones ( great singer but didn't sound anything like Mr Jones) We did mess with arrangements a bit and I didn't stick to the root note bass lines that Kelly jones insisted were played on "his" songs. I don't care if you like the idea of tribute bands or about anyone's idea of what constitutes a tribute band ...I had a fantastic time made decent money and played main stage rock city to 2000 (ish) people, all singing along to every song , three times....I'll die a happy man.

Bloody good too......Close your eyes and it's like Neil is in the room!