Raymondo

Well IF it's genuine he hasn't looked into the visa requirements has he? You cannot just go over to America and start playing in a band I know a guy who got the gig as drummer for Jason Mraz he only got a visa to tour with him because Jason insisted that he was the drummer he wanted and got Warner Brothers to pay to get him one ;it cost thousands of Dollars. He had to prove "excellence in his field". Obviously this was for touring at the high end of the business ...he supported the Stones in Rio for example, but the principle is the same.....the Americans want you to prove that you cannot get an equivalent person from the "home market" before they will let you in to play!.

A check of the phone number revealed this.... https://phones.radaris.com/60376585 I thought it might be one of those £500 per min scams but it seems someone does have that number. Eric Gynan, a musician. It seems like a well researched scam, I wonder if Mr Gynan kniows?!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1431245886' post='2769059'] [attachment=191702:Hercules.jpg] Hercules. I've used them for years. You lower your bass into the spring-loaded clip and it closes around the neck. [/quote] Gets my vote too. It's the .best stand I have ever had.

I used to be in a Stereophonics tribute band. Not lookalikes but sound alikes....well except for the boring bass lines on most of their songs....I made my own up so maybe we were a "homage to" band. in the early 2000s we were called Performance and Cocktails, after the album tittle and then I left to go to live in Tenerife and they changed the name to The Phonics (bit naughty I thought!). I returned in 2008 to play a few more gigs with them . The highlights were definitely the three gigs we did at Rock City in Nottingham as part of an all day Charity event that raised tens of thousands of pounds for the Julie Cotton Foundation. Played to 1500-2000 (whatever the capacity is) and had everybody singing along to every song. The Stereophonics are one of those bands that the general public don't realise that they know all their hits!

We will be playing all your "hated,boring,old hat" classic rock songs. Please come along and berate us for playing (enter any corny old song here......we will probably be playing it )....or maybe even just enjoy yourself! You could come and say Hi....I don't bite. I can't edit the thread title....it should say.... Wagon and ... 1st of May

I'm coming down tonight....should be fabulous!

I use them as a short cut to learning new songs. I find them really useful as like you Blue, I can't always hear the bass parts clearly on some recordings, so watching it being played is a great help.

Walk up to the counter and after waiting the requisite 45 minutes for someone to ask me, "can I help you?" I would ask" if they had any Zemaitis basses in stock?" Then walk out mumbling........."they never have any choice in these places!"

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1429621461' post='2753287'] Is it OK to take my own music stand? [/quote] It's ok they have plenty there for you to try.

Sorry to hear that your Wife has been ill,I hope she gets well soon. We do not know each other but you have brought much mirth and merriment to me over the few years that I have been a member here for which I thank you !

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429620423' post='2753269'] Is it still in tune? [/quote] Of course it is......I keep it in a case when I am not playing!

What is this "trying out a bass" thing?...I bought one 25yrs ago and it still works!

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1429545089' post='2752458'] Was in there just a few weeks back Ray. Think they have recently had complaints about volume, Black Hole are now doing acoustic sets on a Friday night. [/quote] Yes I heard about their noise problems,Steve,the singer in the old band went over last month and heard all about it. It's a bit of a cheek really when you hear the noise that the Arena Hotel makes most nights!

I think I might have posted this before but KevB's post reminded me of this ..... I was playing my usual Saturday night gig at Route 66 in Puerto de Santiago Tenerife a few years back ...we played with our backs to the ,open,sliding doors.I noticed a little girl....no more than 5 or6 yrs old watching us along, with her toddler brother, from the street behind me.Their parents weren't far behind them so I took no more notice. When we finished our song she came up to me and said "excuse me" (in perfect English,they were a Scandinavian family) and gave me 10 cents from her purse ! The place was packed and as one all went "AAHH" it was so cute. they went on their way and we carried on playing .....I still have the 10 cents coin.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1429349806' post='2750621'] I always found the Jam's "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" very powerful. The line 'They took the keys, she'll think it's me' sends a shiver down my spine, and not a nice one. [/quote] +1 It is spine chilling!

Wow what an amazing song (and performance by Rhoda!) It is indeed disturbing. I experienced the same kind of shock and despair when I first heard "Sonny's lettah" by Linton Kwesi Johnson.... Being a 50+ year old white male that grew up with two sisters and lived in a working class multi- cultural area of Nottingham I lived in a kind of "bubble of innocence" and never could understand violence to women or the racist attitude of the Police referred to in Sonny's lettah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlrqPweVpnU

I learned the hard way to be attentive and try to engage people whom compliment my playing,even though I find it embarrassing. Many years ago a young guy came up to say how much he enjoyed the band and how good my bass playing was;to my eternal shame I was in mid conversation with my band mates and just mumbled a thanks and carried on with my mates. Straight away I realised that I must have come over as a right cocky git and I am far from it,quite the opposite in fact. I still feel shamed by my reaction and so, if you were the young guy that went to see Dumpys Rusty Nuts at the Mardi Gras club in Nottingham in 1985.....my band SYZ II were the support.....I apologise

The Pitcher and Piano in Nottingham is my old school church converted into a pub.It's a lovely building and the sound Has always been great when I have been (no need for reverb though I played there in a five piece band through a nice 2k logic pa and it was awesome!.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1427045606' post='2725031'] The issue I find with Rickenbacker basses. They are like a set of precision wood carving tools. If you are a really good wood carver, with tools that are precision made you will excel at what it is you set out to do. If you are a hammer and screwdriver wood carver, then, they will just make things harder to do and you will end up blaming the tool for your failings. Where these instruments have been placed in the hands of experts, we have some of the most distinctive sounding most recognisable baselines in the world. Those that can benefit from them, do so, the others, well they need something that does not require such level of skill to master. Not everyone can do it unfortunate, no point getting angry about it, just keep practising, you might make the grade . [/quote]

[quote name='Qlank' timestamp='1427017249' post='2724633'] I usually want more. [/quote] [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1427016978' post='2724629'] I need to continually visit the gents (probably tripping over many things to and from) and then fall asleep only to wake up and pay more visits. TMI? [/quote]

I tried, I did, .....I really,really tried to ignore it...... but you know what happens when you've had eight pints of Doombar

Now that Skank has nailed it as usual.Can I just say.............. I couldn't care less as to why you sold your Rick...... I don't particularly like them either but jeeez ...I may call the RSPCA to report you for flogging a dead horse!

Pm'd

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1426870491' post='2722992'] I bet you had a music stand and everything. Showoff. [/quote] Sure did ....and on some gigs........backing tracks

I am an ok player I suppose. I can't slap (never particularly liked it but can admire peoples technique) I don't like jazz so never really played it,though I did manage to jam a gig once with a jazz pianist, I don't think I was very good but nobody complained! I can claim to have been "professional " for a short period when I lived abroad and only gigged for a living ( four or five a week most weeks)...well that's my definition of professional,but that's a whole different thread .....AND i DON'T WANT TO RE-OPEN THAT CAN OF WORMS THANK YOU I am happy with what I play ...lot's on here wouldn't be but I am 57 and just bumbling along doing what I do and trying to enjoy myself