Kiwi

I had three as many people know but they're going to stay in the past.

Hello Jex, you weren't scared off then?

they're not that cheesy Japanese band who have achieved Level 41.63 are they?

FWIW isopropyl alcohol does a similar job. However no amount of meths is going to prevent the wearing of flatspots on roundwounds or the stretching of the core. All strings go flat eventually.

aaaaah, its back.

That website has been around since 2004, before Gregg had his health problems. Then it went offline for a number of years while Gregg was recuperating. Interesting to see that its back and in a very very slightly more complete state than when I last saw it. I've sent him an email asking about it.

[i]"You can go a long way with a gun. You can go a lot farther with a gun and a sing-song."[/i]

[i]"What's the matter with you? Is this what you've become, some Hollywood finnochio that cries like a woman?"[/i]

definitely sounds like an Aria

I did! Thanks for sharing

thankee soir

LOL, which site is that?

Chucksten says he will be releasing a calendar next year too, because he says that's what successful musicians do. Bob Carroll's boys over the other side of Sh*t Creek heard about it and say they aim to be there first because they've been practicing their pouts and poses already: Anyways, this thread is going off topic...jeez you guys need to watch that too. Don't be so easily distracted.

This is Jabner, Edwise, Chucksten, Old Mama Whelper and down in front is Biscuits. They're all members of my country band. We've cultivated the authentic Appalacian look as you can see and the band is called The Two Tootin' Toonzers. Yep, I know there's more than two of them, but folks around here got so excited about someone coming up with four words all beginning with the same letter than the name more or less stuck. We aren't going to set the world on fire in terms of technique but Jabner and Old Mama learned how to play washboard and spoons when they were young and still brother and sister. Edwise plays the kettle and Biscuits fitted him with a special mouth piece so he can blow into it through his belly button if he can't spit his baccy out in time. We do mostly township festivals, christenings and church fund raisers but Jabner reckons there might be some money at the lawnmower races.

it doesn't have a jazz neck though

Oh, that'll be a nice pair!

I find a touch of perfume and little bit of cleavage helps.

Giving this one a bump as it seems to have sunk...

Yeah Nik, mustn't grumble. I have a decent job here and a good lifestyle although my salary is half what I was on the UK. So won't be buying any expensive pieces of kit in the forseeable. Good job I set myself up before I left the UK.

I'm not sure that slanted pickups will give meaningful amounts of extra bass (at least in comparison to different windings or using the bass control on the eq), but the higher strings in your description would tend to have a slightly softer attack

Ummmmm, there's an audio track of me playing the Skarbye bass here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNbijc-UHg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNbijc-UHg[/url] And a couple of shots of us in the studio recording it: [attachment=46207:4655_184...181280_n.jpg] [attachment=46208:4655_184...431670_n.jpg] But nothing of the other two yet. My recording set up has been in disarray since emigrating and with all the other things, I'm only just getting around to finalising the set up this weekend.

Gregg just emailed me today out of the blue which thrilled me to bits. I hope my reply wasn't too waffly but I was more than a bit star struck.

I have an excuse for being here. I probably don't have the chance to look in as often as I used to though. Too many other demands on my time at the moment and the time difference doesn't make it easy to actively participate in topical conversations.