Mickeyboro

NASDAQ... Maple or rosewood board?

We sure have well read members...the Wall Street Journal!

Robbie bought my Thunderbird, and everything went incredibly smoothly. He didn't even complain when it arrived a day late! He has my recommendation!

Funnily enough I am in a band called.... [url="http://www.myspace.com/thesomethinelse"]http://www.myspace.com/thesomethinelse[/url]

Cetera The Archer has only been in my possession a few weeks but it seems a goodie. Bought it on Kasim Sulton's rep cos I'd never heard of Archer (and I still don't know where it was made) but it is a very playable active P/J with P shape neck which looks good too. I may do a review of it as it's not on Harmony Central or anything. Only downside is a black neck with small white position dots. You don't realise how much you rely on the visual until the spot on your side of the stage falls off in mid song! Oh, and the rest of the band liked it (which is a first!)

Since buying my Trace combo from a fellow BWer I couldn't be happier amp-wise. I never use effects. But as far as basses go, I seem to have to go through the card! In the past year I've had CIJ Precision '51, Warwick Streamer 5, MM Sub, Epiphone Thunderbird and Archer Kasim Sulton signature. Would never sell my '73 Precision though. It's the one I always come back to. Like the wife

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='46287' date='Aug 16 2007, 11:13 AM']Check out the Subdecay Quasar[/quote] Isn't that from Star Trek?

Old and broke, we may be. But we are never talentless. Welcome from another over 50 (don't let my bandmates know!)

It's been on sale before.

My missus is always telling me to put a sock in it...not put it in a sock!

Just heard a half hour interview which might be available on Listen Again (4-4.30 Friday). Top stuff, including an amusing call from ex-Yes guitarist Pete Banks asking to be on the 40th anniversary tour! Apparently Fish out of Water has been reissued.

Well, there's at least one arm that's not chewed off yet! Oh, and the bass ain't bad...

I've just bought a Kasim Sulton signature bass by Archer that's 6.5lbs. Active pickups give it as much punch as my precision which is half as heavy again.

According to Watt in Dec 2004 'The Minuteman bass got stolen in Charlottesville, Virginia. 'I’m using a Gibson EB3 1965 again because it’s got a smaller scale. That’s what I usually play at Banyan gigs. I‘ve modified it put Lane Poor MM pickup (middle) and ZBS400 humbucker (bridge) pickup in it 'I use two four by tens with that live, and I play it with the Stooges too. It’s made out of mahogany. 'The bass I use now is made by Mark Garza who’s a one-man operation, Garza Guitars. This cat called Frank Wilson, another bass player, had it made for me! The thing about music people, I know there’s a lot of competition, jealousy and that but on the other side there’s people you’ve never met are so generous: this cat had this bass made for me. It‘s kinda like a Jazz Bass but it’s been downsized to three-quarter scale because when you get older it’s harder to do the big stretches. I use this Garza bass, it’s yellow, on the Banyan record. 'For amps I use an Aguilar pre-amp DB680 and usually use an Navigator pre-amp then I put it through a QSC PLX3002 power amp and Eden D-410XLT 4x10 don’t use any effects.' Mickeyboro note: All this of course could have changed by now!!

[quote name='beerdragon' post='41693' date='Aug 5 2007, 08:10 PM']He says he had a tele bass stolen, maybe that was the one.[/quote] I interviewed him a couple of years ago, I will have a look at the transcript!

What are your best/worst onstage disasters? Playing Johnny B Goode in the wrong key and not being able to hear it as the 5-stringer I was playing would not cut through the rest of band...!

I had the guitar version once, and never got to grips with the finicky controls. Are the bass ones as difficult?

I really never thought I'd hear my son singing Supertramp!

Fingers only. Old school!

I just changed my Pre's strings for the first time ever - and I bought it in 1981. Decided I like the zingy sound, actually.

Hello from north east Hampshire - save the Brook!

Sorry, mate, I'll be reading the Mail on Sunday...

Not on the way to the gig but still First time I met my new bandmates at a pub miles from my home we discussed me joining and a potential date to rehearse together. I then retired to let them talk about me...only to find I'd locked my keys in my car. Had to come back in and interrupt the conversation. Fortunately my son arrived before closing time with another set, but only after they'd all tried and failed to break into my scruffy old Cavalier.