Mickeyboro

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.

I've got the identical fretless. I wish I could make it sound as good as it looks! -_-

Nice one Mike - bassists stick together! Whe I saw Cream at the Albert Hall I wondered why people were snapping me on their phone. Sitting behind me were Macca and H Mills, Ringo and his missus and...Tom Hanks! Didn't know whether to look at the stage or them. They whizzed off during the encore too!

I'm impressed! How many toilet roll middles went into that?

Courtesy of Beedster and an exploration of the suburbs of Walsall (wife unamused!) I am now the proud owner of a Thunderbird of the Epiphone variety. It survived a journey home on the back seat (strapped in, I hasten to add!) but this is clearly not a long term option. It has already acquired a headsccok scrape before I got it due to poking out of previous owner's gig bag. What's the best/most cost effective gigbag or case, Thunderbird users? Ta.

Can we ban 'David'?

We've switched to shoes now, Shockwave - do keep up.mate!

+1 Good idea - and I appreciate your tip, Chris, even if the wife didn't! Many thanks. Thanks to someone else's tip I picked up a Sub a few months ago which I sold on to Mark of this parish at the same price I paid, so if nothing else it's broadening my horizons at little cost to me.

Cheers Rayman. Being a Bass(World)Chatter has given me the chance to play on more basses than I ever thought posisble - in last 2 yrs a Precision 51, Warwick, MM Sub and now this. Even if I don't keep it, it will be a bit of fun. I aim to keep my 73 Precision forever. It was born the year I left school, so we have something in common. What did you like about the Thunderbird and why did you let it go?

Curse you, Beedster, that's another week's housekeeping the Missus ain't gonna get!

Under the stairs!

Thanks, fellas!

The cover of my Trace 1215 combo got incinerated when someone left it on one of our light arrays. (Mind you, it was funny seeing them in the toilets try to scrape the black plastic off the bulbs!) Where can I get a recommended replacement? And yes, the band fund is paying!

[quote name='Ba55man' post='23598' date='Jun 26 2007, 04:08 PM']Unfortunatley shes showing her age, and until I can find someone to bring her back to life and be able to afford it she will have to be stored away.[/quote] If you're talking about Amy $hitehouse, I hope you thriow the key away!

Late news - they've been taken over and renamed Send It Sometime Soon...

[quote name='kevbass' post='17880' date='Jun 14 2007, 09:10 PM']Just a heads up, someone from here might want it [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/John-Taylor-Duran-Duran-Bass-J84-Peavey-Liberator-COA_W0QQitemZ160127422304QQihZ006QQcategoryZ72434QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/John-Taylor-Duran-Du...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url][/quote] The case is enough to put me off!

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='17466' date='Jun 14 2007, 11:20 AM']26 years old !?! Erm ... does that mean you take them off every so often and give them a wipe along with the fret board, or give them a dust while still tuned or that you've never cleaned them or the fret board ever?[/quote] I give em a post-gig wipe occasionally but never take them off.

I bought my bass in 1981. It still has the same strings on it now!