Mickeyboro

Nice work, my friend! Met a sweaty Schenker in 1980. He had been widdling for 4 hours in a rehearsal room we were next to occupy, clad only in a Flying V (natch) and a pair of silk shorts! Nothing like as great as your tale, but all I can offer…

I know I have asked before, but what is your band called? Ah, read the backdrop - Slyder Smith and the Oblivion Kids!

This is, of course, the wonderful ELO Experience. Once seen, never forgotten. Folks, it’s always worth giving the name of the band so newcomers or people with little memory (like me) can investigate further. Don't be shy!

You what?😈

Snap! Got mine yesterday.

Sad to say, I don’t think the difference is appreciated enough by non bassists. On the other hand if they don’t notice you must be doing something right! Not all fretless players are (or want to be) Jaco…

I saw this on Facebook. Disgraceful!

The man at everyone’s Beck and call…😂

I paid £100 to see Roger Daltrey with a woefully under rehearsed band recently. Wife thought it was great!

Ya mean Take That featuring Jeff Lynne?😂 Blasted out a hits compo the other day when the wife was out - guilty pleasure for sure, Łozz! 👍

I was thinking the two of you could be long lost brothers…😁

Eeee by gum!

No, Keith, we’re playing a B-side… beside the C-side😁

Nice! I sing Dead Flowers with my blues band - not really blues but more people know it than you think…

Had a parallel experience, David, when I played a Bandstand in Bournemouth Lower Gardens a couple of weeks ago. DI to the hired-in PA was denied as the Council had sent in the noise abatement team a few days earlier after complaints from nearby offices! Funny thing is the Council was funding the music… Happily I had brought both my Barefaced one10s which, with a Peavey Minimax, delivered from our perch on high with no major problems.Mini stack to left of photo as you see it.

Nah, be adventurous and try the other alternative! Buffet was crap anyway…

I run a blues jam, so we tend to get variations on 12 bars. At least the ‘blues’ label discourages open-mic people - that’s a totally different kettle of fish. As Jack says, the vocalists call the shots, so pal up with one or try yourself. It’s non competitive and friendly, at least ours is, and we welcome new faces. Good luck…

Thanks. I think he is probably the biggest single musical hero of mine…those 70s albums were absolute perfection (apart from ‘…Plants’).

Sorted

Trouble with these mags i find is they don’t want to offend advertisers. Hence gear reviews are meaningless. I did an amp review for Guitar and Bass (now also online only) and had my star rating for Blackstar combos ‘enhanced’. At £100 a review I decided it wasn’t worth the hassle.

Genesis?😈

Hugh depped for me when family commitments meant I couldn’t do a couple of gigs in Whitby. Sadly the band now like him more than me! Seriously, thanks for a good job well done sir.

I think this could well turn out to be an annals horribilis!😁