Mickeyboro

Maybe Rusty was the agent/facilitator. He had something to do with the Some Bizzare sampler that DM were on, I think?

If it makes you play like him I’d give it a try😁

Jack Bruce used to use a kind of shooting stick to lean back against/sit on. An option if you don’t fancy a stool?

Wowee! Stunners, those... I have a 301F bought in the late 80s from Andy’s in Denmark Street on an impulse. It has taken from then till now for me to use regularly in a band, despite my first ever bass (1981) being a fretless Jedson Jazz copy. I gigged that merrily before becoming concerned about intonation, etc. Curiously it has no serial number at all. Age has given the back a rippled effect but nothing there has flaked off yet. It’s superbly light and resonant and is similar to that played by my favourite fretless player, Mick Hawksworth. I saw the Groundhogs’ current bassist playing a fretted just before lockdown. I would love a fretted 301! Here’s a pic of me playing it with folk-roots combo State of Undress.

I alternate a Peavey Minimax and Gallien Kruger MB200 with the same cabs

CLAIMED!

I sold a bass off this site to a ParcelForce employee. He said don’t bother insuring it, they’ll only wriggle out of responsibility if anything goes wrong😈 True story!

I think its great! Takes me back to the days of hitch hiking!😁

Other stuff was a lot more ‘reggae-inspired’...surely?

But one got the hump 🐫 🐪

I knew I shouldn’t have given you that money back😂

I’ll pay double for the 20 year old! 😁

I was in a band with Tom Hibbert (RIP). His dad was a celebrated historian, his brother Jimmy frontman of pseudo-punks Alberto y los Trios Paranoias. And the voice of Count Duckula... Tom was a very clever writer and a funny guy. Thanks for reminding me of him.

If you’re selling the newcomer for £180, I’m in!🕺 Seriously, well done!

You’ve kept your pole dancing skills under wraps. Respect!😁

True - I didn’t make that clear. But the footage was nicked from a TV documentary a little later when he was doing his Phil Spector pastiches, I think. The only conclusion that I draw is that he has fallen out with the Wards or, having retired (he still lives locally), couldn’t be persuaded to talk. He is an awkward bugger, to be fair. I was once in a dressing room with him for half an hour and he completely blanked me!

True, but surely the biggest miss was Dave Edmunds. Without him at the beginning and the success of I Hear You Knocking, they would never have survived to host all these famous people. His drummer Dave Charles was resident engineer. Again, would have had some good tales. Ah well...

Hugely disappointing. Couldn’t wait to get to the Roses and ‘effing’ Liam Gallagher. I turned off and suspect I wasn’t alone.

Stew Sending you positivity and very best wishes. Though we have yet to meet you have cheered up my life in the past month, and the board/community would be a lesser place without you.

Super stuff, Jack. Congrats. But just to be pedantic wasn’t it Ron Wood’s all over the place bass on Maggie May?😷

The dream is over😧

I reckon a big percentage of us bought our first decent guitar or bass in a square mile round Macaris. Sad times...

She’s come a long way since The Good Life, Keith...