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Just an update. As I intimated in my first post, the Band I was with folded shortly after NYE after the drummer told them he was fed up playing in "what felt was in a spin dryer". Shortly after I got an email from the Bandleader saying to cancel the gig I'd organised in March for us. No thanks for the last 2 years playing for them, nothing! Moving on, I'd foreseen the band folding as we'd already lost our guitar as he was fed up playing medleys and to onerous parameters, so I contacted someone looking for a Bassist to do "Blues". Normally I'd run a mile but reasoned I'd been doing 2-5-1 rock n roll for the last 2 years so Blues could not be any worse! Was given a set list of Blues standards to look at then got an email saying he was inviting down a female singer he knew too. We got together last Weds Eve and I like the set list including "Hip Shakin Mamma, Your heart is as black as the night and Midnight Hour". So we'll see how it progresses, There's a blues harp player who sings in the lineup of guitar, drums, bass and vox ( and at the moment is blowing over everything so I'll need to have a word!) but it may have legs. So the first weeks of my 60th year show some promise.....

Funny, I've never felt the need for it

Whitesnake bassist?

In fact a film has been released in the series "The World according to".

70's band "Iron Butterfly" were so named after keyboards player Doug Ingle inadvertently sat on a butterfly during early band rehearsals in his basement studio. Seeing a crumpled butterfly when he got up, he immediately went upstairs and proceeded to steam iron it in an attempt to bring it back to life. I don't know what he was smoking then....but the rest is, of course, history.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1420911461' post='2654964'] You have to wonder just what they were smoking. On the other hand, The 1910 Fruit Gum Company really do like fruit. [/quote] That would account for their longevity perhaps?

We used to do "Closing Time" by Semisonic around the time it was released for a while, another in a different band was "Goodnight" by Melody Gardot. But as people have often said to me, "Nobody likes a smart arse"!

I'd be a bit pissed if you bought stuff from Thomann and then expected the me ( as the UK distributor who made no money from you) to fix it. You got them cheaper from Thomann and the money you saved is offset by the inconvenience of having to send them back to Thomann for repair. I bought my first lot of Mark Bass gear, maybe 10 years ago offshore: when I dropped the amp I sent it back to the off shore seller who fixed it under warranty. I saved around £100 on the whole deal ( amp and 2 cabs) but was without my amp for around 3 weeks. I think under EEC law stuff should have a pan European warranty but as others have said, your contract is with the retailer first ( I think)

The Lemon Pipers of "Green Tambourine" fame don't smoke pipes nor do they like fruit.

There's a guy in Ripon, Clive Brown who is the go to guy for vintage restorations. I don't think he even need to advertise.

[quote name='DrBike' timestamp='1420809677' post='2653702'] Surely you mean hydrology rather than floristry? [/quote] Never said "Floristry" [size=4] ! [/size] [size=4]The fact is only funny if: [/size] [size=4]A.You don't have to explain it.[/size] [size=4]B, You know what Oasis block is [/size] [size=4]C. You live in my world![/size] [size=4]I thank you.[/size] [size=4]PS I know where you are coming from re hydrology but lets face it, these are bassists who read these.....[/size]

Plus I suspect a Stradivarius was made in a "workshop" rather than by one person from start to finish. Just re the point above, he did say "Luthier" which is more than doing setups.

[quote name='Michael J' timestamp='1420800942' post='2653500'] Stradivarius had loads of that stuff. [/quote] I'm sure you get my point: to avoid all the ball -breaking hand prep stuff plus all the regulations, you need to invest in machinery. I spent a full day hand sanding on my Shuker Course, it taught me a lesson around how perfect you need to get a surface before priming and spraying. He could have thrown me a palm sander but what would I have learned using that?

Musical insomniacs Geoff and Maria Mulduar took up flower arranging to help relieve their symptoms. Successful it was, as it spawned the hit, "Midnight at the Oasis"

Most shops will do a deal, I got a local retailer to match a Thomann online price recently. As for secondhand, now we have the net everyone knows the price of everything but there are people out there who will pay more than they should, just because!

I looked into this and got some way along the road, building 3 Basses myself and working on loads of guitars and basses for another. I started with Jon Shukers 5 day Bass build course ( turned out to be 6) and built my own Bass. Cost me over £1500 You don't have enough time on it other than to scratch the surface of the techniques. I then, having retired, offered a local luthier my time for a day a week as his [s]flunky[/s]intern he graciously accepted and I spent 3 year with him, working on his guitars and basses and using his equipment to work on mine too. He built more guitars than basses so I learnt all the techniques to make a guitar body, bending the wood with steam around a jig, how to get the different shape on the top and back, how to bind, glue etc etc. Equally made up to 70% of many of the Basses he did including some 1 off custom celebrity ones. I fretted these, sprayed some etc etc. Lots of hand sanding as well! In terms of classes, this guy went to I think Newham College in London then spent 6 months out in the US at a US Builders School (Roberto Venn) where he learned a great deal more. In order to make any money at it you need to start with loads of money, and you'll end up with a little...! You end up working for less than the minimum wage and need to invest heavily in equipment- table sanders, planers, pillar drills, dust extraction, Routers ,Table saws,hand tools and the cheap stuff from Screwfix is no good. Add in a good supply of woods which you will need to store. Oh and a spray booth with guns and all the extraction too! The there's all the jigs required, Stewmac sell all that but the prices from the US are pretty steep and you can spend £1000's on all their gear Crimson Guitars do a course down here in Dorset where you work as an apprentice for a couple of years, don't know the finances but Ben Crowe is the Boss there: wwwcrimsonguitars.com All this for a £40 set up and then the guy brings it back cos its "too low", "too high", there's "fret buzz"etc etc! Go for it!!

A foreshortened name got Jeff Beck a number of Platinum albums in the 90's. He resumed his guitar persona in the noughties however.

I had a Zoom B3 for a little while and seem to remember getting some dirt via it...?

I have some great Snake Oil, £150 a bottle. Guaranteed to do whatever you want it to do....

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1420741921' post='2652934'] Ha ha, some you win, some you lose eh [/quote] I suggest you donate it to UKIP....!

As we seem to have adopted a "food" theme, 90's Funksters "Brand New Heavies" are on a crash diet this January.

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Ubiquitous Bassist and member on here at one time, Guy Pritt played a Chapman Stick on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma

Are you sure this collection agent isn't just coming for some polish?