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In the late 80s and early 90s I had a really bastardised setup: A Trace Elliot wedge speaker (normal cab wouldn't fit in the car), a Laney bass head (tried to find pictures but can't) and a beautiful tiny tube preamp for fuzz. I lived the Laney's clean sound but the design was dreadful because the EQ slider stuck out proud of the case so all got bent.

I suffer from Piper Alpha GAS. That is where you monitor the normal musical GAS but are completely oblivious to the GAS leaking out in other areas (car, electronic gizmos, nights out) until it is far, far too late.

You know that box of odds and ends that you lug round to every gig? Keep this "mobile phone" in there against future Grubby Guys: http://www.pantherstunguns.com/stun_guns/pretender_cell_stun.htm

I don't trust anything from a house where they can't even tidy up for a photo.

I thought the picture was taken through a thick miasma of fag smoke.

On a related note: There was a trend for this sort of thing a few years back. People would have a fancy car as a prize and have some simple looking game of chance to win it, e.g. roll 6 sixes and win the car. Prices were set at 50p. The chance of winning is 1/46,656, so strict probability dictates that your car should cost no more than £23,000. As there is a 10% chance of someone winning after 'only' ~4,500 goes, then the organiser takes out insurance against anyone winning the car because, in all likelihood no one will win it at all. Still quite low income for relatively complex process.

[quote name='planer' timestamp='1452172676' post='2947231'] That looks very interesting, thanks. Will have a butchers later :-) [/quote] Pedant alert. Unless you are just looking at the webpage and not listening, you won't have a butchers'. Ahhh - that feels better.

Ah I see. So he is in no way like the evil kid who lives next door to Andy in Toy Story and rips his toys apart and puts them together in hideous combinations? No way whatsoever. At all. Not even slightly.

I use wireless IEMs and love them. I have only the FOH vocals coming in at quite a low volume, so it is balanced with the stage sound to my taste. Everything is nice and clear. I use the Gear 4 Music cheap set (about £130 for unit and three wireless packs). The earphones it comes with are a bit pants and I use whatever the Shure £82 earphones are, but in my experience people immediately want to swap the packaged earphones for their preferred ones anyway.

I had an audition last night. Jammed three songs with the other two to make sure we were thinking along the same lines and could play and sing well together. Then spent an hour making a list of contacts we had. An hour of preparing set lists and booked in a date for first full rehearsal with all songs learned ready for recording. That is the sort of efficiency I like.

Why is he He-who-must-not-be-named? I'm a relative newcomer to the eBay corner.

Dislike all of them except 7 Nation Army. Dislike We Didn't Start the Fire more than any other song. You did start the fire, Billy. Every single time.

Two basses. One gigs, one for practising kept in Dr. Graff's house.

I heard part of a documentary about Led Zeppelin last week and, in a discussion of the early days were talking about how John Bonham played the drums really loudly and made out that this was a good thing. Hmmm.

Having jack sockets that point down so the lead gets bashed

Sold Andy my SYB-5. Easy sale. Nice guy.

Ten YEARS ago???? Blimey.

A bass hero and at least it was quite a quick end. He wouldn't of wanted to end his days in a nursing home.

An easy but fun bass line is Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. Really upbeat.

No problems on Windows Phone, sorry.

Don't forget that, in most cases, a big company is one that was brilliant at being a small company.

It is also missing it's term arm.... and how does one 'feal'?

I think of The Power of Love by FGTH as a Christmas song.

[quote name='Scott S' timestamp='1451036796' post='2937924'] Yeah, he's an annoying little stoat, the sound is crap and so is the camera angle, but he gets close to it round about the 5.55 min mark... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCc-qsxdTe4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=XCc-qsxdTe4[/url] [/quote] I wish this was available when I was learning it. Come to think of it, I wish the internet had been.