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Never mind practice it's going to ruin my gig this weekend! If the England game ends in "regulation time" we are on stage ten mins later. Playing to.... Probably the festival organisers and a few people who despise football. I won't get to see any of the game because I'll be driving the forty five mins to the gig and getting set up. We were so excited about this gig until I realised the clash with the footy. While it's not during the game, being realistic, playing just ten mins after the game we are not getting the crowd we wanted.

What was it with 1978??? I only ever see 1978 left handed precisions. Never any other year.

Or to quote Jimmy Carr: "oi, I'm trying to work here! How rude to interrupt. I don't come down your place of work and knock all the sailors c*cks out your mouth"

Honestly an Ashdown Toneman 300 combo. I sold my huge trace stack because of the weight but was not wanting to spend big bucks. I wanted to buy new as you can't always be sure with second hand Amps and my experience of Ashdown was limited to beaten up and abused practice room amps. I bought it expecting nothing. Ok, it didn't give the full ballsy grunt of a trace or the power of an old Peavey but it did the job for gigs. It then started an affinity with Ashdown and I'm now using a Rootmaster head and cabs. I could still be using the Toneman but the portability of the Rootmaster stuff and the higher quality, lower weight just all tipped it for me.

It looks like a DIY job my wife has reminded me about for three months... Then the result reminds her why I don't do DIY.

There's not a lot of capability on show

Always great when you meet someone you admire and they're a cool person!! Would hate to be disappointed by one of my heroes. Well done!!

Being kack-handed and suffering the dearth of choice off the shelf I've always been attracted to a Warmoth build. Understand if you'd rather not say but what was the rough cost of this? And what, if not cost, made you choose this over having someone in the UK build to your spec?

Just awful. Can't believe Warwick themselves would do that. It looks like the kind of thing you see on eBay occasionally.

Agree completely. But as a beginner would I feel more progress knowing where the notes are (it follows the order of letters in the alphabet plus a few sharps) or knowing some tunes? I know which worked for me. Not in any way criticising the intentions, learning where the notes are is important, but if you aren't doing anything with those notes... I just think learning some songs is more effective for a beginner.

Hate to say it but I think download some tabs for favourite songs and play along until you're getting it right. Your ear should tell you if you're off time/ on the wrong note and if you're learning your favourite songs it's more of an accomplishment than getting fifty points on a game but still not knowing how to play your favourite songs.

We try to as a minimum go for a drink to sort out set lists and so on if someone is missing. We have had practice with just bass and two guitars, no singer or drums before and that was really productive. But generally we sort out the next few Thursdays in advance, everyone knows Thursday night is band night but if partners are working away or there's something of a one-off that has to happen on a Thursday night we try to give at least two weeks notice. I like my band, we are all on the same level of commitment and respect for each other.

Mine are black on a white precision with black pickguard.

I bought some fender tapewounds a few months back when eBay did a 20% off. Eventually fitted them to my precision this week because with flats on it was getting less and less use in our increasingly funky set. What a revelation!!! Really complex tone, felt great, brilliant all rounders from thumpy to twangy, no zingyness sadly but you can't have it all. I'm a massive believer that strings can make the biggest influence on tone over pickups and amps. I'm a convert. Now you're all going to tell me to buy Status/ La Bella etc!

Yeah silk at the ball end was too thick. I tried with nail scissors and it did the job. Just wasn't sure if that would be fatal for the string but did it carefully and it was ok.

Trying to fit some fender tapewounds to my precision that has a leo Quan badass bridge. On the E the silk is too fat... Don't want to unpick it all in case it all unravels and ruins the string.... Please help! What should I do?

I do like the option to disable the EQ and use a pedal if that's the preference

Love mine! Easy to get a good tone and it packs in to a laptop bag.

I would expect this if dropping a grand, got to keep that bass in top condition

My mate is trying to get me up to Leeds to see Motorheadache in a few months. I was in an acoustic duo called "Not the Hoople" back in 2006. We did not do any Mott the Hoople (clue was in the name). Rip off the Machine were unbelievably good back in Scarborough many, many years back.

Who is your target audience is an easier question to answer... We play stuff we think couples in their early forties will sing along with and dance to.

Another fan here! Bought the "toneman" 300 combo not really expecting to like it... For perspective I sold a huge trace rig that was too heavy for my second floor flat... But instantly got good solid gigable tone. Added an RM115 cab, very happy. Wanted a bit more grunt, got the Rootmaster 500 head... And another RM115. Excellent versatile gig rig! Now one of those RM115s has been swapped for an RM210 which wasn't my best decision, but it gives me bags of onstage power and a dead simple EQ. I even have a two button footswitch for the overdrive and sub. They're nice effects to have easy access to. Haven't used their customer service yet but the fact they're so responsive on here makes me feel safe that in the unlikely event of an issue I'll get a quick and no B.S. response with the problem getting solved.

Yes! We play a variety of music but it all sounds consistent... From when we do Bob Marley through to Bon Jovi, there's a consistent "sound". But, are we rock, soul or funk? That's what the Facebook says but I don't think we are nailed to one in particular. It's hard to describe without sounding like a twunt. For example I heard the singer from The Darkness (a band I despise) describe their latest effort as a cross between ACDC and Queen only with a straight face and being far more self agrandising. Just made me think "how dare you!!" Then other less savoury things.

I've seen that, it's early days RHCP and I think it's purely because he bust a string mid song. He comes out playing crazy fast slap on a P and it sounds pretty darn good.

They'd probably hire you.