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I wonder how nasty a well played string would look under magnification? 🤔

I've never really thought about it but when are the strings coated? Is it before they're wound, in which case crud will still get into the windings, or is it after they're wound, which surely would inhibit the strings ability to vibrate freely? BTW, there's a bunch of old guys locally playing classic rock and metal called 'Metal Fatigue'.

There's a little bit towards the end. We do Mod/Ska/Northern Soul, tailored to the age group that were into that whole late 70s early 80s Specials, Jam, Clash Ska and Mod revival scene, so also do the 60s stuff that inspired that movement. We try to tailor the sets to the audience, hence no Northern Soul in that last vid.

Haven't heard them but I'll look them up in a bit.

This is a whole compressed to 20 mins which includes about five of our own songs. It was a while ago and a very quiet night but the bass came out nicely (Yamaha Bex4) so I like it 😁

A curveball medley, that I managed to get lost on at the beginning, ha. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156358000234359&id=25549984358

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2779441705429728&id=100000917761449

Go on then, terribly quality phone footage coming up 😁 Mostly off of facebook posts so someone will have to let me know if they're viewable by them please. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=746951822153611&id=580855958763199

Ah didn't see this one sneaked in at the end, possibly my favourite SLAG track.

I really like this one 👍

Too true! I've looked and it's gone, it was one of those 'facebook live' videos, maybe they only last for so long. I really must make a proper effort to get a camera set up and get some footage, it's usually the terrible stuff people record on their phones.

Hmm, it did link to a Facebook video, it was on someone else's fb so maybe it's gone, I'm not good with that stuff. A photo from it will have to do then 😁

That's pretty cool 👍

OMG you're in 'Imports Misc O', that's so cool! 😎 Actually one of your CD's is in my car right now. I've just bought a Jaguar, I brought it home and needed to stock it with CD's, a neighbour saw the new car and said "it's proper old school gangster that is" (it really isn't) "You know, 'Get in the car you Slaaag' ". And that was one CD chosen for me. Never had any band reference crop up although the first time I heard us unexpectedly on the radio was cool.

This seems very weird for me as well. I use a stage name, (not through my choice, I set up facebook for band related stuff and used a different name and the bands started using it), and the first few times I didn't know whether to sign my real name or 'stage name', especially as I don't have a signature for the stage name. It was like being a kid again and choosing how to do a signature. It still seems odd signing setlists, posters, cd's, etc.

Just once more please.

I wear a suits a lot in our Mod band, material covered buttons are the best (including style wise), plastic buttons have never really marked my bass (the odd tiny dent that you really have to catch in the light to see but I do get pretty lively with it) never have, or will, tried metal buttons.

Oh well aren't you just a little ray of sunshine. 😉

Wasn't Horn's Fairlight first used on a Dollar single? Oh the shame of it 🤒

From memory of interviews it was Trevor Horn's, cost something like £18,000 back in the early 80s.

I used to do it in a previous band a few years back, it always went down well but as has been mentioned, keep the speed in check. It's all too easy to let adrenaline get the better of you and start it too fast. I got pretty close to the sound using my Line6 X3. As you can run two completely separate signal paths with these I had one channel with the effects and one clean, albeit with some octaver, to keep it punchy and not too muddy.

Very true. We all go on about Norman Watt Roy's bass playing, and rightly so, but the entire band really were a cut above, extremely creative and Ian Dury's lyrics were just sublime, poetic and beautiful, yet slightly seedy with some market trader swagger.

Eh? The string still vibrates between the fret and the bridge saddle, it's just the pad of your finger hanging past the fret very slightly mutes the string. Palm muting is the same thing at the other end of the string, albeit a different amount, and doesn't pull it out of tune.

The first band I was in had a terrible name but we were popular locally and couldn't change as pubs would just advertise us with the original name. The events leading to the hasty naming involved a group of mates that got together with instruments in someone's kitchen once a week, not a band as such, just having a laugh. We went to the pub one evening to see a band and one guitarist was trying to chat up the barmaid with the old, "Oh yeah, I'm in a band you know", line. It worked so well he got us a booking and she asked the name of the band to put in the diary. We weren't a band and we had no name. He looked around for inspiration and a random bloke was wearing a bobblehat, erm "The Bobblehats" he said, Tw@t. Anyway we had to choose who would play what a get a set together in three weeks. The gig was horrendous and amazing at the same time. I had massive feedback issues for the first half but got it sorted in the break, at the end a bloke came up and congratulated me on my amazing sound in the first half but didn't like what I'd done to it in the second. It was noisy, raucous, and ferocious and people were dancing on tables and anything that would move got dragged out and danced on/broken. We were paid and the banned from ever playing there again. I learnt a lot that night, not least that we were The Bobblehats and the name stuck. Moral of the story, pick your name wisely, it might haunt you for a long time.