Sean

[quote name='Andy Long' post='73072' date='Oct 11 2007, 10:02 PM']Hi I could be persuaded to be interested ;0) drop me an e-mail at [email protected] I couldn't do anything until after Christmas anyway because of current personal circumstances that I don't want to get into here... BTW - I'm in Newport Andy Long www.myspace.com/sleepingplanet[/quote] They are looking to get someone up and running before Christmas so that there is a seemless transition for when I leave. I shall pass your contact details on anyway. All the best Sean

[quote name='rohan' post='72905' date='Oct 11 2007, 03:51 PM']Age and experience required?[/quote] The spec is for someone that can play the parts as per the records (or near enough), someone who can fit in and groove with the drummer. If you are interested pop along to one of the gigs and introduce yourself, we're all very easy going and I'm sure you'd get a great reception just for showing interest. www.thebrothersblue.co.uk I've agreed to stay with the band until Christmas to "hold hands" with a new guy if required so it comes with "on the job" training as an option.

I've decided to leave The Brothers Blue to take on a couple of new projects and I offered to help find a replacement bassist. It's a twelve piece band, 2 x sax, 1 x trumpet, drums, 2 x guitar, keyboards, 2 x backing vox, Jake & Elwood plus obviously vacancy for a bassist. The band rehearse in Caldicot on Wednesday nights and gig regularly in South Wales and the South West. I've always found it a great set list to play and the band has tremendous energy. If you'd like to come along to a rehearsal just to get a feel or if this is exactly what you've been looking for, let me know.

Hilarious reply. Part of me hopes you get more hate mail so we can chuckle at the responses. I must commend you on the restraint and coolness of the retort. Fabulous.

[quote name='paul, the' post='70437' date='Oct 6 2007, 09:04 PM'][/quote] As soon as I saw this photo I thought I could here my mother screaming, "Tidy your room now or your not going out tomorrow night!" Nice vintagey sounds and very JJ feel to those lines - I reckon you could put a concept band together around that amp alone, as well as being the funkiest combos I've ever seen all that padding make it very health and safety pleasing. I have had no problem if my headstock had landed on top of that!

The people that enjoy gigs rarely track you down to let you know that they did. It's just some bitter twisted individual that just got thrown out of a band pouring his vitreolic down the nearest vent hole.

I'm lovin' that P - it's a real rockdaddy!

[quote name='paul, the' post='70444' date='Oct 6 2007, 09:14 PM']What's the bass to the left Sean? and sexy yammy acoustic.[/quote] That is a Fender USA Jazz Deluxe FMT + Badass, an absolutely adorable creature that I loved dearly but for some reason it liked destroying things it was plugged into. It has an 18 volt circuit which didn't seem compatible with a lovely Trace Elliot combo I had or a number of effects units, the combination of my ham-fisted slapping and the pre-amp managed to fry a few circuits and so it had to go. It was like sending your dog off to the "farm" after it had bitten someone. Do I miss it? Nah, I have Lakland Lust now and nothing Fender feels as good anymore. The Yammy is a real work horse, nice small body and really easy to play standing up for a couple of hours.

No controls? What the story with that? DR Cool Blue - good taste - I've got mellow yellows on one of my Lakkys at the moment - loads of comments from people.

Alan, I'm sure Roger's done his bit. Sometimes things take ages to clear the sorting offices when they've come in from the States, sometimes they fly through. I'm sure the current postal strike isn't helping matters now. Don't despair, old chap, their sheer beauty will make the wait worth while. What ones did you order? Is this covered elsewhere?

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='70531' date='Oct 7 2007, 10:31 AM']Ouch! How did they fail, what didn't work?[/quote] The little mechanism that locks the male bit into the female bit on the button just failed and it slid out while I had my hand up adjusting a microphone. I managed to get loads of sympathy and kind words from another bassophile that was there but to be fair to the Lakland, it didn't even go out of tune. Good job it's akeeper, that would have knocked a few quid off the residual.

[quote name='presoulnation' post='60329' date='Sep 14 2007, 11:54 AM']Schaller all the way.[/quote] Do not use the Warwick ones. Go for Schaller. The Warwick ones I use let me down yesterday and my Lakland 55-02 is now cosmetically scarred: the headstock hit the tarmac, ouch!

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='66751' date='Sep 28 2007, 09:39 AM']I love that 55-02 Sean - I'm GASsing for one badly. I used to have a 55-01 and never should have sold it. As a matter of interest, how long did you wait for your pickguards? I rang Roger the other night and he nearly jumped out of his skin when I told him where I was calling from. Chatted to him for about 20 mins - nice bloke.[/quote] I owned the very 55-01 you are talking about, Alan; it's one of those instruments that has really done the rounds on Bassworld/Basschat and everyone has loved it but it doesn't seen to have found a permanent home. For me it got me into 5 strings and totally turned me on to Laklands. And here she is with some of her friends in a room that no longer looks like that, thank goodness.

I've got a week to wait before I see them - very excited now.

Stuart Cable played with my band a couple of times a few years ago. We were probably the only Welsh band that would let him at the time, though! After the gig he was a little the worse for wear so we dragged him feet first out the Chinese takeaway and popped him in our van and took him home... ...not with us for keepsies or anything, just back to his mam's place.

My 55-02 is faultless. I've had a Stingray 5 and an Ibanez Sr1005 which were both very nice but not a patch on the Lakland. Killer Bee!

Compatible with i250/i320/i350/i450/i455/i470D/i475D/S200/S200x/S300 Posted out FOC - donate to basschat in return.

Dave - great series on Walking Bass - has whiled away many hours of my lunch breaks. I know you're the busiest bass guy in London but any ideas when the next lesson is up? Keep groovin' Sean.

I agree with OldGit's advice advice on getting a lesson or two. Also if you are really serious about getting into slapping I can't recommend highly enough Ultimate Slap Bass by Stuart Clayton from www.basslinepublishing.co.uk - it'll cost you the same as a lesson and keep you going for years. I think there's some samples of the lessons there too.

[quote name='JJTee' post='68093' date='Oct 1 2007, 12:50 PM']Everybody Dance - Chic. Who can honestly nail that ludicrous intro?![/quote] I'll bet a month's cider budget that Stuart C can!

[quote name='paul, the' post='67690' date='Sep 30 2007, 03:20 PM']I don't think looking at resale value is a very positive thing to have in mind when purchasing a bass. If a bass is of good quality and deserved reputation, then it should sell itself.[/quote] If resale value was everything we'd all have Stingrays! Good quality and [i]deserved[/i] reputation plus the magic "it's fashionable" or "it's timeless" usually mean good residuals. I would definitely think twice about buying a bass I liked if I knew it was going to be worth a quarter of what I paid a year later.