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You need to have some "bar fodder" in the set, irrespective of how good your set list is people will need to, get their breath, go to the bar, traipse outside for a smoke, go to the loo...fight each other etc at some point, give um a couple of slow numbers along the way and build up to a killer finish

[quote name='The Hat' timestamp='1455646972' post='2981116'] What have I started lol ! [/quote] Ahh, so you want to confess then sonny, oil up the thumb screws

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1455544895' post='2980021'] I think he's just having a laugh. [/quote] I think he has extremely effective PR working for him

That looks really nice, good job sir

I don't get it..........The idea is to adjust the sound from onstage? Surely unless you have a sound engineer with the desk out front then you can manually adjust the sound from onstage with one of them slider thingies....and unless you have a sound engineer to advise you then surely you cannot hope to adjust the out front sound from onstage with any degree of certainty? Luddite, me

Definitely better than the offerings of "he who must not be named"

Horrible, why would you do that to a perfectly nice bass?

Terribly sad news, RIP guys

Yodaclub used to use it a lot but, as I understand it, Soundcloud stopped people from sharing something with a private group sometime back so it was a case of public or nothing...we didn't want to put all of our rehearsal ideas in public so we moved to dropbox instead.....I haven't used it since

I would buy another Twin Valve head if I saw one come up for sale, however, I wouldn't put the new one in a flight case that weighed as much as the amp...as was the case with the last one I had!

Like that one

I would not buy off those images....the neck stamp looks ok from the images and from online info 66 was the first year of block inlays so it may be cosha

What A Waste is not as difficult as it initially sounds and is fun to play, I can't get near Rhythm Stick though!

I feel your pain, I am on the verge of packing up table tennis because I have an unrealistic expectation of how good I think I should be, our team captain is a national coach so has helped my game a fair bit....but as he says "you spend 20 hours a week playing bass and 4 hours a week playing table tennis and have done that for the last 30 years... I do the opposite...I guarantee that you are a far better table tennis player than I am bass player" his point, and I think it's a fair one is it is all down to practice....you are already a damn site better bass player than most people on this planet and are probably far better than you give yourself credit for...set yourself realistic goals and don't beat yourself up if you don't get there first time.

[quote name='iamtheelvy' timestamp='1455031205' post='2975204'] "Come to our next gig!" *no response* "Come to our next gig!" *no response* "Come to our next gig!" *no response* "Come to our next gig!" *no response* "Come to our next gig!" *no response* "Come to our next gig!" *no response* Post on Facebook: "Never get invited to anything..." [/quote] Or "we haven't seen you in years"...yes well I have been putting our gigs on here for the past seven years so if you really wanted to see me I wasn't making it exactly difficult to find me, you lazy fecker

I have never really understood what a "concept" album was, I guess from the albums mentioned thus far, Punk and New Wave had no concept of......err, concept albums then!

I roll off the tone on a couple of songs we do where I want a smoother sound, I don't tend to do much with the volume control, the loud and quiet bits are in the fingers. A Les Paul Junior will go from huge bitey monster to purring kitten with a bit of volume adjustment, you don't really get the same effect with a Precision unless I suppose you were using large amounts of drive

14122 aged 49 better than I expected!

Excellent sound, fretless doesn't have to be all sildy slide stuff, look at Pino on Gary Numan's White Boys and Hero's or Paul Young's Tear You Playhouse Down, both with excellent quick note grooves...that to me is the fretless style I want to play

I can't understand the dislike of U2 because of Bono, I think any band that wrote I Will Follow, Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day and Fire is their first year or so were fully entitled to go on and be the biggest band in the world. Ignore the man, love the music. I agree with all the above comments Adam Clayton's bass work perfectly compliments the songs

I think it was Chris Childs that played on the early stuff, I met him at a gig in Wales when I was doing sound for a touring club band, I was talking to him about Paul Young's No Parlez album and he said he used to share a flat with Pino, they had both started learning Fretless at the same time and in his works "he left me for dust" Given the CV's of the band I was working with I have no reason to assume that he wasn't who he said he was

[quote name='Sausages' timestamp='1454951229' post='2974549'] This stuff happens a lot, and it's not just music shops. I have seen some ridiculous behaviour from shop staff of all ages. CamdenRob is right that we can't have it both ways, but one of the reasons I shop so much online is to avoid some of these idiots with their smirking and piss taking. [/quote] I agree that we can't have it both ways but, we seem to be getting the worst of all worlds. I have always tried to buy from smaller long established shops rather than the big multi national music shops from where I find the bulk of the poor customer service comes, the trouble is that the likes of Fender and Gibson put totally unreasonable quotas on the small shops resulting in them losing the support of these big suppliers and as a knock on, the attractive products that took us into the shops on a regular basis. I have seen 4 fantastic local independent music shops close or stop stocking guitars (Phoenix, Buck Wild, Paddy Reid's and Rocky Road) in the last few years leaving me with only PMT now as my local shop...it's been two years since I last went in there...why? Because the customer service isn't great, the PX values are laughable..... and for some strange reason they have no used stock (possibly linked to their PX values me thinks!) When I buy now I try to use Richtone, 120 miles away in Sheffield, I get good customer service there, there PX offers are as bad as PMT but the second hand stock they carry is normally very attractively priced so I guess I can live with an unattractive PX offer if the item I want to buy is fairly priced.

My mate used to tour extensively as a guitarist, he always laughed and said "irrespective of what was required inevitably he would turn up at the venue to find a half knackered Fender Twin was sitting there," he was concerned at one point the same amp was stalking him around the world, he built his sound round his pedal board which he could easily ship, so all he needed was an amp with a decent clean sound...something a half knackered Fender Twin seemed able to deliver

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