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Roger2611

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  1. Pixie Lott is the illicit daughter of Black Francis and Kim Deal, she is of normal height, is non magical and doesn't come from Devon or Cornwall
  2. Arguably the best rock n roll guitar ever built! I have a single cut and a double cut junior plus a couple of guitars loaded with Dearmond P90's, definitely my favourite pickup
  3. I have the mid 2000's series Gretsch Electromatic (in White) with the Dearmond pickups, just a wonderful guitar....I have always lusted after a White Falcon but after buying my Electromatic I have never been able to justify parting with it or paying so much more for a Falcon. Find yourself one for about £350.00 to £400.00 and you will be a happy bunny!
  4. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1437827741' post='2829350'] Goes with the territory. Surely as a rock 'n' roller you're taking drugs and staying up late anyway..? [/quote] Well of course, regular cocktail of Paracetamol and indigestion tablets and the odd throat sweet washed down with a [s]bottle of jack[/s] can of Red Bull and it's rock and roll all they way!
  5. We have started taking bookings for next year and are finding more and more venues want us to start playing later, 10.30pm rather than 9 / 9.30pm then finish at 1 / 1.30am, I can understand why, as quite a few venues we play just start filling up as we get to the last bit of our second set...it just seems strange, when I was younger and willing to stay up all night, pubs closed at 11pm, we were out and on our way home by midnight...now when I really need my beauty sleep the bu**ers want to keep me up until breakfast time!! Are other people finding they are being asked to shift their playing times into the early hours of the morning?
  6. Mrs2611 and my tastes are pretty close nowadays, she still likes Nirvana and the American grunge period which does nothing for me (the exception being Hole who we both like) other than that she is now well educated in Punk, Goth and eighties synth pop and new romantic stuff
  7. we used to do the Red Dwarf title tune....great song
  8. We just introduced Back of My Hand by the Jags into our set, probably quite a left field song but it goes down a storm....I am pleased because I actually like the song as well....hopefully this has not offended anyone
  9. Pah! Just read the link again....I wish....just spent half an hour with a heat gun on a sadly tatty Les Paul Junior double cut (with a poly finish) it removed nothing...not a jot....need a plan b now as this stuff would survive a nuclear blast!
  10. Ok so it sounded awesome was easy to carry.....please bring an antacid to my gas by telling me how much the set up would cost me!
  11. As others have said, don't worry about it, if you make it big someone else will insist it's changed to something you will probably like even less!
  12. We play most of the songs you mention above sadly, we used to have some definite obscurities in our set but they all gradually got pushed out when they failed to get any audience response, The Chameleons, Wildhearts, Echo and the Bunnymen, all gone replaced with the likes of Sex on Fire and Chelsea Dagger. But we get prime bookings from landlords purely down to the strength of our set list...a sad state of affairs but at least you didn't have to listen to Counting Stars by One Republic which is now in our set
  13. https://soundcloud.com/Yodaclub/radkol-demo I played bass on this recently, it seems to going down well and is getting radio play
  14. Looks like a nice way into JV ownership, if I hadn't just picked up a Sun Burst Road worn Precision this would be winging it's way to me by now!
  15. I am a Fender man through and through I will wait for a expansive, confusing range to come from them before dipping my toe in the water
  16. Good bits of kit, can be used with Windows 8.1 if you load the Vista drivers available on line, but if you do use it with 8.1 you have to remember to unplug the Tascam before you shut the computer down otherwise it all freezes up! We record all of our tracks through one of these to an XP Pro laptop with results good enough to be played on national radio!
  17. I run the Stage Clix Jack, I have never had issues with smart phones although I did knock out the wifi at a venue we played for the entirety of our set which was a bit of a pain as the DJ wanted to stream it live to the net! The only issue I have had with the system is it can be very noisy if plugged directly into an active bass (other than a Stingray for some reason!) I had to knock up a simple extension cable to move the transmitter away from the actives...no problems since
  18. [quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1436894831' post='2821835'] 80's just could not follow the late 70's punk explosion. Pistols...Clash...Damned...Stranglers...These and many others were mind blowingly exciting after all the rock and metal that had stagnated the day before Punk arrived. Then after punk we get....Howard jones...The Thomson Twins.... Bananarama....Hayzee Fantayzee ...Zigue Zigue Sputnik...Even the names look pants......And the cherry on the cake was Adam ' Prince Charming' Ant who bought with him the most insane fashion to match the blandness of the music..... 'Down in the tube station at midnight' or 'Agadoo'...... Give me a minute to think... [/quote] I saw Zigue Zigue Sputnik at Coventry Poly on their only? tour, Tony James on bass threatened to hit a girl with a wine bottle when she tried to snog him! They were pretty dire live but were supported by a band called Black Elvis 2000 who were awesome, I remember a chant ringing round of "bring back the support band" I think they got kicked off the tour a couple of dates later!
  19. Once you find the tone you like you will always know how to get back to it, every room you play in will sound different and in certain rooms the sound you love will completely desert you...at that point you can make small adjustments to counteract the nasty acoustics of that room but, you always know where your favoured sound lies
  20. 1979 to 1981 were my seminal music years, tail end of Punk, start of Goth, start of the New Romantic scene....some amazing music around that time, I stayed interested until Bros came along in 86?....that was about it for me! Echo Beach was recorded in 1979 but released in 1980...great song!
  21. Made £22.00 at a car boot sale, money went to feed a bunch of homeless pussy cats
  22. A lot of listings say "I will leave feedback once I have received feedback" I have messaged buyers before to make sure they had actually received the item as they hadn't left any feedback, it does tend to gee them up into leaving it
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