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i plan to get along to the Colchester one - they've also got Marco Mendoza and TM Stevens coming up - i did email em for more info but as seems to be par for the course these days, no reply!!! peace c

i always quite liked these and the unusual headstock etc. Seem to remember Neil Murray used them quite alot at one stage.... peace c

[quote name='bubinga5' post='558237' date='Aug 2 2009, 03:33 AM']Hes a very interesting character.. Tis great when he wheres the goat horn hat..Does he/has he exclusively played Carl Thompson basses always??[/quote] with Sausage at least he used 70s Fender Jazz basses and on his 5 gallons of diesel DVD hes giving it some on a Rickenbacker of all things...and people reckon you can't slap 'em! pah!!! sometimes a bit of upright too and don't forget that weird whamola one string thing!!! but in the main its CT basses c

ANYTHING by Percy Jones +1 on Rubber Shirt and this guy is pretty good: peace c

[quote name='Russ' post='551565' date='Jul 26 2009, 05:14 AM']Limp Bizkit... great musicians, awful band. All the instrumentalists are fantastic, but it's ruined with stupid, juvenile vocals and imagery. Props to Sam though, very good player.[/quote] agreed. c

youtube seems weird for what copyrighted stuff it decides to take down. For instance I had a video of me playing along with Maiden's Phantom of the Opera on there which got pulled 'by the copyright owner'. Fair enough of course, BUT how come theres still hundreds of other peoples videos of exactly the same thing on there untouched? And also some of my other videos are of my band playing Maiden songs which again have remained untouched! Not sure about myspace - one thing that annoyed me recently was that a local covers band had the original versions of some songs on there (ie: the actual artist recorded album tracks) but were passing them off as their versions!! bit naughty that i thought!! not wanting to really get involved with the whole Faithless issue but on a side note, I frequent alot of art related forums and quite often you get real amateurs on there posting their work which is, no matter which way you look at it, absolutely terrible, but still you get the cliquey forum members saying 'wow! thats great' and stuff, when clearly it isn't! that kinda makes a mockery of the whole constructive criticism thing if they just say any old rubbish is good just to be polite. and for what its worth he's my feeble attempt from a couple of years back! peace c

cool!

i think theres someone here on BC affiliated with The Bass Merchant who could tell us more but anyhoo, just picked up a local free gig guide mag and it seems they're hosting some cool bass workshops at their Colchester store in the near future.... [b]Stu Hamm - 12th August[/b] [b]TM Stevens/Marco Mendoza - 24th Sept [/b](plus evening gig) don't know anymore than that, but sounds good to me!!! I'll be there! peace c

yeah i remember him from some old magazine. I think he was from round here (Norwich) and played with another local muso Colin Pincott (session guitarist and member of Mammoth) and I saw them live together at some music show in London yonks ago. not that thats much help! c

if its tapping with a Mr Big tone you want then you need a Yamaha Attitude bass!! c

[b]Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear[/b] - I used to listen to this loads when it was first out, recently ripped it for me ipod and forget how good it is - pretty dark really - the web, chelsea monday, forgotten sons etc (aside from the slightly cheesy 'garden party'), some quality lyrics from Mr Dick and some fine bass work from Trewavas. Excellent album artwork too (at least back in the day on a big old 12" vinyl sleeve!! Class. peace c

[quote name='Funkmaster' post='527406' date='Jun 29 2009, 07:45 AM']Interesting that. Cause I always thought that the guy they paraded at the O2 to announce the gig wasn't Jacko. He looked too big, solid, vital, energetic and most of all had too deep a voice. (and his hands were too builder like too!)[/quote] i'd agree that sometimes a stand in jacko was used. I noticed this ages ago before he died - when you see some footage/pictures of him he [i]does[/i] have big hands like bunches of bananas and other times he has much more slender hands as you would expect given his general stature. although some of the drugs etc could cause bloating maybe? who knows!!? peace c

bah. thought that was my party trick!! [attachment=27529:overthetop.jpg] peace c

damn it! ALWAYS when i've got no money!! aaaargh! c

yeah this turns up to watch on skyarts every now and again....very good indeed! c

can't help you on that but there was a good version of her performing that with just a solo bass player on youtube. can't find the good quality one but... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PwNhrXdsE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PwNhrXdsE[/url] c

nice bass, good work! i've always like the old Precision elites with 2 P pickups peace c

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='500363' date='May 28 2009, 10:35 PM']yorick I see you're in Brum. Was the band the one with Rocky Shades as Dave?[/quote] rocky shades of wrathchild uk?! haha! cool c

[quote name='dave.c' post='499793' date='May 28 2009, 12:58 PM']I tried a Gibson SG inspired bass he made for a local player and it was superb, if I ever get the money together for a custom build I would have one made![/quote] that'll be Big Al's one with the maltese cross inlays?!

Local guitar builder Guyton Guitars has for a while been producing official Brian May Red Special guitars, but seems he's made a bass version too! I'm not a big queen fan, but its quite nice and pretty unique... [url="http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redspecialbass.jpg"][/url] peace c

funnily enough i was well pleased with my sound the other night too - even though its my trusty old rig i've had for ages. Difference was I D.I.ed thru the PA and we had a Peavey sub bass booster rack mount thing running which gave the low notes an octaver kind of effect. Sounded well good especially with the Attitudes Humbucker cranked up!!! parp! c

my covers band had short clips of songs online and we were recently contacted by the PRS informing us that we would have to pay if we want to keep them up - there was a thread about it somewhere - we took em down rather than pay the few hundred quid they wanted. I';; find the email from them later if you like..... on a related note, my bass run through of Maiden's phantom of the opera on youtube was recently removed due to the copyright owner complaining about it... odd though as theres still hundreds of similar videos on there - i wonder why mine got singled out? and i also wonder why my other videos of my full band playing maiden songs weren't mentioned and are still live...? hmmmm peace c

[quote name='7string' post='482340' date='May 7 2009, 07:32 PM']Now that's what I'm talking about [b]3V17C[/b] - Your username gives away your admiration for Mr.Sheehan [/quote] ah..you got me! c

reunited Mr Big live on Japanese TV peace c

and also Billy talking cars! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P180JIHAiko&feature=related"]Billa in Manilla[/url] peace c