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MrCrane

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  1. Q.How long does it take to tune a banjo? A. Nobody knows.
  2. And to go back to the list, Peter Cetera of Chicago. 🙂
  3. On a related note it's Casady https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Casady not Cassidy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cassidy
  4. If we're including film/video, then I'll add the following 2 to my list Jesse Colin Young/Tom Scott & the LA Express/Joni Mitchell/The Band/CSNY - Wembley September 14 1974 Elton John - Hammersmith Odeon - Christmas Eve 1974
  5. Not on a full album, but on parts of 4. 1. Little Feat - Rainbow August 1977 - Waiting for Columbus 2. Steve Hillage - Rainbow November 1977 - Live Herald 3. Janis Ian - RFH November 1995 - Working Without A Net 4. Janis Ian - Union Chapel 2000? - Unreleased 2 Edit. Just re-rereading the thread, I've spotted one more 5. Sex Pistols - Finsbury Park 1996 - Filthy Lucre Live
  6. Здрасти! Whereabouts in Bulgaria are you based? My wife's from Sofia and I've spent a fair bit of time over there over the years. (Only made it to the Black Sea once, we tend to spend more time in the mountains).
  7. Metallic strings for the acoustic have been available for a number of years. (Finding them used to be trickier though). for example: https://www.thomann.de/gb/pyramid_bass_ukulele_strings.htm https://www.thomann.de/gb/kala_metal_round_wound_4.htm
  8. I'm not a lawyer, but did you buy it online or in person? If the former, then I would have thought you should have 14 days under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. (I see their site says "At Bass Direct, we offer a 48 hour approval period on all purchases purchased in store and 7 days for items purchased online or over the telephone. ", but I don't believe they can override statutory regs). https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-contracts-regulations
  9. Stuart Clayton's series on Reading Music are good https://www.basslinepublishing.com/bass-essentials.html also Josquin Des Pres' Simplified sight Reading for Bass https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simplified-Sight-Reading-Bass-Josquin-Pres/dp/0793565189 For tabless resources for bass guitar music, Standing In The Shadows of Motown could keep you busy for a while. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Standing-Shadows-Motown-Legendary-Jamerson/dp/0881888826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528277392&sr=1-1&keywords=standing+in+the+shadows+of+motown
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1,_1974 " The bemused stare between John Cale (right) and Kevin Ayers (left) is said to be explained by the fact that Cale had caught Ayers sleeping with his wife the night before the show. "
  11. The Little Drummer Boy. Always makes me think of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
  12. Apparently, he's quite good on ukulele
  13. Don't knock it. The cognoscenti serrate these very highly.
  14. Elton John's appearing on a lot of these. He also played on Jackson Browne's "Redneck Friend", credited as ' Rockaday Johnnie'
  15. I bet the sustain on that will be amazing.
  16. For an enormous chunk of the population of the planet, a bass is a guitar; end of story.
  17. Or use the link in the previous thread about this
  18. A couple of reasons broadcasters prefer miming http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032vp1d
  19. https://youtu.be/ffO8nZThwmM https://youtu.be/ew6rVcL3Up8 I'll get my coat
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