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Also note that its 'If the preamp of your GK is part of your tone' - you won't get any of the sound imparted by your poweramp or speaker in it, as you mentioned your speaker in the comment.

Ooh, Castle Cary, how posh, they don't let scum like us in there

So where did you play Mike? your facebook page seems to be a bit neglected! Sounds like a good night anyway, especially when you are winging it!

I have never had a bad NYE, I have had a couple that weren't that great, but most have them have been just like a pub gig only busier and paid double for being up an hour later. Actually, that is the same with wedding gigs for us - not sure why anyone would book us as a wedding band, as we are going to do most of the same pub set in pretty well the same way with maybe a special song, but I guess for a wedding band we are cheap compared to the silly rates people can charge, and people who book us are people who have seen us anyway, so they obviously want what we do.

Lucky you had your crowd as well!

I think this is one of the joys of gigging, some people you have to wonder how they basically function. We aren't a specific genre group, so in general we will play anything but so many times its 'can you play x'. 'no sorry, we don't know it', 'but its easy', and so many people try to talk to you while you are actually singing and playing. Sorry pall, my head hasn't got any spare capacity here. My bugbear is people putting drinks on my PA. Because I have the evox 8, there is a big bass box and a pole. I have two, the old one which is wood an entirely flat and a handy table, and the new one, which is plastic and shaped, with no flat area. I keep the black one near me and put things on it to stop people putting stuff on, or I can tell them not to and the white one further away because only an idiot would try and put a drink on a non flat surface that I put the bass through. Turns out the level of idiots is quite high at a gig, so a woman did just that yesterday, put a full pint glass on it. I didn't see or I would have gone over there, apparently it managed to balance almost 10 seconds before crashing to the floor, luckiy missing going in the PA. I need signs up but I guess noone would read those either. Anyway, last night, as previously mentioned, we had found out that our NYE gig had been given to soneone else without even telling us, so expected nothing, but luckily the guy in a local pub who likes us heard we weren't busy so opened the pub up, so we gigged from 10 to 12:45ish. Crowd were good, looked a bit light earlier so a bit of a concern but then people started streaming in and it was packed, also seemed up for a dance. After the countdown we had a agreed to do some version of old lang syne, so basically just written the chords down but no chance to practice - we figured the first verse and the chorus is all people know. Kicked it off straight and slowish to get the crowd going, verse and 2 choruses, then went into a punk version for a verse and chorus, then into a ska version for a verse and chorus and back to the straight version to end (basically this wasn't agreed, just what the drummer did!). Went down great, shame you can't use that song much! Finished at ¼ to 1, took a while to break down as a lot of drunk people insisted in singing into the singers mic (tried with mine, I don't have that) which was a bit pointless as I had turned the PA of straight away, but out of there by 1:20, home by 1:25! Great night, I am glad we got to gig, it has been a very quiet december!

Not sure anyone is bombarding with messages, I sent a message 4 weeks ago

Hope the journey back is good, it looks a bit rubbish out there, especially up north. I have never actually done a gig 50 miles away!

After being stuffed out of our gig by the venue booking someone else, wasn't expecting to have a gig. However, someone got a cancellation and one of the other venues said that we had been let down so we were available, so they contacted us. They wouldn't pay much but by posting another venue that we play quite a lot (and practice at) realised we weren't playing and decided to open up for NYE, so we have a gig after all! Looking forward to that

Which is why I prefixed it with 'for me'. On a 5 string, 17.5mm is about as far as I will go, and it isn't prefered. If I could get it down to 15mm that would be ideal. For a 6 string, it would have to be less than 15mm Not sure what the future expansion is? But anyway, similar to your B, the C string is not really anything I have ever needed. As with the 5 string I use what position I want, I don't really see an advantage of 5 frets above the top of the G (or 3 in the case of my shuker). But yes, all sorts. I would like to get a 6 but I have never found one I got on with.

I never really thought of changing the machineheads as a weight saving thing as such, more a way to improve the balance on a neck and make it more confortable playing. I have ultralites on both my ibanez 1605 and Maruszczyk - the 1605 was head heavy (slightly) as its body was so light, but it had the same tuners as the 5005, which was never head heavy due to the weight of the body. as a result the 1605 needed them and the 5005 didn't. I didn't know about the Maruszczyk but they weren't much and Adrian said it could be heavy as the body was swamp ash and cavitied, so I went with them.

Indeed - I wouldn't associate any of the 80s / 90s guitar rock based bands with the word glam back then, and still wouldn't.

Kind of what I was hoping, and normally I wouldn't think twice, everyone has the right to walk away from something without being hassled about it, but with the last posts, there is a worry there

I messaged her on the 5th December, it is still unread.

it was pretty common where I was to describe a more american form of metal. Glam rock was always viewed as 'that 70s thing' of groups like sweet, hair rock was mid 80s to late 80s and the first time I recall someone saying it was related to the album under lock and key by Dokken which was given to me by a guy who was a writer for kerang, saying he didn't like hair metal, which would have been a promotional white label at the end of 85. I never saw it as a stupid term, in a use where most terms were stupid, it was about the most descriptive.

Because for me the neck gets too wide to use in normal bass mode then, apart from when I had a GVB36, which for some reason I got rid of, and at that point it becomes easier to view it as a tapping instrument, such as an NS:Stick, but then it has not enough strings to make it versatile. So for me 6 is worst of all worlds, if you go past 5, you might as well go straight to 10. I don't play 4s or 6s, but I can see the point of a 4

Really? I heard Hair Metal as a term in the mid 80s, by which time it most certainly hadn't died. I mean originally it was just metal but then it started to diversify a bit between the sung too high and sung too low types.

Hi - anyone out there heard from Sam at all? She was pretty prolific posting on here until november, and then nothing, so I was hoping she wandered off and decided to do something else. But I couldn't see a trace of that, so I thought I would check if anyone had any contact?

Well, decided to rewire my pedalboard over christmas for the gigs that were coming up, but I lost the nice cable that connected my 12 step to the dwarf (a 0.5m right angle USB B to Side connecting USB-A) so the cable was in the way of my loopman, so the loopman was at the top of the pedalboard to connect to the output of my dwarf and for the out to go out. It was a pain and I missed pressing it a few times! So i thought, well the loopman only needs an output, so I can put the output into input 2 of the dwarf, was a much better layout. Obviously I need to then change the pedalboard in the mod to output the input of 2. Fire it up, and noticed that output 2 was already used, as was midi on the patch I used - odd, it was connected to a device, didn't see what that was. Turned out it was a sample playback that made the sound the loopman made, tested it, sure enough it worked. Turns out, I fixed this at the beginning of the year, but when I sent the mod to BD and went to the ME90B, I had to get the loopman back, as it doesn't have that. The fix took so long I forgot that I had fixed the problem and carried on looking for a solution to a problem I fixed last year!

Phenolic fingerboards were used by Vigier on some instruments, not sure about yours.

We are named after a local road, it doesn't really tell you much

Hopefully some Jan Hammer songs!

I would say it is probably better to have that in the name if that is what you do, there are a lot of blokes who would go to something that had blues in the title. Also it would indicate to people who didn't want to go to a blues night that it is worth keeping away - I certainly would not really call into a pub that had a band with the name blues in the title. However, these are just people who don't know who you are, once people have seen you, the name doesn't really matter, as they know who you are. Also for landlords and bookings you can send videos etc to the pubs so they can see who you are and what you do.

No reason at all - I have run a sub off an aux because I wanted to ensure it was just used by the drums anyway

The Bose S1 works ok, even better with the (battery) boss ME90B