Woodinblack

I sing a few of our songs, so don't I know it! Some people have no sense, and then they have alcohol!

That is kind of how Geneisis worked. Two guitarists (or 3 if someone else wanted to join in), one of whom would switch to a bass if required. Seemed to work ok.

I always found the picking pattern between the two high notes and the open A is pretty natural and simple, I never saw what the issue with it was, the only issue with that whole bit is the hand move from the bottom to the top the first time, but once you have done the first one and your hand has remembered where it is, all subsequent ones are not really an issue. Which is handy, as normally in that bit someone decides they want to talk to you for some reason. Often the singer.

I have, a friend of mine but sadly never played in the same band as him. We do it in our set and actually the guitarist does a reasonable solo on it, which isn't always the case.

I find the solo part easy, in fact the whole song (especially the verse), apart from the first note of the solo, making sure you don't miss it. Not sure how you could do it lower down, that is kind of the song really. there are certainly a lot trickier free songs (which sadly never get played), and general cover songs

Well, the taurus input is just a line in on the back. By a sneaky technique of 'reading the manual', I discovered that that is exactly the same as the DI, except it isn't muted when you press the mute button, like the DI is.

Going to see Tool next year. We are in the middle parallel to the sound booth. FIgured it should sound good there!

Hard to say in that as I am not generally a fender or MM player. I was playing dry with no effects (as it was a practice). The closest thing was unsurprisingly my SR5005, which also has a bart, but it also reminded me more of the Geddy Lee Jazz running in S1 mode (both pickups in series), which may not have been surrpising as I was running in series mode on the swtich). In single coil it sounded more like one of the older P basses, with the single pickup.

It was a horrible building for a gig - only went the once. Very cold! Just checked, they played 3 nights so could have been a different night

I saw Rush at Wembley Arena on the Hold Your Fire tour too. The bass sounded fine to me, but the singing was a bit off. Was it a different night or a different location?

Because you want to play music live.

I wonder if they have a competion at ashdown to try and come up with the most illegible text?

In many cases, not this. If you haven't heard it, how could the notes be intuitive?

Oh I had no trouble returning something to them. Well, apart from hermes lost it, and it took them a month before they would acknowledge that hermes lost it, then it took them another month to do something about it. Still, at least it gives you a phone call to look forward to every day!

Took it to a practice yesterday with my EHB1505MS as a backup. Switched between them but ended up using it for all songs, apart from one that needed a 5. It sounds so full and very bassy. It also has a higher output than the 1505 - which has the Nordstrand Big Splits, had to turn it down to stop overdriving the amp, it had a considerable volume difference. So easy to play!

Bax charge vat on their website, and no additional charges are made when they deliver. Well, if they deliver.

I am not sure what not letting everyone know the bands plans is going to help. Surely those things need to be discussed as a band so everyone knows?

It would be nice to live in a country where you can just put Tony, Belgium and it gets to you! Ironically, my Father was called Tony, and he lived in belgium, and all that time I didn't try it. But probably because I would haver written 'Dad, belgium' and that is probably trickier.

I regret selling my double neck 6/12 ibanez, but that was also in the 80s and it was either that or getting kicked out of my house. edit- it migh have been that that makes me regret selling other things that matter less.

I always get a tinge of regret selling guitars, but in all honesty all the ones I have sold have been good decisions, ie, they really weren't getting used.

Take the ugliness of the ric controls and graft them on to the ugly body of a telecaster, and you are really onto a winner!

So what was the problem with it? I know quite a few people who went to other gigs and were impressed.

There is a lot of acoustic stuff round here at the moment, I know quite a lot of people in those sort of groups now. Its not for me but probably good for people who like that kind of thing.

I play whatever is fun to play, whatever I like to play and some songs that are neither fun or I particulary like that the crowd like (like sex on fire). The ones I normally don't like are the ones we play badly, in that I would rather not play something at all than play it badly. There are a few things that I wont play and that is fine because we have no real style, so we have all the songs the whole of the last 60 years to pick from so there is no real issue apart from drunk people in pubs calling for some of them, but then they can just blame me and we carry on.

I had an ibanez ric copy when I first started, loved that bass, but it got nicked. Had a rockinbetter, actually had two, they are good but the bridges aren't great and you can't replace them with anything else as it would mess the scale up.