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Every time I see Jools' show I'm reminded of this: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcwKgxu2wk[/media]

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1432150547' post='2778721'] Double thumbing [/quote] That's my preferred technique for getting the last few drops out after a Gypsy's Kiss. Much more hygienic than giving him a shake.

I forgot to post pics of my Greco when I got it last year. It currently alternates with a Jolana D-Bass as my preferred bass - the Jolana is slightly nicer to play, but the Greco wins the beauty contest.

Seriously underrated gear Peavey. Had a Mk III head and 1820 cabinet for most of the 1990s, and it was a great sounding, ultra reliable rig. When my SVT was in for repair, the Bass Gallery gave me a Mk IV as a loaner on the basis they'd buy it back off me for the same I paid them as long as it was in the same condition. I considered hanging onto it as a back up. Now you can pick up utter bargains such as an 1810 cab (older version of the 1820) for £50 on eBay!

It's one of those annoying phrases the permeate eBay listings. My pet hate is "minty", which seems to originate with [url="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Septic"]Septics[/url] that don't know why it's supposed to be "mint" and assume it's a contraction of "minty fresh".

He's open to offers. So I offered him 10c.

I think I may have posted about my irrational dislike of all things Yamaha having suffered the horrible sounds and lack of a decent interface on their FM synthesisers. Unfortunate really, as I tried a BB series bass recently and it was a wonderful instrument.

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1431272327' post='2769481'] Spandau Ballet [/quote] It's from the spasms of a man during hanging - from the Spandau prison in Berlin. I think Tony Hadley is something of a history buff, which shows in the lyrics of "To Cut A Long Story Short" which describe a soldier losing his mind in the first world war. (Edited to admit their debut album is something of a guilty pleasure - once they started wearing sensible clothes they went totally mince though).

The case for the prosecution: Lives in Enfield. Drives a beat up Mitsubishi FTO Works, but attire is jeans, T-shirt, trainers and stubble Preferred drink is lager Plays a second hand Jap copy through a junk shop amp and speakers The case for the defence: Enfield's actually nice west of the A10 where I live The FTO was a gift from my brother I'm a computer programmer so scruffiness is obligatory I only drink lager made to the Purity Law (German, Czech or Polish) The copy is a high end Greco Rickenfaker and the amp has been rebuilt from the chassis up

B-side to New Order's first single is one of my favourite songs of all time. The A-side is Ceremony, a track they wrote as Joy Division with Ian Curtis shortly before his suicide. The B-side is an almost suffocatingly dense and dark track called In A Lonely Place: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFteKByG5Q4[/media] Some of the Sisters of Mercy B-sides where on a par with the A-sides, or in the case of the two singles from their first album actually classics in their own right: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpySqQSu_o[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXuy-rqZVfY[/media] Then there was "Eat Me Drink Me Love Me" by Pop Will Eat Itself, B-side of "Karmadrome", complete with Ofra Haza samples (see also the second release of the Sisters of Mercy "Temple Of Love"): [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TiimsgX80[/media] Brilliant lyrics as well: Escaping the twilight, drinking till sunrise I never thought a head like this would persist I could be dead at 33 like [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Belushi"]Belushi[/url] Drain myself away like [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hancock"]Hancock[/url] in Sydney Who knows? Who cares? Who'll remember anyway? Welcome to hell Spend your time in hell I could try to change it but it suits me too well A not so private hell You feed my hunger but drown all my senses In the satisfaction stakes, it's like sitting on the number nine bus I can't stop me, you can't stop me, I can't stop me, you can't stop me One's too many, ten's not enough Welcome to hell Spend your time in hell I could try to change it but it suits me too well A not so private hell, welcome to hell Feels good to be back with [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_%28actor_born_1914%29"]Charlie[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Jacques"]Hattie[/url] and my memory lapse Welcome to hell, welcome to hell, welcome to hell...

I always assumed Led Zeppelin was a name inspired by Iron Butterfly - in other words a deliberately nonsensical name since neither would be able to fly.

Crispy Ambulance Bogshed Rudimentary Peni Beady Eye ...

While we're on the subject of possible Mat made basses, does anyone know if these were made by them: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Bass-Guitar-Hondo-70s-80s-/121638951728 I see them quite often, and they look like an earlier incarnation of the Westone Thunder and Aria SB style basses.

Reminds me of the "gristle gun" from Cronenburg's Existenz:

Kirky - if you still have the crime number, then you stand a chance of getting it back. A minute chance given the culprit sounds like he's in another country.

I'm ashamed that this utter abomination comes from my home town of Farnborough. There again, I knew there was a reason I got the hell out of there as soon as I could.

A little tip of my own. If you're recording a track or comping one together from parts where you don't use all the strings on your bass, then tape the unused one(s) down to stop them vibrating in sympathy with the other strings. Can make for a cleaner take.

So it's £215 for an original one or £450 for a bodged one. Hmm.

I love Gloomy Sunday in its original Hungarian version: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBichAa9NeE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBichAa9NeE[/url] The first English version had lyrics that were close in tone and meaning to the original, but the version most people know is a later one that has a much less direct style and a "happy" last verse tacked on to it.

Did a gig a bit like this. Club promoter wanted something "edgy" to try and make his club "alternative", so he booked us. Didn't tell us the support band would be using our equipment - first I knew of it was when our guitard wandered into the dressing room and told me some slappy,poppy Flea wannabe twunt was using my amp, having switched out the limiter. Went to find the promoter, who had disappeared. The doormen said it was par for the course. So we went on and played the most aggressive set I've ever done, finishing with both guitar amps howling out feedback and the singer berating the promoter. The student audience loved it, but we didn't get paid.A little addendum. The gig was at the Aquarium club in Old Street, London. Twelve years later I played at the Purple Turtle in Camden - different band - and one of the guys on security wandered up and reminded me of that night as he was the one the promoter had asked to try and eject us from the club (he'd refused on the grounds that the promoter was a knobhead).

Diane was in remembrance of a friend of the band who was murdered in the manner the song describes, so I don't think it was written principally to shock.

The tolex has finally arrived from an eBayer in the US. So now the weather's finally turning nicer it's time to get the router out and finish rounding the corners off!