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It might also be worth changing the tone control's capacitor. It's not something I know too much about but it can affect the overall tone. You could also put a cap on an individual volume control to roll off more treble the more open the control is.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1489158630' post='3254837'] Yes this would have been great if it happened... but its been clarified Geddy and Alex are just inducting them. [/quote] Wrong! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjm10iXTon4

[quote name='fftc' timestamp='1491422896' post='3272981'] Enjoyed that. Nice wee tune. Got anything live on youtube or the like? Edit to add: D'oh, found it and it wasn't difficult. [/quote] Most of that You Tube stuff will be coming down imminently...some of it is horrific. Nasty. There's an EP up on Bandcamp. www.wknj.co.uk. It'll redirect.

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1491407853' post='3272814'] That in Rhoom? We practice there too! [/quote] Yup. Tuesday nights #2!

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1491389113' post='3272592'] They are at it again. [url="http://wogew.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/sgt-pepper-anniversary-edition-revealed.html"]http://wogew.blogspo...n-revealed.html[/url] [/quote] I saw this earlier today on the Super-Deluxe Edition website as well ([url="http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-super-deluxe-edition/"]http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-super-deluxe-edition/[/url]). I never quite understood the desire/excitement for monaural delivery...when I was a kid, my amp had a mono button on it and it just made everything sound bland (except for the first Van Halen album, which sounded great in either stereo or mono). While I'm never going to buy it, I was a little shocked (and don't blame Brexit) that Amazon Italy have it listed for under £85 notes, but in the UK it's £141.00. UK screwed over (yet) again. We just seem to accept that every time we bend over someone is going to shove something up there.

So a couple of weeks ago, we shot a video. It's all a bit done on the cheap (£0.00)...we did it right at the end of a regular rehearsal session and mimed to a track we recorded in December. A couple of Go-Pro cameras, my Sony A5100 (which shoots 1080p) and an old low res video camera. Three takes total with cameras in different positions and a couple with one of us hand holding my Sony. Our guitarist did some rudimentary editing. He professed he got bored towards the end. Here you go. Turned out OK for a bunch of old blokes. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrQ5T-iMJg[/media]

In my experience, CDs are upfront or at the time of order. We've always gone with reputable businesses with a proven track record (no pun intended). While I've never gone the vinyl route (or ever will as we're not hipsters), I would agree there needs to be something upfront to cover costs for mastering, cutting, acetates etc. All this costs and its effectively WIP before a single record is pressed. Full payment, though? Well we are poor, unreliable musicians so I suppose they're covering themselves. Are you able to contact the business and ask for references/bands who've used them previously?

What to do when you're old? I've kind of slipped into semi-retirement. Heh. Job is low-stress analytical work and I still have a full mop of hair, so I'm good to go. I'll give it five years and try and convince my missus that it's time for me to start reading the pile of books I seem to be accumulating, get away on holiday a bit more, complain about my aching back and knee. I think with the accelerating issues with my thumbs, a fire sale might be happening around the same time, but I'll keep limping along for as long as I can. My old pop carked it less than two years after he retired; I guess after an uber-active job his body was just worn out, so I plan on enjoying the time off until they screw the lid on.

I know I'm stating the obvious, but back in 1986 (or whenever), these probably weren't looked upon as being vintage in any respect and the market was somewhat different; Fender (at the time) wasn't particularly a vogue brand to be playing (I just seem to remember every shop I visited just seemed to carry limited stocks of Musicman, Jackson and Charvel).

We gigged in Reading about a year ago, headliners were supposed to supply backline, but didn't. Sansamp into the desk. Disaster.

I'll get everything together and see where we stand. I suspect (looking online) that I might go with either Jazz Bass Special neck or an Aerodyne Jazz Bass neck. Thought had crossed my mind about a used Moses or a leftie Status Stingray neck. Anyhoo, early days.

So here's the body...I suppose I'll rub it back a bit and spray it black... Our logo looks like this. I have full artistic control over it, so I can retain the aspect ratio of the words but resize accordingly. ...which should hopefully give me this kind of look: I'm unsure how the Epiphone pickups sound, so for the time being, I'll leave them in situ. I'd like to just have either a single volume control and a pickup selector switch or just a single volume control (both pickups wired together somehow).

I'll say from the outset that this is going to be slow and messy, no doubt. It wouldn't be a lie to say that I've gone through a lot of Thunderbirds over the years, but recently my thoughts have turned to bolting something together and applying one of those vinyl decals over the body with my band name on it ('Who Killed Nancy Johnson?'). Last night I procured a banana coloured loaded Epiphone body. I have chisels. I have parts. Lots of parts. Mwahahaaar!

We only do 30-45 minute sets. I do get a bit crampy in my left calf mainly because of my stance; I tend to carry my weight on my right leg and almost tiptoe on my left.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1490999465' post='3269835'] Kiss discography wikipedia lists over 48 albums? [/quote] To save you looking, Wikipedia lists as below and in all likelihood there's probably more that have been released into different markets and been overlooked. 20 studio albums isn't bad going in any respects considering they've only done two albums this century, but they really are the masters of repackaging and selling on. Eleven live albums? 13 compliations? 8 box sets? Kiss discography Studio albums 20 Live albums 8 Compilations 13 Box set albums 8 '78 solo albums 4 Instant Live 3

A long long time ago I ran into Ross Halfin, erstwhile rock photographer of this parish. We shot the sh*t about photographic gear (Olympus), film choice (Ilford) and push processing (two stops), and I asked him about some if the bands he worked with. Kiss came up. He said something like, 'Never believe anything that comes out of their mouths. They're the biggest liars I've ever met, especially Simmons.' They're really just the personification of Trumpy, aren't they? Bigging up everything, but they've been doing it for decades.

Everyone is different, huh? Elixir Nanowebs. It would probably be simpler to list the string manufacturers that I haven't tried during this 30+ sojourn. OK, let's get the negatives out of the way first. They cost £35-40 a set. Drum roll. And that's it. They last for ages. They sound pretty much the same six months after you put them on.

While we're on the subject of Living Colour, I recently snared a copy of one of the early US copies of Stain with the different guitar solos on it. I think its the fifth or sixth version of the album that I'd bought.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1490266375' post='3263705'] Anybody heard of any shops taking pre orders on the T-bird Vintage? It's only 3 months away [/quote] Didn't Mark over on LBO post he'd pre-ordered one through Sweetwater in the US?

[quote name='jacko' timestamp='1490795993' post='3268099'] Would that have been around 1996? I saw him at a clinic at the Bass Centre in Birmingham around then and came away a bit disappointed. He spent most of the time playing with loops and noodling - nothing like his Living Colour playing (which was why I went). [/quote] I saw him at the Bass Centre in Wapping. I'd concur with the above...he was very entertaining, albeit a little self-indulgent, it has to be said.

I f2cking love that Tech21 are answering stuff here.

I saw Corey Glover (with dUg Pinnick supporting) in New York about 18 months ago. While dUg was great, CGs band wasn't so great, lumbering uncomfortably through a few Living Colour standards, some of his back catalogue (from Hymns) and a couple of covers. We didn't stay until the end. For a guy that should have been an absolutely huge star (and while I know the Body Glove years are well behind him), it was a little sad to see him sweatily sauntering around on stage in a matching pink twinset of jogging trousers and hoodie (which my wife refers to it as the bunny suit), a tweed flat cap and glasses. (oooh, go here [url="http://pancakesandwhiskey.com/2015/05/13/a-night-with-corey-glover-and-dug-pinnick/"]http://pancakesandwhiskey.com/2015/05/13/a-night-with-corey-glover-and-dug-pinnick/[/url] ) At one stage he broke down and cried mid-song. My wife and I honestly felt that while people can get emotional, we felt he was just plain not right and needed a bit of help.

I don't mind Doug, but these are Muzzy's lines! That said, it's refreshing to see footage of Living Colour playing to a reasonsbly big crowd, even if most of them probably only know Cult of Personality because it was on Guitar Hero. I'm a big fan of those first three albums although it's much a case of diminishing returns; so much unfulfilled/unrealised potential...they should have been huuuuge and achieved godlike status, but alas, t'wasn't to be. Indifferent, output, side projects, conflict. Tsk.