NancyJohnson

[quote name='KASH' post='656768' date='Nov 17 2009, 10:39 AM']How is it? Sound? the venue in general? We're a London band so we don't think many people from London will come down to see us when they can do it closer to home. Does it pulls a good crowd of locals?[/quote] We had a gig set there but my old band bottled it. I saw Richie Kotzen there a couple of years ago. Nice venue, good acoustics, great vibe, easy parking. Stage about 3 feet high, reasonably wide. Ash played there a few days ago on their A-Z tour, so even a few years on it can't be that bad! P

You might want to investigate loading audio only stuff up on Garageband, MySpace or YouTube and then link from your thread to the audio. Alternatively, get some free hosting and load up MP3s there...if anyone is using Firefox with the Foxy Tunes plugin will be able to right click the link and play it through their chosen media player. Good luck! P

[quote name='Rich' post='654764' date='Nov 14 2009, 07:07 PM']Anyone remember the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Tips_(band)"]Q-Tips[/url]... 600 gigs in just two years?[/quote] I do remember Q-Tips and I do remember they did a lot of gigs. Credit to them. That said, it means nothing. How many people here can name one song The Q-Tips recorded? Who can name one member of The Q-Tips whose name [i]isn't[/i] Paul Young? No cheating now! P

I've died on stage. Does this count? P

Paul Young. What a talent! Stands up there with [i]Grandma, We Love You[/i] and[i] Shaddup Your Face[/i]. P

[quote name='jezzaboy' post='654516' date='Nov 14 2009, 02:46 PM']level 42, hue and cry, duruitti column, dire straits , scritti pollitti, eurthmics, bauhaus, stone roses, late police, go west , spandau, kagagoogoo, ellisbeggshoward, human league, OMD, late genisis, swing out sister, blow monkeys, lloyd cole and the commotions, the smiths, frankie, tears for fears, king, Fictionfactory, haircut100, Paul young and the royal family......oh GOD too many too mention.. 80s werent crap...(TRUE)[/quote] Just reading this list sends shudders through me. Don't get me wrong, there were some plus points to the 1980s, but none of the above. Jeez, Paul Young couldn't carry a tune if his life depended on it. Toast anyone? P

While there's no doubting the band had talent, on a more personal level, Level 42 represented everything that was bad musically about the 80s. It was a really terrible, terrible time if you were a fan of good old guitar based rock or punk. And remember punk was only a few years old. I remember one bloke saying to me [at the time] that they were just easy listening rock for stock market traders. Slappidity dappitdy slappidity. Yawn. Twenty plus years on, the opening bars of any Level 42 track will still have me reaching for the remote control or changing the radio station. Sorry! P

Can you connect a rack tuner (Korg DTR) to an effects out signal if your head hasn't got a dedicated tuner out socket? Cheers P

[quote name='JTUK' post='650767' date='Nov 10 2009, 03:52 PM']I am looking for a DJ5... I will be interested to see how they replace this model....[/quote] OK two things first, even though I own a Lakland, they do have a couple of basses in their range that are essentially Fender copies and also Adam Clayton has been playing a DJ4 (albeit without the Darryl Jones signature on it) for some time. If a product is successful and clearly still in demand (as the DJ basses seem to be), then you would think they would continue to make and sell it. The big stumbling block here is that the design came from DJs original A Bass model - link [url="http://www.abasses.com/"]A Basses[/url] - who Darryl Jones has now gone back to. The question really is whether Lakland would continue to [i]copy [/i]or license the body shape and simply call it something else, or drop it completely. At the end of the day, Lakland seem to be doing OK and maybe don't need the model. P

Anyone know of an attachment that clips to a microphone stand that will hold an effects pedal or sheet music etc.? The bassist in Weezer is using something so it just prompted the question. It would be nice not to squat down to alter footswitch settings. P

I know this response is as obvious as it comes, but sure there may be a drop in level, but in most cases wouldn't this be solved by raising/lowering said pickup? P

On the back of my earlier post, I've just given elements of [i]...Exit Stage Left[/i] a quick spin. Still sounds woolly and lacking clarity, so for me at least that supports what I've thought over the years. I'm in no way going to backtrack from what I wrote, but you have to realise that the dates these albums were released was somewhat of a transition period for me (and likely most music savvy teens in this country). To a degree, Rush were fast turning into the dinosaurs the whole punk thing had turned against four or five years beforehand and to tell the truth, my head was far more into London Calling! and Obscure Alternatives than songs themed around black holes and honeydew. I've just looked down the tracklisting of the dozen (or so) studio albums that followed [i]...Exit Stage Left[/i] and I reckon I know three or four of the songs; mainly the first track of a handful of the albums. P

My Rush phase lasted about five years; started off with the first live album (All The World's A Stage), after which I naturally dug into their back catalogue - Rush/Fly By Night/Caress of Steel/2112 - and carried on through to the second live album (...Exit Stage Left) which has to have the worst production of any Rush album and kind of turned me off off them. (I don't know whether it's been remixed on subsequent reissues.) For me, the first live album has everything you would ever need to know about the guy's playing...that sound, the fluidity of the playing, the runs, the way he works/worked off Neil Peart, plus, the sleeve is great! By comparison the studio albums it draws from are very lightweight affairs and this displays the material with a completely different dynamic. For my 14 year old ears, it was all a bit mental. And drawing from that album, it has to be Bytor and The Snow Dog that's the highlight. P

Sorry chaps but these are long gone. P

I've had a Bongo for about three months now - an orange 5HH - and have to say I'd liked these basses (well, from a distance) from the first time I clapped my eyes on them. In reality, it's been a bit of a love/hate thing; I got the bass on a trade here and the setup wasn't really to my liking (strings buzzy/action low, pickups too high)...I took it along to a jam and actually felt well depressed after; it sounded great at home (at low volume), but in a rehearsal it was pretty awful. No sustain, little output, just horrible. I spent a couple of hours tweaking the setup it and while it's [i]better[/i], even after a handful of jams the GAS was arguably more exciting than owning the real thing. I don't want to come over as sounding too underwhelmed, it plays great now, looks sweet, balances nicely, but I'm still not wholly happy. I guess at heart I'm a simple bloke as well; I prefer volume, or volume/tone, or volume/volume/tone (as opposed to volume/select/midsx2/tonex2) and I tend to find that when I start off at a jam it sounds nice, but four hours later (after having to tweak constantly) every control on the thing seems to have moved to the 100% position and it sounds pretty terrible. I would also say that it hates strings that have been on for a while. Anyhow, I'll stick with it for now. It's back in the spare room and (for now at least) the Lakland is back on top. P

Like it says. Two sets off the Lakland and Bongo; 40/65/80/100/130, superlong. Still some life in them (they're good as boilers). I'm not going to bother splitting these. The set off the Lakland was strung through the body BTW. First PM secures, otherwise in the bin on Monday night. P

I had a five-string streamer for a while. Honestly it was very nice and certainly a good step up from what I was playing at the time. It was however a bolt-on and it went through three necks before Warwick put a wenge one on, and after that (well for me at least) it was close to perfection. It was comfortable, great phat tone, nice B-string. A few years after I got it, we had moved house and I sold the bass on to cover some building work (something that also happened to the Aerodyne that's in my avatar). Sad time. I don't know if I'd go back to be honest, the Lakland is great and I'm kind of falling in love with my Bongo. I'd echo the words of an earlier poster...it's a sleeping classic. P