NancyJohnson

I still like to hear what I'm playing, so I'll stick with having an amp set up. Did one gig where we were supposed to be using the headliners backline and there wasn't any. I ended using a Sansamp into the desk and monitors. Not good. IEMs are a bit of a pfaff to be honest...our old singer had some and it was always a bit of a runaround getting them to work properly. We'd have our slot, singer would be shouting at the sound guy that they weren't working.

Again on the subject of the aforementioned Mighy Lemons (two of my current band are in them), here's a lockdown cover of a Thin Lizzy classic:

After yesterday's Hollerado burn-through, today it's...Ludo. They're a bonkerswonderful four piece pop/punk band from Missouri. While this is just a hewn together fan video, it is a great genre spanning piece, spanning light opera through to full on heavy metal, via some yo-ho-ho sea shanties. Give it five minutes of your time. If you want to channel some Christmas goodness:

Sorry, another one. I adore That Thing You Do! - god knows how many times I've watched it. It's also one of those films that I can just dip into from any point in the running time and enjoy.

Cough. The Dirt. Cough. I did however enjoy Josie and The Pussycats.

Sorry another Hollerado one. Another one take.

The first album is a belter. Get in, bonny lad!

While I profess I adored the first OKGO! album, the second (well, for me at least) really suffered Stacy's Mom syndrome...without the video for HIGA, very few people outside their immediate fanbase would have been any the wiser of their existence. Reckon they will be forever haunted by the ghost of that treadmill video, so much so I think (from memory) they didn't really shake the whole choreographed video thing, trying to be more and more eloborate with every consecutive video. Really suprised to just read that they haven't released anything for six years!

Anyhow, back to business. This morning I'm listening to the wonderful, albeit now sadly defunkt Canadian band, Hollerado. I love that there's this supposed backstory that they won some money in a battle of the bands competition and spent in on this video. They did a handful of albums although the commercial disaster of 111 Songs, which pretty much stopped them dead in the water for over two years, pretty much finished them off...clue's in the title folks. When they did the first album (Record In A Bag), if you ordered direct, it came in a little ziplock bag containing with confetti, sweets, nonsense: When they did their second (White Paint), they allegedly hated the artwork and painted over every cover with trade white paint:

Despite my punky roots, I concur. It's a great song, beautifully crafted. Like A Prayer is a belter too.

I'm assuming that anyone with the proper kit should just be able to spool up the tape, hit play and record on a computer? I wouldn't need anything mixed, but assume I'd just get a bunch of wav files that I could just load up into ProTools? How long are those Ampex tapes, time wise?

I've got several reels of 1" Ampex in my spare room that I have zero idea of their content. I'd love to get these converted just so I can see what's on them too!

There's a handful of bass players out there that indirectly owe Pete Way a huge debt of gratitude, Nikki Sixx top of that list. And yes, Strangers In The Night is certainly one of the greatest live albums ever released.

The little alleyway shop was Adam Music, the old bloke who ran it smoked cigars, every time I smell a cigar my head thinks it's Christmas (when my dad used to have one) or Adam Music. The Watkins place. I remember buying a big old 1x15 cabinet off a guy in Egham, but it was open fronted. My dad knew about the Watkins place...we bought some heavy plastic speaker grill stuff from there.

It's odd that, in these days of having pretty much every concievable instrument purchaseable at the touch of a button or two, that reading some of the comments here, how much we used to pine for the Bell catalogue, Beat Instrumental or as @58Bassman remarked, our noses stuck to the shop window perring in at the goodies inside. I remember going to the old Woolies in Egham High Street and getting excited about the deeply sunburst and chromed up guitars that were hanging up in there. Thing is, in general nobody was really that interested in Fenders or Gibsons when I was a kid; it was just about having guitars and amps, going to the local church (St Mary's, Staines) on a Saturday lunchtime, carrying the drums up from a few hundred yards down the road and just trying to play the rudiments and having a laugh. They were very happy times and I think we'd all agree that our weekends would be ruined if it didn't happen.

There's a really lovely red LT for sale on these very pages...

Tut tut. Just curious, I've found a Mike Lull bass online, decent price, but I'm not really in a monetary position to pull the trigger on it; I have money I could throw into this, but not the full tilt. The seller is up for trades (Zon or Dingwall) neither of which form part of my armoury, but I do have a recently acquired Spector Euro LT that I consider throwing into the mix. This isn't any kind of backdoor selling thing...subs all paid...I'm just curious whether there would be anyone interested in doing the great Basschat swap. Lull>Zon/Dingwall>Spector>??? Anyone?

Nothing for a few days, no. He did post up a couple of things where a business he owned was fraudulently sold without his knowledge and a missive from Warner Chappel dissolving a contract and demanding return of an advance.

We didn't get paid by the St. Moritz and it took days to get rid of the stench of cheese.

Have you actually looked at the bass? lol

£50 for 45 minutes. At this point DM hadn't actually released anything either, so one does wonder how they got that gig.