Frank Blank

Indeed, Hiwatt head, Marshall 4x12 with Speaker cone pierced by a screwdriver, you aren’t going to replicate that with FX.

...and I've just realised I put it on the wrong thread!

It's exactly that!

Unlike the rest I never met Youth, he did however once hand me a flyer at a Fad Gadget show at The Venue in Victoria. I dread to think how long ago that was.

Check out the bass lines on Bête Noire, a Bryan Ferry solo album rather than Roxy, superb album with cracking bass.

☝☝☝This, all day long. JJ kind of knocked everyone else into a cocked hat (apart from Mick Karn). Those first two notes, I want to give up bass and collect stamps as soon as I hear them.

Jaz would describe them as Punk, Paul Raven used to describe them as Post-Punk, Geordie looked aloof whilst smoking menthol cigarettes and Big Paul agreed with Raven.

Sleaford Mods Gillian Welch Mike Doughty Cake The Hut People

It doesn’t take a lot to buckle my muff.

She's taking the peas.

I am considering... Grant Bail Drew Breath Tim Bucktoo Stew D'Apples Art Gallery Doug Graves Frank Ingmachine Norman Invasion Robin Istheft Marshall Law Cliff Lift Lou Ming Reed Mumsnet Clay Pipe Dïck Tate Gene Therapy Bob Upandown

Indeed and this was true at every Bass Bash I’ve been to.

I remember a band called Heist with two bass players, as mentioned briefly in the post above but I can’t find anything about them online!

People do play each other’s basses, it’s one of the best parts about the events. I keep an eye out for such things as I have a couple of basses I’d like to keep in good nick but no one I’ve ever encountered has had a belt buckle on. Perhaps, as bass players, we realise this and don’t wear such things to Bashes

I once 'acquired' a snare drum that used to belong to Topper Headon, it had his signature on the underneath head and had plenty of provenance. It was in the corner of my room for about fifteen years. I went to a big old party down in the west country and a really old friend of mine was going who I'd not seen for twenty odd years, he was (is) the drummer in a reasonably well known punk band. I thought I'd take the drum down and give it to him knowing he was a huge Topper fan. Well, on greeting him it turned out he'd become an absolute (insert desired expletive here) over the years and he was rude and unpleasant to everyone, including me. I left the next morning and not wanting to take the snare home as a reminder I chucked it in a skip at a motorway service station.

Great band, great bass player.

☝︎☝︎☝︎ What he said...

Absolutely. I only commented to let people know the documentary was on, come on Ray, back to the gentlemanly civility of The Den, my round.

I was lucky enough to see NMA with Morrow a couple of times (including the one below thirty-nine years ago), what a unique player.