Frank Blank

Christ, yes of course... blimey.

Paging @jebroad

Definitely up for it, last year was a gas.

I have been for about 35 years 😀

YAFG* *You actual f****** genius 😄

Pino is amazing! I’ve just been reading up on the albums, MK did backing vocals on one of the I, Assassin tracks. This is Numan’s quote about Pino on the album... He was brilliant. I had never heard playing like it...He came up with stunning bass lines, song after song. I leaned on him heavily during the making of the album. I pushed his playing to the forefront of the tracks and, inadvertently, created a new style. It was one of the first times that the fretless bass had been used as the lead melody instrument, allowing the album to be atmospheric, dreamy and funky. I’ll probably get stick but Pino always struck me as a brilliant technical player, but MK is deeply intuitive. I remember reading an interview with him where he said he had no musical theory at all and couldn’t tell you what notes he was playing if a string was “An E or a C”, also that the rest of the band would rehearse a song into existence and then MK would arrive having made up a bass line just based on the title of the song, they’d rewrite entire songs around his lines because they were so good! Anyway, any excuse for Bestial Cluster...

The album before this, Dance, had Mick Karn playing bass. I have heard people moan about Pino ‘copying’ MK on I, Assassin but he was asked to play like him so he was doing what was required. I think I’m right in saying that Pino used effects whereas MK always double tracked which gives MK a subtler sound imho.

Fair enough.

↑ ↑ ↑ this is the answer. Where are you @Lfalex v1.1?

Absolutely, terribly sad though.

Numerous times but that’s because I’m an absolute c***.

This evening (Sat 6th March) is good one for old punks! I am going to watch The Public Image Is Rotten (2018), a £0.99p rental from Amazon Prime and try and finish that just in time for... 21:00 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021) 23:00 White Riot (2019) 00:40 There’ll Always Be An England (2008) 02:05 The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead? (2015)

But utter genius.

A luthier, next question.

Welcome @BassLard.

As is a good FRFR speaker.

The performance is outstanding but I would agree generally with the above. Having sold my AER and moved to an FRFR solution such as described below, well I suppose that speaks for itself. 👍

Agreed, can't wait.

I had an AER Basic Performer, superb.

Another QSC user here. I use a QSC K12.2 and, like @lemmywinks, I used to go through a Fishman Platinum Pro which was a superb setup. I use a HX Stomp in front of the QSC now and again it’s a perfect solution for me, so much so I’m thinking about getting another!

‘Fraid not @mcnach they are possibly one of the best live bands I’ve seen but unfortunately their prodigious talent is matched by a what appears to be an absolute lack of any organisation. They have a Facebook page that hasn’t been updated since July 2020, a website that leads to a blank page and a YouTube channel. They did an EP called Good Omens and have a newer one out on Spotify called Second Attention but as far as I know that’s it. They are a Brighton-based act who invariably support any big reggae act who play in the town. Every time I’ve seen them I ask one or two of the band why they don’t play more and they just grin and shrug. I’ve ever known a band who needed a manager more than Samsara! With proper backing they’d be huge.

I don’t own any TD albums at all, I was bought the ticket as a gift!