Black nylon coated LaBellas do seem very suited to acoustic, piezo equipped basses. When the time comes, try some EB Cobalt flats if you want to retain a chunk of roundwound tone (hopefully the QC issues reported a while back will have passed). Fender flats seem good too, having bought a Mustang with these already fitted, they seem to fit nicely with my cod Family Man efforts.
Well, I for one am glad to hear a positive review at last. Perhaps it will come good but it would have better to have it all tickity boo from the get go. Photos please.
His current and long standing choice of coiffeur seems to have been a good decision.
I find it interesting that he doesn’t look dissimilar to a mid ‘70s Peter Gabriel.
Interesting fact, Down The Dustpipe was originally demoed by The Man Band, pretty much as we know it today. The story is that the demo was played to Quo who were probably looking to shed their psychedelia image and sound and the rest is history. I learnt this from Deke Leonard’s book, Rhinos Winos & Lunatics, so it’s all those Welsh boys’ fault.
Apropos of nothing, Francis Rossi lives just down the road from my old house in Sarf Lunnon.
My fault, I wasn’t clear, it’s the haircut I was referring to, Nick is great fun and a top, top player. I saw him with Steven Wilson on the To The Bone tour, he was great and as you say, funny as f***.