Steve Browning

I'm looking at that rig and wondering (not that I know) if there is an output level on the wireless? Could that be reduced?

I did a stint in an Abba tribute band and had a glorious time playing these lines. One of my favourites (and good exercise!!) was Lay All Your Love On Me.

You get sick of them after a while. Of course I may just be saying that to give an impression ...............

That was my thought. Split the risk 3 ways too.

A lot of Dire Straits stuff is quite complex. Quite a few have subtle changes to chords in verses etc.

I remember noodling (badly) on a Frenandes Strat back in the 80s and it was a wonderful guitar and probably the nicest guitar I have ever played (AFAIR). There is a sunburst Fernandes bass on sale here that looks to be a brilliant instrument. I have to actively remind myself I mustn't buy it every time I see it. Luckily, for me, it's just the other side of being an impulse buy!!

Ok, let me kick things off. Very good Blues band playing all over. Guitarist (well it was always likely to be , wasn't it?) a very fine player but far more jovial than necessary and convinced he was the world's funniest man. He was also a congenital liar and claimed to have an amazing guitar collection that was with a variety of friends in oredr to keep them from falling into the wrong hands (his, perchance). He would swear blind he had called me and I had not replied (my mobile never recorded these missed calls). HE was an ar$e of the highest order. He got the chance to do some touring with an American female Blues singer, which he did. He was let go because they deemed him too annoyingly cheery. His confidence took a knock at this but he compensated by being even more cheery. Eventually he left the band to pursue a change of direction (or avoid me maybe) and we got in a guy who's as close to playing with Jeff Beck as you can without actually playing with Jeff Beck. We do that very English thing (or maybe Spinal Tap) of being overtly nice to each other when face to face but I can barely even the mention of his name. Suffice to say our musical paths will never cross.

Peavey. The Ashdown sounds horribly boxy, couldn't stand the one I had (briefly).

Good for you. I bottled it when my full time gig came to an end and I got a real job(!). The very and hope it all works out.

Verbal contract. Small Claims Court.

I used to replace the stock pickup on my Japanese basses with Kent Armstrong Alnico vintage Pbass pickups. They sounded just right to my ears.

I experienced a similar thing many years ago when the handle on an AC30 broke and the metal inner handle came out like a sword from a scabbard. I remember thinking that I had had a lucky escape. If I'd tried to grab it .................

That's really appalling behaviour. Cheap shot indeed!!! 🙂 🙂

. and his last words to BH were something like "and I hope your little ol' plane crashes" after he was ribbed about the bus constantly breaking down.

Absolutely no shame and, to me, you are what your heart tells you. This dawned on me several years ago when I was playing in an excellent band on the south coast. We had the chance to turn pro but the singer didn't want to. He was a huge fish in that small pond but ................ he was a builder by trade. The rest of us concluded that there is an important difference. He was a singing builder and not a building singer. You should not think any less of yourself for doing what you have done and where it is led you. There are bound to be a whole bunch of us here who have done the full time thing and then had to get a 'real' job to pay the bills. As has been said, there are any number of acts that have real jobs to make sure the bills are paid. That's just a fact of like and it doesn't define you. It took me a while to realise that.

Again, in the 80's, I had a Wilkes Stingray. No poles pieces on the pickup and it was a little bit microphonic but the bass was exceptional. Would rather like to still have it.

Please share. Here's my dad playing Sax (his main instrument) and also playing the fiddle on the Victory.

I would have thought customer feedback is important to any company that takes quality control seriously. That includes negative. Similarly, when people are contemplating shelling out a decent wodge of cash they want to know what they are buying. If that was not the case Tripadvisor wouldn't exist. People want to know the business they're dealing with. In my own case, I had a Boogie cab that rattled for some reason. My complaint was handled by getting me to return the cab for the replacement of the faulty speaker (with no quibble at all). On opening up the cab, it was discovered that there were about 4 staples that had dropped onto the magnet and they were touching the cone as it moved. They were removed and all was well. Mesa Boogie let me keep the speaker they had sent over and so I have a spare speaker for a Subway 15. That's exemplary customer service from a big company that could have ignored me and not really suffered much by way of consequence. That sort of experience can demonstrate to others that their business is valued and can reassure them if they are considering forking out for a cab that is not cheap. For the same reason, it is helpful (for some) to know which companies don't provide that level of service and they can make their choices accordingly.

And if we go back to the days of carnets for touring you're already done!

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It's a shame that modern instruments aren't treated as old classical ones. I believe investments businesses will buy things like Strads but then loan them to the top players to use. That way they have their investment but the instrument is still used. A lot of instruments end up in vaults as purely an investment and that's terrible for a guitar.

There's probably quite a good thread in apocryphal stories!