Piers_Williamson

As a bass player, I do have a weakness for their (bespoke??) PRS guitars though! (possibly because our guitarist plays one)

PS I think the music is great!

Is this an advert for the headphones they are all wearing? (albeit there a small number of the orchestra with non-compliant ear gear!)

I didn't know Vinny made gardening equipment. I bet that's the most expensive spade you've ever had 😁

I shouldn't do this on this thread, but here are the Crusaders with Wilton Felder playing beautiful sax, and Ready Freddie holding down the bass line

So when I first suggested to my wife "there's a great series about a women's punk band called Riot Women.....would you like to watch it?" She looked at me suspiciously and said: "Is it like Spinal Tap?". It's not, and we deliberately made going to see Spinal Tap 2 a band-only outing.

Did Feddy Lee play a Gender Jazz? I can feel a Basschat Spoonerisms thread coming on!

What a great great thread. The sort of thing Basschat does so well. I loved the documentary.

Forgive me saying, but as soon as I saw the pictures, I knew it was my old bass. I get to look at 100s of right handed basses, knowing they're not for me (and they never say they are right handed😁)

Does anyone get a bit sad when their own Wal turns up second hand. I commissioned this one from Pete the Fish: https://www.andybaxterbass.com/collections/bass-guitars/products/1993-wal-mk2-custom-shedua-facings I'm sort of happy because I have since acquired a slightly older one, in better nick (and at a lower cost)...but the Shedua on my old one is just gorgeous!

I came across this by chance.......Wilton Felder on the sax and Ready Freddy on the bass! If it's the same precision, he gets through scratch plates!

This reminds me of an 'incident' with our old Keyboards Player, Hugh McKenna from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Hugh was not very technically literate (but a brilliant pianist). The battery that supported the motherboard of his Korg gave out and we promised to replace it for him before a gig. We had done our research and printed out various instructions on how to do the 'op'. Said battery was buried about 3 mother boards down, so we had his keyboard spread over quite a lot of the stage before successfully replacing the battery. Huw was quite nervous but we exuded an air of confidence. When we put it back together and it went through its set up was the point that I discovered that Keyboards could be tuned to different pitches (I didn't know this at the time). We opted for one only to discover that it didn't conform with all our instrument tuning. We ended up tuning by ear as the audience were wondering what's going on by then. At the very last minute I found the menu option for correct tuning (causing us to have a second panic), but at least Hugh was happy!