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lozkerr

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  1. One of our staples. I play it fingerstyle too.
  2. That sounds like a decent price. I'm wondering if classic bike prices have fallen back from a peak? They went utterly stupid for a while - two-stroke Villiers-engined crap like the James Captain (top speed 45mph ahead of a cloud of petroil vapour) were going for more than that a few years ago. Even Velocette LEs were fetching silly money for a while. Having said that - I've just had a wee Google and it does look like that's the case. Goldies, Venoms, Super Rockets and Dominators seem to have dropped back a bit from where they were about ten years ago. So do Black Shadows, albeit not quite as much.
  3. In my painfully-acquired experience, playing a five-string bass (and I'm guessing a six-string, too) is a lot easier if you can read notation. Not sight-reading - I'm certainly not one of those nauseatingly talented people who can look at a piece of sheet music covered in something that looks like a spilled ants nest and nail it on the first play-through - but seeing how the bassline progresses, noting where the big shifts occur and being able to decide whether to start on fret 10 of the B string, fret 5 of the E string or the open A based on where you have to go from there makes learning a song a lot easier. Sometimes it's easiest to ignore the B string completely - Echo Beach, Back On The Chain Gang, Suedehead, Slippery People and China Girl from our current repertoire spring to mind right away - but some songs are much easier to play by anchoring in one spot on the B string and playing across the neck, especially if you're singing at the same time. Roxanne, Heaven, Pretty In Pink, Rip It Up and The Best spring to mind in that regard. Five-string tabs seem to be very rare beasts indeed. When low Eb or below is needed, even the books I have tell you to de-tune. Online tabs almost always have the open notes detuned. The only person I've ever come across who writes five-string tab is Becky Baldwin, but I daresay there are a few others. And, of course, if you can read notation, you can play anything written for the double-bass if you ignore the bowing instructions.
  4. Props. That can't have been a cheap purchase! I had two BSAs back in the day. One was a crappy old Bantam, about which the less said the better and the other was an A65 650 twin. Lovely machine - it's one of the few bikes I really regret selling.
  5. I did that a few years ago after a couple of ales. Bid on an old XS750 and was outbid by £50 at the last minute. Would have been awkward, especially as I'd nowhere to keep the thing!
  6. Likewise. It seems to be a nice sturdy bit of kit - certainly better-made than the wee Machine Mart trolley I've been using up to now. If it takes all my gear in one go, I'll be a very happy lass indeed!
  7. I'd love to suggest a Land Rover Defender, as I have one and I love it to bits. Except that I can't. They're like an inverse Tardis - much smaller on the inside than the out. Especially if it's a 90 station wagon, which mine is. The wheel arches protrude into the body, and when you have to fold up the seats, the internal space is a lot smaller than it might look from outside. The rear seats can be removed if you're happy unbolting them from inside the rear wheel arches. Chances are the nuts will be rusted solid. I can get my backline - Eden Metro, 118 cab, WTP600 backup amp, pedal board and a bag of electric string - in OK, with the basses on top and a bag of stage clothes, make-up and assorted gubbins stuffed into a corner, leaving room for me in the driving seat and my SO in the passenger seat. With some Tetris skills, I can squeeze a small lighting rig in as well. But that's about it. If the gig needs the full lighting rig or the PA, it's van hire time. @la bamwill confirm that getting a powerful PA into a Landy is... um... challenging 😊 I have thought about replacing the Landy with something like a Vauxhall Zafira - the rear seats fold flat, transforming it into a van with windows. But the thing is, that truck is my baby and I love it to bits. I'm currently thinking about converting a horse box to a gear trailer - security locks, wheel clamps, tracker, lining it with marine ply backed by razor wire to lacerate any scrote who decides to try to cut their way in - as a folding ramp would be ideal for wheeling flight cases in and out. Only snag is that I'd need to find somewhere to store it.
  8. Thanks! I've been looking for something like this. Just ordered one - I hope it's better than the crappy wee folding trolley I'm using at the moment.
  9. And the band is called The Incels. The vibe I'm getting from that is a hormone-riddled teenager who hasn't yet grown out of staring women in the chest. "Use your knowledge and influences and make something else" is the sort of pony I'd expect to hear from a snotgobbling brat who struggles to distinguish between Internet ads and real life.
  10. I suspect I'm in a minority here, but the hiss and crackle of old vinyl gives it a sense of history. I still have most of my records, including about 1,500 singles. IIRC, the oldest is a 7" of the Platters' The Great Pretender, which is dated 1956. I've got quite a few from the 60s and 70s too. The hiss and crackle increases the sense of them coming from a long time ago. Sometimes it's nice to play them and remember my youth. And there's something about seeing the spinning disc that makes it seem more immediate compared to a box of blinkenlights. But anything I buy nowadays is CD by default. If stuff gets pulled off a streaming service, I still have it.
  11. It was. I kinda got the impression it might go a bit Pete Tong when they strode in and confidently stood in front of the wrong mics. Not an easy thing to cover up, given the difference in their heights!
  12. You mean do we let her back in? Yes, please!
  13. I work from home, so that wouldn't have been an option. It did cross my mind. And I did offer to pay for the car, but she refused point blank. Buying the Les Paul was a compromise, as she can still play it whenever she wants to and crucially, she still has her PRS, which is the one she was looking at selling.
  14. Well, I'm well and truly out. My other half was faced with a rather large bill for her car today and was looking at selling one of her guitars for well below its market value because she needed the cash. So I bought it instead. It's a black Gibson Les Paul Studio and it's hardly been out of its gig bag since new. I guess I'll need to learn how to play it now...
  15. Like-for-like replacements. Ernie Ball 45 - 130 roundwounds.
  16. I made it out of there yesterday with just a new set of strings. Which AFAIK doesn't count. I was dreading finding a nice five-string Precision on sale.
  17. The Sid Sings album - I have a copy which I bought when it first came out. If the poster is inside and in good condition, and the roundel on the label has the guitar-neck swastika, it'll likely be a first release. That might push up the value. IIRC, the poster disappeared pretty quickly, along with the swastika - that was replaced with a blank roundel in later pressings. Although I aye thought that the title 'Sid Sings' violated the Trades Descriptions Act 😉
  18. This ☝️☝️ I'm in two bands, and when I was offered the place in the second one, I made it clear up front that if a diary clash ever occurred, the first band took priority. That wasn't negotiable. I suppose it helps that the first band's gigging and the second one is still in rehearsal-only mode, but if the second band lands a gig that clashes with a commitment to the first one, it'll have to go by the board.
  19. I'm tentatively in, on the basis that I'm not planning on buying anything to go between my fingers and speakers - PA add-ons and lighting gear are for the whole band, not just me - but I know myself far too well to be certain that I won't blow it big style. Fingers crossed!
  20. I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Skrewdriver yet...
  21. The rehearsal studio we use has a PJB 300 watt 4 x 5" combo. It handled my active five-string Jazz OK and had a nice sound, but even when cranked to eleven, it couldn't keep up with two guitar amps plus keys going through the PA. I record all our rehearsals and it was next to impossible to hear the bass. We don't play at a ridiculous volume, either. After a couple of sessions, and gripes from the rest of the band about not being able to hear the bass, I started bringing my Eden Metro along instead. Same rated power output, but a gazillion times louder. OTOH, the Metro is a big lump - more than twice the size of the PJB - and it weighs a ton. Based on that admittedly limited experience, I think the PJB would be fine for home use and probably OK for gigs with a couple of acoustic guitars and vocal PA. I can't see it working in our six-piece rock band without going through the PA.
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