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It was the best concert I've ever seen, with more standing ovations throughout than any other performance I can recall. And KB was so, so good. The band, choreography, effects and concept were just on a whole other level. And after all of that, her encore, sat at the piano singing solo, was a reminder of just what a brilliant songwriter and singer she is. I was lucky enough to see her at the same venue back in 1978 too, on her only other tour.

Thanks for sharing this @julesb@julesb 👍 Great artist with a great band! Looks like a lovely Roscoe Beck 5 that John Giblin is using there.. I saw him playing with Kate Bush eight years ago on her 'Before The Dawn' series of shows (with Omar Hakim on drums) and he was just impeccable in his playing!

Bass stuff, obviously ... 😁

Who cares - Eurovision is way, way past it's sell by date!

Thanks for sharing @pfretrock👍 That was kind of heartbreaking.. Reminds me of when I saw Frank Sinatra at The Royal Albert Hall in 1984.. The voice was long gone, but the charisma, the songs and the legend was all there!

Thanks for the clarification and help @agedhorse - really appreciate it! 👍 I really love the sound of these amps, so the last thing I'd want to do is cause them to break down beyond the point of repair.

Thanks Gary and will do.. 👍

Thanks for the feedback, Folks! Point noted about the Walkabout especially @Beedster... And just to be 100% clear, is that also the case with the Big Block 750 @agedhorse?

Hi Folks Are there any Mesa Boogie owners out there who can help me with a couple of questions : First, where's the best place to buy slow-blow fuses for my 2 Mesa amps? I have a Walkabout and Big Block 750. Secondly, I've read on both Talkbass and here on Basschat that the Walkabout will run safely at 2 ohms and just wondered if anyone on here has had experience of doing that safely? Thanks for reading as ever.. 👍 Nik

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Almost 4 years after I sold a custom T-Bird bass to Rod, aka @howdenspur, we've just met up again this week (during his and Mrs Howdenspur's holiday in St Ives, Cambs) to do another deal... .. A trade in fact, with my Maya Stealth bass going in Rod's direction and the custom T-Bird coming back my way. As is customary in these situatuons, we had a great chat over a pint about all things bass (and a few other important things too) and somehow managed to laugh off being asked to 'play a few tunes' by some geezer who wandered over to find what we were doing playing instruments with headphones on whilst sat in the bar! 😁 So, it was great to meet up with Rod again, and to be reunited with the T-Bird, and even better to meet Mrs Howdenspur for the first time too! As has already been said many times in this thread, Rod is a great person to deal with and a brilliant Basschatter! Hope you enjoy the bass Rod, and here's to the next time!! 😂

It was Henry 'King Thumb' Thomas.. He used to live down the road from me in the early '90s and I had a few lessons with him, which were fantastic! He's a very decent bloke and a superb musician.. Started off as a cellist apparently.

I remember Direct Line saying the exact same thing to me back in the late '80s!! The only decent reply I can think of to such a stupid statement would be to say that the only reason Mick Jagger would be in any of our cars these days, would be that we're dropping him off at the local Day Care centre...

Very nice plectrum work there, @theyellowcar 👍

What a great thread! Really gets you thinking... For me, it's Dennis Dunaway, bass player in the original Alice Cooper band from the late '60s to mid '70s. His style and sound still resonate strongly with me today, 50 years after first hearing him play .. So many Alice Cooper songs on their first few albums were built around his bass lines. Here's one song from the School's Out album, 1972 which demonstrates exactly that: Obviously, there are many other bass players who's playing I love and who have influenced me over the years too ( Macca, Trevor Bolder, Leigh Gorman, John Gustafson, James Jamerson and Bernard Edwards to name but a few).. But on reflection, I think Dunaway's the guy who most strongly impacted the way I approached bass playing when I first started out as a 14 year old kid. So, it's all his fault! 😂

Indeed it was @Dood... I wrote this on another post about it a couple of years ago.. "I remember having an absolutely hilarious road trip up there with @WalMan and @Merton. It was a great day.... 😊 Despite it being the Bash where a guy (who's name escapes me) played slap bass at max volume for about 4 hours non-stop.. How no one decked him that day, I'll never know! Happy days 😁" https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/339681-the-13th-south-east-bass-bash-sunday-20-october-2019/?do=findComment&comment=3885849

Mine #1 Bass for all situations is my 1984 BC Rich Eagle, as can be seen being splendiferously modelled below by Andy at the 2019 South East Bass Bash..

Wot' e said.. And the OP!

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