NikNik

Well spotted

Time for a flick through this....

Same here re Bass Centre. Must have been '86. They had about 7 or 8 on show. Most were Precisions.

And on things KC, here's a short of Gizmodrome doing Elephant Talk. Mark King tapping away! https://youtu.be/Hl1OrgFh2EU

Spotted this on Adverts.ie. No stamp on neck. £10K?

Is that a haberdashery?

You....wore a shell-suit??

I bought one of the Harley Benton double-cut Juniors and it's a great guitar to modd. I swapped out the bridge and lowered/dressed the frets as the were a tad high. But I really like the P90 splittable 'bucker and the quality of the pots so I'm keeping them.

That was regular MO with the Ned and Bilbo mentioned earlier in thread. The telephone call would go something like this:- Ned: Hi! Howya doing? Me: Fine! What's new? Ned: Howdya fancy doing a gig? Me: Sure! When? Ned: Err.....tonight! Eight o' clock at the Shitty Tams! Me: Ok. How much are we getting paid? Ned: Err..errr....we haven't worked that out yet. These two guys would talk a bar manager into doing impromptu gigs, often, I think, just for the exposure. 90% of them we never got paid. Eventually I refused these requests to play at short notice.

I saw enough of Toyah full stop back in the day. Yeh, I can't wait for this to be released.

If the quotes are anything to go by, this is going to be superb! The Mighty Crim

It wasn't Muir of Ord, by any chance??

Village fair power supply...

It does sound a bit like Fashion, even the vocal. But the bass is all over the place.

Had that problem once. Outside gennie running 16A line to our gear. Whilst we were away and unbeknownst to us when we returned, the caterers - hidden behind a silkscreened section of the large marquee - had disconnected the Cee-Form connector and inserted a 16A-13A power-block, which powered their fridges and their large food-heaters. Unbelievably, when challenged about this, they hit the fkn roof and bawled at us not to unplug their power!! We had to seek out the organiser to tell her what was happening and recommended getting her Spark firm back out to put in another line for the caterers, who had already had a 16A put in for them at the other end of their section!

Correct. 96db is nothing!! Unless it's ten feet away from you!

I would be speaking to the bride and telling her you cannot put your band in such a position to ruin her night. I'd ask her to feed that right back to the wedding planner (they all have massive egos!) and the venue.

96db measured from where? How big is the venue? Years ago I played in a pub that had one. It was 10m from PA to meter and it was fun watching it go into orange and stay there. It tripped the power once; not good for valve amps OR the vibe! Can't recall any fines/repercussions.

Here's another one. Back around the early '80s I was in an eight-piece funk band but on the side I played with the drummer, the guitarist, one of the female vox, and the (stinky poo) keyboard-player doing a 45 of Quick-Steps and a 45 of '60s hits around the workingmens' clubs as they paid well and we used the money for running the other band. One afternoon we're loading in to some miners' welfare club in the back of beyond and out the corner of my eye I see a figure carrying full Highland Dress slip into the dressing rooms. At one point I hear this florid, Ken Dodd look-a-like asking one of the committee guys what time he's going on. I began to feel that something was up, that something was going to occur that would put us in a precarious position. I tackled our manager to go find out the SP with this guy and he comes back with a grey pallor. It seems the guy is a warm up act or intermission act who's going to regale the punters with a few anecdotes about the Highlands and a bit of singing. I fear the manager has told the committee, when booking us, that we'll back this guy up! We tell him 'No way!' and witness the Highlander guy go mildly nuts when he hears this. So, we start our set of Quick steps/Foxtrots and all's well. We take a short break and return to play some instrumental noodle to welcome the Highlander to the stage. He proceeds to regale the punters with tales real and fictitious and goes into one about Glasgow. As he comes to the end of this tirade he turns to us all and goes 'And so with that, dear friends, I give you 'I belong to GLASGOW!! Take it away, boys, in G!!' and he begins to sing! The guitarist and I look at each other and begin busking it (it's a fairly well-known tune up here) but the drummer, who is younger and doesn't know the tune, is playing 4/4 across a 3/4 tune!! I call him out on this but it doesn't really make the rhythm flow any better. The keyboard player is playing random stabs which only augments the cacophony and the Highlander quickly finishes up and leaves the stage in a rush. We look at each other in disbelief whilst out the back we can here our man going crazy. He apparently expected a full Cabaret-style pick-up band so somebody, or somebodies, had kept both him and ourselves in the dark. We played an ok gig and I got royally whizzed afterwards, misbehaving in a crude and unprofessional manner. We got paid but never played there again.

Might have been better than a wood axe!😄

Some gig in Edinburgh's Cowgate (Sneaky Pete's?) in 1986/87. Couldn't load out due to a massive biker fight in the front bar. When we were allowed to load out, the front bar floor was covered in blood and there was broken glass everywhere. There were three ambulances outside and three cop-cars and a riot van. We heard later that someone got an axe in their back,

Aye. An uppercut from those headstocks do damage to jaws and bollocks!

It's Scottish for 'Nutter' A Daftie.

That's brill!!! 😄