Stub Mandrel

Sod that. I'm old and foolish and hoping to play a couple of festivals next summer. If so it will be trace 4x10 combo on top of Peavey 1x15 on one side and Laney head with 2 2x12s on the other. And a tweeter box. The ideal rig doesn't just sound good, it scares people.

I found this one in Edinburgh. With the active on it makes my little Orange Crush 25W practice amp sound very big and nasty 🙂 Very affordable, very playable, but a tad heavy.

He's the singer... 😲

Due to some, ahem, domestic rearrangement, I've got my 'toy' record player in the living room and I'm working though my vinyl. Playing them in order, so totally random (unless I had some sort of plan ~20 years ago) So far: Help! - Beatles (mono) Selling England by the Pound - Genesis Elysian Encounter - Baker Gurvitz Army Live and Heavy - (Classic compilation, various 70s heavy rock bands) Flash - Jeff Beck Sergeant pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band - Beatles (mono) Boston - Boston PXR5 - Hawkwind The Freewheeling Bob Dylan - Bob something. (mono) I'd forgotten how utterly impeccable my musical taste is 🙂

Billy Sugger!

I've had an awful, apocalyptic image of those two snogging...

Where's the fun in that? Far too neat.

I first read that as 'I saw Steve Hackett in the bath"

Proggy!

Hi Joe, in a conversation with our drummer on Wednesday the ideas of playing 3 over 4 and vice versa came up. Can you point out some songs or videos with some basic examples I can try, just to start to get a feel for this?

Bit like Hawkwind! Tonight looks a bit unfeasible 😞

Never heard that before but I grok what it means 🙂

LOL Been up and down to Scotland three times, not going until 2020 now!

It's so sad how many people took up bass because 'everyone else wanted to play guitar' or 'no-one played bass'. There's no difference in 'skill' between bass and guitar IMHO, they just suit different sorts of people and I suspect most bassists become more 'musical' than most guitarists.

Rare recorded use of a capo on TOTP. That woudll make a great theme song...

Nick Cave did a song with Kylie and it was epic...

I would love that, so much better than screaming something at you mid song! and on a second thought - A mid 20s woman wanted a BBKing song?? 😮 No... a baking song, for all you Master Bakers out there (worth a listen):

Engineer's response "There's only one 'K' in effing loud!" Great name for a punk band 🙂

Seriously considering driving down to Cardiff to catch them on Friday.

Hawkwind at Glasgow O2 on Sunday. Not particularly loud, but very good sound and excellent visuals. Crowd full of diehard Hawkwind fans, lots of singing along, lots of friendly reminiscing about past Hawkwind tours and lineups with random strangers 🙂 Tim Blake was with them and his theremin playing was astounding. Niall Hone is no slouch on bass either. Support Blackheart Orchestra were 'different' in a good way, they went down very well. Of course I turned out to be the only person wearing a labcoat... mind you my sister in law had a pair of wings on and my brother was wearing his kilt and cyberpunk goggles. Quite funny when security searched his sporran and found his migraine medication! Songs from Hurry on Sundown to the latest album including Master of the Universe, Shouldn't Do That, Spirit of the Age and Motorway City. Must be tough picking a representative set from 50 years of back catalogue. Good fun was had by all.

Hmm. If I hear that 'Urine Leakage' song one more time I'm going to get an earworm...

Song like that needs a sophisticated video...