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IMO the only good performance Chuck Berry put on tape was Hail! Hail! Rock And Roll. And that's probably because he wasn't in control, Keith Richards was.

That's too embarrassing to watch.

The musicians were very variable, which was a mistake. Chuck thought that everyone had come to see him, which was true, but he soon got a reputation for putting on poor gigs. In a way he wasn't wrong because despite taking the piss he still managed to work for over 60 years. Chuck didn't have a set list or announce the numbers, he just started playing and his songs were played in C, Bb, Ab etc, not in guitar keys so some bands had a big learning experience. I don't watch Chuck Berry live for the above reasons, but I have most of his records. You can't imagine the earthquake they caused in the minds of musicians around the world in the 50's and 60's.

I feel sea sick watching this. . . . . . [url="http://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpf1/v/t43.1792-2/1055257_1388541874696707_758388339_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjE1MDAsInJsYSI6MTEyNn0%3D&rl=1500&vabr=739&oh=b607215934c61b306f545c195c1164ae&oe=55A1D364"]http://video-lhr3-1....4ae&oe=55A1D364[/url]

In the mid 70's I played in an appallingly awful workingman's club band. The organist told me how they played an Irish club in Willesden and at the end of the night the club manager came up an told them to play "the anthem". Blank looks..... "the national anthem", he said. Ah, OK, so they started on God Save The Queen. About a dozen people shouted at them, the Irish National Anthem, you F*ing idiots. The whole place stood and sang without the band, who didn't have a clue how to play the Irish National Anthem. They did get paid, but apparently weren't asked back!

Ahh. . . Can the Can. . . leather jump suits. . . . . it was a great year. I used to drink in the Raven at Stamford Brook with Mike Chapman, about 5 years before this. He was a penniless singer/songwriter trying to make his band Tangerine Peel famous. Just look at him now.

When I saw the Stones at the O2 Darryl Jones only got about 2 shots all night on the big screen behind the stage. Even the unnamed keyboard player got more screen time than Jones. But then these guys, even Darryl and Pino, are not the stars, they are just hired help. They'll get as much coverage as the backing singers and horn section.

Only replace a bass if the new one sounds better.

For me the pinnacle of bass playing had been reached by 1973. Clever playing and "circus bass" techniques are impressive and are quite interesting, but are ultimately useless in my playing environment. My 9p.

Marc, What music are you playing, how loud are you intending to play and what's your budget?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1436606437' post='2819435'] TH500 with a SL112 ...but I would definitely add a 2nd SL112...no doubt about it. [/quote] +1 Out of the 2 choices I'd do this. I use TH500's and I had a GB STL9.2 which was very good but I kept the TH500 because it worked better with my Bergantino cab. I know nothing about Genz cabs, but it sounds like the (unnamed) extension cab isn't a matching GB, so I'd probably give that a miss. 2 112 cabs sound very good together so I'd always go for a modular 212. Have you listened to these rigs? Have a listen and see which one you prefer. PS Fender's ownership of Genz seemed to have no impact on their products. GB continued to design and manufacture top class gear right up to the end, so that should not have any bearing on your decision.

I put a Bergantino AE210 and Gen1 Compact together. At front room levels it sounded very, very good. Call Alex and ask him.

Ringo is another under rated drummer. He changed the way most drummers played and performed but he wasn't the "force of nature" that Baker was and others became. You can list as many great drummers as you like. You're only disagreeing with [i]my [/i]definition, not what Ginger Baker was or the influence he had on rock drummers. Before Baker there weren't any "rock" drummers. After Ginger Baker . . . . . you can't count them.

Cream had broken up before the likes of Led Zep and Deep Purple etc were formed so Bonzo and the others were following and building on what Baker started.

In his prime Baker was a great drummer. The trouble is he hasn't been in a band that could use his skills since Cream split and that's a very long time to be fed up, frustrated and broke! Add a lack of social skills and this is what you get. Cream totally changed what was possible with 3 musicians and, along with Jeff Beck opened the door to what would become Rock. Ginger Baker forged a new path in rock drumming. Don't look at him now look at him back then and judge his playing against the drummers that were "tip tapping" their way politely around their kits. He blew most of them into the weeds.

I don't know this bridge, but I had what sounds like the same problem with my Wal. The B string wouldn't go into the slot on the bridge. What I had to do was to lay the string away from the neck with the ball end where it should be by the bridge slot and then rotate the the string around on to the fret board so it slipped into the slot. That might not be explained very well, but whatever you do you shouldn't damage either the string or bridge. There will be a way that they slot together. As a last resort email Warwick, but don't follow any advice about drilling or filing your bass.

Spell checking was always switched on as far as I could see. It was working on Talkbass but not on BC, which is why I thought is was a BC problem. Anyway, I switched several instances from US English to UK English and didn't intentionally change anything else and this morning it's all working again! Poxy PC's. I hate them. Thanks for the help.

How heavy is your 5 string bass?

I practice numbers sitting down. My hands don't know if I'm sitting or standing. I've been doing this long enough to be able to play any which way after it's in my head.

Chaps, Are you replacing a floor/rack tuner or another clip tuner? Did you try any other clip tuners before you bought the TC one? Cheers

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to work on it.

I can switch spell check on and off for emails via Firefox but it doesn't seem to activate at all on Basschat!

Chaps, I don't seem to be getting spell checking on posts. Has anything changed? Can I put it back on? Cheers