Dr.Dave

It's screaming QP's to me as well. I've always loved mine.

You say it's 'only a little concert ' , 'shell. Here you are full of beans about what you've done - swapping numbers with other musicians with a view to getting something together............. sounds like a big deal to me. Nice one , matey.

Another advantage is your Dad can make you one out of an abandoned bog door lock when you're a teenager and when you're still using it at 50 with 1000+ gigs and adventures under your belt and your Dad's not around any more , you realise what a truly precious possession you have !!

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1355573386' post='1900051'] No mention of Mustang Sally then ? [/quote] Yes. Not sure if I have a fave song to play but it would be up there. It's right at the end of our set - which means I have that great feeling of another gig done without any of us dropping dead and a pint waiting for me. We have folk - usually young , curvy , types of folk in short skirts (and , hopefully , with a 'Daddy' complex) ! - on stage with us as backing singers - place is gong nuts , as it always does when we play Mustang Sally ....... what's not to enjoy about that.

Because I was playing in a blues band about 15 years back we got asked a couple of times to do a Blues Bros set - which we were happy to do with the addition of a makeshift horn section consisting of a couple of pals from a soul band. It was a laugh. I got bored being the bass player in a blues band anyway so I expect this would have been the same had we done it regularly. My current band has been going years but I sing too - so even in our early blues incarnation I didn't get fed up. These days we don't really do any blues stuff at all.

[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1355475626' post='1898752'] What fabulous legs, Dr Dave [/quote] You should have seen the ones on the lassy that donated the tights !

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1355495623' post='1899229'] aah! thanks! [/quote] Knackered and Expensive is , perhaps , a better description but not so catchy !

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355494233' post='1899196'] John Berry - now playing bass - for "Slade" is the world's longest working Big Issue seller as his day job ...................... on Eastenders. [/quote] John Berry - there's tall and there's taking the piss. His boom stand goes straight up ! I was using my own mic in a stand prepared for him and I had to pull it down about a foot. The Slade roadies set the hired-in Ampeg vol really low and I was using that too. I figured not to fcuk with it so I couldn't hear it at all..... but the sidefills !!!!!! Dear God , I think my ears are still whistling. You can just about make out the sidefills in one of these pics.Can't remember but I assume the Marshall was for Malc , sure Dave Hill brought his own.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1355494370' post='1899205'] I will try my best, I know I need to give it time but I am not very patient with anything, good idea about strap height too I had not really given stuff like that a thought [/quote] My dear Dad , bless his memory , used to say 'patience is a virtue' Sadly , not one he passed down to me !!!!!!! I always think that patience means putting up with bad customer service !! I could also suggest a Jazz bass , with it's slim , easy neck ....... however your user name and equipment list makes me think asking Posh Spice whether she'd like a four cheese pizza with extra lard would make more sense !

I should just take it steady , mate. Push but don't shove. Wondering too if shortening your strap would help - short or even long term. The higher you sling the bass the straighter your wrist. Keep the cast - stick it on top of your bass amp so you can scowl at it in a bad moment and say 'you'll never be master of me'.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355489853' post='1899076'] He's in the process of working out a deal with Natal drums, via Marshall, right now, AFAIK he's using Pearl mostly though some venues just get told to provide a kit to a spec. In their heavy rock days he had a custom built, chrome Ludwig kit that he paid £14k for. It was sold via Bonhams to a fan in Germany a few years ago. [/quote] I stood behind him as he tuned and adjusted (what I assume was) a supplied Peal kit at the glam fest thing I did with them at the 'Bootfest' at Nostell Priory , near Wakey. He can't half get his head down , that lad. Wears a mouth guard too - I expect to stop him grinding them down ! I remember wishing that John Berry would catch a sudden dose of altitude sickness and somebody would say 'is there a bass player in the house'. !!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1355481346' post='1898873'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVMygJ90UK0[/media] [/quote] That's excellent Paul - never seen that. Let's be fair .......... whatever your views on the image , the songs or whatever - which of us wouldn;t want to work with an 'on the money' drummer like that ?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1355480683' post='1898857'] Vintage and Rare [/quote] No , that's a shop. V and R are def. still letters !! As for my angel's wings.... well , the guy paid his bills and - so far as I know - lived happily ever after. My Mrs had a very successful exhibition. Vintage and Rare took their whack , paid tax on it , helped society and invested the profit in Starbucks. Mr Ishabisi Hiroshima of 1945 Whatthef***wasthatbang St , Nagasaki is still happily spilling his seed over the vintage fender he keeps in a locked cupboard because he can't play a note and I bought my first Trace Elliot rig and joined a new band on the strength of it. !0 years on I'm still entertaining the proles by calling them worse than sh*te and getting away with it because they're stupid enough to think I don't really mean it. Plus I buggered off to the Dom Rep with the change and learned to Scuba dive. Thatcher taught her children well !!

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1355427618' post='1898391'] So, er, did you get it for £150, or for £600? Or did someone else get it. I don't understand. [/quote] £600 and I got it......... not sure how that was confiusing. Anyway - principled hombre that I am (!) I did two gigs with it the following week (never liked jazz basses) then my wife , who works in a museum , had to put an exhibition together for about five quid so she came up with a 'my favourite thing' type of deal. I made up a silly sob story about it - orphaned cats ,terminal illness in goldfish etc etc - and it spent the next 4 months in a glass case in the museum. I then packed it off to V and R and 4 weeks later got a cheque for £1800. I thought about contacting the guy and giving him some more money...... but only for a few seconds when I was pissed !

My right hand fingers do it on their own but I doubt anybody else notices. We had an air harmonica player in the crowd once !! Funniest thing ever.

I posted this ages ago but .... seeing as it's nearly Christmas here it is again !!! Must have been pre smoking ban - my mic stand ashtray is there as well as my pint holder !

My best ever bass deal followed a 'lowball'. I didn't mean it to be insulting - it was an auction organised by a local shop to sell a 68 jazz bass belonging to a retired pro who had fallen on hard times. The guy in the shop told me the only offer had been for £150. I upped that to £600 purely to get the auction running and was amazed to get a call half an hour later accepting my offer. I actually felt bad but what can you do - the guy needed the cash.

It's dropped onto page 2 !!! Noooooooooo , I won't have that !! Cosmo wants to -- I plan to and have done in the past - anybody else actually playing Slade stuff at the mo ??

Funny how many truly great bass player's name's rhyme with Lee , McVie , Lea , Flea Dr D

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1346182668' post='1786269'] We announce our drummer as "[i]the beast from the north east"... [/i] [/quote] What if he moved to Cheshunt ?

[quote name='Fender_Greg' timestamp='1355326689' post='1896969'] YES!! haha, we stayed around for you guys then left after i think. The owner was proper dodgey and was arrested for some fraud like a year later. I think I've still got the flyer for that gig somewhere! [/quote] I have it too - it's on my pin board as we speak. Do you remember the 'Motorheadache' van pulling up and out jumped a Scottish 'Lemmy' who was only 4ft 2" ?!

[quote name='Fender_Greg' timestamp='1355310077' post='1896627'] I was in a quo tribute act for 3 or 4 years called Just Supposin' Was great fun! [/quote] Did you do a thing in Crewe about 3 years ago with a few other bands - including me in ZZ Eliminator - where none of us got properly paid !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The PA for the event was hired in according to specs supplied by Slade's management. I've played in loud bands all my life and been involved in my fair share of big gigs with big PA's along the way. The monitor system for this was just frightening. I spent half the gig not just in front of the wedges at my feet - but right at stage front to escape the fearful side fills. I could feel them physically moving me sideays. I was so far leaning over the stage lip I could hear the main PA. The rest of the time I was just reeling from the 4 monsterous 15" wedges around my mic when I was singing. Really , really painful !!!

[quote name='vmaxblues' timestamp='1355305497' post='1896525'] I saw both Slade (sans Noddy) and Sweet in Cheltenham recently......all great fun! [/quote] Is that Sweet with Andy Scott and a yank singer ? If so , that was the last support slot I did - down the bill to them and Slade at a glam festival. All great blokes , doing their gig.

Nobody. Seeing Slade on TV inspired me to want to become an entertaining musician but choosing bass as a main instrument was just a means to that end - mostly because other would be players I knew of the same age were more advanced than me on guitar and I figured I should carve my own niche with the differing instrument rather than try and catch them up. I have since become an admirer of many , many fine players - and I actively chose to copy lines by players Jim Lea - Geddy Lee and John McVie to help me learn the mechanics in the early days - but I've never had bass heroes. Never modeled myself on anyone. I figured rolling my own would be more satistying. All my musical heroes are songwriters. Artists - not craftsmen.