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Lovely new hall, hired out for a big company end of year party for about 500 employees. Huge stage (I prefer small venues) and great acoustics. Good pay, but the worst gig of the year for me. I've woken up this morning, 300 kms from home, (Air BnB) singers husband still in bed and I, just want go home. My arthritic wrist is killing me and we didn't finish playing until 3.20 am. On top of all that, our guitarist had a pedal board problem and decided to check every f#####g connection mid song rather than just cut the board out of the system and finish the number. He has 23 pedals on the board of which in my opinion, about 19 are not actually needed So that's how my gig was.

See what you did there😎

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Sorry if this has been done before but I did search. You know that fantasy that most of us have probably had where (normally at the start of a playing career) you imagine that Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Mark King, Roger Glover, Chris Squire or whoever, has slammed their hand in the limo door and the MD shouts out "is there anybody here that can play......." That number that you've nailed because you just love it. Hard or simple, doesn't matter. Just that dream song that you'd love to play with THAT band, on stage, and get to be the hero. Out of interest, mine's Danger, breakdown dead ahead by Bozz Scaggs.

I had a Junior way back in the 70's (cherry of course) and also an SG100 (slanted pickup near the neck) after that. Never got on with the 100 but the Junior was a fabulous guitar. Beautiful creamy tone with the tone backed off and cutting rock sound with the treble hiked up. Eminently playable on long gigs and a do it all classic. Miss mine.

No, the four Yorkshire businessmen sitting around talking about when they were poor. Now, does anyone want a job or not?

Thanks.

Interesting. That's the fastest I've seen a thread go from someone trying to help out people to quoting Monty Python. Must be a record.

So is your bass simply passive now or do you retain an active mode?

When I bought this, the seller handed me a copy of the original sales receipt with his name and address on to prove it was his. It came from Andertons Music in Guilford if that's any help

One will turn up at some point I'm sure.

I know it's all down to preference but why are you changing the pups and preamp? I must admit, I'm perfectly happy with the originals so I'll keep it like that, just curious as to what you don't like about them.

Most suppliers call it satin jade pearl when it has the tort pick guard but I've seen it listed as "champagne pearl" when it has the white pearl guard.

Been looking for one of these beauties for a little while now. This suddenly appeared on Ebay. Best neck ever and serious tonal palette. Loving the 18v preamp.

As far as "classic Van" goes, out of the two, this one is the more appealing and by far, the least boring of the pair.

I'm a nightmare. I take/have... Spare bass, head, guitar strings, gaffa tape, drumsticks, hi-hat clutch, bass drum pedal, mic, various cables, tools, batteries, plectrums and for two gigs, a spare snare drum after the drummer forgot his. I also usually take two sets of clothes to change into for functions in case our singer's hubby ( our sound man) looks like a sackofshit.

Sorry to hear this so yeah, keep us posted. But only about the first three eh?

We played it tonight at a pub in Bourges. I think the owner was a.little worried that stuff would get broken. Not in a bad behaviour way, but down to everybody being a little over-enthusiastic with their dancing and King Louis impressions😆

Brilliant. Not Torquay is it? I've seen some really cool and very different buskers down there in the shopping centre.

It certainly is, although, when I play it, it's more Kango than Django🤣

That's the one.

Brilliant, it's our 7 year old granddaughter's birthday party soon🤣

I'm sure you're all aware of "One step beyond" syndrome by where anybody in the audience who doesn't dance, is over 50 years old and usually has a career as a QC, a surgeon or chartered accountant suddenly starts strutting around the floor and throwing upper-cuts at the air. Well, as a special request, we busked "I wanna be like you" a little while back. Singer only knew a few of the lyrics and we guessed a key (Em) to have a go. BLIMEY, I can only recommend that if your band is up for a little fun, get this in the set list. They go crazy. They sing along and, we've even had 50 people trying to dance like apes. We rocked it up a little as the guitarist had heard a version by Fall out boy which really moves. Highly recommended at the end of the evening or if you have a lackluster audience and need some response.

And that bass must be a foot taller than the bassist😂

I know, I was simply confirming your statement that everywhere is a long way from Norwich. Although, Dereham is relatively close, compared to France.