Paul S

Yup.

You can opt for a set neck for an extra £100. I went through the configurator and managed to spend over £2K. I Ilke Thunderbirds. Love the shape, a really beautiful bit of design. I had a Gibson for a while, the 3 point bridge was shocking, up on its pillars like a jetty at low tide. Replaced it with a Hipshot and a mahogany shim. Sold it, missed it, replaced with a rather nice white Epiphone Classic Pro. These have a set neck and Gibson pickups and tbh doesn't feel or sound a whole lot different to the Gibson I had but at 1/4 of the price. It was a rare lightweight one, too. You don't have to spend Marczucyzcjchycyczk money to get a decent Thunderbird.

I suspect it is something to do with legs, but could be wrong.

Yes, quite a bit different. I wonder what my ex-head started off life as?

Found the pics.

Not custom made, not sure what the donor combo was, but it fitted in a treat. I'm sure I can dig out some pics although, for you, it wouldn't be very helpful.

I had a TE combo head mounted in an ABS rack case which kept the weight down.

Yeah, great strap - a Maruszczczyickcz (I thinczk that's right) 12cm wide, padded, soft leather, suede underside.

I rarely smile so in the unusual event that I try my face muscles don't know what to do and I just grimace. Generally I stare at my hands or shut my eyes.

To be fair, with a full size acoustic and other, er, obstructions she wouldn't be able to see what she was doing she anything to keep it simple.

Possibly the MIJ non-export model Aerodyne?

My blues rock trio Toredown played at a new pub last night. Well, new to us, its the oldest pub in Ipswich built in 16th century - the Black Horse. Plusses and a minus. The minus - hardly anyone there! Lots of our regular crowd said they would come but only 2 did and there were at most around 15 people from the pub's regular punters. Nevertheless they got into it, as did we. Plusses - it is easier for me to get to than our regular place being just outside of the confusing one-way system. Guitarist and I got there for 7:30 but drummer (who has the pa) was held up and arrived at 8:15 - for a 9pm start. But the pa is such a quick assemble that we sound-checked and started bang on time. The owners couldn't do enough for us, room was already cleared (big space, too), free drinks, opened up the beer garden gate so we could park off-road, easy load in/out. No hold-ups or diversions on the A12, home by 1am. We have another one there next month and, I hope, more in future.

My band's set up probably wouldn't work for everyone but it works for us. We have a pair of RCF EVOX 8 pa units that, due to some strong juju, can be placed behind mics but don't (generally) feedback. For the small pubs we usually play we put vocals, kick drum and bass through the desk, I go straight from an EQ/DI pedal - guitarist prefers to keep his Fender Twin combo out of the pa. If we are feeling expansive at a bigger venue and/or can be bothered we sometimes mic up all the drums, stick an overhead for the cymbals and mic up guitarists combo. Withe the pa behind us we can hear ourselves quite adequately, if loudly, so there is no need for extra monitoring. Volume 'on stage' is attentuated by ear plugs or, in my case, my hearing aids - the volume of which I can control via an app and/or a bluetooth gizmo that hangs round my neck That way I still get a rounded and full sound but at comfortable level in my ears. There are not many plusses for wearing hearing aids but this is one of them And no backline for me! So simple - set up and breakdown is pretty quick.

I had one of those exact basses, a Club Ignition. At the same time I had a Danelectro 56 single cut short scale and the Dano kicked it out of the park - way, way better in every respect. An unfair comparison because the Dano is a more expensive instrument but, in and A/B comparison, for me there was no comparison. So if there was room in my life for a short scale single cut hollow body bass it would be a Dano all the way. Or maybe I'd try the Epiphone Rumblecat, purely because I haven't yet.

New venue for my band Toredown this Friday 19th, playing at the Black Horse, Black Horse Lane, Ipswich - oldest pub in Ipswich apparently. If you like your blues on the rocky side you'll like us, come and heckle.

Could be he was just cr@p, of course.

Rickmansworth is also a noted frost hollow, with winter low temperatures significantly lower than the higher surrounding areas.

Something to do with him drowing his, then, wife Natalie Wood, in a boating 'accident'? Allegedly.

T'other way around as far as I cam concerned. I lock in with the drums and let the other instruments do what they want around that foundation. I thought that what meant by 'rhythm section'.

Deviating from the original is one thing. Overplaying is another. For me there is nothing worse than a nice flowing bassline with lots of space being noodled over - I saw a soul/funk band locally and the guy did that exact thing. Great player, loads of chops but ruined the songs by playing them all every time.

Brief update. I ended up going with this lot: https://www.promodiscs.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwge2iBhBBEiwAfXDBR0f3Lq4O_DBLcEUHktpFUiUZSpoAcahW3XgG4O9t1uQYkmVTd1knqxoCfaEQAvD_BwE Cost was £146 for 100x CDs packaged in slimline jewel case, 2 page colour insert plus CD printed, posted. Guy was really helpful ironing out a few wrinkles with the artwork to make it more print ready. Very happy with that. I'll report back once they've arrived.

He is very good and would be my first call. A different way to achieve the ame thing would be Tim and Gig Ink. He uses a clear pickguard material with whatever you want printed to the underneath. I believe he does tort, if you must

I've had both Luminlay inserts and cheap glow in the dark dots in the past and find them pretty much unusable because of the need to keep charging it up with light. Don't want to spend my entire mid-set break shining a UV torch at my basses. My latest attempt at visible side dots was handing the bass over to the guy that does my bits and bobs who has lots of equipment and steady hands at his disposal. He made a template to stick along the side with 3mm holes punched out in the required positions. Next time he was using white nitro he flashed it along the side of the neck, leaving me with bright white 3mm dots. So far, so good. They'll wear off in time, I am sure, but have cured the problem for now.

Live recording of Hideaway from our last gig 28th April. I think it works! Hideaway - Mastered.wav