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Peter Green, of course. Here an alternative recording of 'Need Your Love So Bad' with organ, not strings, extended solos and an end, not fade out. His voice is sublime.

Well, heres a plan then....

I'm going to be following this thread... great idea. Some great, great songs so far. Here is one of my favourites. Blue Jean Blues, the Jeff Healey cover of a ZZ Top song. ZZ Top's original is moody and understated but I love the solo in this version when it winds up around 2:35 in. Makes the hair stand up on my neck

Yup. Couple from 1970 - Deep Purple with Black Knight and black Sabbath with paranoid. But, yes, also OGWT. Pirate radio stations. My mate Clive who used to borrow his older brother's records. My mate Bill who just seemed to have bought whatever was cool before anyone else.

Worth considering Aguilar AG4P-60. They give a lush, warm, vintage tone.

Speaking of Hush, this cover is rather spendid imo

Atlantis. Never played there, think we'd have gone down well.

During lockdown I stepped down from a Bon Jovi tribute band for a cocktail of reasons that resulted in my heart just not being in it. So I'm in just one band now, a blues/rock trio covering stuff from Hendrix, Cream, ZZ Top, Jeff Healey, Freddie King etc. Most usually we 'interpret' songs our own way. There's some rumblings about chucking in the odd original but I'm not convinced. We're not busy, nor do we want to be - this year we have 9 gigs in the diary, two now done. Coming up is a support slot for a pro touring blues band, a slot at the Dereham Blues Festival and the rest pub gigs. Hopefully we'll also get a slot at the Ipswich Maritime festival this year but that has yet to be announced. I've been in quite a few bands over the years but this one resonates with my soul more than any other, playing music I love that I grew up with and is part of my DNA

Enjoyed that!

That would make more sense.

I was going to post this very thing. Best straps I have worn.

I can think of many words to describe Gene Simmons but 'Sleek' isn't one of them.

Yes, it is always a pleasure to read your disparaging negativity with perfect punctuation sucking the joy out of everything you post on. 😂

🙏 bless you.

😂 I've not actually heard that before. Nicked!

That can't be right... if she was your ex-wife, you must have presumably met her before when you got married. Unless it was an arranged marriage or something. [/pedantry]

Had a gig at Ye Olde Smack in Old Leigh, played there before. The quaint old fishing village of Old Leigh was totally rammed when we got there - a sunny easter weekend - and the pub is one of those ramshackle old places that has random spaces and very low ceilings. A mixed night. Plus - the load in is pretty easy, the space cleared and available from 6:30pm. Minus - the area for the band is inbetween two areas of the pub and punters continually use it as a short cut to get to the bar. Including one drunk girl while we were actually playing, having to pick her way in between all the gear. Minus - it is almost impossible to get a good sound 'on stage' the low ceilings and room configuration just gives a weird muffly reverb effect. Plus - it sounded good further out into the pub. Plus - sound check (SRV's Mary Had a Little Lamb) got a huge cheer. Given the genre - blues rock - surprised to see loads of people were up dancing from the start and everything went down well. Even Red House Plus - at half time I popped into the gents and overheard a couple of chaps saying how good the band was. Minus - a big drunken idiot kept shouting 'Play Wonderwall' in between every song. Minus - most of the people who liked us left at 10:30pm so we played a lot of our best stuff to a handful of people who were not really interested. Plus - guitarist Alan had got into his stride by then so played like he was at Wembley Arena. Minus - all the people who said they were going to come along didn't. Plus - break down and load out was quick and incident-free. Plus - I was in bed by midnight. We are playinig there again in September, I expect it to be the same mixed affair.

Surprisingly, given my general deficiencies in so many other aspects of bass playing, I can swap between various basses without any issues. 30", 32" or 34" scale, 4 string or 5 string, fretted or fretless, EUB. I'm equally bad on all of them The only thing that did my head in for a while was the headless cricket bat style - small body but 2 octvave neck - I was initially compensating for a lack of headstock by playing a couple of frets up, didn't seem right hanging off the end like that. Got used to it in the end.

I was fitting a new set of TI Flats to a newly acquired short scale bass. It did occur to me that I was cutting off rather a lot of the end of the string but I carried on regardless. About 2 and a half strings in I realised I was trimming down a long scale set, the short scale set - bought especially for the bass - were still in the packet on my desk.

A rare local gig for me, should be kicking off around 8.45pm. The rockier side of blues - Hendrix, Cream, ZZ Top, Jeff Healey - if you like that sort of thing. Bring ear plugs To quote @Clarky

I sold it four years ago and have been pestering the life out of the guy I sold it to fairly regularly ever since. I imagine his next step will be a solicitor's letter One came up for sale on eBay a couple of years ago but it was substantially heavier than my old one so I passed it by. And those are the only two I have ever seen. The proportions are much like the Yamaha SG guitars, rather than the Gibson EBs or SGs, which I prefer. The tone was incredible. Medium scale.... Argh! 🥴

Like this one? SB-35. Selling this remains my biggest regret as I am unlikely to ever get another.

This is the biggie for me. These days pretty much anything else I can compromise on if the pros outweigh the cons but if it is too heavy then game over.

Puts a new spin on getting GAS for a heavy bass, maybe?