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Glastonbury related: Does anyone else remember the Scouse kids selling fake blotter acid made out of cut-up bits of cereal packets in the 80s or 90s? Never fell for it myself but thinking back, they could have pocketed some decent cash 💰

There’s a track called “There’s No Vibration, But Wait” that I was quite partial to many decades ago. But apart from “Out Demons Out” my memory seems to have blanked them out completely. To be fair, my memory has blanked a lot of things out as I get older 🤔

Was that the one where Traffic played as well? I’d have paid to get into that for them and Gong alone ❤️ All the rest would have been a bonus to say the least!

I never used to go to the bigger festivals as a punter, they cost a fortune, the crowds are full of k-nobs who aren’t really there for the music and are either on the lash or coked up on cheap gack, and if the weather takes a turn it can be pretty chaotic. Plus you’re always miles away from the artists you want to see. I only went to a couple of festivals as a teenager and quickly decided they weren’t for me. Also I hate, and by that I mean truly despise, camping. Playing them is different though, you can drive in, get your passes, have a swifty, do your set, and get back in the van or bus and get straight back out again. Full marks to anyone who can pony up £300+ for a weekend and enjoy the chaos though. I bow down! 🙌 I hope anyone who’s attending Glasto is having an excellent time of it 👍

They're a boutique pedal outfit so £250 to £300 per unit is where they're at. Not the most expensive pedals out there but hardly Behringer. The name comes from a budget US amp company that went out of business in the late 60's that was very popular with blues players. I have a Supro amp that is basically an old Valco amp with a different badge. Decent gear, but some of it is a bit spendy.

The Wirral was good last time I was up there, same for Fife, there seemed to be a lot going on and a number of alternative venues / spaces were putting on small but well attended events. County Durham and Teesside have a few niche pockets of good live music too. Stockton-On-Tees, Hartlepool, Redcar, and so on. Hebden Bridge is another one. Played all those places in the olden days, even did the working men's club circuits (urgh) but there's proper dedicated venues for bands and singer songwriters now. The money might not be the same but there's places to play at least.

You can have my pristine Squier with La Bella Mustang flats for a load less than that 😂 And I’ll swap the tort for whatever colour you like. And ding it up if you want. Collection only, mind. Beverages and scran provided in the deal though 👍

Good luck Douglas 👍

Never sold anything here on BC but I have bought a couple of things. Didn't think to haggle and I'm not sure I would anyway. Most things I see here are usually fairly priced.

Even I'd take AC/DC and Hendrix covers over oompah flipping oompah!

😯 Youch! Beautiful bass but that's about what my house cost! I could always buy it though and live in a tent or something?

Round our way, most of the Fete de la Musiques the last few years have been pretty dismal - mostly loads of oompah brass bands for some reason, or the occasional bad Johnny Hallyday style 'rock and roll' band. Or gypsy jazz all day long, which I can take for an hour if I'm in a good mood but not for much longer. Occasionally flamenco displays too, as Catalonia is only on the other side of the Pyrenees and half our village is Spanish. But I'm right down in the South West and it's very traditional here. I'd imagine (hope) it would be way better elsewhere?

Eh? What do you mean 'old strings'? Would they be worn-in rounds that have been on the bass since it was made, in 1967? Or flatwounds? Either way, I say keep them. That way folks in future generations can wonder all day long about what the heck all these old wires were once you've gone.

Contemporary funk is very big business and has been since its renaissance around 2000 or so. It very occasionally breaks through to the mainstream, although there's no shortage of specialist record labels putting out fantastic new stuff seemingly every week. Labels like Big Crown, Colemine, Spasibo, Timmion, Funk Night, ATA, etc, not forgetting Daptone Records whose house band played on a lot of the "Back To Black" album by Amy Winehouse, all regularly release great new funk records, but because a lot of it is vinyl only and doesn't make it to streaming platforms it means you have to do the work of seeking it out for yourself. Which most punters wouldn't be ar$ed doing. Whether any of their output would be popular down the Dog & Duck is hard to know, but if punters there didn't break a sweat listening to covers of Jungle Fire, The Whitefield Brothers, Poets Of Rhythm, The Budos Band, The Soul Surfers, Cold Diamond & Mink, or whoever, then they'd be hard to please with anything I'd reckon. But best of luck to the OP and I hope there's a decent set list they can put together otherwise 👍

Brilliant band but all their best known stuff (IMHO) was recorded before 1980. Have played a bunch of their stuff live with one of the original band members, and tunes like “Pick Up The Pieces” or “Cut The Cake” or “Work To Do” will still get an audience dancing. Hard to pull off without a horn section though.

Absolutely brilliant band, The Peddlers. I know he left the band in the early 1970s (or was forcibly replaced) but anyone know what happened to him? He can’t have just given up playing, he was great 👍

My potential Bronco sale fell through as the guy decided to keep it as a knock around bass to keep at home : ( I might still keep an eye out for one though. Although my #1 is a Jazz, I’d still have a cheap Squier if one showed up near me. Googling Reverb, LeBonCoin and ebay now...

Having admitted that, I don’t know why there aren’t more female bassists posting here on BC? I realize it is a very blokey site at times but it would be great to have a better balance of female to male players I reckon. Non-binary too. Bring it all on. Different viewpoints and perspectives and all that. Even about streaming sites 👍

Same here - never owned an iPod or put music on my phone (although I’m not sure how to do that), and I don’t use streaming sites either. Still got a CD player, a CD recorder, a tape deck and 2 turntables at home, basically a hi-fi separates setup and a couple of ghetto blasters for tapes in the kitchen when I’m cooking. Only really use the internet for Pornhub and Basschat. Streaming sites don’t get a look in. Not enough milf on them for a start.

I think it depends on your location and which platform you’re using to sell your gear. And what gear you’re selling as well. My preferred option is to sell on Reverb, as it’s just for music gear, which narrows down the search engine. In the last two weeks I’ve sold €2500 worth of various items on there. Yes, there’s fees, but there’s fees wherever you sell. Unless it’s to a mate, or down the pub. If I was still in the UK and selling bass gear my first choice would be here on Basschat. Ebay wouldn’t get a look in from me, the timewasters and non-payers pretty much killed it for me years ago.

£3,800?!! That’s crazy talk! First Rhodes I had was a 1979 suitcase model for £350, the second was a fully refurbished stage model that I paid £1000 for. I don’t own either of them now but I made a profit on both when I moved them on. If you really want one in good nick and at a decent price, look online for Doug McKendrick / Klassic Keys, I think he’s based somewhere in the Midlands? He’d be straight with you 👍 Btw, Rhodes pianos are generally as roadworthy as it gets, if a little unwieldy. I took my last one all over, and I only ever had to retune a couple of tines once.

Good ideas, thank you 🙏 The attic space would definitely need some soundproofing because it lets external sounds in and mics would definitely pick them up. I’ve got an electric kit but I mostly play with brushes and they don’t work on a Roland, unfortunately. But otherwise I have used it for easy remote sessions when someone just wants a decent drum recording. The kick pad and cymbal pads still transmit vibrations downstairs though. Have done DI for bass and guitar and keys, but my amps are really quiet anyway. But I don’t mind recording either way really. For vocals, I don’t do them too often, but I’m not a Robert Plant style belter anyway so they’re not really a problem. The biggest hurdle is recording stuff and not transmitting vibrations or frequencies that will annoy everyone else in the house. But I can pick my times, so if I can do a floating floor and make an airtight soundproof box I might get away with it. There’s a local studio I can record drums in but they charge more per day than I’ve spent on my last half a dozen albums. I’ll sort something out, even if it’s a total compromise. 👍