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Couldn't find the original NME page, but in reviewing UFO in the late '70's following their tour of the US, NME used the below photo with the caption "Members of UK rock band UFO photographed entering US passport control". Always made me smile

So, just listened to the album through phones (not my preferred media but also doing the Sunday roast). What I hadn't noticed before is how authentic it all sounds, lots of tubes rather than FX units being driven, drums sound like live drums etc. As opposed to the other well known live album of the time (mentioning no names) it does sound like a band playing live. Great album, really enjoyed the last 90 minutes. For me Natural Thing and I'm a Loser are the stand outs.

A different take on a UFO classic

Fait points

Very true, I've always believed that the true test of a song is how god it sounds when covered by an artist from a completely different genre, and Love to Love by Djali Zwan from the 'Spun' soundtrack is a great example of just how good UFO's songs were.

Hope it's going well Chris, it's a great piece of kit, I loved being able to simply find a song from one of the pre-set packages and play it straight away, albeit with the flexibility of starts/stops/fills/bridges/middle-8s etc all being triggered by me in response to what the musicians were doing as opposed to being assigned to specific points in time before we started playing (does that make sense), something even our real/human drummer isn't all that great at doing

I bought a light from Homebase, it didn't work had clearly been opened and returned - and I took it back for a replacement. They gave me another that had also clearly been bought and opened previously and didn't work either, so I took that one back. At which point the guy tried to replace it with the one I'd bought back the first time

Just play the bass you prefer to play and learn to make your slap technique sound good on it. If you're not happy, an EQ pedal might be as effective a solution as a new bass

Have a listen mate, it’s cliche 80’s rock in some respects but there’s definitely something a bit special going on

I think the best way to learn notation is to have tab and notation on the same page? Possibly an idea for the next edition? Welcome either way

Was trying to recall how Pete Way's name seems to have been a constant for so many years, so spent a bit of time thinking back to the era in question, and it all came back to me today. I was at school in London and a new guy called Nick arrived and joined my class. He was a music guy I could tell, so we became friends quickly (we were 12 years old I guess). We hung out listened to music, The Jam especially, he was a big fan and a bit of a mod, even wore a parka to School. He mentioned that he had a family connection with a bass player in a rock band, a guy called Pete, but being a rock band, Nick wasn't interested in Pete at all. But Nick got some free tickets and went to see Pete's band, and despite being a dyed in the wool mod, and despite not wanting to like either Pete or the band, was blown away by both. From that point forwards, he become a mod who liked UFO. Hated Motorhead/Purple/Sabbath/Zep, but loved UFO. This was '77/'78 IIRC, feels like a lifetime ago, but seems Pete and the band won a lot of friends in the following years. RIP Pete.

Thanks Dad, not really interested so much in learning to read notation on bass as much as playing some interesting new bass lines easily (I can read notation on fiddle and mandolin, just never took the time to learn it on bass, I found it not quite as transferable as I'd anticipated, largely due to the differences in interval between strings I think). Might take a punt on the book anyway

Hi Alfred, welcome, your book looks great, is it notation only, or are there tab lines also? I can read music (just) but find tab a whole lot easier with bass! Good luck. Chris

Not far wrong, still listen to it more than I'd admit to my more 'selective' musician friends

UFO formed in ‘69, that’s one hell of a ride. He was the first bass player I heard of over and above the Macca/Lynott/Lemmy superstar bunch, played some great lines also. RIP Pete

I think the big question is 'how much do you want to spend?'. Also, '6 or more' is a bit vague, do you mean 2 more or 22 more? And to be a little more helpful, I used the Mackie Onyx 1640i for a long time, might be more than you need, might be less, they do versions from 8 to 24 tracks IIRC. Not top end by any means, but decent preamps.

Now I'm significantly less of an expert than most, on which basis I'm pretty sure I've done this accidentally a few times and not noticed a whole lot of difference. I might be talking out of my derrière however

That's the most likely explanation

Can't disagree with that Andy

Lightly relic’d Lake Placid Blue with matching headstock

The answer to that question is "Yes, it was very mean of me". What an absolute breath of fresh air he is compared to the YouTube norms when it comes to instruments and/or technique

You can get stacked mini pots, John would be the expert on whether they are of equal quality and/or aesthetics, i.e., they might not be able to accommodate the classic '62 Fender knobs). I'm about to do the same, have a relic'd pink Jazz body and a Squier neck that are destined to be a poor man's Flea Bass

I had exactly the same problem with a P/J recently. Perhaps check with John as to whether he can make you a unit with mini pots?