Cliff Edge

Saw him a couple of times a few years ago. Supurb player. Had no idea he was visiting the UK. Where ws this?

My Jap TSB650 from 1979 is 4kgs. I don’t feally get on with the neck and string spacing, being a long time Fender player. But it’s a really well crafted bass.

Amazingly I also bought a ‘72 Jazz in ‘82. It has been very well used since and suffered somewhat due to poor quality components. Some of which were binned in the intervening years and replacements fitted so it can never be 100% original. But it stays in tune, plays and sounds wonderful, looks a bit tired and these days never goes out of the house.

I don’t know if it’s common but I have seen it before.

I’ve enjoyed reading this NYE gigs part of the thread. I have refused to play any gigs on December 31 for many a year. There was never a good one, so I’m happy to see some of you managed a decent evening.

The duo I’m half of has used a beat-buddy for a couple of years now, using drum tracks the other half created in Cubase. It’s worked well and we always do a proper sound check at every gig. We are currently creating some additional backing tracks, played by us, to beef up the overall sound. But it’s a cautious approach as I don’t want to appear just another karaoke act. There are more than enough of those around already.

yes that’s how I got a short scale.

You can add your own drum tracks to the Beatbuddy pedal. But this may be too much of a faff if the drummer is hopefully only going to be ill for a short time.

Yep. Probably in the oven. 🙂 It’s happened before, apparently caused by condensation due to the oven not being used enough. Fortunately we have another one, plus the air fryer and a few candles. We shall not go hungry.

Mrs Edge turned the oven on last evening and all the power in the house went off. Why do things always go wrong at Christmas. Have a great day, thanks to everyone for being here. (Problem sorted btw)

Bit of a Queen night on Sky Arts kicking off at 8 this evening with the 1986 Wembley Stadium gig.

Singing lessons? For a blues band? Interesting.

Same here. I have to confess to not being able to name a single bassist beyond McCartney and Wyman when I started playing bass. Probably shows you how long ago that was. And honestly I still couldn’t tell you who plays with what band, even if I am familiar with the name. I have often been asked who my favourite bassist is over the intervening years and I really don’t have an answer. I suppose I’m just weird.

A bit different to most of the artists in this thread, Rick Wakeman tomorrow evening in Bexhill on Sea. Almost an annual for us as he’s an old friend of Mrs Edge. And on the 27th. Peter Pan. Yes, really. The only show next year so far is Derren Brown in Brighton.

I always made a point of using the indicators whenever possible on my 3 series M sport. Loved the very audible tick tock they made. Happy that the current 1 series does the same. And whenever possible I make other BMW drivers wait at junctions. Does that make me a bad person?