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The Damned always did a v.good one on the occasions I've seen them, this would've been in the "Roxy" era when Capt S. was still on bass..

Certainly true in my case !

Check out the sparkly matching shirts, and the guy on bass playing a RH Precision left handed , upside down.. Respect !

You definitely had to 'be there'.. ! 👍

I saw Tom Waites in Manchester, either late 1980 or (more likely) 1981. That sticks in my mind as an excellent show...

Does that not wobble about though ?

I made a stand for a guitar, so you could walk up to it, with a bass still round your neck, play a bit, then walk away and continue with bass ( it was some jolly 'modern' combo I was involved with at the time) The guitar was held in a kind of G clamp, suitably padded with rubber to protect it, to a point. This was atop a mad (max?) looking stand I'd welded together..The guitar was an SG so had nice flat surfaces front and back to clamp on to....

I know!.. Think it was 2d when I used to go down the road with my gran and phone, you had to press button A or B then tho....

Ten "New Pence".... aka, two bob..

Indeed....I actually can't imagine any of the young from nowadays even existing in "our" world back then ! .....remember if you wanted to phone your mate? ..you had to walk down the road, find a phone box, dial the number, and ( when the pips went) put 10p in.. always assuming your mate's mum had a phone at home ! ....if I could, I'd jump right back there in a heartbeat...

Very unlikely in anything resembling the way it was back then.. Plus in the late 70s early 80s squats were a popular option for music types with zero money, that whole 'thing' no doubt doesn't exist anymore..

What Marvin says above resonates with me.. In the punk /post punk era most of the people in bands that I knew, including myself, were on the dole, and living in squats..I seem to recall a sum of £13.75 a week as the basic of the time ( a packet of fags was prob circa 20p tho, so it's all relative ! ) My dear old mum would occasionally bung me a few quid at a pinch too... but how cool would it have been to have had wealthy indulgent parents, the nearest to that I knew of was a mate who's dad gave him a couple of hundred ( a tidy sum then) so he and his band could do a "proper" 8 track demo !

Now for something completely different.!

Castle Donnington and a barrage of bottles of p!ss are an inseparable tradition..

It has surprised me in the past how clueless guitarists can be , one guy I played with years ago was brilliant on guitar, could play pretty much anything straight off, but when he tried to put some bass on the same stuff , it was like a little kid having a go, completely incoherent would be the best word !

We need to see the pics of you in those man ! Course to go with it you need the massive 'fro.. with the comb stuck in it !! Those were the days

^.. Great track & footage, love his suit too !..and I remember those shoes very well..

You gots to show us pics of that..

Hofner verithin? A guitarist I played with years ago had the guitar version basically as his only guitar, sounded great too.. I have been toying with the horrible idea of making a bass from an old defunct acoustic guitar...

I bet it is....you're just wearing a cat suit from the party shop..!

I've just been doing exactly the same Paul, but with the B1 four from your good self ! 👍 Trouble is I'll have forgotten all the cool little bass lines I was messing about with by tomorrow..

Seems to be totally pot luck with shipped items.. If you can go to a bricks and mortar shop tho, it's straightforward, try it, buy it, walk away with it.