Waddo Soqable

This would've been a little bit after the first gig described as I seem to be on the Sattelite (or whatever it was) bass that I borrowed for a while, replacing the crappy woolworths thing. Can't remember where this was at all, surprised I still had the pic. Looks to be attempting vocals too, bad idea.

I'm fairly sure myself and a mate saw an early incarnation or A&tAs in their original more "arty" pre teen pop star format. Me and this bloke ( our drummer of the period) were always going to gigs when not playing ourselves, the Music Machine in Mornington Cres. had bands on literally 7 nights a week and virtually everyone who was around at the time played there. ( and dead cheap to get in) Those "small blue tablets" were widely available in there too, 3 for a quid

You can fake a bit of "jazz gitarr" with a couple of simple chord shapey type things, but you'd prob only get away with it for one "tune" ( so about an hour then..) ps. Some bloke on YouTube gives precise instructions on how to do this btw..

Telephone Man, Meri Wilson

There you go, all digits intact..

A bit like "Christmas comes but once a year" then..

Duude... Maybe he got all his fingers sliced off in a horrific accident the next day or something..

Just a couple, very occasionally eh

I'd certainly put roundwound strings on it if it were given to me... bucking the prevailing trend, as always, I don't like flat wound strings.

As an old geezer who doesn't really like or "get" the computer based stuff, I'd say use a stand alone multi track recorder thing, it's the only way I could do owt like that, I tried computer based stuff very briefly and just thought "nah" & gave up with it. I realise this will be a minority view btw 😁

In the 80s there was a "thing" for brass nuts.. As @PaulThePlug says, it's only on open notes it might have any effect anyway, on fretted notes irrelevant.

That'll just go "Duh.." ( there you go, saved you all the bother.. 😁)

Isn't dinosaur "bone" in fact fossilised, ie stone?

Assuming it was "back in the day" .. Did you have to play a load of communist party stuff in there as well ?

Put some benzodiazepenes in their tea... Job done

Obviously they couldn't get it demolished the legit. way...

Now that I'd like to see pics / footage of...

No one's admitted they're looking at porn / having a barclay's yet then.... 😁

Good man... That's the spirit.. 👍

I do hope you're going to get him shltfaced on strong drink, then cable tie him to a lampost, covered in shaving foam...

The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain, Julie Andrews

I'd be making myself a tool like the one in the pic but with a longer 90 deg blade, specifically to fit it. As above prob a good idea to ensure the TR does actually work while you have a window to return it if it's fkd 😁

About 17 with a crappy woolworths short scale bass, at the same sort of time I was also playing the saxophone and did some with that too (purchased for 30 quid from a lecturer bloke at college)

The first real proper bass amp I actually owned and paid for was a Peavey Century, prob circa 1979. Sounded great, obviously I encountered many Peavey amps and combos in rehearsal rooms and gigs back in the day. I subsequently got a Mk3 much later in life, which was a brilliant amp. It was acquired for pennies at the time I'm sure. It replaced a Hartke 3500 which was an absolute piece of shlt and I got rid of ASAP , the elderly Peavey was So much better.. if I was looking for an amp nowadays I'd be looking at older Peaveys for sure, tho doubtless they've gone up in price as they'll be punted as "vintage" gear..