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[quote name='bassintheface' timestamp='1468051091' post='3088247'] Great player!! I know he's left handed, but it looked to me like he also had his bass strung 'upside down', or is it just my eyes?!! [/quote] It's not your eyes...

He's an awesome player. I saw him with Hackett, and he nailed the Rutherford thing. And he looked like he was having loads of fun.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467981335' post='3087777'] Total cack. Like [i]The Archers[/i]. [/quote] Absolutely.

Yep, I'm guessing by 'guitar bands', tho OP means not function bands, or background music, or what-have-you.

I'm watching Lincoln at the the minute, the film with Daniel Day Lewis in it. It's very good, but I imagine if they remade it with the cast referring to their scripts throughout, it would be pretty cack.

FWIW, none of the bands I play with, either regularly or in dep form, have charts. Hopeless drummer? Different thing entirely. Run away!

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*warning - predictable post alert* I'm through with Fender now. I got exactly what I wanted from Maruszczyk for around the cost of an off-the-shelf Fender. I reckon this gorgeous pair would have totalled £6000+ if I'd gone down the Fender CS route, and even then I probably wouldn't have had as much control over the spec.

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1460387152' post='3025239'] (Geordie accent) You wouldn't let it lie, would'ya? [/quote] Teesside, actually....

I'll pick a bass up and plunk every day. Usually it's just noodling, but at the minute I've got loads coming up so it's more structured.

Your homepage needn't be cluttered, but for the sake of you, your visitors and Google, it needs: - Who you are - What you do - Where you're based - Are you any good? (a nice, big quote from someone) - Details of the next gig or two - A decent photo You should be able to say all this in not many words.

Unlike the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, which looked and sounded like dinosaurs, but still seemed a little bit lightweight. Still, given that it was difficult sourcing real dinosaurs, they were a decent compromise.

[quote name='Kirky' timestamp='1467374641' post='3083190'] Fancy a trip down to the Blues Bar at Harrogate tonight? [/quote] As it happens, I'm in Harrogate tomorrow to meet some friends. Can't get there tonight, though!

I've got nothing this weekend, so if anyone in the Newcastle area would like to borrow the R-400, let me know...

[quote name='Bass Culture' timestamp='1467203708' post='3081880'] I was visiting my family down in Colchester the other month and happened to pop into a music shop with my 18 year-old niece. This particular shop had a very impressive stock list, and several interesting and high end basses. I pulled one such a bass off the wall to have a pluck - a Suhr Jazz - and, horrified, turned to my niece to point out the huge crack in the varnish that, I presumed, must have resulted from some heavy-handed numpty dropping it before. Mortified, I turned to the Shop Assistant to tell him what I'd noticed. Response - it's supposed to be like that, that's the 'antiqued' version of the bass. I was gobsmacked - seriously, would anyone pay nearly £2.5k for a bass that's deliberately had its finish cracked?! You couldn't even say it was 'road worn', it just had a cracked finish FFS!!! [/quote] Relicing has been done to death (pun half-intended). Just sayin'.

[quote name='lowhand_mike' timestamp='1467116461' post='3081267'] eh? so what ive been told is all lies i stand corrected, though whats the point in buying an 800watt amp over a 300 if they dont matter [/quote] Absolutely. Your 800w amp might not even be 800w, but that's a whole other story.

All good advice. And if you've scooped your mids, put them back.

I'm still totally in love with this amp. I've done a couple of big gigs recently, and the FOH have complimented the DI both times, without any prompting. And it's just sounded glorious on stage with no tweaking whatsoever. Here's a clip from one of the gigs - bass is just DI'd from the head. The second song of the two has more bass stuff going on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khp42FI55uk

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1466976525' post='3080224'] Grew up listening to those first three Lindisfarne albums, and they still get played regularly to this day. A great band and Alan Hull was a superb songwriter. [/quote] Absolutely. Here's another vid from Beverley - a bit of a hoedown, this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Si8_3xrhw

We played on the island of Lindisfarne last night, which was canny entertaining... here's the last few bars of the night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4SYRlmoz8g

Cheers, all! Yep, they're great songs, and Rod's bass parts are so much fun to play. Ray is on of those drummers who is a joy to play with - everything he does is for a reason. Mrs. WoT isn't fussy on mics - I'm not sure what was used in the clip, but usually an SM57 or similar does that trick.

Knackered shoulder.

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