We were playing the old Wardour Street Marquee back in the 80s..we'd got a few bars into the first track of the set and a full glass of lager comes flying out of the crowd and smashes on the keyboard which promptly packed up.
We struggled on through the whole set without the keys, hating much of it to be honest .... but we were told afterwards that it was the best gig we'd played for ages!
Love my Sterling HH - after 35 odd years of P-basses and variations there of and after struggling with the dimensions of a Stingray I took the plunge and it is my forever bass....
The only other bass that is creeping onto my radar right now is a Sterling HS .....
Mixes of our new album - at home, in the car, in the office, on my ipod walking about - as many environments and speakers as possible - trying to determine which things in which mixes work best and which mixes should be released.
Or the keyboard player has no amp and insists on filling his wedge with keyboard - when there's only 4 wedges and we're a 5 piece....guess who has to go without ? Vocals and guitar? Do they actually turn up to gigs?
I followed exactly the procedure in the youtube video stevie posted
I used Wurth capacitors from RS
Now I have exactly the noise demonstrated by this video (the video is RP5 not RP6 but the noise is the same)
Often the best music comes from breaking the 'rules' - i suspect a knowledge of the rules might prevent one from being as creative as one might be if one didn't know the rules?
Things that annoy me??
We're putting an album together but can't agree on which mix to include of each song....some of them are up to v25 already - I'm sure v12 was better......
It's like a never ending story
Or that when polishing the ports in the cylinder head you broke through from one port to the next and resorted to rebuilding the wall with araldite.....(this is based on a true story...ahem)
i have a 6 string acoustic and a 6 string electric
I can't play them
I couldn't even if my life depended on it - I only have them to experiment with melodies which I play as though I was playing a bass - ie 1 note at a time
I do get confused at intervals when we get to the B string (positions relative to the G string)
When we're writing we initially have a 'map' of the song laid out on the floor on sheets of A3 paper for all to see
Part A > part B > part A> PartC > Part A >PartB etc....
We play it a few times
We then remember it
tsimples