RhysP

Custom Balladeer?

Very nice, that sycamore top is lovely.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1490728296' post='3267488'] Nice vid. Going off (my own) topic, I remember being very excited about GTR having enjoyed both the Steve's stuff up 'til then. Looking back though it was a bit of a disaster - MOR American tinged rock - eugh. And the singer had a mullet. [/quote] I was a big fan of both Steve Hackett & Steve Howe & like you thought a band with both of them in would be great. How very wrong I was. Absolutely bloody awful.

Might be worth you reading this thread on the Eden forum: http://www.edenampsforum.com/index.php?topic=20804.0

Do you use the enhance control set high on the amp? Apparently that can cause Eden amps to clip at relatively low volume levels because of the low frequency boost.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1490718833' post='3267366'] Fixed for you...I know that you probably wrote this quickly and didn't check - I do it all the time. Guitarists = 10 a penny, a good drummer = priceless. [/quote] No, absolutely not.

He was in The Original Mirrors with Ian Broudie in the late 70s too.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1490711272' post='3267280'] It sure is! And what a wonderful noise it is, too :-) [/quote] Yeah, it's superb. Must be fun for you playing all those great bass parts on those wonderful old songs.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1490709618' post='3267253'] ...one of the bands I'm in recreates an album with a very distinctive fretless P tone. So while we're doing that, I'll keep it. [/quote] Would that be the fretless P tone of Rod Clements by any chance?

I've got a couple of spares - if you want them PM me your address & I'll stick them in the post for you.

[quote name='ba55i5t' timestamp='1490702457' post='3267157'] I played fretless back in high school for the jazz band. Took it to a classic rock gig and got chastised for "bad intonation", even though it was a lined fretless. [/quote] Lines on a fretless won't necessarily stop you having bad intonation.

A Precision should be fine. Maybe use roundwounds instead of flats (if you don't already).

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1490657444' post='3266874'] Saw him live with both Toyah (Changeling tour - a very young Simon Phillips on drums too!) [/quote] That was a great band she had on that tour. They were superb when I saw them in Bristol.

Great player, loved his playing with Toyah in the 80s.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1490634232' post='3266659'] At least in my neck of the woods an indie band would be attractive to those who don't really care for gigging. Blue [/quote] That really doesn't make any sense - no band of any genre is going to be attractive to those who don't really care for gigging, is it?

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1490621468' post='3266505'] I'd probably rather see Earth Wind and Fire or Miles these days.. [/quote] I wouldn't want to see Miles these days, he must look f***ing horrifying by now. [quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1490621468' post='3266505'] You could argue that Indie bands [i]are[/i] engaging with their audience by providing the aloof, too-cool-for-school performance the punters are after. [/quote] No argument about it, the fact that they have an audience means that they are engaging with them.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1490566271' post='3266082'] My first thought was Eastern European, but looking closer, I'm leaning towards home-made. [/quote] Maybe even home-made in Eastern Europe...

"Wheels of Steel" by Saxon.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1490605863' post='3266249'] I must be really lucky. In 30 years of playing, all the drummers I've ever played with have been really nice, stable guys. [/quote] Same here. The biggest arseholes in my experience have been keyboard players.

Maybe because they want to? I can't understand why anybody would want to play blues or soul music but plenty of people do.

It's definitely not a Gretsch.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1490539990' post='3265788'] And another thing: One time I went along to see a band-mate in his other outfit and found myself very reluctantly babysitting his wife. Some local herberts drunkenly barracked the band. Idiotically, she gave out verbal to them and they consequentially made menacing moves on [i]me [/i]because they assumed I was her spouse. [/quote] I had the sh*t kicked out of me in Cardiff city centre many years ago for a very similar reason. Drummers sister mouths off at a bunch of pissed up blokes who proceed to give both me & her brother a severe shoeing.

I've never had any tensions because of the reason you give, but I have been in relationships where my partner didn't much care for the amount of my time rehearsals & gigging took up. When I was gigging a lot my girlfriend used to come to the gigs, but that was largely because she was friends with the girlfriends of other band members so it would be a social thing for them as much as anything. My current partner, who I have been with for 19 years, has no interest whatsoever in anything I do musically & has only seen me play once, and that was because it was at a friends birthday party.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1490528732' post='3265676'] A great album, though does not get as much mention as it deserves. [/quote] No it doesn't. I prefer it to Bitches Brew.

The Tim Garland Electric Quartet - "One" Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner & Eddie Gomez - "If Summer Had Its Ghosts"