RhysP

"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"

Love that album.

https://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk

[quote name='tom1946' timestamp='1490461132' post='3265309'] Jon Shuker made it for me. [/quote] Aah, that explains it.

[quote name='tom1946' timestamp='1490371862' post='3264722'] Mine's a bit rare now.... [url="http://s185.photobucket.com/user/Peasmold/media/IMG_0507_zpsgp1bsu0a.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Wow, that's a beauty! Never seen one with a maple fingerboard before.

I'm totally unambitious.

I'll take the night of passion please.

Iffy Outro? Aren't they a Scottish band?

If they are that old maybe they just have no recollection of the audition.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1490286802' post='3263983'] Cheers mate. Looks like one of the fatalities was a US citizen, so my thoughts are with you too. [/quote] His wife is critically ill too. They were on the last day of a holiday celebrating their 25th anniversary apparently.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1490278408' post='3263887'] So...your "instrument" is road worn ? [/quote] Extreme relic...

[quote name='Dropzone' timestamp='1490267184' post='3263718'] So is the consensus that the US ones are the more preferred choice? Ta Mike [/quote] Personally I'd take a Japanese one over a US one any day.

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1490270429' post='3263755'] Good answers . I could also have asked, as you get older and afflicted with assorted ailments, which would cause more grief, arthritis in the hands or the old fella not being up to scratch anymore? [/quote] Scratching it is all I do with it these days.

Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler.

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1490205282' post='3263256'] Out of interest, what sorts of music do people think particularly suits fretless? (Asking as have absolutely zero experience of fretless). [/quote] Terrible 80s music.

A friend of mine has one of these, it's a lovely bass. If the gold hardware bothers you the gold plate can easily be removed with Brasso. I know this as I did it by accident to an old gold plated Badass bridge many years ago.

[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1490180564' post='3262877'] I've made the effort to get a licence and get my transport sorted, it was grief and continues to be grief running it, so why should you not have to bother? [/quote] Because some people, myself included, are not allowed to drive for medical reasons.

Not a big fan of Strats (the volume control is in the wrong place for me, I keep knocking them) but both Strats & Teles have to have maple boards for me. Rosewood just looks wrong on Fenders to me. Nice looking guitar, lovely bit of birdseye on the neck.