RhysP

Always preferred Muzz Skillings, lost interest in Living Colour after he left. I only really liked the first two albums anyway. I had an "interesting" encounter with Doug at a clinic he was doing many years ago which left me in no doubt that the guy was a total dick.

Never had a tutor, nobody did when I started playing in the late 70s unless you were learning classical guitar, violin or piano. I wouldn't have been able to afford lessons even if the option had been available to me. I did what everybody else I knew did, learnt by playing along to records. It hasn't stopped me doing anything I've wanted to do musically & I don't feel I've missed out by not having lessons. (Didn't vote in the poll as there isn't an option that fits how I feel about it. A "No, but I can see why it would be useful for other people" type option would have been good).

I've used & can recommend nickel roundwounds by LaBella, GHS & Newtone over the years.

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.