12stringbassist

Roll some bottom end off the amp. Good neighbours are worth having.

The logo on the headstock nearly spills onto the back of it.

My website has a page about my 12-ers. There are also some video clips with it on the 'Entertainment' page. I don't use the black Chaparral very often, so may think of parting with it.

111 last year and a day's TV filming for 'Girlfriends' on ITV (our spot on the show will be shown in episode 3 on the 17th). This year, so far, looks like the same number are booked, but we still have a few venues to talk to about free dates.

Fairly dreadful. It must be really awkward to have someone play one of your songs at you at some event and to have a TV camera catching your every visible reaction as the song drags along. There's the odd second where Sting looks a bit taken aback at what is going on, on that stage. Jose Feliciano should have known better than to maul that song.

Reverb is a licence to print money. I just go there to laugh at the prices.

The Rics are going to go for VERY silly money. They can sometimes see approaching £5000 without having a celebrity owner.

Justin Currie. Have also booked for Del Amitri for next year. My footage...

As Blue says, "He who pays the piper calls the tune". If you can tell from knowing who is arranging the work, or who you know may be playing, that the gig is going to be enjoyable, all the better. I tend to make sure my choice of gigs is enjoyable these days and have turned down an amount of stuff I don't want to do (that includes venues as well as dep jobs).

If the studio actually HAVE wiped your bass parts, good.. They may not interfere with a recording (unless you are really matey with them). Did you co-write the songs? You can block their use. Was the Nancy Johnson name your idea? You can block the use of that too.

I wouldn't worry about the age of the bass or its history as it has already been refinished once. If getting it done in another colour would please you more than its current colour, then just get it done. As for relic-ing it. I'd personally say no.

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I have a bag of songs that I wrote years ago and have been re-recording some of them recently. I have some sequenced parts that I have re-used from the original recordings. Playing along with a few of them has been a utter trial, as - as someone else said earlier - they now feel like they were written by someone else. Old cover versions I have tarted up in the same fashion were much easier.

Best purchase Fender Precision Deluxe Bass (Mex) Runner up Fender HSS Strat (Mex) - Only bought one bass this year. Best value purchase Bass strings at a guitar show. Worst purchase Nothing I can think of...

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You do get some bedroom boys who think that because they can string together a half decent tune, when playing along with their record collection, and that because they get no complaints from their mum, that they must be pretty hot. This is not the case. I have auditioned other musicians in the distant past who honestly could not hold a tune in a paper bag and couldn't believe it when told that they didn't get the guitar job. After getting a few people who damned me to hell for not realising that they are the next big thing and I should be happy to tag along with them, I have learned from my mistake and instead told them they were nearly perfect, but someone came along who has played 99% of the set before and just slotted in. This saved a degree of angst.

Bought brand new in 1983 and I've gigged with it every year since then. I've had this Avon copy since 1975, but I couldn't say it ever saw a stage from 1980 onwards. It's been on long-term loan twice (the first time it came back with a Gibson logo on it - I went mad). Then my daughter had use of it for a good old while to learn on.

Looks fine to me.

I once sacked a drummer on the spot because he absolutely refused to use practice pads when we rehearsed in my top floor studio room at home and so he could be heard all over the house (which was causing issues for my wife) and my street and people were coming banging on my front door complaining about the noise. He stuck his bottom lip out like a small child and to my mind, he just asked for it. This followed on from him getting us banned from a recording studio, because he got paralytically pissed at a recording session and collapsed and threw up in the pond next door to the studio. There were a huge number of last straws. I gave him lots of warnings and last chances in that first spell and the best thing I did for him was to finally tell him exactly what time it was and sack him, as it made him look at himself properly. He had lots of chances to put things right. People need to see there are consequences from their actions. He landed up playing in a later band of mine, when I used him again as a dep, about 10 years later on, when my band's regular drummer was very ill for a while and he seemed to have grown up quite a bit. He recently decided that he would like all mention of his name taking off any web presence and YouTube, etc, as he doesn't want to be associated with his pub band past - not sure if that's further growing up, or not. His website looks pretty bare of having ever done anything as a result. Long lists of bands on CV's can show that you are either unlucky, not that great a player, dep a lot, or that your bands tend to fail. Drummers can be odd. They are usually the band members I have found most difficult.

I bought my brand new Ric 4003W from them, significantly cheaper than I could get one in UK (from all of those places that didn't actually have them in stock when I rang them). Arrived nice and quick, perfect condition. No issues with the transaction at all. I would very happily use them again.

The advice above about waiting it out is fairly sound. If you play hard, you are likely to do damage to the repairs. Ask your surgeon and show him the expected wrist movement. He may say stop til you can do some exercises without REAL pain. I had a shoulder operation (right shoulder / right handed) at short notice on August 11th and I confirmed with my surgeon first exactly what I would be able to do afterwards. I ended up with us missing 3 gigs. Venues understood. I don't cancel gigs for anything, but sometimes you have no choice. Have they said you can't drive for a period? You should ask about that. That follows some operations.

The issue SHOULD be between DV247 and the courier, with you getting another bass sent to you pronto. But DV247 are a bit awkward. I would ring their helpline and ask them when they are going to get the bass delivered to you that you have paid for, or a refund. Tell them your mate works for a newspaper and it's a very slow news week, so he's happy to make a splash of their name with it.