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Bolton Our singer in an old band developed terrible trouble with tinnitus. We decided to find a new singer, as he kept cancelling gigs, leaving and then not leaving. Our guitarist would stare balefully at anyone else who turned up with a guitar and even though they were really good and learned the songs, he had decided (ALL BY HIMSELF) that he was going to be the only guitarist in our band and turned his guitar up to an unpleasant volume and stuck his bottom lip out, so much that it became a trip hazard. If he didn't like the look of a singer, he would just do the same thing. We had no chance of finding a singer. We couldn't find a singer who met his exacting requirements, so they rang up their singer who has been in and out of the band like a yoyo ever since. I quit, after only two nights of these futile auditions, so they got their old bass player back, who they spent two evenings describing to me as a man who would turn up to play with them at a top paying function wearing a dirty fleece, with gear smelling of cat pee.

They are classy pieces of work.

Here's mine....

There are more than 10 of them out there. As to how they sound (12ers in general) - deep fundamental bass notes with clanging pairs of drone strings an octave up.

Precisely.

Bar One Ten in Tyldesley every Sunday (except bank holidays) 6.30 - 9pm with The Three. http://www.thethree.org.uk http://www.facebook.com/TheThreeJamNights/

Ah. The other one. Great to see it.

Try asking on these sites: http://www.nwmusicians.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/groups/1743862339205247/

After SAHB broke up, they got a Tubes member (Leroi Jones ) in as singer when they became The Zal Band.

I have the guitar version of that - a 1972 SGII that I bought brand new. It looked like this until the body got damaged and I had it refinished.

Delilah always works. You couldn't honestly call SAHB glam though. They were more 'alternative' compared to anything at the time and were complete showmen.

Shang-a-lang always goes down well at our gigs.

Just spotted this on the net. Sums it all up really....

Epiphone might be in danger too? http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/Features/2013/Epiphone-Celebrates-56-Years-Part-of-Gibson-Family.aspx

This doesn't give me an excuse to nip out and buy a new Les Paul for under the bed... PMT in Manchester can't get any new Gibson stock at present as the CITES certification for Gibsons is being an issue at the moment.

We did three gigs this weekend (handing our regular Sunday jam night over to friends for the night). The first gig was a rock night at a club in Ashton-in-Makerfield where we went down a storm with the crowd, which was slightly depleted, due to a load of them apparently going to watch Livewire in St Helens. We were asked to keep it down slightly to stop the mad woman from next door but three turning up in her nightie again and doing her fruit about the noise. No mad woman and our regular drummer was unwell, so we got a stand-in that we have had play with us for a while last year and it was a fairly solid showing. The crowd loved us, but when I went back to the venue today for a re-booking, their diary is full for the rest of the year, but we are good for next year... The second gig was a pub near Rochdale. After securing some quite difficult parking outside to unload, we carted our gear down a long narrow room down to a quite narrow but deep stage area, with a wall in front of us up to our waists. I wasn't particularly thrilled with the amount of room we had to set up in at first, but it sounded surprisingly good in that small boxy area. The crowd were into it, though we had to stop for the boxing. Our regular drummer had shaken off his lurgy and we played well. Last night (Sunday) we took a night off from our regular jam night and played at the Talbot in Burnley. Sundays there are usually 6 til 9 and you do three sets, rather than our usual two. Some friends turned up to watch us and the gig turned out to seem to be effortless to play and we got a lot of compliments afterwards. This video is from the gig..

I don't think that John Deacon did a lead vocal on anything and he was quoted as saying his voice was not that great for backing vocals either and that he felt awkward miming them in videos.

My beloved B12.

The back is unusual, too. Inlaid logo - one of their limited runs.

This is not the correct forum to tell any of my stories about Dave Hill from Slade II. Bloody prat.

Waterstone are re-stocking their 12ers.

The SG on the left has had the chrome pickup covers when my mate had it. I'll try to find a bit more out about it from him. The SGII had a brass nut fitted, at my request, when it had its refinish.

I could have done it when I had two identical Hartke setups for a while up to last year. The two rigs wouldn't balance tonally. If I combine all the rigs, I get a really full range sound at low volume.

My old band were so well-drilled in our painfully static set list, that we didn't have to even look at each other. That's nearly two years of my life that I won't get back...