Cat Burrito

The theme from Minder. Not cool but love it. (Dennis Waterman wrote the theme tune, sang the theme tune)

We've lost 2 tours, Spain and the UK. Anything in the diary I think will be getting pulled by the venue over the coming few weeks. It's going to take a while to recover from this. Things are so desperate already that one band has even had our rehearsal space pulled!

6feet7 beat me to it! Snap on both accounts!

A few bits and pieces like cables, pickguards etc. I recently took to selling a few things on here to clear some space and raise a couple of quid. Thankfully nothing too expensive.

I know there are a few folk on here who are not in the Ric fan camp but I love mine and wanted to give it a New Wave / Power Pop early 80s vibe. Off came the white plastic to be replaced with black plastic, and I had already added the zero mod thumb rest and the bezel cover. I added the neon white strings a while ago too. It got loads of comments on Friday's gig and seems to be getting a lot of likes on Facebook and Instagram.... so here it is in its full glory.

I think it's still early days so maybe a drop in about 10-15% tops but then this venue wasn't a chain pub and apparently the Greene King / Wetherspoons type pubs are hit a bit harder. My feeling is it'll get worse before it gets better. We already lost a 10 day run in Spain this week that was due to start end of the month.

My occasional CCR tribute played Swindon last night & the general feeling was we did good. I'd spent the day revamping my Ric and it did get a couple of nice comments,

We just took the inevitable step of cancelling a 10 date Spanish tour that kicked off in 2 weeks. Hopefully we can reschedule.

I think this is what the internet is for!

And me. I will flag it with the site.

I spent the last 3 years periodically recording an album with my friend Rich. It's a great band with some amazing players in it. We had a blast doing this at Mooncalf Studios in Wiltshire. The bass is a Ric 4003s going through a Tech21Sansamp VT Bass pedal straight into the desk. I guess we were trying to make a very commercial sounding record that sat somewhere between Iggy Pop and the Rolling Stones, very much aimed for radio play. I did some of the production as well as the bass guitar. We've signed a little indie deal and it comes out on June 12th. This was one of my favourite tracks and the video was just a bit of fun really. Check it out!

Interesting article. I love touring but even at my level of a few weeks a year, I wonder about the health impact. Invariably I am drinking far too much each night, never going to bed before 3am and still managing to lose weight, despite drinking to excess. I like to think if I was full time I would calm down on the drinking and late nights but I can see how it gets to be so insular and potentially damaging. Three weeks on the road around Europe and we were definitely guilty of more than a few Spinal Tap-isms "Thank you Spain" being said to a puzzled Italian audience was one particular highlight. Or lowlight. I'm pleased I'm normally health conscious and don't take any illegal drugs. Musicians seem to be increasingly that way these days. Certainly older musicians at my level.

They've all been pretty good to be fair but the Orange Terror Mk2 for me. Everyone on here seemed to rave about the Mk1, whilst acknowledging a couple of flaws re early break up etc. Loads of people bought that head and raved about it & then Orange stopped making it. They then quietly brought out the Mk2 with all the flaws fixed and they don't seem to get raved about. I love mine and use it over my more expensive supposedly better heads.

We have a Spanish tour at the end of the month and I am thinking it could be a problem. We'll see, I guess.

I'm 6ft 3 but pretty slim. My shoulder is wrecked from 30yrs+ of low slung basses and bad posture. I am afraid weight is very much a factor for me and I'm a bigger boy (height wise, at least). I'd say I was fairly strong as I do a lot to keep in shape. I think it's more age than build of the player.

Around 2013 Gibson finally worked out that if you reposition the strap button the problem is solved. So neck dive for me. Don't quite know why Gibson took 50yrs to work that one out, but there you have it.

Rod bought a Couch strap from me. Polite comms, easy to deal with, paid straight away and no fuss. Textbook Basschat transaction. Enjoy the strap Rod.

My Gibson is really light, possibly my lightest bass that I own. My Epiphone on the other hand is quite a heavy beast. It's the through neck one but I'd owned two Epiphone's with bolt on necks previously and they were light basses. I think they sound great for blues rock.

Just wow! That really works and looks very cool.

All music is open to being interpreted. I think there are artists that are harder to pull off than others but I have, for example, some great soul versions of songs from the rock and country genre that would fail in the hands of lesser bands. I find this whole concept is best summed up by an argument that took place at one of my early band practices way back in 1990 during Sixth Form in M4 Mobile Classroom. I'll call the offender "Ian", (because that was actually his name) and I have tried to preserve the pompous nature of Sixth Formers on both sides of the argument; Me - "I'd love to do something by the Stones" Ian - "You don't touch the Beatles and you don't touch the Stones" Me - "Ian, you have an appalling taste in music (death metal fan), what on earth do you know about bands like The Beatles? Ian - "I know the Beatles" Me - "No you don't. You don't know anything about them" Ian - "yeah, I do." Me - "tell me about the Beatles then Ian" Ian - "It's George Lennon and that" Me -

Thanks for the transcript but do you have the tab?

I too think Johnny Thunders every time I see TV Yellow.