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Oh - my old boss? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvINSbz2OI

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG4dAGiSc-o"]https://www.youtube....h?v=aG4dAGiSc-o[/url] Just had a recent album reissue on vinyl, too. How could you NOT tap yer toes to this? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdk-m54Z1fE"]https://www.youtube....h?v=gdk-m54Z1fE[/url] Or for something slightly more avante-garde....(live) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPWciMtsA4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=PPPWciMtsA4[/url] Oops Forgot this one..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhaE3GV5a4 Let me know when you've had enough.....

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1488552012' post='3249965'] Now then, Happy Jack....!!!!! FWIW I have a USA ASAT from the early early nineties and a good friend locally has one of the Tributes. Yes the Tributes are decent guitars but there is that indefinable difference - mostly down to finish, setup and of course tone. Spector is a harder one - I used to play one of the early ones and loved it, especially since it had a scoop to accommodate my growing beer belly... later tried one of the oriental ones and to be honest the feel was almost identical. Electrics were better though. The best Strat I have played was a USA 62 but on the other hand my 1980 Tokai Springy Sound runs it a very close second, all stock. I guess it really depends on the guitars you are comparing at the time. [/quote]

Creepy.

The closer you get to making your living from music, the more likely you are to be working on more than one instrument! I wound up having to teach myself to pretend to be a singer when I returned to the UK after a decade or so abroad. And have always been on either guitar or bass, often in two different bands at the same time. 's called paying the rent/mortgage!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1488500541' post='3249585'] Ivan, I like where your heads at. I also like 1k gigs for 4 guys. That's "good money" where I come from. Blue [/quote] What we all need is more NYEs per annum! Mind you I did Millenium for 500 pounds and all my buddies were laughing at me going out so cheap on a once in a lifetime date.. I wound up with the last laugh when so many of the 1k a man gigs got blown out at the last minute because of insufficient ticket sales! Me? I got my 500 plus food and accommodation for the night for Mrs. Terrible and I, plus another couple. And the gig was really enjoyable, nice friendly folks many of whom we already knew. I guess there is a moral there somewhere.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1488537660' post='3249735'] ....... often encompassing re-arrangements of songs, new keys and custom segways. [/quote] You can play bass riding one of those things????!!!! Impressed....

And in typically PC fashion we are all studiously ignoring that as usual this is The Female In The Band trying to assert dominance via a trivial meaningless "sticking point" Bless 'em. I have only ever worked in ONE band where there was a female member and no aggro. And she, of course, was the bass player!

You're gonna hate me.... About 1963. I had just switched from guitar to bass. A 22" juke box speaker I had scrounged from a guy I knew on a USAF base, fitted into a 3/8" plywood open backed box I built in our garage.. Powered by a Pye (early Philips era) 50 watt mono valve HiFi amp. Bass? Oh yeah - 1962 three color sunburst Precision bass. Carried it round in the fender cardboard box because the guy I bought it from couldn't afford the case at the time!

Rule of thumb used to be "I don't open my front gate for less than £100". But you certainly do have to have a fairly accurate idea of your own worth ahead of time. Not sure how that works these days but I just took a dep job for next NYE in a pub as a favour to an old mate & it pays £1k between four of us. Chris B has the truth of it. A gig is worth what it is worth to you at the time.

[quote name='julesb' timestamp='1488484342' post='3249422'] I never ever thought I would see that. For me peavey were the worst amps of all time. Just a bit of fun though. [/quote] FWIW My 1983 Peavey Combo 300 gigged acros the USA & then mainland europe before coming home with me to the UK. Sold it to a student several years ago and as far a I know it is still his main gigging amp. Only time it ever had work done was when I installed a european mains transformer. Wonderful amp.

I jammed with a visiting band from the Balkans in France a couple of years ago. Kept me on my toes, but great stuff and like you say a lot more funky than you would ever imagine. I got my start playing Klezmer at Jewish-Yiddish parties as a kid, which helped.

Best advice I ever got as a kid was "Always be the worst player in your band". Think about it. This was from an old guy who played upright. He HAD to have been at least 30 at the time. decrepit, but wise.... OP: You've got it, my friend! And never forget its the holes between the notes that makes music work.

Feel sorry for Derek and the rest of the family. Very sad if he indeed committed suicide.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1485533553' post='3224742'] [url="https://youtu.be/BCNORo_tmKs"]https://youtu.be/BCNORo_tmKs[/url] [/quote] And now you know why Kenny chose Chuck Jacobs as his main bass man for all these years! The man knew a cool bass player when he saw one. Check the elbow action around 1:40! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGfxaVXbJ8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wDGfxaVXbJ8[/url]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1485272229' post='3222662'] The rampant professionalism and extraordinary degree of organisation from 4:58 for the next eight minutes is simply breathtaking. What must the poor sod have made of the clowns he was working with? [/quote] Sadly that was pretty much what happened to very many visiting acts in the UK at the time. Fobbed off with crap (but cheap) players. Same thing happened to a lot of visiting solo artists in the states when I lived there. So demeaning for someone slightly down on his luck. If you want an example of what assholes with attitude can do to destroy someones act, listen to the album French rockabilly singer recorded in Nashville. All top players and at the time he was huge in Europe. Sounds like they were reading the paper or eating lunch while they were playing. Even Reggie Young!

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1485178737' post='3221778'] Anyway. Back on topic. You may enjoy this one too Blue. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDSand-6IY"]https://www.youtube....h?v=eSDSand-6IY[/url] Gene Vincent on UK tour 1969. Touching, sometimes funy and other times quite sad documentary. The Teddy Boy thing was quite big until the late 70s I would say. Then there was a Rockabilly revival as it was fading out. [/quote] I was in the act that opened for him when he played Cambridge on that tour. One of my earliest heroes and although it was sad to see him so obviously in serious pain (and undoubtedly well pilled-up because of it) he was still mesmerising on stage. Such presence! Just a shame that he was playing with a pickup UK band rather than ANY incarnation of the Bluecaps. Oh and sorry for reiterating the stuff about Heinz - I had not gotten to Lowbee's response!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1485135507' post='3221494'] Ok, cool. Someone tell me a little about Heinz. Blue [/quote] I currently play in the remains of another Joe Meek band, The Saints. And my old lead guitarist Tony Joliffe was in one of Heinz's backing bands in the sixties. Heinz Burt was originally the bass player in the Tornadoes who had a big hit with Telstar in 1962. Lots of info on him out there - he was one of Joe Meek's "special friends" according to slightly more than rumour. That whole Meek legacy is pretty weird though.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1485345608' post='3223256'] never heard of Joe Tex, nice one! [/quote] Blimey!!!!!! Where have you been? The world is a poorer place without him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5SmbvOCRWM P.S. Nice stuff and they look like they are having fun.

So - I should be crunching down bars of solid magnesium in my cornflakes? I actually still have all my own teeth and would rather keep them....

Never heard the epsom salts/magnesium one before. I will be trying that. Had all of this including trigger finger and of course wooden thumbs for years. Hurts, dunnit?

And lt us never forget the WHOLE of the Wombles back catalogue. Mind you a mate of mine played Orinoco in one of the touring bands and he reckoned even THEY did very well out of it. As for Mike Batt... respect. What a nice little earner!

Happy Jack I'm a Harrow lad. Last gig I played there (driving all the way from north of Cambridge) I turned up and discovered that rather than a solo singer guitarist I was billed as "the hilarious comedy stylings of Ivan" Cue clenched buttocks.

I can sing and play it and have done so at a jam! You're right!

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1484303892' post='3214459'] This track is a good example but maybe it's not "funk"? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eED6Krl14[/media] [/quote] Shame about that widdling bass player.... everyone else is ON it and he is sorta along for the ride/showing his ass somewhat messily. But what do I know? Apparently it is her: http://www.meshell.com/