Rich

Classic ska/reggae is all about the bass. Your gear should be ideal for the job; roll off the old tone pot a bit and get a big phat warm tone. Having said that, there really aren't any hard and fast rules. Just do what works best for your mate's songs. I tend to keep a bit of snap in my tone for some songs as I like the way it cuts through (Nite Klub, for example).

That is going to be soooo lovely. I have long dreamed of getting Mark to build me a light relic '65 Jazz in candy apple red (an original being about £8000 out of my price range) and this is doing the GAS no good at all. So, thanks a bunch.

Hope your recuperation goes well 👍 short term pain but long term gain, and all that.

This is very disappointing. No deserted warehouses or shootings in the face, no retirements from public life? Tsk.

My music collection goes from Abba to ZZ Top (nothing by Aardvark or Zzzz, unfortunately), with Motörhead next to Mozart... but more often than not these days, I'll choose either prog rock/metal or fusion. Or an audiobook, in the car.

See? You can check out but you can never leave. Welcome home.

https://reverb.com/item/17839883-collection-elements-water https://reverb.com/item/17839892-collection-elements-fire Now, you might think that these look like a pile of old cack, but hold on. These things have been made using a special "*EZO Energy/Space Method of wood, metal, and ctr. treatment." Yeah. Try asking Fender for that. "Modifications: mass crystallisation (wood), resonating in human emotional range." See? They're not just screwed together, they have a metaphysical birth. Well worth 120 grand, I reckon.

Now if I had said that, people would be saying "what do you mean, 'back then'..?" Now, they're thinking it.

I might bring my JayRay (OLP Ray with Jaydee fretless neck). I'll be spectating only as it's not long after my wrist op.

Another tale of two sets... Many years ago when I lived in Swindon, my blues-rock trio (Hendrix, Gary Moore, ZZ Top etc) had a booking at the Plessey Social Club... when we walked through the door, we lowered the average age in the room by about 40 years. As we set up, I could feel the glares from the light-&-bitter brigade burning holes in the back of my head. We had backline and a vocal PA only, nothing DI'd or miked up -- Steve the drummer was first to get set up, he sat down and picked up a stick and hit his snare drum ONCE... and I heard a croaky old voice from out in the shadows say, "ooh, it's a bit loud..." Predictably the first set was horrendous, every song met with almost total silence apart from a few “turn it down”s from some of the coffin-dodgers and one or two claps. One of them even walked right up to me mid-song, stuck his fingers in his ears and bellowed “It's TOO LOUD”. End of the first set couldn’t have come soon enough for me. When it did, the club MC asked if he could borrow one of our mics to do the bingo. Ye gods. Eventually we couldn’t put the second set off any longer and trudged to the stage. I was just putting my bass on when a woman approached me. I thought, if she tells me to turn it down I’m just going to pack up and sod off home. But she said cheerfully, “OK lads, all the old farts have buggered off, they only come for the bingo... you can turn it back up now”. So we did needless to say, the second set was a lot better and we never set foot in there again 

Very much depends on the size of the egg. I give large eggs 4.5 mins and they generally come out fine. Straight into simmering water. Make sure the eggs are room temp first or they'll crack for sure. Cold water brought to the boil will give you a hard boiled egg. They are horrid in every way.

Well of course. Runny is the ONLY way.

Oh god, don't they just. Every time an ERB appears on FB, they start off. It's why I made the ERB Bingo thing. Thing that always amuses me about them is that they all think they're the first one ever to say "it's a harp" or "can you play Mustang Sally on it".

Oh man. If i was a fretless-ERB kinda guy, I'd be all over that like a rash. The back is exquisite.

Sheesh. I'll take being in the background thanks, if the alternative is looking like that

Well I don't know about you guys, but conseve potato is one of the first things I look for in an instrument.

Nobody in their right mind would want to be me. Trust me. I've done it and it's not fun.

It's not about obsession or analness(??) really. It's just putting a lot of effort into something that I hope to god I will never need to use

Nah, my pics are bigger, that's all. Yours is just as good. Here's what my details pages look like.

There y'go.

Not really. Seven of the pages are photos. They are big pics