Rich

Sounds brilliant mate, I have GOT to catch you at some point soon. You were good before, more than good, but it sounds like the keys man has really added something. I bet Adrian's loving it

The old timers amongst you will recall the tale of OldGit and his Hohner B2A that was entrusted to RM's "care". When it arrived, the neck was bent. Not just bowed, but bent. The only conclusion that could be reached was that a truck had driven over it. IIRC, it wasn't until he started badgering RM's chief executive directly that he got any form of compensation.

Au contraire. Stock/Aitken/Waterman murdered rock and roll. Simon Cowell mutilated the corpse.

Ped's request seems to have fallen on some deaf ears. I think we get the jist of what's happened/happening.

Absolutely priceless. Thank you, that was the best laugh I've had in weeks.

Who is best at slap, Mark King or Richard Dawkins? The readers of Bass Hello! magazine need to know.

+1 with thebassist and visog above. Back in the day, I subscribed to Bassist and also picked up BP whenever I saw it (usually at the WH Smiths at Paddington!). BP used to be a great read, it was worth getting just to have a laugh at Anthony Jackson's occasionally incredibly pompous drivel (truly great player but massive bass snob IMO), and they even made honest reviews of things back then. Last time I picked BP up, it was thinner than an election pamphlet and was 80% adverts. BGM has its moments -- more good than bad I think -- but as has been said, everything can be found on line these days. Nowadays the only paper mag I buy with any regularity is Private Eye. Not much bass content there.

No. No no no no no NO. Absolutely unacceptable. He might have had a really nice car. Although that's unlikely for a keyboard player, admittedly.

Outstanding comeback

Just wait till he finds out that colour has a U and that there's no such thing as aloominum. People have gone on shooting sprees for less provocation than that.

^ this. String spacing is all down to personal preference. I have stumpy little fingers but I'm far more comfortable on my beaten up old Ibanez BTB sixer (string spacing 20mm) than on any of the narrower ones I've tried.

Tunisian prog-metal and Icelandic nu-folk for me. There's great music everywhere. 'Rock n roll' is just a lazy bullsht category title anyway. If In Doubt, File Under Rock. I saw The Selecter described as a 'rock band' once. QED.

That pic is FABULOUS. I don't suppose you have a hi-res version you can share?

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I had squarnch of lamb for dinner last night. Very tasty, but needed more nutmeg.

Nothing new. Tony Goggle did this 20 years ago with his signature bass.

I've posted this before but I think it bears sharing again... 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

"List Price: $15,400.00 Pricing does not include case, shipping or applicable tax." Bargain.

Agreed, that seems absolutely ridiculous. Presumably said Grade 8er can read, but it seems to me that having the mechanical skills and the chart knowledge without any of the underpinning basics is pretty ridiculous. Having said that, I can't read a note and my theory knowledge is non-existent, but there y'go... Still, it could have been so much worse than Ed Sheeran. "What do you want to learn, who's your favourite artist?" "Errm, I'd like to do some Kanye West stuff..." *awaits wave of "god you're so old" derision*

Nice (both the amp and Django ), I look forward to hearing this wee beastie in action (the amp, not Django). A good excuse for me to deliver the Hubbard book in person?

Yes, it's not quite right is it..?

I like bebop and modern jazz. Fusion, I love in a big way. I even like smooth/dinner jazz -- well some of it, anyway. A good jazz big-band is a thing of beauty, although I prefer it instrumental. Not mad keen on jazz singers -- Cleo Laine, bless her, drives me up the wall. 'Trad' Dixieland/ragtime type jazz? I hate, loathe and detest it. All you can ever hear is the feckin clarinet, wailing away and playing a totally different tune to everyone else, and the bloody banjo going donk-donk-donk-donkadonk-donkadonk. Arrrggh. Given the choice between a} listening to a Kenny Ball album, and b} dragging my fingernails down a blackboard repeatedly whilst listening to a Nigel Faraj speech on an endless loop, I'd say bring on the blackboard.