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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459291001' post='3015279'] My band is working and getting paid. I'm musically fulfilled. Blue [/quote] Sounds more like fiscally fulfilled if you ask me.

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1459234733' post='3014556'] This is also my view. Bands playing for nothing is entirely up to them but I have found that organisers/promoters often take advantage as a result. [/quote] We've done a smattering of charidee gigs in the past, usually for causes close to our hearts -- Parkinsons, Alzheimer's, cancer etc. We're savvy enough not to get taken for a ride.

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459286793' post='3015224'] There's a general active passive switch and the humbucker has a coil tap. Also I was really impressed by the noll preamp. Really tasty bass and treble boost. [/quote] Do find that every time you flick the little black switch that is labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to tell you you've done it?

We do our band intros during a break-it-down in the middle of Cold Sweat. Singer introduces us one by one, we each do a tiny 5 second solo-ette. For my 'solo' I play the same groove, but slapped with a few popped accents -- I hate groove-busting. I then introduce the singer ("the lady with the platinum tonsils") and it's really helping me to practice *talking* while playing. Singing+playing is easy, but I've always found talking well nigh impossible.

Michael McDonald Nat 'King' Cole Joe Cocker Sting Karen Carpenter Judie Tzuke Kate Bush Sam Brown

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1458916773' post='3012107'] A long time ago I read a thread about a guy who converted an OLP Stingray 5 to a 12-string; it looked pretty good, so would work for an eight string. The main work was plugging the machine head holes/redrilling and cutting a new nut. The bridge was a stock Schaller thing. [/quote] Ooh yes, I can see that working well. Wider than a 4 string neck but not as wide as a normal 5. Bloody hell. Just when I didn't want another project...

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1458923474' post='3012173'] Lovely. I think you got the better end of that swap. [/quote] I wholeheartedly concur on both points.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1458257175' post='3006164'] I`ll add Take Thats `Rule the World` it was out when my last dog passed and we had a star named after her (probably not really but I have a certificate) and the lyrics get me thinking about her everytime I hear it cos Im such a softy! [/quote] This song gets to me too -- at around about the time it came out, my mum was in the protracted process of closing her eyes and fading away, so for me the first verse is forever associated with that. It's a good song but no, I just can't listen to it.

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1458237771' post='3005925'] Bonnie Raitt "I can't Make You Love Me"...Absolute Class. [/quote] Oh god, how I recall first hearing that song. I was nursing a broken heart after recently being dumped by a lady I adored, and then this damn song came on the radio and pressed every single button. I recall crying so hard that it physically hurt. [quote]Don't make me blub, but a very moving tune from Luther Vandross "Dance With My Father". [/quote] I've always found this moving, but since losing my dad last year I simply cannot bear to listen to it. In a similar vein to Waltzing Matilda, there's this. Shores of Normandy by Jim Radford. The song starts at 1:30ish. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVQMfxIfks[/media]

I like the body wood/finish, but the rest of it is unnecessarily tart's-handbag and as a result the whole thing just looks tacky.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1458209049' post='3005532'] If you see that lad again please advise him not to try it if he's ever up in Glasgow! [/quote] Au contraire, I hope he does. It'd teach him a lesson he badly needs.

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1458001296' post='3003882'] Gordon is a moron. Jilted john. [/quote] Pedant alert: both the song and the artist were called Jilted John. 'Gordon is a moron' was just a line of the lyrics. [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1458036459' post='3004013'] Goons - Ying Ying Song And for rubbish, as well as the grandparent songs, there's Sigue Sigue Sputnik's truly dreadful Love Missile F1-1. [/quote] Pedant alert: the Goons' tune was called the 'Ying Tong Song' and the Sputniks' was 'Love Missile F1-11'. And yes, it was very definitely truly dreadful.

It Bites, 'The Tall Ships' and 'Map Of The Past'.

It Bites, "Calling All The Heroes". It got to #6 in the UK charts and was the only time this [i]completely[/i] brilliant band got anywhere near the top 40.

Well, I appear to really like pretty much everything you lot hate, with the exception of buckeye burl (yuck) and Antigua burst (double yuck). So I think I'm going to keep my head down in this thread

As far as sleep is concerned, grab every opportunity. Sleep whenever you can. And for dealing with jet lag, I always follow the same procedure. The moment my plane takes off, I immediately set my watch for the time in my destination city/country and start working my sleep pattern there and then. It's not failed me yet -- jet lag has never caused me problems.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1457180943' post='2996071'] I've always been a one-bass-man [/quote] This must be why you have three listed in your signature

Mick Jagger looks like a retired GP. Ronnie Wood looks recently defibrillated, while Keith Richards looks like he is still waiting. And Charlie Watts looks straight out of a Werther's Original advert.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1457359178' post='2997700'] Yes - eagerly awaiting the Dingbird. They need to do a Ding-Bongo (which is a bit like a drink we used to have as kids), and then maybe a Dingberger (headless, tiny body), heck, perhaps even a Ding Paul SG-shape. [/quote] 'Ding-Bongo'? Surely that would be a Dingo? I also think they need to make a Fly-Ding Vee.

Latest LAPD reports indicate that it was an accident.

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1457272183' post='2996887'] I spent 10 years or so playing in a ceilidh band, and there were plenty of occasions when we arrived at a venue, and had to set up with the room full of guests and no opportunity to do a sound check. In the end we came up with a solution that worked really well. <snip> [/quote] Nice solution. I like it.

I loved the B1. In fact I love almost everything the Essex boys have produced, but that? Nah. For me, it's second only to the Buzzard B2 in the 'ewww' stakes. (Although having said that, I don't like the Streamline much either.)

Definitely sounds like the ACG pre isn't your bag. So I'd go with 3, or 4 if you have doubts about its 'hotness'. You will easily be able to sell the ACG on, they're popular and rightly so.