Rich

All You Need Is Cash - The Rutles

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8 working electric basses, plus 2 non-working ones 1 acoustic bass guitar 1 acoustic guitar (everyone should have a pawn-shop acoustic) 3 amps 2 cabs, plus two wedges 1 combo amp

Monkey Boy

So does this mean that the 'fat' bit is the problem? Really?

Would it be ok if they were thin blokes doing covers?

Keeper

Rat Race - Specials

Perhaps I should retire then, if that's such a bad thing.

And that was after you'd taken them off...

I'm at work at the moment, but when I get home I'll do the job with my Thunder 1A. I think all the TRCs are the same, apart from wording..?

I'd love an EUB. It'd be a bit of a waste of money though as none of my current gigs are even remotely suitable, and it'd be a lot of cash to splash on just a toy. I play mostly 5s and have done since 1997, so I'd go straight for a 5.

I still can't believe (actually, sadly I can ) the amount of luddite hate that ERBs get on Farcebook whenever a pic of one is posted in a bass group. It amuses me that everyone who posts "that's not a bass it's a harp" or "just get a piano" or "Jaco only needed 4" seems to think they're the first ever to say it. Still, at least by publicising their bass bigotry it makes it easy to know which idiots to block. ERBs are very much not my cup of darjeeling, but I take my hat off to anyone who makes music with one. I like to see boundaries being pushed. Although only using 2 strings seems like a weird waste!

I've just joined the tablet brigade -- picked up an iPad 2 off evilbay for pence. OK, so there are only about 3 apps in the App Store that are compatible with it, but one of them is a pdf reader and that's all I need. It will be more of a rehearsal tool than a live one, although I am going to experiment with going entirely paperless and put the gig set list on it. I also imagine it will come in extremely useful for my semi-regular dep gig where I need to refer to notes (or at least have them to hand as an insurance policy). I've bought a stand-mount for it and am going to experiment with attaching it to my Herc guitar stand. Failing that, I'll use the bottom half of my old mic stand.

Absolute POS. 9 grand? 9 quid.

Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens

A-Ha, Scoundrel Days Cut my wrist on a bad fart, and head for the door Outside on the pavement, the dog makes a mess Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl So she laser beamed me with her cosmic @ss

From 'Freed From Desire' by someone called Gala: My love has got no money, he's got his trampoline My love has got no power, he's got his trampoline... ('trampoline' in both cases is actually 'strong beliefs'. Except no, it's definitely trampoline )

That's good news. Full props to your nursey singperson for leaping into action so effectively, who knows, she may well have saved the lady's life.

Yesterday with Train To Skaville at the legendary Dublin Castle in Camden, a MadChat charity double-header with Birmingham's "Reggaelators" (who were seriously good). Perhaps unsurprisingly the crowd were amazing, up and dancing and singing from the word go. Had a brilliant time and raised a sh*tload of cash for Macmillan. Egging the crowd on in "Lip Up Fatty". Here I am giving my all to the break in the Specials' "Nite Klub" I even managed to get a sound I didn't hate out of the house bass rig... a first for me with an Ashdown And I had two compliments on my choice of shoes

Having said that, I'm probably going to do precisely that myself

Like A Virgin - Madge