Jackroadkill

To use the C90 get-out clause - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on one side and A Night At The Opera on the other.

I’d like a Mustang with a full-fat 864mm scale length.

Thus far I've only bought two sets (one for each bass), both Rotosound RS66LD's at £21.95. I'm tempted to try some flats at some point so that'll mean buying another bass to put them on. That's the right way to do these thing, I assume?

Let me know if you lot ever make it anywhere near this neck of the woods. I'll bring the hairies down out of the woods - I played your track Way Down Below to a few of my pals and they'd be well up for some face-pulling. We don't get out much, but for music like that we'd make an exception!

In the same vein - Alexandra Burke's version of Hallelujah.

I prefer that to Tainted Love, to be honest.

OP, just do your thing; if other people aren't keen, they can do their thing their way.

Marilyn Manson's version of Tainted Love was just an embarrassment. I think that might have been the point that ol' Brian tipped over into being a sad, fat parody of everything he'd set out to destroy.

It's all very well you saying that, but which van is best for metal?

Played our third gig with DJ5 last night. It was a charity gig in a village hall, complete with a "PA" that last saw action when the desk was run by a brontosaurus, but we played pretty decently and went down well with a roomful of punters. The sound was awful, as it tends to be at these things - hollow stage, tiny FOH, poor monitoring etc, and the lighting was four par-cans that were literally in my left ear, but we all had fun and it was great to get out and play again. The band's coming together well now, and we're all finding our roles in it. We debuted three new songs (If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, Breaking The Law and Kick Out The Jams) as well as playing a one-off of a version of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, featuring the vocalist's 13 year old girl (my god-daughter) on vocals. Sorry for the crappy picture quality; although many photos were taken, none of them seem to be of any use! After our set we were asked if we wanted to headline two nights at a big biker rally in Cardiff next year, so we must have done a halfway tidy job of things!

I like it as is is; distortion's very easy to over-use on vocals, and what you've got there sounds like plenty to me.

I like to think that was my musical pinnacle. I've not managed to top it yet.

Yeah, in hindsight it was funny, although at the time I felt like I'd been royally had.

We do. Here's the singer wearing a t-shirt with the singer's face on it.

Way back in my youth I left a band by climbing out of the toilet window and running away. I know it sounds odd, pathetic or both, but that's what happened. I'd formed the band with a guitarist "friend" and we recruited a drummer and bass player / singer (well, he was a guitarist but everyone knows that if you can play guitar you can play bass, right?) and got some songs together, played some gigs, recorded some material etc etc. It was all good fun and I really enjoyed it. Then the "friend" began touting us to labels and one or two of them showed some interest, albeit in a very initial sense. That was it - the flavour of the band changed and the "friend" and the bass player started demanding that we wrote more commercial songs and that each song we wrote had to be a potential single etc etc. It went from a fun band playing some cool alternative rock to a job playing horrid, anodyne, radio-friendly dreck, and despite my protests they were firm that this is what we were doing, and that was that. So, I ran away after climbing through the bog window, and when I left I took all my gear (not only my guitars, but the bass and amp that the singer used, the PA etc etc) and that was the end of my time in that band. They continued for about another year with a few line-up changes but didn't get anywhere. The real kicker for me was that we'd recorded an EP of four songs, three of which I'd written, and when it was released, post-bog window, the only credit I got on it was "additional studio guitars", and they'd turned my guitar parts down anyway, the buggers. The "friend" ended up buggering off back to Canada after having stolen, embezzled, defrauded and unpaid a small fortune.

Excellent stuff - looks like a good venue and the band seems to be having a lot of fun.

Well, it looks white but you can't deny that it sounds orange.

Superb! That's a real gig!

Quote of the day.

That, sir, is prose of the highest order!

Another vote for this. It's pretty harsh.

Surely would - as does Merthyr MFI chipboard, right?!

Looking very cool indeed, sir. it seems that half of 1990's Slimelight are in the audience!

The one on the left looks like something Elon Musk would charge hipsters £24,357.47 for.

Because I love G'n'R so much, I'm trying to avoid hearing this song.