Jackroadkill

A 1.5hr covers set on a stage with enough room, good monitoring and an engineer who knows their apples. A hundred or so enthusiastic punters and some nice comments afterwards. I don't need a backline provided (I'd rather play on my own gear; old fashioned, I know....) or anything flashy. Payment is nice but not essential. That's about it, really.

At least it hasn't got a headstock tuner left on it.

If it's not too late, you can use warm water with a drop of washing up liquid in it to make the decal slide around on the surface of the paint so that you can position it more easily.

I had a similar experience in that same period. I look back on it and wonder how the hell the fallout isn't still with me.

Oi!!

In my defence I was young, inexperienced and foolish, but essentially, yes - I buggered off! I left all my gear and went back for it under the cover of darkness (well, late afternoon).

@Steve Browning That sounds like a good solution that will have the most positive effect on everyone concerned. It's tricky breaking up a band but it sounds like you found the right way to go about it.

I've mentioned this before on BC, but I once left a band by going to the toilet during a rehearsal and escaping through the toilet window. There's more to the story, but the crux of it is that I ran away in the least dignified way.

From the videos I've seen of your bands I don't think you've much to worry about in the playing stakes. I wish I was as terrible as you!

General Incompetence, probably!

Relent!

I just wanted to be cool. I wish I had a better reason like most of the ones given above, but 15 year old me just wanted to be cool; my mates had a fledgeling band with three guitarists and a drummer, and I figured that the way in was to play (read "buy a ") bass and learn on the job. In reality I didn't know what a bass was for or how it was used, so I found it all a bit unfulfilling and changed to rhythm guitar by the time I was 20. Fast forward to a couple of years back when I decided that I wanted to play bass again, had a bit more experience and was more willing to learn my place, and the circle was complete. I'm much more at home on a bass now that I was as a teenager, and I'd say that although it's not a high bar I'm better on bass than I ever was on six strings. Whether I made it to being cool, though.....

My pleasure. Have fun with it.

Can I ask what colour the pink lacquer is, please, and where you found it?

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/taylor-austin-dye-rest-in-peace-tab-s2078862t1/r2763330?open=editor Right, have a try with that...!

Hang fire; having another try.

That's a beautiful moment.

What a coincidence, eh?!

Liberace's nan?

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/taylor-austin-dye-rest-in-peace-tab-s2071831t2/r2754229?open=editor I can't vouch for accuracy, but give this a try.

Don't be silly; how would he have operated the loud pedal with a wooden leg?

@solo4652 I might be able to help.... Let me see what I can do.

I dated Liberace and made him dress up as your nan.

I'm 1m80cm, c.90kg with broad shoulders. I play a P, and I look ridiculous, too. In all honesty I don't think the P has much to do with the ridiculousness, in my case!

That's really tough; I hope you can bring it to an amicable end.