rwillett

My 'band' consists of a drummer and me. I swing between bass and guitar, but tonight was guitar. I have no pride and no skill. As a laugh we decided to do one of my original songs as if sung by Lemmy in Motorhead. I was using a Laney LC15R valve amp with a Strat, brought from this very parish from @kwmlondon. As Kim lives London and I live North Yorkshire, I only managed to pick it up at Xmas and due to other commitments, tonight was the first time it got used in anger. Bloody hell, for 15W it's loud, it's very loud. Its my first and only valve amp and I still don't understand why a tiny 15W valve amp should be so, so loud. Not just loud, it sounded really good as well. We wound the gain up, wound the volume, I did my best to channel Lemmy and play and sing at the same time whilst Bev the drummer was laughing so hard, she couldn't play. We did a second even faster run where we tried to combine The Ramones and Motorhead and it was a wonderful joyous experience. It's been a utterly sh1tty week at work with issue after issue and escalation after escalation, so putting it all behind me for 90 mins of manic singing (badly) and playing at stupid volumes was great therapy. Now I can't speak as my voice has gone and I still have lines in my fingers from playing so fast and hard, but it was worth it. We've decided we're going to do it at the rather staid open mic sessions in either Settle or Sedbergh. I suspect they'll kick us out but it will be fun. Rob

Only if you are very lucky, Tizer and brown ale more likely, though I might have a decent Chablis cooling for afterwards.

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

I'm one

You could say it's rare, very few Mustangs have been used as a shovel on a building site. I can see why it may not have been played for 10-15 years, the site foreman still used it. Would love to see the routing under the second control panel.

"Blues no good to me" is rather a dark song about a pair of lovers splitting up and both of them dying in violent circumstances. "Another lonely man" was based on Edward Hoppers picture "Nighthawks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(Hopper) Sadly "Where is love?" Is way beyond my skills now

I did my first singing open mic last night. Not sang in public since I was wearing shorts and did "Where is love?" from Oliver in the school play. I did two songs of my own, "Blues ain't no good to me" and "Another lonely man". Sadly I didn't do "Where is love?" in my best Aled Jones voice as various structural body arrangements shortly after the school play, meant I could no longer hit the higher notes or quite a few of the lower notes either. Never sung with a microphone, never sung whilst playing a guitar and never in front of a crowd. So popped my cherry a number of times there. Thankfully they were gentle and of the six people who did things I was the only one with original material so that was a slight bonus. People were very nice afterward. A Sennheiser E935 is now winging it's way to me. Not making that mistake with a mic again and will practise an awful lot more. I didn't bomb but I did learnt a lot. Rob

Does that mean I'm now getting more valuable then....

That's good news. There's a fair old walk from your place to the town centre and I think there's some up and down as well. The soft tissues are always the issues, at least to me. I've never broken anything too serious but lots of ligament, tendon and soft tissue damage sadly. One slight good thing about the physio work on soft tissues is you can do a lot at home, for me, lots of small exercises did me the world of good and don't require expensive equipment, I had small blocks of wood to do heel raises and sitting on the floor with rubber bands stretching things out. You can do this in your own time and at your pace. I look forward to hearing of your entry in the London Marathon for next year

I use the Basschat 8" speaker with a Gnome Warwick amp, a Mod Dwarf and a Strat. I turn the EQ to what is supposed to be flattish (10:00 Bass 3:30 Middle 10:00 Treble) and it sounds great to me. I turn the EQ back to normal for bass and it sounds great there as well. I;m amazed at the flexibility of the cabinet. Rob

I can guarantee there will be a significant change in value after doing this change The more effort you make, the bigger the change in value.

ChatGPT -> can you put this in English for the hard of understanding please?

Turn up with the lot and we'll do a Doors jam with the organ. LA Woman is great Hows your leg by the way? Rob

So far we have @rwillett- A couple of 3d printed basses or guitars, this will encourage me to finish my next two off. A couple of 8" Basschat cabinets. Might be interesting to try these with other peoples amps. One is quite loud, not quite finished the other one so not sure quite how loud they go. Since I'm about 100m away, I might bring anything or everything. Might even bring and setup a 3d printer if people are interested. If there is any interest and you need something thats more than a few hours to print, let me know well in advance. @neepheid - Probably bringing the contents of a smallish country @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel- TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam @misterhank @GreeneKing @LukeFRC - TBC @jimbobothy - TBC @TPJ

Yes, there seems to be comprehensive support, this might mean more to you than me There are two 1/4" sockets for expression pedals but I don't have one yet to check if they work.