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Loving this as a bit of NYE prep, thank you!

That gig was the first one I ever went to, my 13th birthday present. The quality of players onstage that day reads like a who’s who of the most successful session players of all time! Clapton of course was excellent, and happily comped away for Mark Knopfler when required.

Do compression ratios have anything to do with spark plugs?

How cool is that! We do cover versions with our year 9s and I use that as an example- always turn that bit up.

You snooze etc etc....!

Vertical 212? Very tempting.

Hey bill nice rig. Are you the guy who played bass for rag n bone mans Beyoncé cover for the live lounge? That’s a cracking bit of playing, that bassline.

I had similar trepidations but it was quite easy in the end. I didn’t use the brushes, I used the nozzle making sure I didn’t touch anything, then used a q tip on anything obviously non electrical like the heat sink, then repeated the hoovering again. It was a noticeable improvement in tone as well, bonus.

Both! Normally ok on gigs in stage clothes but if he’s been out walking on the day of rehearsal and it’s a bit damp it’s a bit much in a hot rehearsal studio! Lovely bloke though and cracking drummer. Cats all the way for me. By the way, after a recent experience with my amp I can recommend hoovering the inside.

Our drummer has a massive German Shepherd dog. He stinks!

Great work, thank you for sharing.

How could you tell? It was only ever on the screen for 0.3 secs at a time. Probably a great piece of kit but no idea of what it’s capable of.

When I was studying trumpet at uni the big band leader was very excited to book Kenny Baker (the bond/ muppets legendary session player not R2D2). He couldn’t have looked more decrepit or over the hill if he had tried. The rest of the trumpet section and I scoffed, thought let’s waste him, but he blew us out of the water all rehearsal and evening, into next week in fact. Lovely about it too. If your heart’s in it, play.

The Aguilar 400w power amp always looked like bit of a monster.

You caught me, bit of a racing snake. I’ll settle for Mesa Prodigy size and power (and weight)

Full valve head in a MB TTE size box and I’d be seriously tempted!

Apologies about talking about cheese graters but I had a lovely very early JJ jewel which I unfortunately snapped. It was too nice a guitar for use in a secondary school classroom so I got a Mexican tele, previously relic’d in a very amateurish fashion by the prior teenage owner. When one of my year groups left they clubbed together and bought me a set of bare knuckle pickups. Unfortunately we had to move quickly after some harassment from the neighbours and I needed to raise some cash. Sold it for what I bought it for, then it turns out it was a baja and worth twice what I sold it for. Face plant!

The lyrics to this are extraordinary, the bass sounds great too.

Have you tried playing jazz or classical? Because you have to and there’s something at stake? Because both were like that for me but getting involved and having to deliver for an audience really makes you appreciate what the attraction is for them.

Pablo Picasso said it took him a whole lifetime to paint like a child. Your Neil Peart’s of the world would be good for painting the Sistine Chapel, Ringo might drum like a cave painting but to me it says just as much. I’ve not had enough sleep by the way.

My pleasure to have done a load of work with this guy. Why he isn’t more well known is completely beyond me.

I’ve done loads of am dram pit gigs. Can be a snooze fest of root fifth root fifth (obligatory panic on the page turn to see a unison section with the brass) back to root fifth, or outright terrifying, see West Side Story or Sunset Boulevard, or pretty funky with some of the newer shows. Very dependant on the MD, and who is drumming. I’ve yet to hit the perfect show, funky pad, funky guitarist, funky drummer, although Made in Dagenham a few weeks ago got close.

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1509312187' post='3398033'] Interesting. I was in Rockfield studio one for part of the time they were in there doing A farewell to Kings in the posh new studio. We commented several times that they were always out horse riding fishing et and NOT "recording all the time" like Geddy said in the interview. We had ten days to do an album. They had block booked for NINE months! Talk about how the other half records..... [/quote] Ten days at Rockfield? Luxury! We did an album in a day there once!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1510062752' post='3403638'] Pet hate is a drummer that very slowly and deliberately takes at least an hour to set up his kit. WTF?? I wouldn't mind so much, but it's inevitably impossible to set up yourself as he will also strew his cases and boxes over the WHOLE stage area. [/quote] We had to train ours to set up on the dance floor and then move his kit in once we’d finished plugging everything in. He marks his territory with his drum mat and we work round that. He grumbled about it to start but when we pointed out we weren’t pulling cables around his zildjians and bumping into his drums all the time he saw the positive. And it’s half an hour quicker for all of us.

His son certainly seems like a dude and man, how much do I want to try that P bass!