Big_Stu

[quote name='umpdv5000' timestamp='1419514475' post='2640546'][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=5]I enjoy playing bass when I get chance and although I've got a couple of good 15's cabs, I'd love to top them off with one of these (if I ever find one). There is a certain oomf and warmth that is unmistakable.[/size][/font][/quote] Only one 2x15" + a 4x12" of course. All sadly gone now - but trouser flappingly awesome while I had them!

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1419455120' post='2640228'] Thinking about names for the new band I'm in.....we play mostly middle of the road stuff. Therefore thinking of calling ourselves "Cats Eyes". What do you think? [/quote] [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1419457312' post='2640254'] 'Cat's Eyes' is already claimed[/quote] Get a female singer and her name can be "Kat Syze".

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1419436564' post='2639966'] Nice Stu a new one on me (staged? or not) [/quote] Staged I think - IIRC there is the original one which was genuine, but there's a few copycat ones since. Thanks too for fixing the link Ian, for some reason the YT links aren't displaying for me anymore.

The bass is a stroll - and the whole thing is kinda knocked together like any band could - but I've often wondered why this isn't more popular annually as a pub rabble-rouser? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2bcS9shuY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN2bcS9shuY[/url]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uub0z8wJfhU ?

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1419411464' post='2639601'] I find my sustain is by far improved if I jiggle the cable up and down. As we all know an electron is a 3D electromagnetic standing wave so if I waggle the cable up and down in a sinusoidal fashion it will at least sustain, and sometimes enhance those waves, meaning I can sustain a note for up to 10 minutes. This only works in cables costing more than £2000 though so poor people always have poor sustain. Just a fact of life. Ask Victor Wooten, he has good sustain so I'm told by t'internet so it must be true. [/quote] I only ever have my amp in a straight line from the mains, I find the electrons having to slow down to get round bends or corners in the mains lead affects my tone!

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1419423333' post='2639793']USPS are good but it will either fall into the hands of Parcel Farce or My Hermes once it gets to the UK. Neither of which are very good.[/quote] When I was in NYC I bought a Gretsch Bo Diddley, took the neck off and packed it all well. Posted it by USPS back to my home address and was back in time to take the delivery off ParcelForce. Only did it the once but it did work a treat. Cost me - IIRC - $72 with insurance for $300 & I marked it "musical instrument, none working, requires repair".

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MADNESS-autographed-guitar-/111542447951?pt=UK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE&hash=item19f872af4f"]Madness?[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418733073' post='2632736'] Given the time of year I'm assuming it's a Sanity Claus..? Sorry. [/quote] "There ain't no Sanity Claus!"

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1418315139' post='2629115'] gone too far.[/quote]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1418250781' post='2628564'] I'm just grateful you didn't need to hire a fake bass stack. You'd be really pissed off by now [/quote] Or at least a tad withdrawn.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1418226058' post='2628160'] There's so much pseudo science spouted about flooring. Gramma pads?!? Why the hell would you want to loose all that tone?[/quote] So they're not incontinence thingies for old ladies?

Years ago I read in an i'view that one of the blues greats, IIRC Albert King, insisted on using a brass jack plug for better tone. Personally I prefer a black cat bone in my pocket.

In the print industry the apprentices were sent for a "jar of half-tone dots" Not really the same but similar, at school the French teacher picked out a lad to go to the shop with a pound to get him a new red pen - and he could keep the change for going. The lad came back with a bag of cream cakes, "where's my pen?" said the teacher, "oh they had no red ones" he said back. Simon Martin - legend!

Izzy Straddlin often was, Was Not Was weren't.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1418126894' post='2627051'] Following writing "Heart of Gold" Neil Young has teamed up with "Silver Lining" Jeff Beck and "CopperHead Road" Steve Earle to produce a collaboration with the working title "Precious Metal".[/quote] On Bronze Records?

The Smiths were named after Morrisey's family. His real name is Farquar Cholmondeley-Smythe but he was known at school as "that F*cker Smith".

Tom Jones' "Green Green Grass Of Home" was written for a TV advert for a forlorn attempt to legalise & promote Welsh grown cannabis.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1417967311' post='2625538'] Yeah, what's all this 'withdrawn' bollocks?[/quote] If you're having to do that you're pushing too much - and not something you should rely on too often.

In the docu that preceded the 92 Seville Guitar Legends concerts Phil Manzanera introduces a flamenco player to his first time ever with an electric guitar. It starts at 56:00 but I kinda wish he'd been given longer and played solo. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWw8GFSXHyw"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWw8GFSXHyw[/url]

Ian "H" Watkins of Steps left the group to form a duo with ex TV "Gladiator" "Wolf" to form "Step n' Wolf"; sadly they didn't last long due to the untimely death of Watkins.......

Over many years I bought lots and lots of yardage of Klotz cable from Scayles Music in Edinburgh & lots n lots of Neutrik jacks from Maplins - learned to solder and none have let me down so far.

[left]Goeden Middag, Van de help-pagina[/left] "Waarom kan ik niet registreren? Mogelijk heeft de beheerder je IP-adres verbannen, of de gebruikersnaam die je opgeeft verboden. Tevens is het mogelijk dat de beheerder de registratie mogelijkheid heeft uitgeschakeld om zo de registratie van nieuwe gebruikers te voorkomen. Contacteer de beheerder voor verdere hulp" of [left] "Why can't I register? The administrator has banned your IP address, or the username you specify prohibited. It is also possible that the administrator has disabled the registration possibility in order to prevent the registration of new users. [b]Contact the administrator for further assistance[/b]"[/left] Most younger Dutch folk are far better at English than we are at Dutch, so they should be able to sort you out.

A parent of one of The Monkees made a fortune from an every day item's invention............ Peter Tork's Mum invented a wrench.

What kind of thread is this that hasn't had "The Boys Are Back In Town" mentioned yet?