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Hi people

Just joined. Name is Dai. Lurking for a while and then saw an item for sale I liked and that prompted me to sign up.

Middle aged bass, Hammond, guitar player. Used to gig a lot around Surrey delta blues circuit on guitar, bass or (mostly) Hammond (if you play a real Hammond, you're never short of a gig). Sort of given it up becasue I got bored with playing blues. Now playing in an [url="http://www.london-country.com"]Americana[/url] kind of band and doing weird [url="http://www.donkeycapers.com"]experimental[/url] stuff at home. Got a fledgling psychedelic outfit on the go as well (The Golden Birdies).

Music influences are Zappa, Beefheart etc , people like Robert Wyatt. 6music on a Sunday afternoon type of stuff. Bass heroes - Norman Watt Roy, Bernard Edwards, Jaco, Lawrence Cottle

Bass Gear:

'64 Rickenbacker 1999 (Euro designation for 4001S)
'62 Hofner Artist
'99 MM Stingray

'74 Ampeg SVT and 8x10"
Ashdown ABM EvoII 500W
Ashdown 1x15" and 4x8" mini cabs

EBS Multicomp

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Big Welcome from me, liking those influences a lot,

If you can carry a real Hammond around then it comes as no surprise that you also own an SVT & an 8x10 :)

Have you thought about merging your bands - an experimental, psychedelic Americana band sounds like a lot of fun. . .

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[quote name='molan' post='952178' date='Sep 10 2010, 07:44 PM']If you can carry a real Hammond around then it comes as no surprise that you also own an SVT & an 8x10 :)[/quote]
And isn't it annoying when having carted either the SVT or the Hammond and Leslie (and sometimes the SVT AND the Hammond) up a fire escape to a gig, the guitarist turns up with some POS tranny amp, because "the Twin Reverb was too heavy".
[quote name='molan' post='952178' date='Sep 10 2010, 07:44 PM']Have you thought about merging your bands - an experimental, psychedelic Americana band sounds like a lot of fun. . .[/quote]
sounds like the Dead. :rolleyes:

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[quote name='tonewheels' post='952252' date='Sep 10 2010, 08:59 PM']And isn't it annoying when having carted either the SVT or the Hammond and Leslie (and sometimes the SVT AND the Hammond) up a fire escape to a gig, the guitarist turns up with some POS tranny amp, because "the Twin Reverb was too heavy".

sounds like the Dead. :)[/quote]

I roadied for a guy with a twin reverb for a while - he has a point :rolleyes:

I've never really been able to fathom the Dead - maybe this is why, lol

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