Hi from Essex

[smudge9000]

Hi everyone! Thought I'd finally sign up as I've been haunting theses corridors reading stuff for ages

Been playing about 15 years - I currently play in a rock covers band. Never been in a pure covers band before and really enjoy it!

 

Kit wise I use a MiM Fender Jazz which I've fitted Seymor Duncan pickups, American style hand wound electrics, Goteh Badass II style bridge and painted neon pick

Squier Jaguar with Humbucker (previous owner replaced logo with Fender)

Fender Mark Hoppus (phase2) Signature Precison.

 

Ashdown ABM EvoII, 2X10 & 1X15

 

I look forward to getting involved with the community!

[SpondonBassed]

Welcome Smudge.

I shouldn't worry about the logo issue.  It hardly ever gets mentioned here and is in no way controversial whatsoever at all, your honour.

[smudge9000]

Haha yes I seen many comments about this dark art.

In my deference it was like than when I bought it!

And it was an absolute bargain - I'd never seen a Jag with a humbucker before.

[Dad3353]

Good evening, Smudge, and ...

Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.
 

[SpondonBassed]

14 hours ago, smudge9000 said:

Haha yes I seen many comments about this dark art.

In my deference it was like than when I bought it!

And it was an absolute bargain - I'd never seen a Jag with a humbucker before.

Like lesser other fora, we've got a good selection of mongreloid instruments.

Many of these have been birthed before our very eyes.  I'm sure you've seen the Build Diaries already.

[smudge9000]

Hey there! 

We're called Rockoon. So far we've just had a few around Chelmsford.

 

How about you?

[smudge9000]

Cool the Basement - yeah should be

[gary mac]

Welcome smudge, enjoy your time here.

[fleabag]

Hi Smudge - as an ex Essex brat,  (   moved decades ago ) whereabouts in Essex are you from ?  I was fortunate to be from picturesque Dagenham 

[smudge9000]

Ahhh 'Narm - know it quite well as I work for Ford.

I'm in the utopia that is Chelmsford

[Geek99]

46 minutes ago, smudge9000 said:

Ahhh 'Narm - know it quite well as I work for Ford.

I'm in the utopia that is Chelmsford

I’ve lived there. Went to college now a polyversity 

[fleabag]

6 hours ago, smudge9000 said:

Ahhh 'Narm - know it quite well as I work for Ford.

I'm in the utopia that is Chelmsford

My old man worked at the Dagenham plant pretty much all of his life, ( wasn't that the biggest factory in Europe at the time ? ) till we moved near to Purfleet, then he transferred to what was then the AVO plant at  Ockendon -  Advanced Vehicle Operations, where i think all the old Escort Mexicos were fettled

[fleabag]

Indeed H, they were. I also did my secondary schooling at South Ockendon

[fleabag]

Tiny 

That school is long gone. I think it closed about 2 years after i left as a secondary modern and re-opened as a Catholic school

Where's your stomping ground in Costa Del Essex, H ?

[fleabag]

I confess that i was actually born in Barking hospital,  but the paradise that is Dagenham was where my parents lived at the time.

I worked in Hornchurch in my early days of working,  and Romford.  And then started the outward trajectory that you speak of.  I got a lot further than you, as you can see

So i win 

[smudge9000]

I was drawn into the epicentre that is Essex! Norfolk boy originally

[fleabag]

Oooh - outsider !!!  Burn the witch

[Paul S]

Another Essex boy here. My parents moved to Westcliff when I was 4 - 56 years ago, how did that happen? -and apart from a couple of years in London have always lived in southeast Essex. Benfleet for the last 24.

[Geek99]

31 minutes ago, Paul S said:

Another Essex boy here. My parents moved to Westcliff when I was 4 - 56 years ago, how did that happen? -and apart from a couple of years in London have always lived in southeast Essex. Benfleet for the last 24.

are you talking about the relocation, or the passage of 56 years ? 

[Geek99]

welcome smudge, I'm from suffolk originally but have an essex partner. 

[Dad3353]

2 hours ago, Paul S said:

...how did that happen?...

It's the only way, apparently. 

[mangotango]

Another Essex occupant here, and in Hornchurch as well, as referenced by others.

However, I too am an outsider, having arrived from the Frozen North some 37 years ago on a mission of Spreading Culture To The Locals.... you can guess how that turned out.

 

LOL

[Frank Blank]

On 01/05/2018 at 15:26, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

What a small world it is 

Yes, but I wouldn’t like to paint it.

Welcome, and on behalf of all Essex residents, sorry.

[PaulFenderJazz]

I grew up in Hadleigh and went to school in Sarfend! Now up in Suffolk and gigging in and around Ipswich.

[RickyV]

Hi Paul. In Suffolk as well, in Bury St Edmunds. What venues are you playing in Ipswich? We are just starting to get in to some Ipswich pubs - playing at The Plough next month..