Hazy Bass Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 ... introducing myself that is ... Been browsing the forum for a little while & finally found time to join a couple of weeks ago ... and it's only taken another couple of weeks to get round to this ... Been playing bass & guitar in various bands since I was at school in the (late) 1970s, but for the last few years it's been almost exclusively bass. Nearest claim to fame was having a couple of my songs played by John Peel on Radio 1 in the early 80s ... sadly that was the closest I came ... Now living in Horsham after moving out from London & gigging mostly around West Sussex. Current kit is: Status Electro (mark 1) Steinberger Spirit (for spare & practice & taking on holiday etc. - and also so my 10 year old son doesn't trash the Status!) EA iAmp Micro 300 (bought through this forum last week) Bass Pod XT Live (soon to be unloaded - watch the ads) Running the EA as a pre-amp through the PA at the moment (sounds awesome), but looking for a suitable cab. Also about to take the plunge into EUB territory - which is what got me started on browsing this forum. It was going to be an NS designs NXT, but I've also just been offered a Clifton Mini Upright ... twice the price but very tempting! Now I just need to make a decision ... ... will keep you posted. Cheers, Andy Quote
Marvin Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Welcome. It's lots more fun being a member Quote
phil.i.stein Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) [quote name='makssbass' post='733579' date='Feb 2 2010, 10:40 PM']Nearest claim to fame was having a couple of my songs played by John Peel on Radio 1 in the early 80s ... sadly that was the closest I came ...[/quote] i take this to mean that your band was either really really good or just-plain-weird , so spill the beans, who, what and when ? oh and welcome !! Edited February 3, 2010 by phil.i.stein Quote
Hazy Bass Posted February 6, 2010 Author Posted February 6, 2010 [quote name='phil.i.stein' post='734354' date='Feb 3 2010, 06:52 PM']i take this to mean that your band was either really really good or just-plain-weird , so spill the beans, who, what and when ? oh and welcome !![/quote] We certainly thought we were really really good, but I suspect we weren't really quite as good as we thought! Not particularly weird either, but we had a kind of post-punk angry-young-man energy which probably appealed to Mr Peel, a couple of good demos & a bit of attitude ... managed to get a few support gigs with some of the second division mod bands at the time (The Purple Hearts, The Chords ...) I think we probably got about as far as we were worth (unfortunately) ! Quote
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