Hazy Bass Posted February 2, 2010 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Ayup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Burrito Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Welcome to Basschat Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Welcome. It's lots more fun being a member Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.i.stein Posted February 3, 2010 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Hey Welcome to Basschat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazy Bass Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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