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Humorous throwaway comments aside, I really enjoyed the evening.  Particular highlights for me were a candid and slightly more risque/sweary than usual Alan Cynic, and the Deportees were sounding fabulous - tight, assured performance - I remember being struck by how "together" it all sounds.  Gold star, A+, you get to bang the blackboard dusters outside.  Also, thanks Ross for doing the sound - bass during the Deportees set was done spectacularly well - could hear it loud and clear without it dominating everything.  You hit some kind of bass sweet spot there my man.

Well played all involved.

It was lovely stuff.

I was shown this builder webpage on another forum.  I know it says Stratocaster on the headstock.  It's easiest to screengrab your results, if you click the generate button then you have to sign in.  Drag stuff off to the right to remove it.

https://www.yajimastringworks.com/kisekae/CNV_PB/Kis90105_w1300.asp

My effort (showing some obvious Gibson influences ):

Don't know if there's a corresponding guitar builder.  Go have a hunt if you want to make something small and fiddly

Then you can understand why Celtic are annoyed it was not given. If its a pen once it should be a pen every time. Consistency is what everyone wants. 

Consistently right is what I want.

My first bass build:

A body I bought on eBay, some funky top on some light coloured wood.  A generic P bass type neck.  SD Alnico MM pickup in the neck, SD Quarter Pound J pickup at the bridge.  Artec SE2 preamp.  Hipshot bridge.  Shellac finish.

Fecker "Imprecision" bass - an Affinity Squier with a custom logo, proper tuners installed and a Badass II bridge.  SD Quarter Pound P pickup.

Epiphone Les Paul (Not so) Standard bass.  Pickup selector switch added.  Guts replaced with 2x EMG-HB pickups and an EMG-BQC 3 band EQ with mid sweep.

Gibson Victory bass.  Received in a hell of a mess (horrible refinish, stupid push button battery switch in the battery cover, back of the neck roasted with a blowtorch?).  Cleaned up, new pickguard, wired up, surface prep, Rich Lewis did the refinish.

Current project in progress - Gibson Ripper.  Bought a poorly refinished empty body/neck.  Sourced all the parts.  Stripped old finish and did surface prep.  Wired up pickguard.  New SD Custom Shop Ripper pickups.  Rich Lewis once again handling the refinish.

Also no pics but assembled a Fat Furry Freak (Wooly Mammoth clone) fuzz pedal.  Frustrating, but interesting and fun to build.  Don't really know if I want it though.

They are clearly more popular than you will ever be.

And there's no need for that, Nostradamus.

What do you mean?

A notional vacuum - just what you're talking about - lack of reviews, lack of feedback, as you said "I'd've been happy to at least see a shit review over no interest at all".  I'm agreeing with you.  Although it's a different thing, it's probably as deflating as playing a gig to five folk .  I can only speak for myself but I guess I'm creating music in an attempt to affect people in some way, whether it's making them dance, making them throw stuff at us, making them want to come and see us again, or making them want to write about it, for better or for worse.

Furthermore, I apologise for contributing to the lack of feedback on your stuff.  I used to be such an opinionated bugger but these days I'm quite the church mouse.

Playing/creating music in a vacuum is dispiriting, I'll give you that.

I do remember playing an enjoyable gig with Panda Eyes supporting Three Blind Wolves in there (25th March 2010, fact fans).  There was a gig with shit loads of guitars.  A couple of comedy nights.  But apart from that, I was rarely in the place.  Either it wasn't my kind of place, or I wasn't Snafu's kind of person.  Sorry to hear of the imminent passing all the same.  It's not pleasant when the work ship you're sailing in suddenly sinks.

Sold two basses recently, and finished paying off another so I figured I could treat myself.  To a brand new 2014 Bullion Gold Gibson EB.  While I can't say I'm a fan of the unfilled ash body, it sounds so good that I'm willing to overlook it.  And it's not gold, it's GOLD.

anyone happen to know where is the youth club in seaton apparently known as "the huts"

Try the first link you get from googling "seaton youth club huts".  If that's not it then I dunno, but at least you will have tried.

Hello. My boiler at home is on the blink. Does anyone on here know a good boiler fixer?

We use Adair & McIntosh - they installed our combi boiler and our gas fire and did a great job.  Just had our boiler checked/serviced last month.  GBOL.

http://www.adairandmcintosh.co.uk/

I can concur that EE is pretty decent for 3G in Aberdeen.  I don't recall getting frustrated with it that much.

right i've googled it already.....

the number 12 will take me from town to torry according to the map oscar road which is where i need to be well torry sports centre to be exact. i will be using first bus as have to take a bus to town hence will have a day ticket.

and how far will i have to walk from the bus stop to the sport centre?

Didn't google hard enough then.  All information from google and the first phone app (which I found on google).  Bus doesn't go all the way up Oscar Road, turns left at Grampian Place, so you have to get off just before that.

3 minutes? What are you, fucking Iron Maiden? 70 second songs FTW.

 

xx

So your anxious wait is only perceived to be 3 and a half minutes long?  Lucky you

very few Aberdeen artists really make the effort to impress themselves on the central belt.

 

I'm finding it hard to impress myself upon Aberdeen, never mind the central belt.  But that's my fault - a combination of inaction, shyness, modesty and a nagging suspicion that I'm wasting people's time.  It's the anxiety that makes a 3 minute song seem to last 9 minutes when you're playing someone one of your tracks waiting to hear what they thought of it.

I saw the new Robocop movie.  To be honest I thought it was a generic action movie, nothing more.  All it made me want to do was watch the original.  The thing that most struck me is much better in the original Robocop - the baddies were waaaaaaay badder.  Dick Jones vs. Raymond Sellars?  Clarence Boddicker vs. Antoine Vallon?  No contest.  The fact that I had to look up the names of the characters two days after seeing it when I haven't seen the original Robocop for YEARS says something about either the frivolousness of the characters or my short term memory.  Of course being a 12A it was never going to match the almost comedic violence of the original (no melting baddies in toxic waste then) so it's perhaps an unfair comparison, but I didn't believe for one minute that the place was going to hell before Robocop came on the scene.  The bit at the start in Tehran was just Team America without the puppets.

Suffice to say I won't be upset if I never see it again.

IT LIVES!  YAAAAAAS!

Gold and black has always worked:

I did buy a Fat Furry Freak in the end.  First run at it was fine out of the box, but a disaster once I wired up the switch and packed it in the box.  Threw it to one side for ages.  Got a new soldering iron for Christmas, and while I was doing the wiring for my Gibson Ripper I decided to revisit.  I wasn't sure if I would toast the board or not but I desoldered all the wires from the board, re-did the switch and shortened the wires to the pots.  To my surprise and delight it worked.  Kinda.  Now I realise that King Doofus here has wired his pots the wrong way round.  I am NOT touching the board again so I'll swap the wires at the pots instead.  At least I only have to swap the outside wires around - middle one's in the right place

Almost there!

That's it. You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, I'm going to buy it.

Yeah!  Fuck you, austerity!

I was feeling saucy earlier. I added it to my basket on Andertons, and whipped out my credit card. Then I chickened out. I should probably have a go on one first, eh?

 

BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE LEFT!

Distance selling - what's the problem?  Buy it, try it, don't like it?  Send it back.  Probably at your expense, but how much would you have to spend to travel somewhere to try one?

Want me to put a few dents and scuffs in your new guitar for you before you even get a hold of it and charge you for the service?  Err, no thanks, crazy person!  

If you didn't guess, I'm not a fan of relicing.  Fair play to you if it's your thing, but guitars and basses are all shiny in my world.

echo in here.

I couldn't tell you - I listened to music for 25 or so years then started to write stuff.  There was no lightbulb moment album, never mind three.  A combination of laziness and lack of confidence in my abilities had thwarted me up to this point.  I don't know who I play or compose like, I don't know who I sound like or what my words suggest, I just want it to be good.  I want people to take something away from it.  Otherwise, what's the point?

I do remember being mesmerised by Cream, "Fresh Cream", exhilarated by Iron Maiden, "Iron Maiden" and prising my jaw off the floor the first time I listened to Radiohead, "OK Computer" if that helps.  How all that affected me, I don't really know.