neepheid

its awesome. i know tina from my time at uni and only met mike for the first time when i got there. we never really intended to play a gig, we went out there to record but got side tracked with all the fun going on down there. the wee cafe is amazing - great food - and the bus depot is like rambo land for big people. nice recording studion too. whats your band? you'll love it there. we only played to 9 people (because it was short notice) but everyone was really into it and we made more money than you would playing any other venue in town. haha.

I'm in The Oxbow Lake Band. Cheers for the lowdown on the Depot, very intriguing looking place from the website and your videos, I must remember to take the video camera for our gig on the 28th!

Noisy and spiky, I enjoyed that.

How did you find playing at the Depot? We've got a gig there in a few weeks, had a look at the website - seems like an intriguing place...

The case is now sold.

I'm selling a Thomann bass hard case, just like this one:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_ebass_case.htm

Only used once, to transport a bass from Germany to here. £34.30 + postage from Thomann, yours for £25.

The Oxbow Lake Band are delighted to announce the release of their latest song "At the Festival" which looks forward with excited anticipation to our appearance at Belladrum Festival in August. You can have a listen to it and download it for free at the following places:

Soundcloud:

soundcloud.com/oxbowlake/at-the-festival

Bandcamp: http://theoxbowlake.bandcamp.com

Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/oxbowlake

Thanks for listening

Matt fae The Oxbow Lake Band

The Oxbow Lake Band are performing at Cafe Drummond on Thursday 26th July. Support TBC. Free entry so come on down for some funky music and let your hair down. It's a school night, but there's only Friday to stumble through

Be seeing you...

I like the black scratcher.

BLACK SCRATCHER!? BLACK SCRATCHER!?

200 CD's up four flights of stairs sounds pretty terrifying! I could easy take some boxes off yr hands though.

Cool, I've found about 15 of various sizes, all flattened.

I am considering multiple bags for life, but I am worried that the CD's might rattle about too much.

Don't use bags - I have lots of boxes that flat screen monitors came in, I moved my CDs in these and once full they were heavy, but not unreasonably so. Should get a good couple of hundred in each box. You're welcome to as many boxes as you need, I have them flattened.

Bump

Holy balls, that SG bass is beautiful man.

this is awesome Matt

Thanks guys, I'm liking it so far. No neck dive, to my surprise (grippy strap of course, probably wouldn't work with a shiny, slippy strap). Sounds similar to my Gibson IV but a little more gruff and growly, probably due to the pickups being a little closer to the bridge. Played it at Slains on Friday night and it sounded pretty good to me (the bassist it was connected to could maybe have been better though )

I had been trying to pick up some Vic Wooten material, mainly trying to get some of his techniques down then worrying about actual riffs and songs as a secondary objective. Then I got lazy and stopped being arsed.

Good call. Wrong reasons, but good call nonetheless. I wouldn't bother with it because I find all this "celebrity bassist" stuff leaves me cold because I find it so perpendicular to the whole point of playing bass in an ensemble, group, beat combo of whatever kind. For me, that point is being the glue that sticks the drummer/percussionist onto the rest of the band in a cohesive and melodically aware fashion. Bass is not about "hey, look at me!" but more "you'll notice me when I'm gone".

Also trying to learn some theory and ideally learn to sight-read. Just because.

Good call. All sorts of possibilities become available (and obvious) - a little knowledge goes a long way.

Me? We've just finished recording some stuff. Got some good ol' stuff to cover in my lessons (bit of James Brown, Aretha etc.). Got a couple of weeks downtime bandwise (holidays etc.) but got a couple of gigs at the end of the month.

Why is it a problem? Left your car somewhere you shouldn't have?

Far too much skinny stringed nonsense going on in here again so I guess I'm going to have to come in and sort it out. Again.

So there.

The example used reminds me of the spelling bee in the Family Guy episode:

Can you use it in a sentence, please?

Can you use it in a dirty sentence, please?

Could you use it in a libellous sentence, please?

The Oxbow Lake band are in the middle of their North East coast tour, pulling into a coastal venue (OK, we cheat sometimes and are a bit inland ) near you and incorporating an appearance on the Square Wheels Potting Shed Stage at Belladrum Festival!

Remaining dates (because I should have done this last month, oops)

29/06/2012 - Slains Castle, Aberdeen

26/07/2012 - Cafe Drummond, Aberdeen

28/07/2012 - The Last Bus Depot, New Pitsligo

03/08/2012 - Square Wheels Potting Shed Stage, Belladrum Festival

10/08/2012 - Cruden Bay Harbour Festival, Cruden Bay

05/10/2012 - The Mallard, Dingwall (TBC)

06/10/2012 - Mad Hatters (Hootananny), Inverness

Be seeing you...

The Oxbow Lake Band return to the orchestra pit of Slains Castle for a night of top tunes, bad dancing and good times!

Also playing that night are Q-nim and Jamie Rodden.

Things kick off at 8pm, free entry. Hope to see you there!

£300 for this rig is so good. Genuinely shocked no one is snapping it up!

Don't worry, Ronz will be here shortly to offer me £50 for the lot

Give me a shout if you'd consider splitting the rig and selling the head alone.

xx

In an ideal world, I'd love to oblige, but in this world we live in all that will happen is that I'll be left with a cab I can't shift. If by some miracle someone wants the cab on its own then I'll let you know

Well, I thought I had this sold, but I've been let down. Grumbly bump.

I believe the question is posed because of this stupid "head to head record" stuff trumping goal difference. Confusing and alienating. If I heard the term "mini-league" one more time on Monday night I think I might have put the telly off. Can we not just reward goals AND good defending by doing it the same way we've always done it? While watching the climax of Group C there was a time when Italy would have gone through as group winners with the worst goal difference - it just annoys me.

The bass is now sold.

For £125.

Yodel are as far as I am concerned the worst couriers in the UK. This is how a 4x10 bass cabinet was delivered to me:

Not only am I mystified as to how they could have achieved this, it took months (and threats of reporting to trading standards etc.) to extract compensation out of them. It's up to you of course but I wouldn't trust them to deliver a ball bearing safely.

£100?

Ronz

No.

neepheid

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