Flaneur

There's nothing stopping you guys having an Allman Brothers- style twin drummer setup. The guitarists would need hella big rigs - but that's a good thing, innit?

Plangent

Saw a couple on Gumtree..............

Nope- it ,means we have an electro-acoustic bass and would like to hear you play it. We also like fiddlers and cellists, if you know any? Uke players, Cigar Box guitarists, you name it............... Turn up, sit in, play your own stuff, try something way out of your comfort zone, whatever............ it's meant to be fun and it is.

It isn't a mid-week jam- but it is well established. We usually have the session on the last Sunday of each month- but the next one is on July 1st. Hope you can make it- either on the 1st, or in future. If you don't have an electro-acoustic, you can use mine......

Buy some flat wounds..... or at least, a set with a wound third string. Release your inner Joe Pass

On the subject of rockabilly- I see the Revolutionaires aren't listed to play at this year's Dundee Blues Bonanza- which is a shame, because they are an outstanding band.

The solution to all those neck-diving SG/ 10 pound Les Paul/ 3 hour gig problems......... just bought a Leathercraft Big Softee guitar strap. Made in the UK, 4 inch width, feels lovely and sits where you put it. They have 'em at R'n'B......

It's a bit unfair to condemn all SS amps out of hand. Most of the jazz players you've ever heard of use them, plus promising up-and -comers like B.B. King. To answer your question, I can recommend Champ 600s- tons of clean Fender tone, takes pedals well, won't wake the baby. I also bought a Roland Cube 15 for £20. Perfectly respectable sound, sturdy and lightweight. I gig mine, a couple of times each month- although I never expected to...... Keep the HRD, pick up something cheap

The Smiddy Bar in Daviot has a friendly electro-acoustic jam on the last sunday of each month, starting at 3pm. The landlord is a guitarist and singer and the locals are welcoming to newcomers and new styles of music. The structure leans more towards a companionate, Irish feel, rather than the sometimes competitive and bitchy open mic nights. If you'd like to just play your own stuff, unaccompanied, though, that'll be no problem. Daviot is near Inverurie, by the way............... Like you, I enjoy backing other musicians and singers. It's fun stretching your skills and satisfying to help a new performer along the road.

I saw chalk dust! That ball was on the line!

Crap - but a good way to go..........

Oh yeah..... the next jam at my mate's pub is on the 27th of May. I usually do plenty of 50s style blues- Muddy, Elmore, Sonny Boy. If you can make it, we can do it more in the manner of T Bone or Louis Jordan, if you like? Electro-acoustics only....... The Smiddy Bar, Daviot, near Inverurie, 3 'till 7

Gotta big this post Any mention of T Bone and Duke Robillard is a good thing. Check out the Youtube clips of Jimmie Vaughan at Burnley Blues festival, the other week........ he was masterful and understated. You'd have loved it:music:

http://www.aberdeen-music.com/threads/daves-big-guitar-sale-6-guitars-going-cheap.52446/ Played this Thinline at the weekend. It's a very nice sounding guitar and looks great;-)

Bit of a niche market in Aberdeen, I would think. The internet is your friend, in this regard........ If you're already comfortable with open tunings, it's quite possible to teach yourself some basic Jerry Douglas style Country phrasing. Blues is even more straightforward, if you have done any slide playing on regular guitars. What sort of music are you looking to play?

Terrible news.

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_vintage_overdrive.htm?sid=867f5db6660e3014b22790df2bac3fbe .....looks like Thomann are selling Joyo stuff under their own brand.

I bought a lightly scuffed Biyang OD-8, for about a fifth of the retail price of the Tubescreamer it emulates. It's very tweakable and extremely well built. It can be used for a nice clean boost, to warm up and thicken the sound of a SS amp and to put dirt into any mix. I like the extra option to run it through the clean channel of a Marshall or Fender valve rig- giving distinctive, slightly different tones to the normal Marshall OD sounds, in my JCM602, for example. Like with a lot of pedals, running it in conjunction with the amp's OD channel is a case of subtraction by addition......... Highly recommended.

Negotiating with Mr Amazon for the DVD of Rory Gallagher's '74 Irish Tour. The Belfast guy I work with needs to see this fantastic document of his adolescence- and I know he's too mean to pay for his own copy. Just doing my sociological duty

I like the way you've kept a neat space, in the bottom left corner.... for the further 6 or 7 pedals that must surely be added, in the near future:)

Bought an FRV1-the Boss Fender '63 reverb pedal- recently. Not as versatile as some of the Holy Grail types but very good at what it is designed to do- emulate vintage Fender tones. If you like classic Fender sounds but have an amp without built-in Reverb........ like a Bassman, for instance......... and you can't stretch to a tube reverb tank- this might do the job.

Wish he'd turn the sun up today. Bloody freezing again...........

What were you thinking was a sensible offer for the JV?

I see Duane Eddy has gigs in Glasgow and Newcastle next month.............. the original King of the Fat Strings.