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Title: More Big Tuna
Post by: jacko on July 26, 2005, 02:30:32 AM

Well, I figure the best way to celebrate a birthday is to be out playing so that's what I'll be doing tonight at Whistle Binkies' in Edinburgh. I've asked a colleague to get some decent photos of me this time  - fingers crossed she remembers her camea. Also coming up, Saturday the 30th, we'll be at the Foresthill arms in Auchtermuchty.

Title: More Big Tuna
Post by: David Houck on July 26, 2005, 05:55:43 AM

Happy Birthday!!

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Post by: jacko on July 26, 2005, 06:40:52 AM

Hey, Thanks dave. Stuck at work just now but it won't be long till I escape ;-)
 
Graeme

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Post by: 811952 on July 26, 2005, 06:57:38 AM

As Dave said, Happy Birthday!

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Post by: lbpesq on July 26, 2005, 08:11:19 AM

Happy Birthday, Graeme.   Have a great one and make sure you get a solo!  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

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Post by: 57basstra on July 26, 2005, 04:16:14 PM

Happy Birthday, Graeme, and many more.  
 
(May you receive Alembics as birthday presents!)

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Post by: jacko on July 27, 2005, 12:53:35 AM

Thanks for the good wishes guys, it wasn't one of the important numbers like Paul TOBOs last birthday. It turned out the gig was a 40 minute showcase (in the hope of getting a proper gig at that venue sometime in the future) which went over really quickly. I used my Rogue throughout, played through the house bass rig, - an Ashdown Mag300 head into a 4x10. On stage it sounded really boomy but Mike Pisanek out in the audience said it sounded really tight at the bottom end but a bit 'middly' on the higher strings. Whatever: it's turned me right off ashdown.
No Alembic birthday presents David, just a loan of Mikes 6 string graphite upright for a few weeks while his country band takes a break. The fingerboard feels about twice the width of my rogue 5! Should be fun learning to play the thing.
 
Graeme

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Post by: 57basstra on July 27, 2005, 09:01:27 AM

Uprights are a whole lot of fun, Graeme. Try using two or three fingers together on you picking hand to act as a kind of flipper. It makes for a more whole sound with good control and also gives your indivudual picking or strumming fingers a break.