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dadabass2001 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 22, 2010, 09:12:14 AM »

Alright Graeme!
Nice pix. What songs do you play fretless on?
Have a blast brother. I hope your carpal tunnel subsides and behaves itself.
Mike

jazzyvee · « **Reply #16 on:** June 22, 2010, 11:29:46 AM »

Are those pink strings Jacko?

jacko · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2010, 01:14:29 AM »

Mike. Here's all the fretless songs from our list of around 85 covers..
1.   Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
2.   Red Morning Light (Kings of Leon)
3.   Molly?s Chambers (Kings of Leon)
4.   Hard to Handle (Otis Redding)
5.   The Only One I Know (Charlatans)
6.   You Stole the Sun (Manic St Preachers)
7.   Vertigo (U2)
8.   Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
9.   Times Like These (Foo Fighters)
10.   Creep (Radiohead)
11.   Golden Touch ? (Razorlight)
12.   Yellow (Coldplay)
13.    Dakota (Stereophonics)
14.   Hate to Say I Told You (Hives)
15.   Be Yourself (Audioslave)
16.   Living for the Weekend (Hard Fi)
17.   Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
18.   rose (the feeling)
19.   Gravity (Embrace)
20.   You and Me (lifehouse
21.   Heaven (bryan adams)
22.   You're in my heart (rod stewart)
23.   Don't want to miss a thing (aerosmith)

Alot of these are wedding songs so for Heather's party we kept to the rockier numbers - Hives, Green day, stereophonics and so on. I love to swap to the fretless now and again as it feels nicer to play and it's a heck of alot lighter than the signature ;-)

As for the CTS, I saw a specialist last night who is sending me to another hospital to have electrodes inserted which send a current down my arm to measure the current loss which tells them how bad it is. Hopefully a steroid injection may control it but if they decide it's bad enough they'll operate. The doctor did reassure me that I wouldn't lose any mobility in my fingers, even when my wrist was bandaged. I just have to wait and see.

jazzy - They're DR red devils. I tried a set of D'addario chrome flatwounds recently but hated the feel once my fingers had warmed up in a gig so the DRs went back on. I have DR black beauties on the sig and peacock blues on the epic too.

I should have posted this pic of the birthday girl with the band...

Graeme

jacko · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2010, 04:22:18 AM »

Just a reminder on the offchance anyone's in Central Scotland at the weekend, 10pm till 2am we're at Behind the Wall in Falkirk. - last chance to catch us at a public gig until mid August.

Graeme

jacko · « **Reply #19 on:** July 19, 2010, 09:31:29 AM »

Although I'm always complaining that the wedding gigs just don't do it for me, every now and then we get one that really hits the spot and Saturday's gig at Gean House in Alloa did just that. Load in was easy, the bride and groom were falling over themselves to make sure we had everything we needed and for once, the dance floor was full from start to finish (about 3 hours of playing). The venue was a really nice stately home...

I could get used to this..

We're having a few weeks off now to cope with holidays. When we're back we have pub gigs, an outdoor festival and a trip to Skye to look forward to. Graeme

David Houck · « **Reply #20 on:** July 19, 2010, 11:28:31 AM »

Graeme, I think you uploaded the wrong picture; that first pic appears to be a hotel.

jacko · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2010, 12:50:20 AM »

Hotel, Conference centre and home to some clan or other Dave. The music room took up the area where the tall window is in the middle of the house. Stags heads and crossed swords everywhere.

Graeme

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2010, 06:36:02 AM »

Very nice! Cherish the memory, Graeme.
My festival venue Saturday was an unpainted plywood stage with two 20 amp circuits for everything, only enough room on stage for one bands gear at a time, and one set of stairs. Each band had to wait for the previous to strike their gear before the next could set up.
Mike

jacko · « **Reply #23 on:** July 22, 2010, 04:37:00 AM »

The groom has sent a couple of pictures from the audience's point of view...

Graeme

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 22, 2010, 09:48:12 AM »

Now that's a party!
Mike

lbpesq · « **Reply #25 on:** July 22, 2010, 07:31:50 PM »

The bride and groom both wore a dress?! lol

Bill,tgo

jacko · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2010, 01:08:36 AM »

It's a strange country Bill :-) Going 'Commando' is also a requirement for the men at these do's; frightening if one of them decides to breakdance!

Graeme

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2010, 06:54:58 AM »

As Monty Python put it, that's part of the Nae True exhibit

Mike

jacko · « **Reply #28 on:** August 17, 2010, 04:37:11 AM »

We have a few 'Fun' gigs coming up.

Friday 20th at Behind the Wall, Falkirk from 10pm.
Saturday 21st at Dysart gala form around 5.30.

Friday and saturday 27th / 28th at the Portree Hotel, Portree, Isle of skye form around 9pm both nights.

graeme

jacko · « **Reply #29 on:** August 23, 2010, 04:49:57 AM »

Just had a fantastic weekend. I've retubed my ampeg with JJ's and the tone is superb. Friday's gig went really well with the room bouncing right till 1.30am. Saturday afternoon was even better, we played around 1 1/2 hours non stop with the sun shining and everyone trying to crowd into the marquee to dance. My carpal tunnel problem didn't surface until late sunday afternoon after I'd been welding and grinding on my car for a couple of hours so I'm less worried about that than I have been. Seeing the specialist on thursday then it's off to Skye for a weekend of gigging.

Graeme