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Author Message jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 254 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 2:30 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. davehouck Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 2099 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 5:55 am:    Happy Birthday!! jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 255 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 6:40 am:    Hey, Thanks dave. Stuck at work just now but it won't be long till I escape ;-) Graeme 811952 Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 445 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 6:57 am:    As Dave said, Happy Birthday! lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 546 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 8:11 am:    Happy Birthday, Graeme. Have a great one and make sure you get a solo! LOL Bill, tgo 57basstra Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 53 Registered: 4-2005 Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - 4:16 pm:    Happy Birthday, Graeme, and many more. (May you receive Alembics as birthday presents!) jacko Advanced Member Username: jacko Post Number: 256 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 12:53 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 57basstra Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 55 Registered: 4-2005 Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 9:01 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.