Post of picture of you PLAYING your ric

[iamthebassman]

Nice outdoor gig this summer, before I lost 48 lbs.

[rickaddict]

48 LBS? WOW! Congrat's Ron!

That's like 1/3 of a Jeff Thomas!

[johnallg]

48 LBS? WOW! Congrat's Ron!

That's like 1/3 of a Jeff Thomas!

+1 Ronn! Congrats! How'd you do it? I've lost about 26 lbs and kept it off, but seemed to stopped there.

[iamthebassman]

Weight Watchers actually. Started it on my 50th birthday in June. For reference, here's a shot from last month, same shirt even.

[johnallg]

Sounds like you're doing what I said I would when I turned 50. 6 years later I still have a ways to go.

[cheyenne]

Lookin' good Ronn., I bet you feel better dont you??? I've taken 23 lbs off myself.

Nice GK rig.

[loves4003]

Or did you mean you sold the GallienKrueger?

[iamthebassman]

Or did you mean you sold the GallienKrueger?

Ha, the backline was supplied by the festival, the GK rig's not mine.

[henry5]

This is me last night, only the 3rd gig in 2 or so years. It was for charity...unfortunately I was some way off my best due to nerves (and illness!).

[bassduke49]

Good shot, Shaun. I make it out to be a '70s 4000 set-neck in Jetglo with a custom white-edged pickguard, yes?

[henry5]

Correct Paul, it's a '73. The pickguard was on when I bought it, and I liked the look so never took it off.

Here's me with my CS from the same gig; strangely I've been starting to find the 4000 a bit too aggressive recently (maybe I'm just getting old!) and I switched to the far more mellow CS 2/3 of the way through the gig, which helped me recover somewhat from my early nerves. I think sometimes if I can hear myself too well it puts me off!

[wints]

Hey, you get to share the stage with Superman tho' Shaun!

[henry5]

Hey Andy, it's just a good job I wasn't wearing my Superman t-shirt too, because I nearly did!

[cheyenne]

I can relate to the nerves Shaun, one of the saxaphonists in my old blues band had a life changing accident, so we'ved reformed and are playing a benefit for him tonight.

Im nervous as a cat. We've not played together since about 2004, with only a few rehearsals.

[henry5]

Best of luck Scott. It's difficult when you've been out for a while. I've always suffered from nerves onstage, and only when I'm gigging frequently do I seem to be able to deal with them properly. Normally I have a couple of beers before playing and that takes the edge off, but I had flu (or something similar) and didn't really want to drink. Of course I abandoned that a song or so in, I could hardly play! Typically I was just starting to relax by the end of our short set. If they'd given me another half hour, I'd have been fine...