For those who have been pondering as to the lack of updates recently I have one thing to say: HeyEsse.com!

One of the bands/projects I am working on at the moment has kinda, well, become quite popular and as a result we have been locked in DM Studios for the past coupla months trying to throw together some demos for all you lovely people.

Between this I have also been working on writing some new material and feel I want to tamper with the sound a little more now so I’m looking to throw together some dance tracks, just to keep me on my toes.

Hopefully there will be new songs, videos and images available shortly and I’ll get a little content up here for y’all!

Replacing the Ibanez Ergodyne EDA 900 was always going to be an easy task, apart from the fact it looks like a sex toy there was little else good I could say about it. However, with the intention of buying a GB and Music Man (Both custom) this replacement has to have some certain abilities, namely high end clarity without dropping the low end punch.

Finding a Flea Bass in Kenny’s music store (Dundee) I had no choice but to sit down and run my fingers over what I anticipated would be the perfect (cheap alternative) slap bass. How wrong I was, punchy yet clicky on the high end  and with little power on the low end it all felt a bit… well, cheap.

Before I ran out the door however I had to have a shot of their ‘Bass Collection Power Bass’. I’m advised the ‘Bass Collection’ company build fresh remakes modelled on older yet highly regarded basses. How right they have it! All the power requires from the low end was evident before even plugging in and the high end clarity was sharp and an absolute pleasure to play.

Now it’s mine! Having looked for so long for the perfect (cheap alternative) replacement I couldn’t walk away without the one bass I’ve found which felt so right under my fingers.

Now in a coupla pieces whilst she has a customer scratch plate designed by Symon Mathieson, I’ll upload some pictures of the beautiful and full bodied ‘Mandy’ very shortly.

For example, everyone keeps complaining that the wind turbines are ruining our view of the countryside. I disagree, I think the are a particularly beautiful sight combining mother natures beauty and power with the brilliant simplicity of the technological age. But why white? Why not just make them clear? Surely they’d stand out less and provide intellectual insight into the workings – for those of us geeky enough to enjoy such a thing – and parent/child teaching apparatus to educate and excite our childrens interest in learning and using knowledge to better our world.

Likewise, why don’t cars have sonar? I mean, it works for submarines, why won’t it work in allowing us to see oncoming objects in the middle of the night on country back roads, or round those blind corners we fear so much. Call it a Ping Pointer, stick it on the dash, give it a back light, add a coupla grand onto the price of the car and a disclaimer advising “It’s just for assistance, it may not always be right” and Bob’s your particularly rich Uncle.

Many people are suggesting that the password protection screen-savers will stick a big whole in the idea. I was thinking, why don’t people:
(A) Make an app so that numbers can be stored seperatly as ICE numbers?
(B) Ask the big phone companies if they could pre-programme the option to set numbers as ICE numbers on our phones?

This way, when the paramedics turn up, they can enter the password 423 (ICE) and see all numbers registered as ICE numbers, allowing them to call from another phone.

I wonder how long before someone with the ‘skillz’ reads this