Slade Time

[TBird1958]

Holy Crap! Look at that backline!

[Big_Stu]

Was that when you were trying to nick the set list ?

Yeah  Well, that's what Jimmy said, but I was really helping his tech hold down a lyrics sheet on the stage at his feet while he tried to untangle his hands from Gaffer tape.
Though I did rob the sheet after the gig had finished. It was the same night that they had the auction for Nod's Hiwatts. Nomis got a cab for £70!!!! 

[uwe]

Holy Crap! Look at that backline!

And they were serious about it too. My first experience of Slade live was a late seventies gig in a small hall - well after their first commercial prime and not yet in their second, but well-honed from all that incessant US touring they did in the late seventies in a vain attempt to crack the former colony - and they were so unbelievably loud that after the PA lit up when Noddy sang "hear me calling loud" (the TYA tune) a guy in front of the pa speakers had instant nose bleed. Happy days!

Uwe

[godofthunder]

Holy Crap! Look at that backline!

See where I get it from ?

[Big_Stu]

And they were serious about it too. My first experience of Slade live was a late seventies gig in a small hall - well after their first commercial prime and not yet in their second.
Uwe

It was the same set that they played at Reading, they were such last minute replacements that they hadn't time to rehearse anything else, and they were widely seen by the media as the best act of that year. There were many Slade fans in the UK handing out a whole lot of "I told you so" that year! 

[TBird1958]

Yup!

Impeccable taste sir!

[Big_Stu]

Scott, did I do you a bootleg CD of the Lochem gig, "Lochem Up Your Daughters"? It's very similar set but better quality than the Reading bootleg.

[godofthunder]

Holy Crap! Look at that backline!

That picture is now my wall paper   My madness is clear, A picture of my rig with the recently aquired Hiwatt 2050 2x15 cab, photo shopped by Kenny into my rig with a extra DR201.

[TBird1958]

 

I'm suffering "rig envy"



Obviously size does matter 

[Big_Stu]

Just found this old-ish pic from JayDee of Jim with his JD built for the 1983 tour but never used on stage. Though he did let me have a brief go on it after the Glasgow gig on that tour.
He asked "Bet you've never seen a bass with a wang-bar before?", to which I disappointed him by answering "Actually there was one in last week's Melody Maker".

[Freuds_Cat]

What the hell are those pups?

[Big_Stu]

What the hell are those pups?

Wood shell pups, adjusted from the back.
http://www.jaydeeguitars.com/classic.php

[birdie]

Jimmy Lea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Thanks Jules.  Bass look familiar ?    If all goes well I''ll have a Hiwatt DR201 frome SLADE's backline at the end of the month Keeping my fingers crossed !

Is that yours???!

[Big_Stu]

Just found this pic on an old hard drive which is Slade back in 1977 after getting equipped all round by John Birch. Jim has the original version of his bass which went back into Birch's a year later for a lighter refin & to get rid of the switched pot next to the overdrive. The Magnum pups were switched to Superflux's to get more high end out of it when soloing.

It came back looking identical to Scott's.



Dave "J1" had fart oo many knobs for sanity, one of them was an onboard treble booster, I think the other one was a sustain.
Nod has a 1961 SG Junior with a John Birch Magnum & JB bridge. It was stolen off him 3 years later after a gig.

[TBird1958]

Dave Hill really knew how to "class up" a photo