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21Jan2008

Last night a DJ shaved my wife…



Hi all
Well last friday’s show was bet­ter than the one before, and hope­fully will con­tinue to get bet­ter..
Any com­ments and CONSTRUCTIVE crit­i­cism will be gladly received..
xxGuy

37 comments

  1. Thomas Robinson - January 21, 2008 5:36 PM

    The only crit­i­cism i would have is that of Planet Rocks web­site. It might just be my com­puter but i find it hard to actu­ally get to the lis­ten again fea­ture, and then when i’m there i can’t fast for­ward and it has a habit of just stop­ping after a short while, so i have to start all over again. As a result i have only heard a bit of your show, it would be a lot eas­ier if i could just down­load it but never mind, but what i heard of it was very good. By the way, i was­n’t crit­i­cis­ing you, just the web­site.

    Could i just ask, how do you man­age to do a radio show at that time of night? I’m not sure i’d be able to stay awake long enough.

  2. Phoenix - January 21, 2008 6:27 PM

    Thomas, I think they read the book first and real­ized it was eas­ier giv­ing him a night gig than a morn­ing one. 😉

    Guy, it was much smoother this time around, to be expected with more prac­tice and all. I do kinda won­der who else was in the stu­dio with you, because when­ever you were say­ing some­thing funny and started laugh­ing, I heard some­one else laugh­ing as well.

    The only other thing that comes to mind is that every time you switch from the mic to the next song or advert, I hear the click of what­ever but­ton does that before the song kicks in. Don’t know what kind of gear PR has you using, and it’s been ages since I’ve lis­tened to a tra­di­tional radio sta­tion (will­ingly, that is), so I don’t recall if that’s stan­dard or not.

    Nix.
    (Yes, I /​did/​ rearrange my work sched­ule on Fridays so I’d be able to lis­ten to the show instead of being in the mid­dle of the com­mute home…)

  3. karen - January 22, 2008 6:48 AM

    Um, Phoenix you did well to be able to rearrange your work sched­ule to lis­ten to the show.

    I how­ever strug­gled to get out of bed at 10am Sydney time on Saturday, after get­ting mildly drunk cel­e­brat­ing my 40th birth­day the night before, to lis­ten to the show live. Only to realise when show was over, the web­site allows you to lis­ten to any show any­time up to 7 days after air­ing.

  4. Phoenix - January 22, 2008 9:25 AM

    Karen, it needed doing for other rea­sons entirely (mainly I am not a morn­ing per­son either and work wanted me in later any­way, so it was a happy coin­ci­dence). Something like this, I pre­fer lis­ten­ing to live instead of canned … and given how noto­ri­ous I am about neglect­ing to do things imme­di­ately (hence why my DVR is always full of telly I haven’t got around to watch­ing), I’d prob­a­bly for­get (shame on me) and miss every­thing, so this arrange­ment works out well for me.

    And far more impor­tantly, happy belated birth­day! I hope you had a great time with all your mates!

    Nix.

  5. Becky in Atlanta - January 22, 2008 12:58 PM

    Hey, Guy. I haven’t yet been able to catch your show live but I’m now hap­pily “lis­ten­ing again” to Friday’s show. Feeling a lit­tle “Alice in Wonderland”…how can one lis­ten again when one has­n’t lis­tened to being with? Anyhow, I’m glad that you’re back on the air­waves!!!

    The only com­ment I would make is it would be nice if there were a way for Mac folks to tune in. (Or is there a way and I missed it? That’s always a pos­si­bil­ity!)

    Kive (that’s “love” with my fin­gers on the wrong keys),
    Becky

  6. Becky in Atlanta - January 24, 2008 2:51 AM

    Thank you kindly, Ricardo Padua! I’m rel­a­tively new to this Mac thing but I’m lov­ing it.

    😀

    Becky

  7. karen - January 24, 2008 6:56 AM

    Ta, very much Phoenix.

  8. Genevieve - January 29, 2008 8:26 PM

    Hi,
    Just saw there will be a show in London in march, maybe the only oppur­tu­nity for us to be able to enjoy this great per­for­mance.
    I won­der when the tick­ets will be on sale, and if there will be tick­ets for ordi­nary peo­ple like us.We already check planes and we think we’ll make it.

    Geneviève, from Brittany

  9. Paul Sexton - January 30, 2008 9:50 PM

    A small ques­tion if i could be so bold, Guy. What is your opin­ion on boot­leg­ging, by this i dont mean peo­ple with them cr*ppy phones but minindisc, stereo mic etc. I have a friend (cough) who down­loads the odd con­cert now and again some of which are very good. I see some newer acts, Joe Bonamassa, Dave Matthews actu­ally encour­age it.
    Hope your stand up shows con­tinue after next months gig!
    Thanks
    Paul

  10. Guy Pratt - February 1, 2008 1:49 AM

    Genevieve
    I will save you tick­ets if you come!!!!

    I like boot­leg­ging, the only alter­na­tive is for bands to make albums of every show they ever do!
    xxGuy

  11. Genevieve - February 1, 2008 6:39 PM

    Thanks, Guy, so I’ll book the plane and acco­mo­da­tion right now !

  12. Genevieve - February 1, 2008 6:43 PM

    How I for­got, Guy, I will pay for the tick­ets, just want to be sure there will still room for us.

  13. Thomas Robinson - February 1, 2008 9:41 PM

    I saw on one web­site that the 5th of March gig is a “farewell gala per­for­mance.” But this isn’t the last show that you are doing is it? I also saw on a dif­fer­ent web­site that was sell­ing tick­ets that said that it was for over 18s only. Is this just some­thing that that one web­site are doing or is the entire event for adults only? Also, is this true of all per­for­mances or is it just because of the venue that this one per­for­mance is for adults only?

    Sort of linked to the boot­leg­ging ques­tion but are there any plans to record a live show and release that in some way?

    Final ques­tion, and sorry if this is sound­ing like the span­ish inqui­si­tion but does the paper­back dif­fer in any­way to the hard­back in terms of con­tent?

    Cheers.

    Thomas

  14. Phoenix - February 2, 2008 4:15 AM

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  15. Linda - February 2, 2008 12:41 PM

    our chief wepaon is fear and sur­prise sur­prise and fear

    o nix look what you have me doing . this is as bad as the rot­ten song that gets stuck on your head and you can’t get rid of it . noth­ing played on by guy or course !

    how are things by the way nix i haven’t heard for you in many the long day !

  16. Linda - February 2, 2008 12:42 PM

    o the joys of being dyslexic . that should read from you not for you . how come i can;y see my spelling errros until i send in the com­ment !

  17. Phoenix - February 2, 2008 6:10 PM

    Linda, there’s absolutely noth­ing wrong with hav­ing a Guy-played song stuck in your head. In fact, I’d rather have that than most of the crap on the air­waves now. 🙂

    I’ll drop you an email some­time soon­ish. As for not being able to see your com­ments, there should be a wee pre­view win­dow below the place you type but above the ‘sub­mit com­ment’ but­ton. Magic let­ters appear in it whilst I’m typ­ing now, scary!

    Good show again last night, Guy. I must say I approve of your typ­i­cal playlist. And the amus­ing com­men­tary when you’re read­ing through the Poke Pratts or what­not. It sounds like you’re hav­ing fun, which is always the best part of being on-air.

    Much obliged, good sir.

    Nix.

  18. karen - February 4, 2008 6:54 AM

    Decided to lis­ten to your show while at work today and only when you talk was it dis­tract­ing.

    Karen.

  19. Karen - February 4, 2008 11:30 AM

    For the Australians in the audi­ence,

    Coming up on Spicks and Specks — 6 February — 8:30pm — ABC

    EPISODE 2
    Our spe­cial guests this week are bassist extra­or­di­naire Guy Pratt, come­dian Dave O’Neil, soul singer Guy Sebastian with come­dian & stand-up queen Cal Wilson.

    The clos­ing per­for­mance will fea­ture one of the best bass play­ers in the world and one of the best bass play­ers in his street, Guy Pratt and Dave O’Neil bat­tle it out in a ‘Bass Off’.

  20. Guy Pratt - February 4, 2008 1:38 PM

    The show is for 18 and overs because of the venue..I do intend to release a dvd at some point.
    It’s the last time I’ll be per­form­ing this show in London, Although I may write a new one if I can be both­ered..
    Paperback the same as hard­back…

  21. Phoenix - February 4, 2008 9:33 PM

    A DVD would be splen­dif­er­ous!

  22. Caroline - February 5, 2008 7:27 PM

    The only crit­i­cism i would have is that of Planet Rocks web­site. It might just be my com­puter but i find it hard to actu­ally get to the lis­ten again fea­ture, and then when i’m there i can’t fast for­ward and it has a habit of just stop­ping after a short while, so i have to start all over again.”

    First off, sorry for being quite late to the party…I just hap­pened upon this place a day or two (I know, I know…what took this long-time Floydian so long?), and finally got brave enough to post here.

    Anyway, count me in as one who too has trou­ble with the Planet Rock web­player some­times. My main prob­lems with it are…

    1. Most of the times I’ve paused it for a minute or so (mostly to fin­ish writ­ing com­men­tary for a song in one of my MySpace blog­gings about Guy’s show), the show will play for a few sec­onds to a minute after being started again, and then stop and not start up again!! The two or three times that has hap­pened to me have been highly infu­ri­at­ing, no thanks to…

    2. …not being able to rewind or espe­cially fast-for­ward!! With all due respect to Planet Rock, why does their player fea­ture rewind and fast-for­ward but­tons if you can­not even do that? I wish one could…it would be a lot nicer than hav­ing to wait through an hour of show all over again like I did TWICE on the show’s sec­ond week. Though, at the same time, I really can­not com­plain about hav­ing to do that, because it gave me the oppor­tu­nity to hear “This Flight Tonight” and “Back Street Luv” for the sec­ond and third time ever in my life (we Americans are so deprived when it comes to awe­somely unique clas­sic rock radio… *sighs*).

    Other than all of that, at the risk of repeat­ing myself, I love the show…if I did­n’t, I would not have been brave enough to send in a ‘Poke Pratt’ query. 😉

    Also, I too will be look­ing for­ward to the DVD of your “My Bass and Other Animals” show…I have really enjoyed what I have seen of that on the site, Guy.

    In clos­ing, fetch…THE COMFY CHAIR!!

    No, it does­n’t make a lick of sense, but I just had to get in on the Spanish Inquisition train… >;)

    Caroline

  23. karen - February 7, 2008 4:25 AM

    Hello Guy,

    Your episode of ‘Spicks and Specks’ was aired last night.

    I must say you were def­i­nitely the star of the show; it was very enter­tain­ing, very funny. You seemed to do well with most of the ques­tions, so not know­ing the ‘Flowers ‘song is for­given.

    And you seemed to get a fair bit of air time com­pared to the oth­ers, so think you did very well to get a few sto­ries from book in.

    Did you enjoy it? You seemed pretty relaxed. I assume you have seen it some­how.

    Karen.

  24. Jerzy Mike - February 7, 2008 8:38 PM

    A DJ shaved your wife? Was that yours I heard on Howard Stern??

  25. Phoenix - February 7, 2008 11:26 PM

    You know you’ve won a bass-off when the other guy has to yank your cable in des­per­a­tion to stop you from kick­ing his butt.

    Well done indeed. 🙂

  26. Thomas Robinson - February 8, 2008 9:56 PM

    is there any way of watch­ing the episode online? does the net­work that shows spicks and specks have an inter­net player thingy like the bbc has started? what channel/​network is spicks and specks shown on? i don’t think it’s ever been shown in eng­land has it?

  27. Caroline - February 8, 2008 11:25 PM

    I too would love to see this Spicks and Specks episode, be it through an online player or a copy of sorts. Especially that ‘bass-off’ after what Phoenix said… 😀

    - Caroline

  28. karen - February 12, 2008 4:51 AM

    Unfortunately the net­work that airs ‘Spicks and Specks’ – ABC Australia does not appear to have an inter­net access play back.

    http://​www​.abc​.net​.au/​t​v​/​s​p​i​c​k​s​a​n​d​s​p​e​c​ks/

  29. Alex Paterson - February 12, 2008 4:17 PM

    Hi Guy,

    Thank you sir, a very nice web­site, I see some names I’m famil­iar with in the blog.

    Any plans for another visit to the Edinburgh Festival in 2008?

    I’m the father of the 7 year old boy who you got your photo taken with at the Brixton Ritzy last September. Nice one mate, thanks again for your time.

    Received your book from Amazon at the week­end, cheers.

  30. Phoenix - February 12, 2008 8:09 PM

    Hey, I remem­ber you, Alex! 🙂 Nice to ‘see’ you again.

  31. Alex Paterson - February 13, 2008 5:19 PM

    I did a quick back­track over pre­vi­ous blogs and saw your Xmas video mes­sage. I remem­ber you from both nights in London.

    Guy signed your book and wee Alex took your photo. Nice to see you again too!

    Read the first 15 chap­ters of “My bass …” last night. Good so far, will post again after I’ve read it all.

  32. Phoenix - February 13, 2008 7:56 PM

    So, the news about Planet Rock’s going around… such a shame. Most peo­ple are talk­ing in terms of it being a done deal that it’ll go away, but I won­der if there’s any real hope they’ll secure a new buyer.

    If not, I will cer­tainly miss your show, Guy. It’s been a real treat get­ting to lis­ten to you. If my sta­tion could afford you (and you would­n’t totally destroy our admit­tedly ama­teur-level band­width), I’d ask them if they’d give you a times­lot.

    (And for our ran­dom com­ment of the day for no rea­son at all: Michèle! Il neige ici encore!)

    Nix.

  33. Caroline - February 13, 2008 8:37 PM

    Oh, wow…I had no idea about Planet Rock until I came over here and then went to over to PR’s site and caught the news on the front page.

    I really hate that, and not just ’cause of Guy’s show, but also, Planet Rock is eas­ily the best clas­sic rock sta­tion I’ve hap­pened upon in some­time. I par­tic­u­larly love the fact that they play huge favorites of mine that you hardly ever hear here in the States, like Hawkwind and Budgie, to name a cou­ple.

    Between this and my com­ing down with the flu, it has not been a good day. 🙁

    - Caroline

  34. Graham Knight - February 15, 2008 1:38 PM

    Planet Rock.….Rocks?. I have lis­tened for a num­ber of years I thought it was THE rock sta­tion, it is my Ipod on the Air waves, Sad news.

    how­ever i still keep miss­ing Guys shows, i will put that right this week end. Guy can you play a request for…ALL PLANET ROCK LISTENERS

  35. Thomas Robinson - February 15, 2008 4:14 PM

    Planet Rock might still be saved if they can find a buyer, aparently Brian May has asked if he can buy it!

  36. Alex Paterson - February 15, 2008 4:27 PM

    Yeah Guy, a humdinger of a book, thor­oughly enjoyed it. Laughed my arse off at the Tokyo-Heathrow flight which took me down my own mem­ory lane regard­ing a close friend of mine. haha

    Read it over 2 nights. Good stuff. If only you had been 80 years old, I’d still be read­ing it 😉 I look for­ward to see­ing you head­lin­ing your own show for the first time soon, wher­ever that may be?

    A great CV, you’re one of the most tal­ented bass gui­tarists on the planet mate.

    Next time you’re in Scotland and look­ing for night out, gimme a.….….….….….…… on sec­ond thoughts, bet­ter not as I’ve got kids now, and dont think I could keep up with you either.

    If pos­si­ble can I request an appro­pri­ate track on Planet Rock tonight?

    Beer drinkers and Hellraisers by ZZ Top (or Motorhead).

    Cheers

  37. Graham Knight - March 3, 2008 10:20 AM

    Guy, i finally man­aged to catch your show on Planet rock excel­lent just the sort of show to var­nish my din­ing room floor by!

    i could n’t sleep so i got up & decided to get it out the way (the var­nish­ing, not your show) the only trou­ble being i had to keep remind­ing myself the rest of the house­hold was asleep, the vol­ume slowly increased through­out the show & buy the end of your show i was wide awake & i had painted myself into a cor­ner in the kitchen just as your show had fin­ished so i had to sit on the floor in the kitchen lit­er­aly watch­ing paint dry, luck­ily it was quick dry­ing but i lost momen­tum i & found my head nod­ding as i strug­gled to keep awake. Next week its paint­ing the fences by moon­light!!