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Well, I will do two, although the first one was last saturday, just hadn't got round to it. Last week was a local 'pub on a beauty spot' event - they play gigs on sunday afternoons through the summer, and they are well attended. They don't pay well, the landlord is tight and he knows that people really want that gig, they do, only certain bands are allowed in. The venue is a semi-permenant marque over a fixed shed/stage, its made at the start of the season and taken down at the end. Parking in general is a nightmare, but the band have access to an area at the back, getting to it is another issue due to the traffic trying to park, took 10 minutes to get past the car parks! This was the first of the summer gigs, so looking forward to it. Luckily got there before the guitarist so it was an easy setup, I took my BC12 speaker and a TC450 as I was a little concerned about the Evox8 not starting when we were at the last gig, and didn't want to be doing an ourdoor gig with everything through one Evox8, turned out nothing to worry about, it was fine. Busy as usual, sound was clear and good, crowd were good, although the bass (the rick) sounded lifeless. Midway through the third song realised that the compressor on the 450 was nearly flat out, which was the issue, dialed it out, all sounded good. First half went ok, but seemed a bit flat for some reason. At half time people were doing their usual complaints about the sound, although not usual, in that noone complained about the vocals, I took the mixer in during the week a few weeks back and spent some time eq'ing the vocalist from a multitrack and since then he has been gushing about how it sounds, and noone has complained. People complained the guitar was too quiet, I didn't think it was, they also complained the bass was too quiet, well, not having that, so that went up a bit. switched the Maruszczyk at half time (for no particular reason) and the second half the crowd were more into it and it went down a storm - the second half songs are more poppy than the first - also the new tracks 'A little less conversation', 'staceys mom' and 'all the small things' went down well. In the end we must have been going too fast or had too short a break as we started to get really close to the running out of 44 track setlist time! Later someone posted some grainy videos of us on facebook, the bass was pretty loud in the first half!

DUDE! Sorry to hear about that. Hope it is fixed and able to let you back on stage ASAP>

Same here. I have very dry hands (they never seem to get sweaty), but after playing flats for a few minutes it feels like they’re sticking to my fingers. Again, Yukl The only thing worse is those latex strings you get on U-Basses. They are truly weird.

Danny McCormack is touring with one leg* so you've already got him on the... back foot. Hope you get better soon man. *(well, he's touring with The Wildhearts, but, you know what I mean)

Is that from the fall at the gig the other day?

In some cases they hide the extra routing for the battery under the Scratch Guard, in front of the volume control.

This seems almost too good to be true. ive registered, and just waiting for the email. Thanks for sharing!

I agree with that. This looks like a bass that has been owned and modded in a way that suited the previous owner/s. The string through ferrules seem to be a result of fitting a replacement, brass bridge, with that option and the subsequent holes made for that feature, made without recourse to a drill press and are, thus, all over the place.

Im not judging anyone at all, play what you like. I try and get it correct but dont aways manage it. I even said in my first post that ive always played it wrong (wrong to how i should play it) and no one ever noticed. It’s just that i made this thread just to point out how this has been missed for decades by those that teach this song etc, not to tell everyone how to play it.

It could also be a dry solder, which is kind of a nightmare to find, so the only easy thing to do do is make new solders everywhere. It's not that long to do, but it's a bit of a pain in the derrière to do.

Of course.

Played a late afternoon gig in Methil yesterday with Blockbustarz Glam band. Ticket sales not great with only 50 sold but with a few walk ins we had a decent enough audience. Not the most enthusiastic but they dance from early on and we had the dance floor filled on several occasions with the floor shouting for more songs at the end. Started 4pm and finished 6:30pm with a 20min break in middle. According to club they are seeing less custom at the moment and last week they put a free band on and the place was empty so not good news. Not sure what's going on there but hopefully they get to grips with it. When we mentioned the Xmas gig on 14the Dec the organiser said it wasn't in his diary but he'll double check and get back to us. We'll give it a week and if nothing from him we'll take another booking. We had to refuse 3 other enquiries for Dec gigs so should manage to fill it. Another club in the next village have been looking to get in on the Glam thing too so who knows. Used the Sandberg VM4, Shure wireless, Keeley Bassist comp and into Handbox WB-100 and the new Barefaced 212 cab. This was the cabs first proper trial as it was a large club with no PA support and it worked a treat. I could hear the cab no matter where i stood on the stage. Hollow stage so the bass does boom a bit even on a gramma pad. The Barefaced cab sounds very similar to my Mesa rig with the Mesa 210 giving it slightly more mid focus but not a lot in it. The tone with an all valve head is just sublime. The fact its a one hand lift with a single cab to a gig makes it worthwhile for me. The one big change to my sound has been dropping the VM4 pick up height a touch. When i was digging in i was getting more distortion than i liked and i have never really been able to nail the issue. Changed amps, cabs but wasn't sure. Using the Barefaced cab which is 1000W confirmed it was more down to the bass. The gig last night proved it has been the bass all along. I tweaked it during the week and its now perfect with some distortion when i really dig in hard. On a more personal note we decided to hit the local McD's and had a Big Mac Meal and i'm still searching for the meat. Apparently 2 burgers in it and i couldn't taste meat anywhere. The cheese slice was thicker than the burgers and the roll was twice the diameter of the burgers. Won't be buying that again. Seriously reckon the burgers were 3" diameter and about 1/8th inch thick. (That's 75mm and approx 3mm for the younger generation) Next week is a new venue for us in Camelon, Falkirk. 2 weeks later we are in Camelon again at our regular venue for a birthday party. Dave

In my experience 'the mixer' is usually the lead singer, who more often than not owns the PA. I feel your pain.

We've found our man.

And here is the Beedster II: An all maple varnished fretless Shuker Precision neck with wonderful rounded edges coupled to (what seems to be a Northwest) two parts swamp ash body (nitrocellulosic natural finish), fitted with two Seymour Duncan SJB1 pickups (CTS pots), Gotoh lollipop tuners and a Fender (slotted grub screws) BBT bridge with threaded saddles. This fretless is fitted with Thomastik flat wound strings and is a real delight to play with an ultra low action and very straight neck (the double action truss rod is just very very very slightly tightened), loads of mwah when needed, but also more double bass tone on the neck pickup with the tone rolled a lot off. So a very versatile bass and, to me, better sounding than all the fretless Jazz Basses I had and that neck is just pure joy to play. Furthermore it's not a relic sunburst à la Jaco like mainly all fretless Jazz Basses... Yes I was having an overdose of these and needed a more sober classy fretless. And even if I'm a Jazz Bass guy, I've always preferred the width and feel of the Precision Bass neck. Thanks Chris! 😊👌🏻