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All credit to you for a busy weekend @bassbiscuits Dave

500w is only going to get you a 3dB boost if your cab can take it all without cooking or breaking. 1200w means you can plug into a big high power handler like a BF Twin and give it some berries, outdoors on a big stage. Elf sales don't hurt 1200 sales and vice versa. A 500w version would not be significantly cheaper than the 1200. Hence no 500w version.

Yep, "Slinky as raccoons in the roof" does appear to be correct, who knew!

Highway to Hell - AC/DC

Can't remember what the band is @jezzaboy ? Is yours the ac/dc tribute band ? I think it gets a steady crowd every week but a lot are waiting to the last minute and just paying at the door. If i've got your band right i reckon it should be pretty busy. Just keep in mind schools finish this week in Edinburgh area so might be a few on hols. Dave

Road To Hell - Chris Rea

Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads

Dark end of the street - James Carr

I always wondered if it was a dig as it was the first single post guigsy…

He was great, and loving every moment!

Indeed - that sounds like the sort of bollocks that Chat GPT regularly comes out with, just enough to seem reasonable but not enough to actually make sense.

Cool weekend of gigs. Friday night playing bass with Superbad at the Sapcote Social Club in Leicestershire. Really good turnout, lots of dancing and good sound. Saturday night playing bass with my own band (the Andy Wales Band) at Bar Dos Hermanos in Leicester. We were all knackered and it was a bit ragged and “seat of pants” at times but still plenty of good bits, a decent crowd and some righteous noises were made by all. Gear for both gigs was a Yamaha BB604 and little Markbass traveller rig. Then Sunday, helping our local village guitar teacher with his twice yearly gig for his students (including my eldest lad who’s just discovered Nirvana). It’s quite inspiring to see the youngsters grow as musicians over the few years we’ve been involved. The biblical rain from the morning thankfully stayed away all afternoon and it was a lovely outdoor shindig in his back garden, with me providing the PA and bass gear, being a general helper and being roped in on bass for one song. Gig below from Saturday night and Sunday afternoon’s gigs.

Rudy Sarzo put a shift in like, he was up there for ages.

For a set & forget compressor the Keeley Bassist is a good option. No bells & whistles, just does what you’re after very easily. Drive - well to add in a tad of drive I like the Ampeg Scrambler, as it has a blend you don’t lose low end and it just adds that bit extra to the sound. I have this on my Ampeg SCRDI and use it to just remove the clean sharp edges of the sound.

You're after "natural sounding valve style grind" but play an Ampeg V4 - am I missing something? Surely that and the BDDI has you covered?

Had an absolutely banging gig today down in Poole at Country In The Park with Katy Hurt. We opened proceedings and had an absolute blast. Interesting moments..: I didn’t read the set list so was almost caught out by the first song My (Dunlop) strap lock popped out during the first song so I ended up having to improvise til I could sort myself out (embarrassing photo below) Cris, playing lap steel/acoustic guitar/mandolin kept stepping on my lead so I couldn’t wander the stage as freely as I’d been trying to do. Ironically I drove home via @franzbassist to pick up his Rockboard Tree 3.0 so I can have a bigger board to fit my wireless receiver… needed more forward planning on my part! But on the whole, an absolute blast of a gig. Very hot, very fun, and I hope we made some new friends. Shoes were the lo top Soul Cals again. Me pretending to play djent when the strap popped out: The whole band just having fun:

Just a few bassists from the day...

That's 200 transcriptions since I re-started everything on January 11th. Next big target, the 1000 🤪

Exactly... Doesn't make sense to me.

An old favourite of mine, this is the bass part to the Sting tune 'They Dance Alone' from the 1987 album, 'Nothing Like The Sun'. It was Sting himself who played the double bass on this tune (Tracy Wormworth was the bass player on the tour). Pretty easy read until it gets to the last section but that is easy enough to play as it is standard samba groove. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/they-dance-alone-gueco-solo-sting/

Indeed. I love my Ashdown. I just feel something spiritual happens when I play through the Ampeg. It's all personal taste at the end of the day.

Same, I liked that one, though very interesting that the Oasis song with the best bass is one with Noel playing, maybe he couldn’t stand anything he’d played not being prominent in the mix?

That’s a banging rig @Salt on your Bass?