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We canceled a few remaining bookings at Club Rossdale. Not really a place for live music. The place was not a match for us. Daryl

Welcome to Bass Chat. I think all my direct experience is detailed above. The BW speakers are now another 5 years older and most will now be showing signs of their age. I think you've little to lose by trying the repairs detailed above. The life expectancy is going to be short anyway depending upon how you intend using them so you have little to lose if the repair fails. You haven't told us what the exact problem is.

I've got one bass set up with Fender flats. They are like steel rods. Not enough flex to feel the frets under my fingers and string bending is horrid. Going to try the Harley Benton 40-100 set which is supposed to sound good and be supple for silly money.

I Assume Google doesn’t work for him. A tab or two gets you close enough well that took ages…. Who is this @TKenrick dude anyway ? https://freebasstranscriptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Queen-Crazy-Little-Thing-Called-Love-edit.pdf

"If it sounds good it is good." -Duke Ellington

A Shout out for bassbags simply as they are local and have always been helpful for me ..and also my local emergency luthiers.. and they do get a discount and do pass some of it on. For a set of Eva's, I didn't find anywhere cheaper. But Amazon and eBay do indeed throw up all kinds of occasional bargains. Big question is...do you really need guts, and all their expense and inconveniences, when synthetics are so very good these days. Personally I like steel wound steel rope core strings best for pizz ..but the rest of my orchestra would rather I didn't 😂.

Just looked at a recent version of them playing it on the Howard Stern Show with the great Tim Lefebvre on bass and he plays the A, not the G#...!

Unfortunately yes, as this made it all the more frustrating

We were supposed to have a gig at our favorite pup, the Coach House in Paignton last night. A couple of weeks ago we heard it was closing in June and we thought this would be our last gig there. It turned out it closed on the 1st of June. Luckily, we will get some gigs at another pub across town that know us, so all is not lost. We have been playing at the Coach House for 20 years, and I played there in my previous band too. The end of an era for sure.

Thanks so much, Rob. Tim was on here occasionally but not for a few years as far as I can see. He plays some nice fretless lines as well. I do like “The Road of Bones”, one of their strongest albums.

I posted a corrected version of The Abingdon Chasp. It was a lot tougher than I thought as there are so many tempo changes, weird time changes and a lot of sections where Berlin is playing long chains of the same note but on and off the beat/pushing and pulling across changing bar lengths and changing octaves. In some ways, it only matters if you are trying to write it down. If you were performing it, it would be a matter of personal choice - it matters only that you keep it moving and changing.

We played a really great gig yesterday at Oundle music festival. Once again I used my Eich 112XS combo which tilts back so I can hear myself really well on stage and the DI sound is perfect. When I position the amp on stage, I naturally put it behind me because that’s what I’ve always done. But at sound check I tried it in front of me like a monitor, and had the FOH out keys and vocals in my actual monitor. It worked really well and I could feel the bass and hear it even batter. I moved it though for the gig because it was in the way to be honest for everyone else coming on and off stage but I wondered if anyone else does this regularly? I think next time I might do it from the start and move other things around to make room. I think having it facing away from the audience probably helps reduce the on stage sound, too - I think I could have it even louder without affecting the PA sound out front.

https://greasygroove.com isn't a UK based company, though they have a great selection of products and looks like they ship internationally. However, to help you order, I did stumble on this page with PDF templates of a wide range of well known brand PDF templates to download for free. Handy if you wanna create your own I guess. https://greasygroove.com/will-it-fit *I've made a decent post about the company (I don't know them) so I'm not just leaching their templates off the website for nowt.

We put our full band through a pair of RCF 912As, without needing a sub, and they provide us with a very decent bass response. A single 912A should therefore be able to very comfortably handle bass if you want to use it as a 'FRFR' powered speaker, and will cost a fraction the price a many of the more traditional separate amp & cab set ups that many BC'ers use. But perhaps the better comparison is with something like a Markbass CMD 121P combo, in which case the price differential is not so large, particularly if you are comparing used prices.

This.

What utter rubbish 🤣

Thank you 👍

Cheers. I was struggling all week to be fair, and I’d did the gig on max painkillers. 4am pain was off the scale, I was shaking with it. I cannot fault the care I’ve had today though, assessed quickly, admitted, CT scan, diagnosed and placed on a ward. The nurses are hot on my pain management, and have told me when they are going to administer stuff through the night. Hopefully it will just be a couple of nights.