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First time I've managed to see them live after many years of enthusiastically following them and Louis Cole. I wasn't disappointed! Brilliant musicians, all of them, exhillerating performance too, crowd were bouncing by the end. Sam Wilkes was a big fat monster on bass. Had to resist the urge to keep videoing bits on my phone (one of my pet hates at gigs) but it was such a great show. I don't know why but I felt the urge to take a pic of Sam's bass at the end of the show, perhaps someone out there would be interested 😂

Blackstar tried to take on Marshall and several of their guitar amps were / are amazing products so well done Blackstar. Perhaps in time they will become a big name in the bass world. I liken them in reverse to Ashdown, who offer guitar amps but seldom see many users and of course massive success in the bass world. Blackstar guitar amps well received but bass amps less so

Do you think Lincoln would be too far to travel for those in Louth? I am based in Grantham and wondered if Lincoln would have a better catchment for attendees? (Especially road network wise)

Moved to central London. But even then I only lasted a couple of years of trawling my amp on a little trolley before I gave up and bought a car again.

Here's my ThunderStang

Host rehearsal at your house. For gigging though, the only people I know who have managed it have lived where public transport has been good enough to get home after a gig, and there’s not much of that outside of London.

Went for 18v Not a huge difference, but definetly better. I made this kind of contraption with 3 battery clips so that everything remains fully modular. No room for a battery clip so I just tucked everything in there with some packing foam

Resurrecting this to say my daughter and son's band, Tulpa, release their first album shortly. Preorder available, and a video of their first single below. https://www.roughtrade.com/product/tulpa/monster-of-the-week https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JexAQGyZMYM&pp=ygURTGV0cyBtYWtlIGEgdHVscGE%3D

The space race was run by the time I was born but VIM was still going strong. By my late teens Mum had found a suitable substitute in plain old laundry powder detergent.

And here, where you’re just a junior

I got the FTK Audio Italy "The Fretless" Pedal maybe a couple of months ago with the Diamond Comp in front and GHS flats it's smooth operator

It was an instance of the Bassist needing Less Moore

I will be watching it, probably next week. I just hope I'm not too disappointed, but I'm prepared to be delighted.

Bass players tend to be the ones giving drummers and guitards rides. These days it's a lot easier to be a motorcycling bassist with the lightweight stuff available. I used to go to jams on my bike with a 210 on the rack and a Ubass.

I have the Cal TT SL, and an Electra VS4. Then added a Lionel and an Electra VM4 (P + MM). The last one has started to really grow on me, mixing growl and thump. The cheaper ones got some enthusiastic upgrades but they were really excellent instruments already. There's not a bad one amongst them, always a joy to play.

Ramen in black. (Weegie) Will Smith

Our Eldest held down the role of Principal Guitar in a successful Rock/Ska/Punk band (Kiemsa...) for a few years, and has never held a car licence. It fell upon his conciliatory father (myself...) to fulfil taxi duties, to such a point that I ended up carting most of the whole band to gigs, all over France, in the 7-seater Renault Espace I had at the time. I hired a horse-box-sized trailer for the hardware (PA, lights, all the back-line and stage props...), and operated the FOH and lights for them during the gigs. Do you have a conciliatory father/neighbour/partner/buddy willing and able to do likewise..?

As someone that doesn't drive I'm finding this is hampering my ability to find jam buddies/dept gigs and I'll be honest it's disheartening as I can't afford a car or even lessons I can't be the only one that's faced this situation though surely? So for those who have dealt with this how did/do you get around it and get to rehearsals/gigs?

You Can't Always Get What You Wok - Rolling Stones

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