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I play bass in two bands, dep on bass in a third band, and do solo acoustic guitar and vocal gigs. The members of each band also play in various other bands too. As long as there’s agreement well in advance on what gigs can and can’t be done, we work around it through deps. The only band I rehearse with is the one where we write original material - in the others it is assumed I do my homework and turn up knowing the material. Committing to lots of rehearsals is actually something that would put me off playing in a band - the people I play with are all experienced musicians playing at a very decent level while already juggling family, other commitments (musical and otherwise) so doing it without rehearsals is par for the course. Where I am (Leicester) there’s a huge amount of overlap of musicians playing with multiple bands. I tend to find I either know someone or have played with someone who knows them! Not sure if that’s the case in other cities too but I’d expect so. The idea of being in just one band doesn’t really come into it. The things that attract me to working with bands? Regular paid gigs, material I like, musicians I like, no pressure to rehearse, and some say in the songs we do. I’ve been in enough bands that go nowhere, or never get round to gigging for one reason or another, or have people i struggle to get ok with etc…

I took part in my first gig in 18 months yesterday. It was a battle of the bands in a secondary school and our band was one of the 'parent's bands'. Anyway, we have our first gig under the belt. It was outdoors so I got to use my full rig and this ended up being the kids' bass rig too. Consequently, I ended up with bass tech duties too. This is my first gig playing with a drummer with an electronic kit. There were no monitors and as well as not hearing the vocals, I could barely hear the drums. We got through our short set ok though. My rig:

As above if you want totally matt, I did my shell pink jazz in satin which is slightly more shiny but not as much as gloss, looks great rob

When I need to doom:

It looks like a Fender width neck but the bridge is a narrow-spaced Hofner type. It'd be resolved by putting a 19mm spaced bridge on there.

Matte clear coat?

Played a small garden BBQ and later a cafe gig (40ish) yesterday with my newly acquired Fender Kingman 2 SS bass. Bass >Zoom B1FOUR (HPF@30hz)>Bam 200 combo 6ins speaker. BBQ gig was fine but I suffered with significant acoustic feedback in the cafe. Adjusted the Notch filter and the phase switch on the Fender badged Fishman pre but couldn't tame the feedback. Do sound hole plugs really work? Anyone with any solutions?

The picking style that Rhiannon is using in the clip is not clawhammer. It is an old-time 3-finger picking style, which pre-dates the modern Scruggs-style bluegrass roll which is normal nowadays. This banjo is also unusual in that it is tuned a 5th lower than normal 5-string G tuning, and I think the strings are probably nylon.

That kind of tracks with what others have said. I think the marketing is a bit off on these, putting them in the super polished range sets an expectation that Ian and La Bella were never really going for.

Sh1t Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury

Hi I'm just finishing off my Jazz parts, Fender Jazz neck, Hipshot tuners, Bareknuckle pickups, John East Preamp and a lovely body from a luthier. Some of these bits came from @sifi2112, a true gent. Si painted the body in matt black and I really like the non gloss finish. It's really great contrasted with a white pickguard and chrome preamp. However I want to protect that matt finish. Looked up satin finishes on guitars and after wasting my time with ****'s on Reddit, I thought I'll come back and ask some sensible people here. Any suggestions what I can finish the body with but keep a subtle matt finish. Thanks Rob