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Obviously there are the usual contenders like Peaches, Rhythm Stick, Dancing In the Moonlight etc, but many of mine will have come from Chris Squire. We've already had Close to the Edge (or part of it), so I'll throw in this:

Dialing in the beast.

another 'memorable' gig I just remembered, back in 1981 when we'd just started playing (I use the term loosely) we had a benefit gig for some unemployment rally, I think they were recreating the Jarrow Hunger March, anyway, our singer decided to stir things up by saying "We're glad Bobby Sands is dead" or something like that, unaware that there were some Irish Republicans in the crowd, we were quickly shown the back door as we came off stage and I can still see the drummer running up the road with all his (small) kit stuffed into the bass drum. I wasn't far behind and the singer had long gone

This is something that has come out of a bit of a challenge that came up in another thread. @Bassmingo has a nice Squier and described the neck as "classic ski jump". Well, I've fixed a few of those so I said, "That's fixable" etc, etc... So as a result the neck arrived here today. After unpacking it seems the truss rod works fine. I can get it straight and to back-bow with the truss rod. What's not so clever is the twist in the neck. The twist must be something like 4-5 degrees. Well, have to say, I know How these can be fixed, but I've never done one yet. So here we go. As it is @Bassmingo was expecting this neck is a write-off, so nothing to loose here. Conveniently I've got a nice chunk of kitchen worktop as a bench for this. So I've clamped the neck to the worktop. Put a block under the neck, near the nut, and after fitting a tuner head I've connected a string to apply the twisting tension.

Just got back home from P.M.T. Leeds with my new US Elite Jazz & I am so pleased with it,I can't stop grinning. It was a tough call between the black & the natural Ash bass,took me over an hour to make my mind up,but I made the right choice - I think. It's my 50th birthday bass but just over a year late 😁

Always this:

I’ll throw my Elwood L into the mix.

There are not many bass lines that can match (Imo) this absolute classic. it seems very simple to the ones posted before, but I think its a bass line that make people tap there feet more. And isn't that what a bass line should do.? I think the former posted above are more bass performances than a solid bassline.

That covers about 33.3 % of the gigs I've ever played, apart from two gigs where nobody ignored us because there was nobody there to ignore us. Of these two zero audience gigs one took place in a 500 capacity dance hall at Hangar Lane. Fantastic natural slap echo from the back wall so not entirely a wasted evening. The other was a pub in North London where the landlord fed us dinner and two band members got food poisoning from his dodgy chicken. The worst gig ever was a working man's club near Daventry where I had a trapped nerve in my back and I was off my face on codeine and beer, the front man preceded our full band set by doing karaoke renditions of songs like 'Born Free', the pensioner guitarist went f**king crazy in all the quiet bits, the drummer mistakenly played a country shuffle beat under Route 66 and between every friggin' song a punchy, aggressive, drunken Neanderthal kept trying to get his spotty daughter up with us to 'sing along'. I thought to use the elevation granted by a four foot high stage to kick the annoying bastard in the head but the others stopped me because they were 'regulars' at this club. Afterwards I just wanted to burn the place down and everyone in it. I'm better now.

Ok, just bought one of these as been thinking of going wireless for a while, but didn`t want to have a unit that has to be plugged in to the mains as sometimes sourcing another plug socket on the hoof can be challenging. Enter the Boss WL20, two little units, one in your bass, one in your amp/tuner/DI/whatever, and you`re good to go. 50ft line of sight range, 2.3ms latency, automatically scans 14 frequencies and selects the best one just by connecting the two together, so no fiddly settings etc. This is the main reason I went for this one over the cheaper Xvive U2 as with that one you have to pair the two units and with my rotten middle-aged eyesight seeing small setting controls in dimly lit venues is another challenge, and one I don`t wish to accept. Plus Boss, well pretty much an industry standard. Ok the batteries apparently have a shelf-life of two years and can`t be changed so it`s buy another kit in two years time, but at £160 for two years use, well for me that works out to approx. £2 per gig on 40 gigs per year, less than the cost of a diet coke in most venues. I`ll update with my findings on the actual use but a mate of mine has one and I`ve seen him use it and it`s worked fine for his band.

+1 for Sennheiser. Decent sized ones will give better low end, and most have replaceable foam and cables.

Speaking of Zender, this is one of mine (and one of several of his):

Dido's Lament , from Henry Purcell's opera Dido And Aeneas Hit the charts in 1689 Edited to add : - Or any Lament Bass . Wikipedia has a list of more examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_bass

Very nice! Think you made the right decision on colour. Dare I say natural looking ash finishes to me can look a little dated. Classic black looks alot fresher and has a certain classy look.

A good set of Sennheiser's will last for years.

A bit more Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai's first album was actually a bit of a turning point in my musical tastes. Before that I was mainly listening to rock and metal, this helped me to realise that there was so much more out there. Plus the bass was phenomenal.

Bruce's always stand out for me. and some JJ. This one was always a way to test my new stereo systems

Ive decided its going to be a bright yellow with the black plate ala Dingwall, should stand out a bit 🤣

I used to play in a soul/disco band with brass etc and it was a reasonable sound. Our guitarist and sort of promoter and general gig-getter is harmless but a shameful liar when it comes to getting gigs and would feed venues all kinds of nonsense unbeknownst to the rest of us. He booked us out as a “top northern soul band” at a venue and they had promoted the whole night as a Northern Soul event so it wasn’t a good start. There were maybe 25 people in a very big bar/venue and you could hear everyone moaning between songs that we were playing Chic and sister sledge etc as well as the obvious Commitments type soul songs and the organiser wasn’t happy either. To add to the horror, we had a new-ish drummer who was in his 60’s and taught drums. Rehearsals had gone well but when it came to the gig he didn’t know the tempo or rhythm for any of the songs. Before each song I had to remind him and seeing as I was on joint lead vocals it wasn’t conducive to swift song changes. To my utter embarrassment on several occasions I had to stop him after the whole band had started because he was playing way too fast or basically rock beats under disco. On one occasion I had sang him the start of the song, he said he remembered and played it completely the wrong beat. I stopped him again and played the beat and tempo out to him, on my leg and he said “I’ve got it” and then played the exact same WRONG beat he had just been doing. I tried him once more as it was normally our best tune and he still fudged it so we moved on. I just wanted there to be a sniper in the back of the room to just put me out of misery right there and then.

This morning I gave the tuning head another small turn or 3. The first small turns were quite easy to turn. The tuning head still isn't quite grounded on the worktop. I then got the clothes iron out again and gave it another heat up through a cloth. Looking at the progress, it's looking like it's getting pretty flat. I'm expecting the frets will need levelling, but It's looking a lot better than it was yesterday, not that I'd want to take the clamps off yet.

Pino's playing on this is wonderful:

Never enough mention of Jack Casady in topics of this sort, so here, for balance, is a tiny glimpse of his talents ...

This always gets mentioned whenever this question is asked. Probably because it's perfect.

What's the betting JPJ never played Lemon Song exactly the same twice!!?

Just remembered about this! Cutting it fine 😅 I'll be along with an array of lefty gear as per usual! Gear I'll be bringing: - Sire V7 (as always), Warwick Corvette, my new Overwater Hybrid Custom! - A Down size on the rig with Aguilar TH500 and PJB C4 I'll most likely have my Warwick combo (CCL 210) with me too which I've bought on previous years but I'm now trying to sell it. Special 1 day only BC price of £180 (have been listing it as £210) Look forward to seeing y'all!

This ones not actually mine but the guitarist i play with.. Late 70s or early 80s and the band were a kinda hippy prog affair all very peace and love and right on [think Neil from the young ones x 5] they are booked to play a pub in Beds [ i think Luton ] ,unknown to them they share a name with a hardcore racist skinhead band [i think it was something to do with Swedish mythology] well before they even got to play a note the disappointed racists decided to kill all hippy's ,guitarist says they were petrified and trying to hide behind the gear at the back of the stage the bass player had already taken a slap, at this point seemingly from out of nowhere entered a load of enraged rastas who proceeded to beat the crap out of the now retreating skinheads ... it turns out a local soundsystem were having a get together next door and came to the rescue ... although it could of been the worst gig it turned out to be the best in many ways 😁

Played a really weird bar in Teignmouth, actually the basement room of a dodgy hotel, the landlady is a real eccentric, used to be a high ranking barrister in London, now a bit of an aggressive p1sshead. Only people who listen to us are her, the barman with no teeth and her "boyfriend", a real chancer who sat with a large albino lizard on his head (really). She got arrested the following week for trying to set a former (disgruntled) employees house on fire, the Hotel is now closed. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/teignmouth-hotelier-dubbed-female-basil-862735#

That sounds like all my gigs!

Mirror scratch plate on a black bass.. Nice.

So you rehearsed it in a couple of keys and performed it in a couple of keys. Perfect. Another job well done!

Fixed. Sorry to be a Spelling Nzi.

Just purchased this ashdown combo + 210t deep cab, got it for an absolute bargain price, yep I'm really pleased with the sound of ashdown !!!

Great bass playing.

I would almost dare any band to start jamming to this and keep it under 10 minutes.

Sarf Lundon wedding - I'd not packed the loudspeaker leads (!) so used some odd bits of cable at the venue = atrocious sound. Atmosphere somewhat tense between the guests & after about half an hour some geezer comes up & asks how much I'm getting paid. He stumps up the readies & advises me to leave as 'it's abaht to get a bit ruff in 'ere' I left before the fight (just). 😎

Mine is a wedding gig too. We're not a wedding band by any sense of the term. Typical story. The wedding couple were fans of the band and booked us. They never considered their guest we're not fans of us or live music. The event was held in the basement of a Church, the guests sat at card tables. Not a high end event. We were completely ignored. It was like the band was inaudible and invisible. We served no purpose being there. Nobody and I mean nobody even spoke to us. Longest 4 hours of my life. Blue

Well those were work in progress pics. I think it turned out a little better in the end. But considering the break was not just one clean snap and had multiple places that needed attention I was pleased. Especially as the break was right over where the truss rod acts! If it was a painted or heavily lacquered finish the repair would be completely invisible. Anyhow glad I could help. And get a very good action to boot.

Well my neck has been fixed! and good. Setup with a low action, plays perfectly. I would just like to thanks Twincam for all his hard work in saving this neck, I'm blown away with his expertise, highly recommend him. Thanks Aidan.

Not mine anymore but it's blue ('ish)

I would like to nominate this afternoon's "festival! My second gig with this rock band, we arrived to find it was an outdoor gig rather than indoor as discussed, the stage was small and completely uncovered, the PA was basic to say the least. The lead guitarist rang in sick with a stomach bug and couldn't play so we had to radically alter the set, which meant playing the majority of songs I had never played before with the band and in a couple of cases never even heard before! As soon as we started playing we found out that the power draw was too much for the generator they had which meant every 20 seconds or so the PA shut down and restarted which meant I couldn't hear any vocal cues that I desperately needed and just to top it off one of the songs I had learnt from the CD they now play out of D rather than E as per the recording, this was basically a bass / acoustic guitar /vocal duet with no drums to cover anything, the drop from E to D meant everything I had learnt suddenly moved elsewhere on the neck, I nailed it towards the end of the song but there were definitely sections where I couldn't find exactly where I needed to be. The only upsides to today were it didn't rain and there were only about 10 people there!

Which would allow for a low D.

Lol I just got home with my brand new US made super jazz 😁 It is a lovely bass indeed,I can fault it.

Cracking basses. Mine is still going strong at 30 years old.

The "Total Mass Retain" segment from the song "Close to the Edge". I've mentioned it before. but at the time it was a moment of: "Can that even be done?" Apparently, it could:

Danuman you just reminded me of this. Probably the best finger style for the record bass playing I've ever heard. Apart from some of James Jamerson's playing .

I grew up listening to metal/thrash/prog/punk etc, and Disco couldn’t be anything further away from what I like, but yeah Bernard Edwards was just incredible and in my middle age I can finally admit to loving Chic 😉

The settings for our SansAmp products are usually done direct to a mixer and are for reference or to be used as a starting point. Settings that work into various amps with different tone stacks and speaker systems will most likely not sound the same through different amps. We suggest going into an amps effects loop when using our SansAmps as your main "amp" tone as that method bypasses the hosts amps preamp section. If you want to use the pedal in front and use it like a stomp box you need to rethink the settings a bit as your amps preamp will fight against the inherent tone of the pedal.

Eh? I didn't get any of that from following your threads at all! All I got was an "I wish I could do that..." sort of burning sensation...