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Good fun last night in Nottingham at the Tap and tumbler. Wasn't sure how we'd go down but seemed to be really well received. I had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction....accidentally wore a random black shirt somehow....I won't go onto detail. Anyway, sound was great and and a good night all round....

Well I did it. After watching this one for over 2years online with the local agent, I pulled the trigger and bought myself the one bass I will never put down. I have promised both myself, my long-suffering better half and most of my mates that this is genuinely the last bass I ever buy. Feel free to screenshot this post and remind me if you see me lurking 🤣🤣🤣 But anyway, here she is: One N.O.S. 2021 American Pro 2 Jazz bass 75rh Anniversary FSR Dark Night with Rosewood board. Genuinely cannot describe how beautiful this thing is, all around. It feels amazing in the hand, sounds exactly like a Jazz should and it has the most beautiful rosewood I have ever seen on any neck! This is a pretty good place to end my GAS Odyessy 😎

Our first time back at the Black Horse in Whitwick since just before Christmas. It was a quiet compared to normal - it's usually rammed. A good, enthusiastic crowd though and much dancing took place. It's a bit of a strange weekend, what with a public holiday last Monday and the VE80 stuff going on. Our little drummer boy is still riddled with bronchitis, so Rob was kind enough to step in again and did a great job. It's so nice to be able to lock in with a good drummer, even if we threw a couple of songs at him out of the blue. We had a great night. Footwear were purple suede Gazelles - they don't come out often. I took the Sire P, going into the usual GT-6B and Rumble 500 combo. My favourite patch at the moment is the Octa-Fuzz which got quite a feature in Born to be Wild amongst others. Only the one photo of the compact stage, dimly lit after we'd finished playing

HEY FOND DU LAC AREA FRIENDS! Maple Road Blues Band is coming to your neighborhood THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! Join the party at Capones! www.mapleroadbluesband.com My concerns. We've never played there before, It's a late night bar gig and I'm 71. At my age I'm just not comfortable being out at night in a bar even though I'm technically working there. I'm not sure if this place is known for having live music. I'm sure I'll have stories tomorrow. Daryl

Not a bad night in Portsmouth but quiet at the venue which was a shame. We were pretty tight having thrown in a few we’ve not played in a while but they went ok despite having played them on the 5 previously and have been using the FrankenJazz with a Hipshot so I was still experimenting with different positions and flipping between E and D to fit which led to a few errors in position when dropped. Worst for me was the end of Rollin’ In The Deep when I got songs muddled and was playing (in our tuning) D-E-F#-E-D instead of F#-E-D-E-F#. Guitarist said after “I thought you were going for different inversions but actually it ended up as the “jazz” version. Sound was good from where I was and at one point vox came over to me, nodded at my rig and said “oooo that sounds awesome” … he was right, it did 😁 Annoyingly I’m still waiting both for my new IEM’s with a new mold for a hopefully better fit, and the old ones repaired after one side stopped working ☹️ Meant I had to use the KZ’s I picked up as spares. I haven’t managed to get a good fit so the sound from them is never as good as the molded set, but it was better than nowt. I ended up one in / one out which was ok. On stage the sound seemed well balanced. Hopefully out front was the same!

Wonder if they'll get an angry letter from John Hall's legal team for the shape of the bass?

This is what my uncle used to say. Lovely bloke, terrible ringmaster.

What a great day. Thank you Rob and all who came along. Some lovely basses too.

A bass t shirt. Apparently.

The statue has been unveiled and looks great. BBC News - Statue of Motörhead singer Lemmy Kilmister unveiled in Burslem - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly39732qyvo

After 33 years, my covers band, The Three Amoebas, grind to a halt. Admittedly we've done naff all for the past few years, with just the odd gig here and there. The band has always been a complete laugh and piss take, doing rock/metal/punk covers the way we want. People have always liked us, possibly because they're usually mates😄. We've been good friends since the eighties, but sort of drifted offvto do other stuff life wise, musically and job wise. The drummer's on Talksport and Planet Rock, and recording his own stuff, the guitarist has his other bands, and I'm doing old school death metal. Our last ever gig is in June. A bit bittersweet, but hey, life goes on.

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/rock-star-needs-a-backing-band-t1512472.html Strewth!

Considering how bad a lot of modern statues are, this one is an exceptional likeness. I've nicked this pic of the statue in the workshop, because it's the only image I've found so far that clearly shows the face. Nice detail on the hands too "Cast in bronze, the statue portrays Lemmy with his Rickenbacker 4001 bass, his head tilted up towards the microphone, playing the opening chord to their 1979 hit Overkill" Excellent job,both the artist and Stoke on Trent should be delighted.

I want to get ahead of the next AI trend... It was action figures, then Muppets... Surely it has to be Thunderbirds next?

Whew, that's me home safely back in Aberdeen. Time for a cuppa! Great to see you all, old friends and new. Thanks so much to @rwillett for organising the bash and keeping us full of pizza and tea!

Great day.

Yep, thanks to all and especially Rob for organising (and sponsoring!). It was great to meet you all and an amazing opportunity to try so many fine basses.

Hame! Thanks to Rob for organising another excellent day with good weather, great gear, good company, and nice grub. 😀

Tell that to the members of the LSO... Seriously, if you're playing a couple of dozen three and four chord numbers with no tricky melodic structures or rhythms (which is what you refer to playing), you can wing it once you have the basic form down. Other things can be just a bit more complex.

There is that. I've recorded people in the studio and slowed the song down by 5bpm so they can do it. I did get clocked for it by one of the other band members once who politely asked "what the hell are you doing Andy?" I politely told him to "shut up" whispering very quietly saying I'd explain afterwards. It was the other guitarists band and he was really, really good. He just couldn't quite play his own solo at the tempo they'd chosen. He would have taken years to get it right in bits as it was at least 45 seconds long and intensely complicated. Sometimes preserving someone's ego in the moment is worth it. Miming live is fraud to me. There's something that's been lost by all this and that's spontaneity. None of these clowns can play on the hoof. Like listen to a live album and you hear things being slightly messed up. That's gone now. In one of my own bands, the guitarist becomes intensely irritated by the fact that I freestyle loads of bits of songs. The point was I improvised when I recorded them, so I play them differently every time I play them. Which I feel is being true to myself and what I did on record. People like this Giacomo glock can't do that as everything has to be perfect and they don't have the facility to adjust themselves to anything else. Hence the miming and ludicrous striving for "perfection." Oh, and he ripped folk off too. Classy.

Or maybe the instrument is a badly drawn... trombone?

Seen loads of bands where members have a pad on a stand next to their mic-stand. It's an absolute turn off for me. Would confidently say that if you need a comfort blanket like this, then you really shouldn't be gigging. Brutal opinion, eh? You learn your material, you rehearse and rehearse until the songs become muscle memory and then you go out and play live. The only prompt you should need is an A4 sheet of paper with your set list on it, beyond this, no safety net.

If you're anywhere near local to Essex, come to mine for a jam. I love a filthy riff and making stuff up on the spot - sometimes it's absolute crap, other times it turns into a giant beast of a song! I've got plenty of amps, basses, guitars, drums, etc. so there's plenty of room to stretch and have a good old fashioned noise making sessions! If you're anywhere near, let me know - you can just bring yourself and we can make some disgusting noise!

I don't know why, however that stage looks " Cavern Clubish " to me. Daryl

PA should always carry the instruments, and again the reason is dispersion. Low frequencies have no problem filling a room as they're not highly directional, or directional at all below roughly 250 Hz. But that's not the case with mids and highs, so if you want 'not a bad seat in the house' the mids and highs from everything should be in the PA, drums included. Not necessarily loud, but just enough to give a uniform sound throughout.

the brassmaster was starring at me from my shelf…….and I put the curmudgeon back on after fixing it and yeh I changed the led……

It's an outstanding piece of work. What are the pigeons like in the area? I'd like the statue to Stay Clean...

Great to meet you all and put usernames to faces, really appreciated the opportunity to see and play so many lovey basses, and talk music. Another big thanks to @rwillett for organising!

Big thanks from me too! It was a great day and I wish I could have stayed just a bit longer. So many cracking basses....

Clearly, this shirt is a call to solo in the highest registers all the time.

Pics or it didn’t happen😀

Learning the Bassline to this one and while going through different recordings I came across this, backed by the Gladiators

Thanks! The remix has gone down almost as well as the original so we're looking for someone to do an "industrial" remix of the next single. As for the Vivian Westwood shirt, it's a "modern" re-issue bought about 10 years ago.

New BL-800 on the way for my matching pair. This is likely to be my last ever bass purchase unless I can persuade someone to sell a certain white 70s fretless Precision.....

He’s a gruff bloke who is in a fairly comfortable place in life. Someone you could meet in a pub and seems fairly relaxed about fame.

Normal ones or the Apple ones?

That looks like slightly less than @neepheid brought last year 😂

My new build will be a fretless, headless 5 sting neck through. 5 piece neck: 3x wenge, 2x padouk. Swamp ash body with padouk top. Black hardware (not decided yet which) and one Lace Aluma Bass Bar PU at the stingray position. Model will be inspired by the NS Design radius bass, still have to work that out.. .