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Nice one Nik. I must get to see you one day, and may even have another go at getting a gig at the Elms. Been told its got a bit more rocky recently. We did it a couple or three years ago just prior to Christmas to the PRS man checking up on their licence and what we played . Nightmare Just back from a killer night at The Fountain in Chi (always a good crowd singing along there). And the landlord was so happy ('cos he was busier than the Slug & Lettuce next door all night he reckoned) he upped the cash completely unprompted I wish they could all be like tonight!!!! Decent landlord, noisy crowd - including some loverly ladeez - MARVELLOUS

A no name P copy with a pickup held up with a folded up No10 packet, hawsers for strings & an action you could limbo under Followed quickly by my first Shergold

[quote name='ped' post='89449' date='Nov 16 2007, 03:11 PM']Quite a difficult situation to be in mate. As my own combo weighs about 100ib, I thought I would get one of these: [url="http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/truck-best-garden-trolley-there-p-17.html"]http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/truck-bes...there-p-17.html[/url] I remember trying one whilst helping a friend move house ages ago and it really did cope with stairs well. Having just had a mega operation on my back I will not be buying one any time soon, but Kiwi is I think, so maybe he will be kind enough to do us a review. ped[/quote] Looks good, but doesn't look like it packs that flat. I used to have a great little fold down trolley that folded down to no more than an inch high but would carry my Trace 122H combo plus 3 metal leades cases without breaking a sweat. I am sure I saw them in a local DIY store not so long back for about £20. Mind you that that is b'all use to you in Portugal.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='94057' date='Nov 25 2007, 10:35 AM']Those fold up sack carts are cheap as chips these days. Move all your kit with one of those plus they have a thousand and one ther uses.[/quote] I would +1 the foldaway cart. When I found mine quite a few years ago now it was about £50, but I have seen exactly the same thing in Focus / B&Q / Homebase for under £20 recently

[quote name='simon1964' post='91162' date='Nov 19 2007, 10:42 PM'](why would you put a white diMarzio on there?!).[/quote] Because at the time you didn't realise these things were going to become worth so much? I still have nightmares about the brutality I so nearly inflicted on my Wal many years back

[quote name='thumbo' post='92386' date='Nov 21 2007, 09:44 PM']£2000!!? You could get 2 new ones for that.[/quote] Have you checked what else he is selling!!

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='93690' date='Nov 24 2007, 11:01 AM']That's 'Mustang Sally' for you !![/quote] Almost experienced what you did too tonight. Show must go on etc., so I drag myself out & say "don't bother with a mike cos I doubt vocals will happen for me tonight" but one gets put out & in the heat of the moment I go for it. Got through some, but there were more than a couple of occasions when I went for the mike, took a deep breath, then had to back out fast for fear of chunder city Good news is 3 days of mainly honey & lemon drinks and paracetemol + last nights gig seems to have sweated it out. Still bunged up tho, just not feeling quite so cr@ppy. Hope you're over whatever yours is soon!!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='93448' date='Nov 23 2007, 05:56 PM']Break a leg!!!! I hope your work don't hear about it though, like the situation with RoadDog. [/quote] I think it may have sweated some of it out. Don't feel quite so cr@ppy today. HURRAH!!! As for work, I shall probably catch up on some stuff this weekend and have been doing bits pieces at least one of which I know has saved one office probably 2-3 days of someone typing details into software we use by adapting a bit of VBA I wrote to build import files for the software from data in an Excel spreadsheet, so not too guilty.

Welcome from a weekday-time visitor to Guildford

Gigging tonight, thankfully just down the road at [url="http://www.myspace.com/thecrownlittlehampton"]The Crown[/url] but feeling guilty as I have been off work for the last couple of days (well logged in rather half heartedly from home) with man-flu. Think I may pass on the backing vox tonight as it will be even more like a strangled crow than ever. Hey ho. Works work, but a gigs a gig after all

Some spoilsport pulled the one with the best set of Q&A's

[quote name='tauzero' post='91480' date='Nov 20 2007, 02:04 PM']Getting your vocalist not to go on and on between numbers so everybody sits back down - priceless.[/quote] There comes a point where we just start

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='90666' date='Nov 19 2007, 09:09 AM']+1. I've been in bands where the conversation goes like this: 1. "I hate playing that song, can't we drop it?" 2. "But it's our most popular song, people love it." 1. "I don't, it's boring." 2. "But we're a covers band. Aren't we paid to play stuff people like? Why's it boring?" 1. "Cos I don't play very much on it." Saying that, bet most bass players look forward more to the song with lots of nice bits to play rather than chugging 8ths. But chugging 8ths might be part of your most popular song, so you play it because people like it, and the pleasure comes from watching loads of people enjoying themselves.[/quote] How many times have I heard that one!!! Drives me crazy! How many songs that are just an eighths chug do I put up with dammit! And what REALLY annoys me is that I will put up with those, but number of songs that get worked up then dropped because one or two don't really want to play the song and have a half hearted go at it. Sorry cr@p end of man flu wound me up at the weekend - rant over :wacko: Billy Idol - White Wedding & Rebel Yell Cameo - Word Up Wild Cherry - Funky Music Thunder - Dirty Love - used to work well but got some of the above after we had played it for a looooong time & it had possibly got a bit loose Queen - I Want It All & Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes - can generally be relied on to get some audience participation going, as can the Billy Idol songs (& Tubes WPOD in selected gigs - mind you one of those they sing pretty much every song anyway )

Welcome from [i]nearly [/i]Surrey

[quote name='Bloodaxe' post='89209' date='Nov 16 2007, 12:59 AM']I've had precisely no issues at all whatsoever with it.[/quote] Except almost losing an eye at the South East Bash It was a strange experience to divebomb a bass!!

[quote name='Aussiephoenix' post='89091' date='Nov 15 2007, 07:23 PM']I wonder if the single 12" is enough for all that power...[/quote] Trust me. It is.

[quote name='Aussiephoenix' post='89097' date='Nov 15 2007, 07:33 PM']Seriously, just how loud is this amp? by what I checked out in the manual, it blows my mind that something that small and with only a 12" can disperse 400w of raw power... how does it handle at high volumes and with basses with strong outputs like a stingray for example? does it lose definition?[/quote] [size=7][i][b]LOUD!!![/b][/i][/size] The speaker on its own is rated 400w. The amp on its own is 350w rising to 500w with an extension cab. It has no problems with the Wal, which probably has a stronger out than the MM SUB. And is also happy with the MM SUB5 down to the low B. Generally it pumps out a good sound all evening without apparently breaking into a sweat. And that is with the controls (other than gain & master) left pretty much flat (for tone) or off (for the filters), possibly a slight boost to bass & treble with the mids flat, but it is the very slightest boost. Last Monday at rehearsal it was up against a Rogers kit, Marshall TSL60 combo and the foldback for vocals in a largish, boomy village hall. I kept having to turn it down. The master started at around 10 o'clock and ended up down below 9 o'clock, and it was still a tad too loud even then. [attachment=3570:FrontPanel_a.jpg] This is in a band doing rock covers - Whitesnake, Kiss, Aerosmith etc - (see the [url="http://www.myspace.com/the_alibi"]band MySpace[/url] though the tracks there are just the Pod from the stagebox to the ADAT multitracker) It is one of these new D class power amps (I think that's what they call them). Most of the weight loss in the head is the transformer I believe. As mentioned before when gigging I run a Bass Pod xt Pro to the PA & the combo is mainly to shift a bit of air on "stage". I have to say though that I think it would quite happily handle small to medium pub gigs with no problem at all. If you are thinking of something like the GK MB112's as a comparison, don't. I had one of those years ago and the CMD121H is [u][b]nothing[/b][/u] like that in power terms - though the latter is of course somewhat bigger in all dimensions and power rating. Otherwise, no change to the marks given previously so far

My thoughts at this distance, since I did a season with a band who filled in for the main bands night off mid week, are that it was hard work mainly because for us it involved a long travel, load in, play, late finish, load out & travel home in the early hours & having to get up a cople of hours later to go to the day job. Otherwise, for what we were doing it was just another very regular gig with the audience changing every couple of weeks. I do remember hanging around watching the stupid games played about halfway through the evening by the punters. This regularly involved one where two couples had to pretend the dance floor was an alligator filled swamp and the only way across was to build a bridge with their clothes. It was particularly memorable the evening a very nicely proportioned female redcoat who was leaving joined in to help out a chap who couldn't get a partner to join in with him. Instead of the usual half hearted attempt that generally managed to get about half way across with a t shirt, a couple of pairs of socks and perhaps a pair of jeans before it ground to a halt we were treated that night to the sight of the two of them getting across the dance floor in seconds flat pretty much ripping clothes off each other & standing proud & starkers Happy days for a bunch of younger (in those days) old pervs

I should, but I never really have. The benefit of scales is it gets you used to the positions for runs and can teach you the fretboard as well

I acquired a load of their albums a loooooong time ago having found out about them whilst stayng in Switzerland with my Godmother. Started with "Ashes are Burning" unfortunately on vinyl & I have no deck at the mo. If you use eMusic you can find at least one album there, listed as by The Renaissance, but beware as searching for that also brings up a different band completely with the same name. If you don't do eMusic you can get 25 free downloads in the first month after you join up so you could register download the Renaissance album & some other bits & de-register within a month and it costs you nothing. If you want to try it out PM me your email and I shall recommend it to you from my account - 'cos when you register through me I get extra free downloads Sorry thats off this topic a bit, but you have to try don't you

[quote name='Hiperi0n' post='88232' date='Nov 14 2007, 08:10 AM']i personally know the guy...traded with him several times and bought from him ...be sure it's one of the best dealer....great guy!! so that auction is safe at 100%[/quote] Fair enough. I must admit it was the [quote]The account has no completed listings in the last 12 months, but a rating of 146 based on feedback from years ago.[/quote] that had me thinking. That said it is not like the Aberdeen scams we have seen recently where they run from no reserve. Sadly £4k is [i][b][u]substantially[/u][/b][/i] more than I can afford or justify to become a WalNut (ie 2 or more)

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wal-Mach-II-5-string-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ270187079717QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]HERE[/url] and my initial thought is OUCH!!!! Followed by [i]"International payment will be made by Western Union or Bank wire transfer"[/i] - hmmmmmmm?

If you are talking of cheap in ear monitors then a long while back before we got the proper bits my vocalist tried using a cheapish FM transmitter he got from the US in conjunction with a walkman sized FM radio & earphones. It wasn't the greatest, but I suppose one might try something similar with the little FM transmitter packs you can get nowadays to feed an iPod into your car stereo if you do not have a dedicated link in the car? Mind you I don't suppose that would work much better, but you never know.

[quote name='theosd' post='87964' date='Nov 13 2007, 05:24 PM']+1 Any of the markbass CMD range will be right up your street =][/quote] + another 1. I was feeling in a rut a few months back and a bit bored with pussy footing around other members of my band (probably pretty much all down to a mild relapse on the arthritis front) to the extent that for the first time in 30 years of gigging I honestly felt as if I had had enough and if it all caved in I wouldn't really care either way. Then the drugs started working again, I sold the Trace combo, bought a SUB 5 (which was [i]REALLY [/i]out of left field and not part of the plan at all), and got the Markbass CMD 121H and jumped right back in the saddle again. The 121H is a cracking amp, weighs nothing but sounds great. Only problem for you would be keeping it quiet at home. We had a rehearsal last night and even with the master down around 9 o'clock it was a bit on the loud side

Is a SUB much lighter than a 'Ray? Compared to my Wal the SUB 5 weighs nothing at all!? +1 for the Comfort Strap and if it gets really bad you could try a [url="http://www.slider-straps.com/"]Slider strap[/url] (which goes over both shoulder & crosses at the back), or even a [url="http://www.darestrap.com/guitar.html"]Dare strap[/url] which looks like it does much the same thing. I have only used a Slider strap, needing something to spread the weight before I had my left shoulder replaced. The Dare looks like it would put the guitar in a better playing position. I found the Slider pulled the bass round a bit so that it was a slighty awkward (make that different to what I was used to) position, BUT it meant I could carry on gigging!!