stingrayPete1977

Bingo!

I went to see our very own Andy Keeponehandloose at a local to me gig, it came about after we had got chatting at the Derby double bass bash and Andy recalled having an upcoming gig in Stafford, I told him to pm me a reminder nearer the time which he did and luck had it I had a night off from my own gigs. Great night out and the first time I had gone to a live gig of this type other than seeing a few rock and roll style bands at bike and classic car shows, Andy's bass sounded fantastic and his playing is brilliant too, I wasn't sure what to expect as most rockabilly bands I have seen in clips etc just had a percussive sound which is OK but Andy has much more of a melodic and musical thump with the clickety clack thing behind it, excellent! Just look at the size of that kick drum! Lol. My mates enjoyed it too Andy, thanks for a great night out and well done the bass bash for hooking us up, we both said we fancy going to the bash again too. [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/IMG_6354_zpsosxq97iv.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/IMG_6354_zpsosxq97iv.jpg[/IMG][/URL] picture off my mates iphone.

Haha what you like?! Good decision though if you know its the one, it looks the biz

[quote name='No lust in Jazz' timestamp='1418391415' post='2629834'] I'd really like to see one of these comparison / "shootout" videos to feature a real band, with different musical styles. I took a P bass with flats through a valve preamp to rehearsal last night, it covered everything in a 24 song genre varied function set beautifully. [/quote] That's because the tone was in your fingers all along, you would have coped with a Ray or a Jazz just fine no doubt

Your drugs are wearing off again Bob

Lol

I agree, we get £80 between 3 of us for setting up the gear, its in a hotel lounge like fawlty towers, they are never going to have a £500 pub band on in there, basically we get a bit of petrol money for a sociable night out.

That's funky, good work

You know how Lemmy eats loads of drugs with no ill effects, I fear you either need less or more to sort you out

Sorry to hear this, lets hope the handles do fall off these ones but just as they are trying to cross a busy road with them! Lets hope they are unusual enough to come to light.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418322686' post='2629205'] I'm going to get one of [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lava-Retro-Coil-Guitar-Cable-20ft-6-1m-Curly-Lead-Various-Colours-Plugs-/200833870191?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item2ec2a1a96f"]these[/url] on the grounds that if the signal has to go round and round it must be improved, somehow. [/quote] How are you at thrusting? See earlier posts

Calling keeponehandloose......... Lovely.

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1418303782' post='2628954'] Roto is pretty cheap and is great. The only thing i don't like them is the brightness don't stay for long before it start getting dull again ....... I like their flats tho. Nice tension and brightness in my opinion. [/quote] I can imagine their flats being ok actually, pmt gave me a new set of roto strings with my new jazz a few weeks ago, they were dull in less than one gig! I always find elites ok for cheaper strings but the green eb ones are my regular purchase. Anyway im glad the bass is sounding good now, what about a few pics eh ?

The good basslines might be written and recorded by the edge.....or bono...or Larry

I think the trouble with rotos is I see the same people saying they are plenty bright enough, those people usually use a P bass with foam behind the strings and a 1x18 cab with no tweeter! Getting all the goodness from your new bass needs some sparkle IMO, you can always cut the treble but never create it with eq successfully, give them a go

I'm in the house band last Friday of the month, we have a mixture of folky one person with a guitar to full bands doing a short set and a jumble of acts made of whoever is there on the night, it's mostly terrible to watch but it's good fun, lol.

I have nothing better to do than waste my TIM.

I'm not a fan of rotosounds, they just go dull really quickly I don't care what anyone says it's the truth, the dean markley blue steel have been good,I suppose a bit like a free meal always tastes better than when you pay for one my judgement could be clouded but I'm happy with them, similar to eb ones I'd say but I'm not overly fussy about strings or amps or anything really, lol

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1418245844' post='2628492'] Only if you make the bass stuff in the wire go uphill. You need to stand on the amp so it always flows downhill, or put your amp on the floor rather than on top of the cab. [/quote] Would thrusting help?

I like the curly ones but it takes a long time for the sound to come out of the amp...

Modern data cables are purple, older ones grey and older still orange, I doubt its for anything other than identification, lol

I do like eb strings on an eb bass even though I haven't at the moment due to a pro mate being friends of a certain bass tech for a certain player that uses dean markley ones hence so do I

Almost every band I have been involved with has a connection to one jam night or another, if you can learn a few popular jam night songs and make a little list you can approach the person running it and they should put you with the appropriate people to do those, one of them will probably ask you to learn a few simple songs for the next time you go, the list just gets bigger and you are away, good luck

I just dont see visual things like bindings, blocks etc as making a bass "110% better", fwiw I would buy one but not with any belief of it being any better during a gig than my others, my worst quality Ray is my black and white one, its also my favourite, go figure, lol

Oh and happy birthday