The Dark Lord

Hey look. It's someone who makes bass guitars who doesn't copy the shape of mainstream brands. Hooray. Very brave. Well done.

Amazing. I managed to create THE perfect bass using this. Must buy one of these. Although it does say Stratocaster on the headstock.

[quote name='BassHavoc' timestamp='1346482413' post='1789675'] Thanks guys, for all your support and input, I was already in the process of losing the weight but now I have the added incentive to do it just to piss them off! [/quote] There are all kinds of people. Fat, thin, tall, short .... ginge, bald etc. What's wrong with an extra bit of padding. Doesn't put us off Nigella Lawson. Don't worry about it.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1346604627' post='1791101'] Then maybe you should consider giving them something worth coming inside and looking at? Otherwise you might as well just stick on an iPod. [/quote] Hmmm. Just had a look at your site and videos and stuff. Very good. I agree that being unique and putting on a real show is one way of attracting repeat bookings. Looks like a lot of effort has gone into your act - not just the music.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1346584487' post='1790759'] I take it we're talking about covers bands here? IMO playing covers is a double edged sword. On one hand you're audience should know most of the songs you are playing and therefore you're not trying to win them over with material they've never heard before. On the the other hand what is it that sets your covers band apart form another playing songs of the same genre? Then take that one step further and ask yourself why should anyone come and see your band over staying in and watching the new episode of Doctor Who, or simply getting pissed in the comfort of their own homes? I can remember going to see a friend's 70s rock covers band for the first time. It was a fun night out and I spent the most of the time going "this is a great song!" to pretty much everything they played. However I'd have had just as much fun and probably the same reaction if I'd gone round to his house with some friends for a couple of beers and he'd had the same songs (by the original artists) playing from a playlist on iTunes... [/quote] Yep. I sorta agree with this. We play about 27 cover songs and three or four of our own in a set. I think there are so many other things you can do with your leisure time / money nowadays - why should you spend it in a noisy pub with questionable furnishings/company and expensive alcohol. We don't do it for the money. The three of us a relatively wealthy business owners - we do it for the art and the buzz of entertaining people (although, as I've said before - we're concious that other people do it for a living, so we will not spoil the market by playing for free or cheaply). We're not getting the "buzz" of entertaining people as much as we'd like ... especially when you play to no-one at all. We may be more selective (a bit like Lozz said) playing only serious music pubs which aways have a crowd ........ but they are becoming less of them.

[quote name='Thurbs' timestamp='1346570985' post='1790563'] Some questions I would be asking in the same situation... - were we too loud? [color=#0000cd]Nope. We always sound check and as the bar manager/staff/main punters what they think of the level .... and they were all happy[/color] - was the set right? [color=#0000cd]The people who were there seemed to like it and the bar manager said we were great. We don't play crusty old pub band numbers. We play more recent things like Pulp, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Stone Roses etc. Always seems bang on for the pub age group.[/color] - did we engage enough with the people who were there? [color=#0000cd]Weren't enough of them and they seemed to be people who intended to go somewhere - maybe drinking there before going to a club we thought.[/color] - was the gig promoted by the band? The promoter? [color=#0000cd]I think this is possibly it. When you say "The Promoter" - it was a regular pub. So there was no promoter as such. Maybe that's the problem. When you looked on the wall, our poster was one of many. They appear to have pub gigs every Saturday - have done for a while and have a lot lined up on future (looking at the posters) ...... ours was the only professionally designed one with pro photography. We don't promote our own gigs. We work via an agent who books us far and wide. Mayge we should put our thinking caps one for that. I dunno though. Is it our job to do that? I guess that pub is just another dying pub, There are lots of them. I think the pub landlord needs to have a thihnk about what they want and who they are and how can they get more people through the doors .... and is music a real go-er.[/color] [color=#0000cd]I personally think it is a mixture of smoking band (good thing if you ask me) and the economy. There is probably less need for pubs nowadays.[/color] [/quote]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1346546617' post='1790515'] Never had absolutely sod all of an audience though, so congratulations! [/quote] Yeah. It does feel very rock n roll. I have played to the preverbial man and a dog before - but never to nobody at all.

We were booked for a 2 x 1 hour set gig tonight in a pub near Portsmouth. Not many people in the pub as we started our first set - about a dozen or more maybe. We were going down well - with people dancing or swaying in their seats. Numbers dwindled a bit and, when we were due to start our second set, there was nobody in the pub. When I say nobody, I mean not a single person expect the three bar staff. One of those then went home. So, the bar manager said we didn't need to do the second set, paid us, and off home we went. This is becoming more of a thing in pubs. We have an agent who books us far and wide. We turn up and play. Sometimes the pub is packed, But very often there are very few people in the pubs. The bar manager said we were the best band they'd had in ages ..... but she couldn't understand why there was no-one there. It was a pub in the middle of a social housing estate - with no other pubs around. Really surprising. Felt a bit guilty being paid our £200 fee - but only a bit. Is this happening to others?

Fat people are cool.

The Stranglers. It was Glasgow in 1979 and the Great Lord of all things black, without whom we would all be nothing but hollow shells of musicians, banished to poncing about and playing twiddly things on one of those little things with two many strings ....... was on bass - and still is.

If you're gonna use it for both, there's only one real candidate http://www.aer-amps.org/aer-bass-amps/aer-bass-cube-2-acoustic-bass-amplifier/

A bit middley - like a Jazz bass with both pickups on full and the tone dialed right up.

Very good. I like the bit where you say, [indent=1][i]"After trying many different basses over the years including high end custom made instruments and top brand names, and spending ridiculous amounts of money, I genuinely now believe it’s hard to beat a Fender Precision bass."[/i][/indent]

[quote name='Stephen Houghton' timestamp='1344103886' post='1759904'] Still plays better than fender precision [/quote] Yeah, right.

[quote name='debwilliams' timestamp='1344107964' post='1759992'] P basses are the way forward from this day ..... here he is [/quote] Amen.

Might be your ears. Sounds great to me - very versatile.

Just got my black Precision back from the guitar tech following a stereo rewire. 2 x USA Precisions - doesn't get much better than this.

Now time for two dumbass questions. If you change the neck on this to one from one of the other Telecaster basses (a) would it make the scale longer ( would you still be able to play notes on it, or would the frets now be in the wrong places?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1334263667' post='1613600'] Love that guy's sweater vest [/quote] I, of course, would go for black ....... but to answer your question directly - I would go for your Porsche orange. And, by the way, that "guy" in the sweater is a woman.