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Peter Cetera (Chicago) Tiran Porter (Doobie Bros) Martin Tiefensee (Lake) David Paton (Pilot/APP/Kate Bush etc) Joe Puerta (Ambrosia) Paul Goddard (Atlanta Rhythm Section)

Let the covers band run - see if any paying gigs come in but leave it on the backburner and don't pay it much mind.... Dump the originals band #1 and concentrate on the 2nd originals band. Keep searching for a busier and more fun covers band to join. You can then dump the other covers band if you feel the need. Job done :)

You're playing a cover. Play it like the original and add your OWN suitable flourishes if they work and your band situation (i.e. not a note for note tribute) allows for it. Ignore the guitard.... or tell him what YOU want HIM to play in other songs. You'll soon see how well that goes down

The Alan Parsons Project were basically a studio venture from 1976 until 1990 when they made one live appearance at a European Night Of The proms event. In 1993 Alan Parsons himself decided to take a live band out on tour and has toured pretty much annually since.

Nice score! She's a beauty! :)

My favourite practice tone is also MY favourite everything tone. Spector Euro or NS2 into GK400RB or 800RB and a Genz Neox212.

.... and so it begins

It normally starts from around 10am, £10 payable on the door to cover venue hire/insurance etc and tea/coffee/cakes/pastries will be available. Just bring your bass(es) & rig, set up and share in the day with other like minded bassists. A full programme for the day will be provided shortly :)

c) If you're in an originals band then you want to be sharing your music, building a fanbase and widening your appeal. With that in mind it is always good to pick up support slots to established acts and build your network of venues, fans, potential supports etc.

My Rock Anthems & Power Ballads show 'Leather & Lace' are playing the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell on Sat 21st Sept.... then Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich on 4th Oct & Empire Theatre, Halstead on Sat 5th Oct.

Does anyone fancy running a chat on "An introduction to IEM"? @EBS_freak? Also, how about an Octave pedal shoot-out? Anyone fancy running that?

Any musician worth his salt and with time on his hands is often in more than one band. Just remember the rule re: booking clashes.... "First in the diary".

EMG Geezer pickups. Monstrous! http://www.emgpickups.com/bass/signature-sets-bass/passive/gzr-p.html

Interesting video, thanks and the answer is YES, they ARE great basses. I currently own 27 of them, from an original 1977 SB1, thru pre-Kramer, Kramer-era, SSD, Euro and custom Woodstock models. All superbly made and with characters of their own. Your video states that you have 'upgraded' to Bartolini pickups? I'd argue that is not so much an upgrade as a change.... and Spector offering more options now is, imho, simply a way of widening their appeal (like different size engines in cars for different personal preferences) rather than heading in a certain sound direction. Personally, I've never found any of my EMG loaded Spectors to lack in versatility. Rolling off the tone with EMGs or using month old strings can produce a very similar sound to your demo. My most recent purchase of the new EuroLT model, which actually has custom wound Bartolini PJ pickups and a Darkglass pre, again sounds very different to your bass. Any preamp or pickup change is going to change the sound of any bass. Are your strings flatwound or just well played? I only ask because there's very little real crispness or punch coming from that bass.... unless of course that is the pickups or the pre-amp? You also don't state what preamp you have put in it.... If that sound suits you then that's great and enjoy this fabulous instrument! Personally, no offence, but I prefer a little more 'life' in my Spector sound :)

Which I do anyway. I've never needed one.... Which surely is the main issue.....!? Nothing changed then.... so frustrating! Exactly! So, it's all still a mess..... :(

Fingers crossed! https://www.npr.org/2019/08/27/754509680/musical-instruments-to-be-exempt-from-restrictions-on-heavily-trafficked-rosewoo?t=1566918468868

Yep. Nope. Lol!!

As a point of info - just to say - the new LT models have a custom designed Darkglass 2 band circuit, not the 3 band Tone Capsule.

Pictures would help....?

I actually wanted to learn how to do the solos you hear in every rock song from the period but, in my ignorance (I was very young), thought the instrument playing them was called a bass. My guitar teacher proceeded to teach me bass and I soon realised I'd been VERY wrong. I loved the new REAL bass parts I was learning though and kept with it. Don't regret it in the slightest....