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2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Great song. What key are you doing it in. /

If i remember right it was Eb tuning and played on the E.

I played that in one of my very first bands just after taking lessons back in late 70's possibly 78.

Happy days

Dave

We do it (and all our songs) in E, so we learn them with regular or detuned guitars, but then play them in the right places in E. Does make them sound a bit strange the first few times, soon get used to them tho.

Just been learning Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy, tomorrow will be the first time we play it with the band, it’s a great song.

Really nice colour to this ‘burst

Pretty much the same settings I had with mine and my Precision.

Ah poo, I’ll have to check the others out, fairly sure there were others quite nearby.

1 hour ago, taunton-hobbit said:

The 100 Club has/had  a rear parking/unloading bit, which is useful (you have to carry gear downstairs to the venue) & the Marquee (Wardour Street) had a useful rear mews.

I don't think I'd even contemplate city centre gigs these days ...

 

😎

 

 

I used an Ampeg SVT plus 810 at a gig there, the payoff was helping carry it all up those stairs. To add insult to injury both were flightcased. 

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

 

The last time I played there I got a parking ticket behind the 100 Club. That was the first time I ever saw a warden back there!!

 

Since Covid I'm doing more gigs in Central London, and, most of the venues have provide the back line.

43 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

 

I think you have to wait until after 5 or 6pm to park there? We've never had a ticket anyway

I’ve always used the meters on the nearby streets when playing there, fortunately gigging there 12 April, really looking forward to being back at The 100 Club.

21 minutes ago, cetera said:

That'd be great mate! Come say Hi! after 👍

Will do, thinking of the St Albans one as it`s just down the road from me.

1 hour ago, Downunderwonder said:

Countryman 85 DI.

 

So long as your amp isn't noisy your amp signal will go through to the desk with no drama.

 

Best to have a flat respsonse full range cabinet.

1 hour ago, Downunderwonder said:

Eh? The 85 has two inputs. One for speaker signal and the other is your usual DI instrument.

1 hour ago, ossyrocks said:

I've just had a look at those.

The fact that I can run it between my amp and cab, then send the amp signal to the desk is good. But that would be a full range signal uncoloured by a cab. I imagine there would be more highs present than I'm hearing on stage. I gues that why you said best run with a FRFR cab. 
I'm running it with a Barefaced Super Compact, no tweeter, so I think it's rolling some highs off.

Whatever I choose, I also don't want it to colour/affect the signal from my bass to the amp. I just want a nice signal to send to FOH.

 

It's not straightforward is it !

That`s the DI I was thinking of. seeing as it can go between amp & speaker, but couldn`t remember the name. The more highs above  4kHz to the desk might work to your advantage, enabling the sound desk to have a better balanced signal.

14 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

Little ray of sunshine!

 

The music may not be to my tastes but it’s a lovely story nonetheless.

13 hours ago, ahpook said:

 

Deffo ! A good cheerful story to start the day

 

18 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Let me see. . . . a musician is having some success and the Basschat massive isn't happy about it.

 

Well there's a surprise. 

Yep, good luck to ‘em.

I stuck with Precisions for gigging for years (though am now on Mustangs due to back issues). Over that period I also had Jazzes, Stingrays, PJ basses, active basses etc but only ever used the Precisions for gigs/band use. Nothing wrong with having a variety of instruments for noodling on at home. Up to the individual if they think it’s a waste or not.
 

I do agree with Chris’ point though, having loads of basses won’t make me a better player, no matter how much I’d like that to be true.

2 hours ago, Jakester said:

Let’s hope no hide glue or bone was used in the construction of his guitar! 

Made from tofu……

The Fender Rumble combos are very good and def worth checking out, though an idea of the type of music you play will help in recommendations.

Would appear that the collective description of Spectors is a hanging.

Def not. Have played a few places where the punters have tried (unsuccessfully) to intimidate but the main thing was don’t return.

I wonder how long it will take for venues like this to close, once they can no longer offer bands as the entertainment.

Given my back issues (and that our singer only has one leg) if we play a venue with these types of load ins we only do them once.

This thread obviously made me think a bit as I had a dream last night in which my flat was on fire but knowing all the risks I decided to enter it to get my fave bass. 

New bridge & new (but very retro looking) volume/tone knobs. 

Both of my bands rehearse about a 30-45mins drive. My gigging bands gigs are always at least an hour away, tho me & the drummer paid up so share the drive on these. We only gig about 10 times a year and only really rehearse if we’ve a gig.

I have the PRO 17s and they’re very good, they turn my classic rock band from a band that really endangers hearing to a band playing at a volume not unlike that of a home stereo. Additionally unlike some cheaper ones you get a really good balanced sound through them, no focusing and removing specific frequency areas.

Oi/Street Punk:

The Last Resort - Never Get a Job

Booze & Glory - Only Fools Get Caught

The Old Firm Casuals - Perry Boys

Rather disturbing fixation on 13 year old girls in that, yuck!

Black, irrespective of bass to be used. Only variation is I use a Mono GS1 Betty for rehearsals as they’re 3hrs with the bass whereas for gigs, which are 45mins max I use a Jim Dunlop nylon strap as it looks better.

9 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

Rather a strange admission from someone with such a punk rock background...! 😉

Well although punk is my main thing I’ve a quite varied taste in music, am def not one of those “it’s not punk it’s shxt” types (have hung around with enough of those over the years).

I’ve just watched TOTP 1978 and really enjoyed Darts, Kate Bush and Gerry Rafferty.