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I’m sure that good singers can get away without monitors, but for me I need to hear both the lead vocals and my own in order to pitch correctly so monitors are an essential part of a PA for me.

Well our drummer for his tees did the vacuum pack thing, one tee in each pack with the pertinent logo/focal point to the front. I’m too lazy do they’re all just in one big box together. I’ll probably never look at any of it again but it’s important to me that I have it all.

I’ve a box full of CDs, LPs, magazines where we’ve been interviewed or reviewed, plus t-shirts be they our own merch or festival tees where the band played. This only relates to my last band though.

That`s a ridiculously good price!

I use the BDDI so that whichever rig is there at the gigs I play i get the sound I want. I`d prefer to use my amp (Ashdown ABM600) but if the provided rig is a combo then I`m in a sticky situation, so BDDI all the way so I get consistency to FOH. In past years I had the Blend on full so got the full Sansamp flavour, however now I have it around midday-ish, find it retains more of the bass`s actual character that way, but as with anything that`s more to do with what the band needs, I love the full-on BDDI sound but it`s not really right for my current band.

I find the larger the gauge the more depth to the sound, but conversely I find the thinner the gauge the more I enjoy playing them. So my ideal is 45-100 but sourcing my fave Elixirs in that gauge is pretty much impossible lately so it`s been 45-105, however recently I strung my Stingray with EB Coated 50-105 rounds and have to say I really like them, so depending on how they last I may switch to them on all my basses.

Another Ashdown RM500 (EVO-2) user here. Great amps, very versatile, very powerful sounding too, certainly not a thin sound from these.

Sometimes ash bodied Precisions can bark a bit, I nicknamed my old 78 Ian Paisley as the bark from it just reminded me of how he sounded.

There are many musicians that never learn that, def further on than a start imo

Great imagery there Tim, nice and dark & brooding, really fits the genre well

Almost compulsory to have one methinks

Reverse P makes sooooo much sense, and rather telling that in a blind P-bass shootout the runaway winner was equipped with one.

Yep, when I was younger if anyone was in a band, of whatever ilk, it was great, whereas our younglings at work seem to have no real interest in bands/music at all, only one girl (early 30s) having done some singing and knows a guy that plays guitar, none of the rest even know any musicians.

That is niiiiiiice!

I finally got round to putting these on my Stingray and to me they are a much better balance across the set.

In Hemel Hempstead all of the venues seem to be for covers bands, so I suppose the younger bands look to gig in the other nearby towns.

No matter how much I practice I know I can always be better. Just learned a song this morning for a gig next weekend, a relatively easy song but I still had to sit down and go through it a good few times. Does this make me despondent, no, it makes me feel great that I can work out a song in 30mins or so that I’ve never heard before, and also makes me look forward to the gig more.

Then he could eat his hat!

Gold Mk3 Capri Duh-duh-duh! (For those of a certain age)

For years I had my action higher than Fender standard settings as I was rather heavy handed, which was what I needed at the time, however I`ve found that having the action a fair bit lower than Fender standard makes me play with a more measured approach, so horses for courses, have the action that suits your current style of playing.

Great set list, must be a bunch of fun playing those

Nice bass @Supernaut, classic colour scheme for a Jazz

Yup, only time I ever needed my backup bass was quite typically the time I couldn`t be bothered to take it to the gig. And made worse by the fact that I`d agreed to lend my bass to the support band who were flying over from Germany. Luckily the headlining bassist was a decent chap and took great pity. And I`d checked the bass was working before I set off. Turned out to be an intermittently dodgy jack-plug.

Interesting remarks about the Boy George/Mick Jagger stuff that insurance companies come out with. I wonder if when people put down that they work for Amazon the insurance companies would refuse them in case they might be giving Jeff Bezos a lift in to the office.