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Tell all @BassmanPaul, one of the top bands in Liverpool at that time?

Yeah apparently Noel made especially sure to give him a guitar in City colours.

I use the Ultra Low on my SCR-DI, and yes find it just adds more than if I were to make the same adjustments on the eq itself, just seems to tighten it all up nicely.

A very good, fairly niche product made by a small company, I doubt they had any other option. I hope for them it doesn’t signify a slow down on orders.

That’s a rig that I would love, having used one once, but sadly the weight of the cab (and possibly the amp too) is just beyond me now. If I lived in a ground floor property it would be fine but just can’t do that weight & stairs. I found the rig to be plenty loud and just seemed to fit in the right place, as imo Ampeg just does. I’m super envious. Was probably better without the compressor given the natural compression that valve amps have.

I’ve a 13 (and 14 and 15) the necks not super thick, but a good portion shall we say, deep but not too wide. I prefer the 2013 neck to the “holy grail” sized neck of the US Professional which I find a tad slimmer in all dimensions. Pickup wise the Custom Shop 62s are my faves, this vid is probably one of the best illustrations of it.

I hope you gave it back and said it was awful

Great sounds

Yep, that’s why I went down the route of using a preamp/DI pedal. That way I know FOH get what I want them to, and I can then just either enjoy or endure the onstage rig. Fortunately my tone wasn’t bass heavy so not much tweaking for the room was ever required.

I’d be willing to bet that learned the person who made that comment

Punk was great, I’m a major Pistols fan (was 11 in 1977) and to be honest the behaviour & yobbishness wasn’t what excited me, it was the sounds and the look. I’m pretty sure if I’d been 5 years older I’d have been a major Bowie fan.

The only festival I’ve really been to is Rebellion, the punk festival that takes place in Blackpools Winter Gardens every year. Looking at this years line up it doesn’t seem to be much different to the norm.

Those were my feelings when I had one, Dave, good quality basses. If I didn’t have this mental hoodoo about having to play US Fenders the Players would be more than enough for my needs. Only negative thing I’d say is quality control, I had one, which was bought 2nd hand off EBay, ordered two others online and had to return them as there were a couple of issues on the necks (bulges).

Bolt on, just makes me think easier to sort in case of a breakage.

And quite predictably I’ve changed my mind - again! I’m a maple Precision guy, I just find playing the maple neck on a Precision more enjoyable so I’m sticking, as such my signature bass is a black/black/maple US Fender Precision (good job I’ve got 3 then).

Phil Lynott also apparently stuck around frets 5 to 8 when playing from what I’ve read. Whether or not it’s true I don’t know as never tried to learn any TL material.

I used to be the same with Rotosounds but found it a tad expensive so switched to Warwick Reds, got nearly 3 months from them before they dulled down too much.

Classic case of reacting on the offensive rather than listening & learning re the points stated. As is ever, better dodged at this point than later on.

Probably his awareness that if he’s playing low once the guitar solos there’s a bit of a gap, whereas playing up a bit that gap isn’t quite so pronounced. Clever chap John Deacon, I watched some of it too and was impressed when it came to said solos how it didn’t seem to empty out.

Shame though must admit he was older than I thought, I reckoned on them all being about 5 years older than me so early 60s.

They’re not set up vertically Bill……

Amazing setup @Painy

The Precisions that I’ve played with 44mm (Road Worn & Classic 50s) nut width have been shallower/flatter in depth, so not too bad, the Road Worn especially was very easy to play even with dreaded music shop setup.

I’d have an Ashdown ABM1200 & matching 810. I’ve played big stages with the traditional SVT/810 set up and whilst it can all go through the monitors I don’t like that, I prefer the sound from the bass behind me and just vocals & guitar in the monitors. So on a big stage I prefer a rig I can hear on its own merit.

Like todays ripped jeans. Where authentic ripped jeans might have one knee out todays ones look like a pack of Rottweilers have given them the good news.