Lozz196

Yep, in 1987 I paid £450 for a Yamaha BB1100s at a time when a pint of beer was around 60/65p, so my bass was equivalent to some 700 pints of beer. With a pint now being around a fiver, well that’s around £3,500 today.

Just got in from a Spacewasters gig at Signature Brew in Haggerston, London, first gig with our new guitarist and the singer just doing stand up vox having now dropped guitar. Went really well, one of those gigs without sound check, just plug in and off you go. No errors, very receptive audience and home in time for an Uber kebab and Match of The Day (with Lineker muted of course).

Jazz bass, nickel rounds, neck pickup on full, bridge pickup on about 30%, gives similar punch to a Precision but just lower down.

No, I go through periods of playing at least once if not more a day to sometimes not playing for a week or more, doesn’t make any difference to me.

For a less mid-forward bass I’d look at a Jazz bass.

Good point, I know a good few guitarists who bought Tokai Love Rocks as backup to their Gibson Les Pauls only to decide the Tokai was better.

Great rehearsal with The Spacewasters last night, the first one with our new line up. The singer/rhythm guitarist has dropped guitar so we’ve brought in another guitarist and it’s made a really good change as he’s able to trade on lead solos with the regular guitarist, plus the singer is now able to concentrate on his vocals much better. We’ve a gig tomorrow evening and really looking forward to it with this new line up.

I’ve had a Tokai Hardpuncher and a Vintage Tony Butler Precision, both were very good, if pushed I’d say I preferred the Vintage. Really nice bass, played & sounded great.

Yep the pre-shape def scoops out, but I always found that Trace cabs seemed to have a hi-mid spike that couldn`t be removed. I like Trace amps but cos of that spikiness never really liked their cabs that much.

It all seems a bit Spinal Tap to me: But my Orange bass is Purple!

Ah this is a great shame, seen him a good few times and always great.

Ye cannae change the laws of phusics

Yes I`ve found that, volume on Channels at midday = volume on compressor at about 8 o`clock.

Agree Phil, JMJs are great

You & me both, it’s young mans job standing like that

The cat is definitely thinking “Jaco only needed 4 strings”

For punk go long-scale, crotch tickling the floor.

Bruce Foxton - The Jam JJ Burnel - The Stranglers Glen Matlock - The Sex Pistols Duff McKagan - Guns N Roses I of course like and admire many others but those 4 probably influenced my playing more than any others.

Could be a dry joint, had similar with a Precision.

I have the MS60B which is the pedal sized version, I use the 160 Comp, settings as below for evening out string volume.

The ABM410 is a great cab (the EVO IV version is one of my all time faves)but it’s rather big, I find my two ABM PRO NEO 210s stacked take up less space in my spare room. I also find that they take up less space in the car as they can be put next to each other. The 410 is also quite heavy though putting a decent set of castors on solves a lot aside from stairs. Soundwise it’s a great cab that really comes into its own on big stages.

I’m the same, set pickup heights based on the low G, once it stops booming I’m there, just adjust the others to fit with that.

Well although we’ve all played in various formats between us we hadn’t all played together before, plus the guy on vocals had never done lead vocals before. When I said fine I meant it went very well, only a couple of minor mistakes but all being seasoned musicians we worked around those easy enough. A lot of the audience said they didn’t know we were in a band together and when we said we weren’t they said we should keep it going as it was really good. I’m hoping that happens. With a bit of work and a lot of willingness a lot can be accomplished but have to admit some songs we had thought of just didn’t gel properly so again, being seasoned musicians plus not having much time to say the least we cut them.

A few weeks back I was asked, with four other mates to play some songs for a mates 40th birthday. We decided on 8 classic rock songs. We had less than 2 weeks til the gig, one rehearsal without the drummer, one with. Gig went fine. It can be done.

Holidays in The Sun, Bodies, No Feelings from Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols.