Lozz196

I’d be looking at borrowing a couple of Ashdown ABM410 cabs to go with my ABM600 head.

Now Gone For some reason my previous thread on this has been locked, so here it is again: I’ve got 3 boxes and a good supply of bubble wrap that is going spare. Willing to meet halfway to do a handover, up to an hours drive.

The fuzz demo reminds me of the Rhubarb & Custard theme tune sound.

You can’t join a Jam tribute band.

Same opinion here, ABM600, fantastic amps, powerful, versatile, not too heavy and that great customer service from a UK based company (not that I’m pro UK companies but it does make it a lot easier to take it there).

Toneriders, def worth the money, very similar to the Fender Custom Shop 62 (well the Precision ones are, not sure re the Jazz).

Well if the 74s are anything like the aftermarket Custom Shop 74s then I’d get those, they were really nice.

In my last band we agreed that all of the songs were written by all of us, irrespective of how much or how little input there was from each of us. The end result of the songs was only because of our individual inputs so it was decided that we all wrote them. As our singer put it, if we had a song that made us 10 million quid a third of that should be enough, and if all of our songs amounted to nothing then a third of that equally should be enough.

I’d take that as a backhanded compliment, a drummer will always (unless totally deaf or ridiculously loud) notice a bassist that they can’t play with. If they don’t notice you you’re doing something right, unless it not having plugged the amp in of course.

Don’t take liquid courage before the gig. You will feel better if you do but your playing won’t benefit from it.

Led Zep, Rainbow, Kansas, Dio, that sort of stuff Russ. Plenty of timing changes and fiddly little riffs/runs. You can certainly tell they were on drugs when they wrote that material. It’s made me a much better musician in the year & a bit I’ve been doing it too, wouldn’t have thought I was capable of stuff like that a few years back.

I think I’ve been lucky both with my last band and my current band. The current band is a classic rock covers band with no vocals. It’s not a gigging band, just mates getting together once a fortnight and for various reasons (all of which happened before I joined) there are no vocals. We had a mate come and do some singing for us on Thu and the general consensus was that it put us all off and we prefer it instrumental. Nothing to do with his ability mind, we just prefer it instruments only. Probably helps that we’ve chosen difficult songs to play, there’s a lot of work in them so it doesn’t get boring. The last band was a 3 piece originals punk/Oi band, all of us completely committed. I only left as the constant gigging and touring combined with a full time job got too much for me. So two bands completely different but the same in one respect, all band members wanting the same from that current band.

I’ve gone for black, to me 3TS/black/rosewood & blocks screams 70s. If it hadn’t had blocks I’d probably have gone tort.

Good points there Jack, and yes, having been in a 3 piece there`s no hiding place, everyone has to pull their weight so in general you get 3 band members with the same attitudes & drive.

Same for me, though to make life easy I used to use my Class D amp for rehearsals.

Looks great Nick, the Professional range is very good imo, though clearly it can still be a bit hit & miss with the old Fender QC which I`m still at a loss to understand in this day & age, with all the machinery that goes to making instruments.

Great looking stack there!

Happy Anniversary Shelley

Would be one from The Jam probably, too many to think of which is my absolute fave. Great playing on the vid btw, who would have thought of putting such a complicated cross-melody bassline in a chorus, yet it works so well.

Even with VAT added that’s a great deal

Def Roqsolid for the cab, as well as protection from the weather you can have a section in it which you can insert a piece of board to protect the speaker grill. For the head, well I have a Wenger pilots case for my Ashdown RM500. It has plenty of separate sections for leads etc, and is very sturdy. For touring I also have a Boschma case which I lined with foam, very hard wearing and as @three says, cases like these are very useful for putting a cab on to elevate and reduce storage space on smaller stages.

Looks a bit of a wankel to me!

The DBS range was great, if only Marshall had kept Eden going and somehow integrated the DBS into their range, would have been great.