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I’m fine with buying from Amazon, if they’re selling what I want then great.

I forgot to add that to my list, would love to play there

Being easy to work with is also a big factor imo.

Ones I’ve played that I wanted to: 100 Club Hope & Anchor Dingwalls The Garage Underworld Electric Ballroom Rock City Nottingham Rebellion Festival (Blackpool Winter Gardens) Ones I’d still like to play (but doubt I’ll get the opportunity: Hammersmith Apollo Whisky A Go Go And I would have loved to play CBGBs, The Marquee & The Astoria but all now gone.

Yeah if you stick to the punk scene and play 30/40 min sets on a three band bill there’s a huge catalogue of great songs that would be well received, rather than playing two hours worth of those to a general pub audience who might know one or two at best. Plus less gear to cart about as those gigs always have in-house PA and most often gear shares.

There’s a good few bands on the punk/Oi scene that do that sort of thing Steve, always go down well.

I’m J8 on M1, if it can be got to services on M1 (M Keynes or Northampton) I could collect then get it to services at J23 on the M25 or Scratchwood on M1?

Keep us posted on how it goes with the gig?

Fork handles?

The one bass I won’t gig has no more monetary value than any other 9 year old US Standard Precision, it’s the sentimental value. I’ve done so much with it that’s important to me that I don’t want to risk it being stolen at a gig. Not that the gigs I do are particularly like that but reduce the opportunity reduce the risk. And I play it all the time at home so it’s not a case queen.

Sounds like you’ve made a good choice there Rob. I had the 410 & 210 a good few years back, sadly for what I was doing back then they weren’t quite right whereas for what I’m doing now they’d be ideal so considering the 210 again - just got to wait for one to turn up on here.

Quite agree, it doesn’t matter how good a song is, if the singer either doesn’t have the range for it, or simply doesn’t feel comfortable with it for whatever reason then that has to be the leader on not doing it. No matter good us musicians are we have to acknowledge that in the majority it’s the singer that sells the band.

Michael just bought a pair of DMs from me. Great comms throughout and a good chat about music when he collected, a good transaction, recommended.

The humble Precision, imo best bass there is.

When I was in a punk covers band some years ago the song criteria was had it been in the Top 30/on Top of The Pops. We did try to add in a few lesser known - but better imo - songs a few times but they just dropped the evening. Doing classic songs in a different way is always worth a go, check out Nine Inch Nails doing Cars with Gary Numan for example.

Yep, I had three 70s Precisions at one point, two were decent but the other was simply the most aggressive sounding Precision I’ve ever heard - think JJ Burnel type sound.

Strats are the guitars that I play best. I far prefer the sound of Gibson Les Pauls but I just don’t play them very well. I get on fine with SGs and Teles but the Strat just works better for me. Has to have a humbucker at the bridge tho.

Justin Meldal-Johnsen - his signature Mustang basses are great instruments.

I used to have 45-100s on my Precisions and found them to be pretty much ideal, much better balance across the strings and less low end flub on the E string (I find mainly the G is the note that booms).

Have you had some work done Jack 🤣

Aaaaaaarrrggghhh

There are a couple of decent looking Gator bags up for grabs on here at the moment Dave, that’s what I used for my PF500 many moons ago.

Very good points there Dave, especially the last.

At present my band does so little there’s hardly any point in being in it, but looking at it more positively where would be the point of leaving. I don’t want to be in any other bands, this is the one I feel comfortable in.

Agree, a good while back I bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio. The shop had three so I tried them all, one sang, one muttered, the other vomitted. I bought the singer.