Lozz196

Good to hear of safe - if late - arrival

Looks great

Yeah I put up a few items last week or so, collection only.

I`m the same, plus inevitably when I speak to someone on the phone I forget one or more of the things I wanted to speak about.

I can’t think of any problems, I use the regular long scale on my string-thru Mustang basses and they work fine. Ok the string-thru probably adds on an inch or so but that’s still 31” compared to 34”.

Nice sounding amps, one venue we play has one as a house amp, a doddle to get a great sound quickly on a line check - always a sign of a good amp imo.

I’m not a particular fan, like some of the songs, but I echo the sentiments of others, great that they want to get together and make some music. I don’t think gender of either the drummer or keyboard player is relevant really, genitalia doesn’t dictate that you can play an instrument better/worse, pick the people who do the job you want the best, and who you can get on with.

Short sleeves for me - inevitably every band I end up in wants a “look”. To me everyone wearing the same gear looks like workers from McDonalds or any other corporate gear where the plebs have to wear a uniform to show that they aren’t management. But whatever “stand out from the crowd all looking the same” regimented uniform I end up in it will be short sleeves, I don’t like long sleeves and I don’t like feeling uncomfortable when gigging.

I think @SteveXFR mentioned on another post somewhere about using the Two Notes Revolt pedal for this?

I think another 6 is in order, a Basschatter with 100 basses!

That’s a great looking bass

Agree Steve, if pushed to take a bass to a session where I either wasn’t familiar with the material, or it was a try out sounds to see what works best I’d take a Jazz.

Might be worth trying Elixirs

I caught the tail end of it, and listened to quite a bit on Thursday evening. Whilst I’m not a country aficionado I liked the majority of what I heard - and agree, the house band sounded very good.

I’ve a bunch of mates who are in a band that aren’t that great, but they get really good audiences when they play so people like them.

Nothing so glamorous, I am mostly Laurence.

I’ve just always used Lozz - with records/publishing etc that’s what I’m listed as for credits.

Great idea Rob 🤣

Great feedback @neepheid, I bet you were very pleased with that

I’m whittling down now I’ve decided to give up gigging. I’ll be keeping hold of: Fave Fender US Precision (home or studio use only) MIM Fender Precision (in case I get asked to do a gig) Yamaha BB1100s (nostalgic bass) Sandberg Superlight TT (for rehearsals) Sandberg Superlight Lionel (on order, del expected Nov 26) It’s certainly more than I need, and to be honest once the Lionel turns up I’ll probably move the TT on.

What I find works best for me with the Scrambler is to keep the Blend at 9 o’clock and the adjust the Drive as required. I usually have it at 9 o’clock just to take the sharp edges off the notes.

I think so, with just one instrument - or a fave that inevitably gets played instead of the others - you really get to know it. I have a few Precisions all of the same series, yet my fave one which I’ve had 10 years feels so much better to play, even though they’re all set up pretty much the same. I just instinctively know where/when to back off or dig in as appropriate on it.

Since the separation and privatisation of Royal Mail & Parcelforce from The Post Office there can’t be much disagreement that they’ve both gone downhill. Thankfully The Post Office was retained under Govt ownership.

Again agree. Since we started Knock Off in 2013 we played all over the country. At our first Rebellion in 2015 we must have had 700 watching us (1000 capacity room) whereas bands who’d been on the scene for years, but only played locally were getting much smaller audiences.