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Dep if you can get it, but otherwise just do it missing one member. My band has a core line up but all sorts of combinations of deps have played with us, depending on who's available to cover, ranging from a five piece to a trio. As long as you can still make music which the audience will enjoy/expect, no one will care about the exact line up. Go for it!

My jazz - a 2008 USA jobbie, which came secondhand with a set of Aguilar pickups. Sounds ace. Only had it two days but haven't stopped playing it yet, which is always a good sign!

Saw a customer playing a red roadworn jazz at Bass Direct last weekend. It sounded awesome, and we got chatting, and he let me have a quick go. It was stunning, in looks, feel and sound. I've been curious about them for ages but never quite made the move to buy one (partly cos I can't find any locally to try out) but if the one I played was typical of them then they really do seem very good indeed.

Stunning basses. Very nice. Well done!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1454884330' post='2973957'] Congrats, I`ve just recently got hold of a US 2012 in the same colour combo and agree, love it. Bet those Aggie pickups are good. [/quote] Cheers Lozz - and congrats on your new purchase too! Yep those pickups certainly sounded great at the store thru an amp even with the EQ flat. Plenty of welly and fatness but still a passive pickup tone. I spent a fair bit of time playing the various basses I liked unplugged first anyway, to get a feel for which were loud and most resonant. I had a half hour blast of it when I got home just straight into a Little Mark head and my Schroeder 1210 cab and it sounded really good.

I paid a visit to Bass Direct on the weekend, to trade in my Sandberg TT4 - a stunning bass, amazing to play and so light and comfy, but rather too polite and hi fi for me, and sadly just not the sound i have in my head. I am something of a Fender fanboy I must admit. Came out with this - a 2008 USA jazz, which the previous owner had pimped with a pair of Aguilar hot jazz pickups. It sounds immense. I had a good noodle of a lot of really nice basses while there, but this one came out the best match for my needs - fat and full and loud, but still with the extra tonal range on offer from a jazz over my existing P basses. I love the black/tort/maple combination I've gotta to say! Currently doing the thing of just carting it around the house with me so I can look at it wherever I am sitting. Done a lot of sofa noodling. Likely to get a chance to gig it this weekend, and prepared for my band to go: "What? Another bass?" And me having to say: "Ah yeah but this one is different...." Excuse the upside down pics btw - can't seem to correct them but you get the idea anyway.

Graham bought an acoustic guitar from me. Prompt payment and good communications throughout - happy to deal with him again anytime.

Yeah keep it dude. I had my precision bass all thru university and finished with no cash, maxed out on overdraft and just a couple of bar staff jobs to try to turn things round. But I vowed I wouldn't flog that bass. That was 20 years ago this year and I've still got the bass. I'd have got a few hundred quid for selling it, but that would be gone by now.

Ah man Terry Wogan was excellent - a proper broadcasting legend. I loved his whole Janet and John thing he used to do. Brilliant. Gutted he's gone.

I paid £560 for my first LM3 about seven years ago and I must say I love it. Managed to pick up another secondhand LM2 on this forum last year for £220 in near mint condition, which I guess is due to the price that the new far eastern ones are selling for new. I haven't tried the newer stuff tho.

I'm 41, but I act about 12 and feel about 65 some days...

[quote name='Bassmachine' timestamp='1453244415' post='2957878'] Warwick Hellborg power amp and preamp.. Cabs Schroeder 210 12L and 15 12L [/quote] Whoa that's a monster rig! I love my Schroeder cab. I think they're amazing.

Here's my full rig onstage at a big festival gig I did in the summer. Amp wise I've got two Markbass Littlemark heads ( a III and a II) each going into a 4-ohm cab, in this case one Schroeder 1210 and one Aguilar GS410. I used a boss chorus pedal turned off to split the signal into the two heads, as the pedal has one input and two outputs. Apart from one of the Littlemark heads it's all stuff from Basschat too! Bass wise, it's a 1996 USA precision, and a 1970 model of the same bass. My Sandberg didn't come to that gig. Usually I'll just take one of the heads, the smaller cab and one bass to a gig.

This'll be me then. Now, and back in the day c1992

My first gig was Dio on the Dream Evil tour in 1987, when I was 13, and Jimmy Bain played bass at that gig. He was part of a real pivotal moment for me, experiencing the excitement and volume of my first live gig, right at the start of my bass playing life. So thanks Jimmy, and take care.

I take pretty good care of my instruments. They're mostly second-hand and came with their own share of dings and dents anyway, so i'm not that stressed if they get one or two more. But i try to keep the working bits clean (the hardware, the fretboard etc). As previously said, they're working instruments not museum pieces, so the reason that some have been played and repaired and bashed about for years is because they're good, gigging instruments.

[quote name='Slipperydick' timestamp='1453131135' post='2956648'] Could be worse, seeing this put me off using boom stands on at punter level for good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSZHo_hh83g [/quote] What the hell happened to that mic there? Did it smack some teeth out or something? Looked fairly horrible!

Gutted. Life in the Fast Lane is epic. So many great songs. Farewell fella.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. Si600, GK MB212 (house rig), Fender P V. 2. The_Ox (exams permitting) 3. tauzero, Sei Original fretless 5, Sei Flamboyant 6, Antoniotsai 5, maybe something else interesting, and possibly Mrs Zero. 4. Harryburke14 5. Len_derby 6. Andyjr1515 7. seashell, Fender P 8. Bottle. Ibanez bass, Line 6 Lowdown 110, amp rack and effects boards. 9. Annoying Twit. Who knows what I will bring. 10. GrammeFriday - Sandberg VM5, TC RH750, TC RS212, maybe also pedalboard 11. Jabba_the_Gut - A couple of homemade basses (if I finish them in time...again), Markbass head and TC RS112 cabs 12. Kev - Alpher Mako, ACG Finn, couple of pedals.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]13. Norris - Aria SB-1000, Squier P-bass Special, Fender Rumble v3 500 combo[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]14. Bassbiscuits - Fender 1970 P bass, Sandberg TT4, Markbass head and Schroeder 1210 cab[/font][/color]

Yep stick me down for this too. I can bring a Sandberg California TT4, a 1970 Precision and my usual Markbass head / Schroeder cab rig. had a brilliant time last year!

I once bought a cheap bass for rough n ready gigs instead of taking by more expensive ones. However, the rough and ready gigs usually turned out to be the best ones, and i regretted not having my regular bass there. So now I take a good bass, and just keep it safe (i.e. away from drunken punters, grasping hands or spilled pints)