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My gig set up features two Squiers, a CV jazz which I simply cannot fault and an Affinity P/J which plays a whole lot better than its £90 price tag. the Affinity could be improved, I don't think the jazz could.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1487888865' post='3244011'] You should play some jazz gigs. I've played gigs where I've never heard the tune before. Chord chart, watch, listen and pray. [/quote] My keyboard player has been known to say to me during set up for a gig "Do you know such and such a tune?" "Nope, never heard it" "Right well its in E flat minor and I think you should play this line ** suggests incomprehensible combination of notes** " and then we play it live at the show. Bit scary, but keeps you feeling alive

Current band rehearse once in a blue moon as we are dotted around the country so getting everyone together is a mare. If we could get a Skype type thing going then I'm sure we would. Done plenty of different bands ranging from rehearsing weekly but never gigging to, just diving straight in, all manners have their plusses and minuses IMO. I don't have a great deal of time these days so I'm cool with the arrangement my band has got at the mo

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1487690382' post='3241862'] I've always had three with me at any gig - one for slap, one with flatwounds for soul & Dub type stuff and a fretless. I tend to keep the ones I'm not playing out of sight just so no one thinks I look like a poseur. [/quote] Thats my set up too! With one extra in my case, an EUB. Get soooo many comments after the shows about it, I couldn't even think about leaving it off now. Fair play to the guys who do the whole show on one bass, and I used to, but these days I don't. But please, don't expect everybody to be the same. Its horses for courses 'innit.

I usually have four on stage, and was for a while competing with a guitarist who had six. (guitars obviously) I'm not anymore, but am a total drag queen so on stage they stay. Oddly, I broached the subject of maybe trimming one back to the band the other week and was told "no!". I have them well trained

Id say that's a step or two backwards from the Portamento IMO

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1485088750' post='3220981'] Why not make a register of your gear, buy some specific 'visual inspection only' stickers and actually learn how to do the formal visual inspection yourself? That way you've not said something's been checked in a way that it hasn't and your gear's probably had a better going-over than a lot out there. That said, I'm trained to be 'competent' to fully PAT computer equipment in public use as part of my job, and when I tested my own moulded-plug mains leads with a calibrated tester I was amazed at how many either failed or were close to failing despite looking absolutely fine, so I'd advocate replacing those every so often irrespective. [attachment=236410:patvisinsp.png] [/quote] I've had the opposite experience, must have completed a few thousand PA tests in my time and only ever failed one item, a kettle. The lead was fine.

Is that a GMR on the left of the second pic?