Gareth Hughes

[quote name='fatback' post='881155' date='Jun 29 2010, 05:19 PM']Meh. Only UK orders accepted. EDIT Waay! Ebay dealer will deliver outside UK and is £30 cheaper [/quote] Hey Fatback - Whereabouts are you in Ireland? I'm just north of the border, so if that's any use to you let me know. I do stuff like that a lot for colleagues in Dublin getting stuff on eBay, saves a fortune on delivery charges.

This might be irrelevant as I'm not too sure what goes on with speakers BUT I had a similar sound coming from one speaker in a Hartke 2.5XL cab years ago. Turned out to be the dust cover had worked it's way loose. A little bit of silicon was used to reattach it and everything worked lovely. This was done by Ernie McMillen in Comber, so if that's anywhere handy to you, PM and I'll pass on his details.

+1 for playing on the side of your finger instead of the tips. I literally have a callous on the side of my finger from my fingernail to my last knuckle. Another tip would be to lower the action (if possible) so you have less tension to work with. Superglue has gotten me through a few tough gigs, but so has some electrical tape. Not ideal by any means, but it worked. And good luck!!!

Are there chord marking above the score? I've been there before too - makes for a bugger with repeated sections. If there's chords, it's a busk with an eye out for any noticeable rhythm markings.

THis is a great look at bass playing/music in New York in very exciting musical times: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birdland-Broadway-Scenes-Jazz-Life/dp/0195085507/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277626565&sr=8-3"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birdland-Broadway-...6565&sr=8-3[/url]

Bought an EBS BassIQ from Gruskgo - good guy - kept in touch, and tolerated my idiot ramblings with finesse

I nabbed a bit of unused studio sound-proofing foam at the start of a session once - worked a treat. A little on the stiff side, but thick enough to be trimmed down to size.

Yup, I can match that - and possibly beat it for amount of hours involved relative to hours played. (Not that I'm proud, or that this is any competition with a great winner). I did roughly the same amount of hours travelled for two gigs as Pete Academy did for his Irish jaunt - except that my two gigs were in Chicago. What should have been a three week tour was all but cancelled at the last minute. Seeing as the visas/flights, etc had been paid for the manager thought the act should still do the two shows that had sold well. Flew from Dublin to Chicago late Friday evening - gig on Saturday, gig on Sunday, early morning flight Monday. Second time - same act now that I think of it - was worse. I had a different gig in Killarney - a good five hour drive from Dublin at the time, but took it anyway, thinking I'll still get back in time for my 7am flight to Germany. Coming into Killarney there are thousands of punters heading to a gig - but not my gig, I knew from the numbers. Turned out Westlife were playing there too that night. And all those people were leaving the same time I was leaving!!! I left the gig at 1130pm - by 1am I was still in Killarney and panicking as I looked at the map. I finally got home at 5am, packed quickly, said goodbye to my wife (whose birthday it was.......) and left for the airport at 530am. It gets worse. The flight is on the Saturday, but the gig is on the Sunday. So why the early travel? There's a 6 hour bus ride from the airport to the gig and as we're playing at some huge conference once it finishes (and it started at 9am), we have to soundcheck the night before. Joy. At least two hours are wasted once we land because whilst a bus has been booked for 10 people, it does not hold 10 persons luggage and their instruments. Doh. We finally get there late in the evening and all I remember is setting up my gear and then lying down to sleep in front of my rig while a tortuous vocal soundcheck was done . Band soundcheck time - midnight. The better part is that this was the day of the Germany-Brazil World Cup in 2002, so we had to watch the match on a huge cinema size screen in the same room as the conference and they play immediately afterwards. Fair play to the German punters -when they lost we thought it would be the worst gig ever, but everyone in the room stood up, applauded Brazil and then seemed to enjoy our gig. So all that for about 90 minutes of music. (And a HUGE frikking buffet;))