KevB

Definitely get round as many jam/open mic nights you can. Nothing quite like a personal recommendation. Even if the place where you do the performance don't take you on there may be others in the audience who pay attention and go back to their local and tell their landlord they have seen such and such and they would be great for a Friday slot or whatever. If you have a web presence and put demos on try and be reasonably honest, some bands overdub and mutitrack to death to produce a super polished set of demos, then sound nothing like it in the flesh.

There are all sorts of people who I have jammed with in house bands who claim to have played with various people and many you take with a pinch of salt. There was one guy though who was a genuine (semi retired I think) session player who had played with Ry Cooder which I thought was quite cool. One of my oldest mates (known each other since we were in primary school) moved to Nottingham at the same time I did and has been a regular radio presenter/broadcaster/producer in the East Mids (and Rutland) for a long time, not really a household name though!

I don't do them very often but I've never asked for money for those I did and wouldn't feel comfortable doing so any more than I would go dump a load of clothes at a charity shop and expect money in return. If I was continually being badgered to do them I mgiht change my mind but more likely I'd just turn them down.

Been struggling to recall these but I've narrowed it down to the following possibilities: First in front of any sort of 'public' audience would have been a blues jam night so it would either have been some hoary old 12 bar that i don't recall or possibly Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' First with a 'proper' band (but I don't think we got paid) probably With A little help From My Friends (Beatles vs with the Billy Shears intro) First paying gig would have probably been Are You Gonna Go My Way.

Hendrix was a bit of a thumb hooker too, don't know if he did it when playing bass though. Massive hands.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1406638288' post='2513254'] The one I regret selling is an Aria semi-acoustic. Not sure of the model, but a band I auditioned for said I should use something more "metal" so I foolishly traded it to get a Squier Jazz. [/quote] If it was an AMB-50B I still have one and hardly ever play it so if you are ever over Nottingham way and fancy it I'm sure we could come to a cheap deal, they were always a bit 'entry level' but maybe yours was a bit classier?

Forget the compo, what about all those millions stashed away in Nigerian bank accounts we can get our hands on by following some fairly basic email instructions...

'Rajaz' by Camel

What little vinyl remains with me is there purely for it's mass - my CD shelves were expanded and became a bit top heavy (IKEA jobs) so Iumped my old vinyl not sold off yet onto the bottom big shelf and now it doesn't move at all. I suppose bricks would have done just as well but at least I can look at the album covers occasionally this way. Not had a working turntable for at least 10 years.

If we do a gig for £250 (4 piece band) then that's theoretically £62:50 each. This is clearly too much messing about with change for our band leader who makes it all very simple by paying three of us £60 each and keeping £70 for himself. Every single gig. I'd assumed the additional tenner was being put aside to fund repairs on equipment, buy new gear to improve the band presentation etc. It clearly isnt

It's true what someone was saying earlier in the thread though, with the advent of mp3 you need never totally 'lose' an album ever again. Even uncompressed most people's entire collection would happily fit in a couple of hundred quid's worth of hard drive space or less.

I had Animation on tape, practically wore it out. It took years before it got officially released on CD so I ended up buying a bootleg CD which sounds like the LP has just been transferred to the disk, including any background noise from the vinyl! Song Of Seven is pretty good too.

Don't really regret selling asny basses. Though not a stinker the one I shouldn't have bought was a reissue Burns Bison, holds the record for my shortest ownership but got back virtually what I paid for it so no harm done. If I'd ever seen one in a shop to try in advance I wouldn't have got it.

One of our regular pub gigs in what is usually a challengingly warm room at the best of times. Well well they'd finally cranked the air con up a bit so it was tolerable and resulted in a pretty busy dancefloor, even had one guy doing a bit of air bass in front of me at one point. We tried out a new number (completely unrehearsed as a band) and it went reasonably OK, needs a bit of tweaking here and there but the basics are there.

Just back from another wedding gig. First set inevitably a victim of the weather, with a brand new upper balcony on the clubhouse at a revamped golf club overlooking the 18th green i would have sat outside chatting rather than be inside dancing in that temperature too. Hence we played to about 4 people for set 1. As it cooled and those with small kids went home after 10pm we were left with the hardcore partygoers for second set who filled the dancefloor until we quit, exhausted, at midnight (they had a curfew at that point anyway). Another gig Sat night at a notoriously sweaty pub we play each month. Better take a towel... The buffet was rather lacklustre btw, give it 4/10.

Bob Holness played saxophone on Baker Street.... It's OK, I [i]know..... [/i]

kenny, if you mean Saw Her Standing... in C then it's not so bad, used to do it in C all the time for a guy who used to come to a jam session played at. Dropping down to the F chord halfway through the verse seemed well weird at first but it all fits, might have used some open strings. Been playing it back in E for over a year now with current band.

How about a US made P deluxe? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/228759-usa-fender-deluxe-precision/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/228759-usa-fender-deluxe-precision/[/url]

The S1 jazz was still only passive but it's a lovely player. For comparison of how much grain can show through in the same colour scheme here are my precisions; [URL=http://s30.photobucket.com/user/KevB64/media/IMG_0944.jpg.html][IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/IMG_0944.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s30.photobucket.com/user/KevB64/media/Bodyfront_zps180740e0.jpg.html][IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/Bodyfront_zps180740e0.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Looks like butterscotch blonde to me, the jazz in my avatar is that colour but it has a rosewood board, its an S1 from 2003 ish. I have 2 other US Fenders in the same colour, an active precision deluxe (currently up for sale) and a precision 50th anniversary model with maple fretboard. The 'depth' of colour can vary a fair bit, the wood grain shows through more on my P deluxe than on the jazz for example. Heres a pic from when I first got it, now has one or two minor dings and sports a badass III bridge but pretty much the same; [url="http://s30.photobucket.com/user/KevB64/media/US%20jazz/5212acca.jpg.html"][/url][URL=http://s30.photobucket.com/user/KevB64/media/US%20jazz/e69ffc24.jpg.html][IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/US%20jazz/e69ffc24.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Nifty - started out playing lefty then switched to righty from the videos

I think if I was playing mine more regularly i might opt for one of those bezels from Rickysounds too especially as he's in Notts and I could probably just drive to his house and pick it up. He did a 'classic tone' replacement pot for my 4003 a few years back. Not sure I'd bother in hindsight though, think I prefer it as it was originally tonewise (its a push/pull replacement knob so an invisible mod). The original bridge PU cover lasted all of 30 minutes after I got my 4003 (secondhand yr 2000 built) and its never been back on in 12 years.