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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1419008485' post='2635704'] IME I'd happily recommend 2 Bergantino AE112 cabs or 2 Barefaced Super Compacts. [/quote] [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1419012748' post='2635759'] A couple of Berg AE112's will do the job and they weigh around 32lbs [/quote] And these turned out to be the winners, and JTUK just happened to know someone selling a pair of them . After a NYE gig with them, I'm very happy. Plus they give me even more permutations on the car-sized Tetris that I do for every gig (bass gear plus PA and foldback and some lights).

Just bought a brace of Bergantino AE112s from John. Very helpful throughout, packed them well for the courier. Thanks John.

[quote name='JJW' timestamp='1419865149' post='2643306']Do you think it looks cool?[/quote] No. That's definitely trying too hard.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1420046089' post='2645167'] At 15lbs in weight you would need to save some money for a replacement spine as well! [/quote] It's .15lbs, which is 2.4 ounces. Don't you just love lightweight basses?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1419949627' post='2644211'] The Elvis number is either a feature number or doesn't work and will drop out and the Nik K number sits ok..enough. So..onward and upward with the drummer search [/quote] The one that seemed a bit of an oddity to me from that list was the Lionel Richie one. It just seems like the sort of number you'd start the second set off with after they'd called the bingo.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1419436983' post='2639976'] Problem with restricting keyboard player to piano sounds means that everything sounds like boogie woogie! [/quote] Or Meatloaf.

Pubs often stop serving shortly before midnight and restart shortly afterwards. Find out when they're doing that and announce it. Stop at some prearranged time before midnight. Use BBC iPlayer Radio on your phone to get Radio 4 (other radio stations are available). Put it through the PA. Play "Auld Lang Syne". Start final set. Our last song before midnight will be "Midnight Hour".

I was ditched from a band because the lead guitarist and drummer wanted to bring in an old mate of theirs. The day after I got the news (the members responsible didn't tell me, the rhythm guitarist was the one who broke the news), FB suggested that I might like to become friends with their new bassist...

Some standard fodder, some that's a bit different. We're a four-piece - vocals, guitar, bass, drums. All Right Now - Free Because the night - Patti Smith Born to be wild - Steppenwolf Brass in Pocket - Pretenders Crazy little thing called love - Queen Dakota - Stereophonics Doctor doctor - UFO Don't Speak - No Doubt Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac Ever fallen in love - Buzzcocks Get It On - T. Rex Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac Hotel California - Eagles I love rock'n'roll - Joan Jett I saw her standing there - Beatles I'll be there for you - Rembrandts Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry Kayleigh - Marillion Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers Make me smile (Come up and see me) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel Maria - Blondie Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett - Yay! One way or another - Blondie One of us - Joan Osborne Run to you - Bryan Adams Sex on fire - Kings of Leon Since you been gone - Rainbow Stand by me - Ben E King Stuck in the middle with you - Stealer's Wheel Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Teenage Kicks - Undertones Times like these - Foo Fighters Wishing Well - Free Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton

Sleeping Satellite - Tasmin Archer Will you - Hazel O'Connor Mrs Zero and I have done both these as a duo, but it would be nice to have a full band for them.

I have the far more useful USS Enterprise one.

I forgot Johnny B Goode.

In: Hohner B2AV Harley Benton B35FL Out: Hohner B2V The reason for the Hohner ins and outs was that the B2V/B2AV makes an ideal backup bass for me, and the B2V was painted black in pretty much pristine condition, so rather than the B2V getting dinged, I bought a walnut B2AV and sold the B2V. I prefer natural finish anyway. The Harley Benton is a decoration-only which cost me £26 after review vouchers. How could I resist?

Oh, I thought you were going to post an infallible guide to winning the lottery. That seems to be my most significant GAS problem. Nothing on the website that I can see on whether they work with Schaller straplocks. I've asked the question.

I think I get half a dozen enquiries a year for each band, which is not insignificant for bands doing 30 gigs a year or so. Of course, I also get plenty of spam from SEO companies telling me that they can get my website higher in Google ratings (and now that Alan Sugar has given another of the gits a quarter of a million to do more SEO spamming, that's potentially another one to report to Spamcop).

Seems like a less than ideal solution to the problem of playing bass with your feet. I suspect that a set of pedals and a MIDI module would do the job an awful lot better.

I write the website - domain registration is about £3 a year and hosting all the websites I have costs (I think) £120 a year as I run a VPS (virtual private server - ie. it's a share on a server which appears to be a standalone server).

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1419608943' post='2641260'] FB events for every gig.. surely everyone does that..?? [/quote] We do. We also put them on our proper website. TBH, I think any band with just a Facebook page isn't taking the interwebs side of things seriously. Maybe I'm just being snobbish about it, but I can't control the design of the band's FB page. I see Facebook in the same light as Myspace before it and whatever will come after it, which may well be sooner rather than later as people get pissed off with FB's attitude. For the time being, I see FB as a somewhat useful evil, and regrettably people expect you to have an FB page so that's what you need to do. Incidentally, angrybadgers.co.uk has gone but theangrybadgers.co.uk is available...

Teenage Kicks Dakota Sex on fire Born to be wild All right now Mustang Sally (yay!) Crazy little thing called love Long train running Saw her standing there Ever fallen in love Summer of 69 Sweet home Alabama Times like these And, of course, all of Blue's originals.

I would like to know who signed the statement of neck, and were there two witnesses to the signature?

Have you tried asking Hohner direct? I can't help as mine is the jack-only version.

[quote name='DiMarco' timestamp='1417344938' post='2619260'] [b]If you had to downsize and could (besides your tuner) only use, say, max. two effect pedals... Which ones would you keep?[/b] [/quote] Zoom B3 and Zoom MS60-B.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1419337086' post='2638840'] For example, with four speakers with a 1mm Xmax, is it still considered a 1mm overall limit before distortion, or does the simultaneous cone movement equate to a 4mm Xmax in relation to the same signal? [/quote] Xmax is a physical limit on the cone excursion of a single driver, so each cone can move a maximum of 1mm without distortion regardless of how many drivers are in the cab, but if each of the cones moves 1mm then the total volume of air displaced (Vd, as Bill FitzYoda says) is four times as much with four drivers as with one.

There's very few 2x10s that weigh in at 15kg. Most of them are 20kg, so they weigh nearly as much as my 4x10. As I am weak and weedy, I want something light.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1419282071' post='2638390'] Nope, they are triangular-bodied. This seems to me to be a lute with only a single set of strings. [/quote] Lutes are fretted, aren't they? Gut frets rather than metal, wrapped round the neck. Perhaps it's someone's first home-made oud. Where they went "right, time to make the soundhole. Let's drill a few holes and jigsaw it and HOW MANY STRINGS DID YOU SAY IT SHOULD HAVE? Oh sh*t".