gafbass02

I blend all magnetic (piezo bridge) full bass, treble about 10% mid about 1%, just ever so slightly forward of the detent.

Thanks guys, a chiroporactor seems to be the way to go. Playing by the bridge is such a fundamental part of my style that i dont think i could change after 15+ years. I do play for several hours most nights so i might back off for a week and then if no joy get myself chiropracted!

[quote name='wizbat' post='203389' date='May 21 2008, 12:14 AM']An 18 wheeler parked along side the stage with a trailer fitted out as a multi tier guitar stand with ev,ry kind of bass you can think of, just because i could afford it! :-) With a fully chromed Kenworth C510 at the front![/quote] You think like me...

I will do, hope its short lived!

Today for some reason all the knuckles on my right (plucking) hand ached from the minute i woke up, despite me not playing any more than usual lately (few hours a day). Just now i was playing and started to get shooting pains down my first finger on the same hand and now the knuckles on my other hand ache. Am i broken? ..and do we have a sticky anywhere on bass health issues like posture etc?, couldn't spot one? I play pretty tight back to the bridge, here is a of pic of me which shows my right hand position pretty well. Am i just getting old?

[quote name='tauzero' post='202660' date='May 20 2008, 10:07 AM']Can't you jam along to stuff you don't know, or don't the guits like that?[/quote] I can but if its a known song id rather it be heard properly than have me whose never heard it before noodling away hoping it sounds like the original, they play lots of new chart pop stuff ive never heard, mainly 'haircut' bands with names like 'the gongles' and 'the retros', you know the ones, the rickenbacker with a plectrum 18" driver, plunky sounding brigade. Id rather play nothing than ruin someones else song/jam or look like a kn*b. They tend to sing about shopping a lot!

refused to support the Towers of London just based on the safety of our gear!

My wife is awesome, she knows my bass playing is the biggest part of what makes me me and fully accepts and encourages it. She knows if im not playing i get grumpy and over the last ten years has learnd a great deal about basses too which is cool when she points out a p bass or whatever. She has strong opinions on the looks of certain basses, and adores my black sparkle ray and really loved my old green status sixer (boy do i miss that now!) she even encouraged me to buy my squier VMJ as she realised the bargain-ness and the great sound! Def a good find, now if i could just find a case to fit her and fit a badass bridge and shed be spot on heh heh

are the boss and the jamman longer?, also how many layers can you add?

Im after something which i can easily live drop layers on layers, so a percussive beat then a bass part, pseudo guitar part and then noodle. But all in a pedal not rack, am i asking too much ive looked around on here and tb but am still at a loss!

Im also looking at loopers, does the headrush allow you to build up a few layers and then solo over them? Or would I be better off with the boss rc2?

[quote name='mikeh' post='201599' date='May 18 2008, 04:44 PM']The one on the right, was that the prototype Bongo? Nice VJ...[/quote] No i think its just a bog standard one!

sweet, thanks guys

Ok, so since moving to Cheltenham i spend a lot of time in open mic nights waiting and hoping for a chance to play something i know, which is fairly rare having never spent much time doing covers, and quite often the guys who know the same songs as me are unavailable, etc. But i like to keep my hand in playing and performing so i was thinking about branching out and doing some solo bass stuff as i have some bits and bobs, but need to write some more and expand a touch. Do any of you esteemed lot have any suggestions?, should i be looking at a looper pedal or would a delay suffice, what about a GT6b? Id keep it short so as not to get boo'ed off but im getting bored of trekking to the pub with my bass to either get ignored/bumped (as per last night, when i said id do a solo slot only to keep getting bumped cause Jim/Dave/Phil wants to play, and presumably i rate lower as a bass player than a guy with a guitar) or to play the same songs as last week cause thats all we know in common. So what should i be looking at, and listening to im thinking Jaco and our very own Monsignor Lawson?

basicly...yes!

On the subject of iffy venues, the best known one in Leicester, (which i have played well over a hundred time, possibly over 200 in various bands, filled over capacity etc etc) When i was in Doublecross who sold quite a few thousand albums, featured in rock mags across Europe, also full page ads in classic rock mag etc played with bands like Styx and Dokken at places like the Hammersmith Odeon, Glasgow SECC etc. I called the venue to do what was to be a small local gig by our standards, but just said the name of the band instead of saying, 'oh hi its Gaf from...(various local acts)' which would have been fine as i was known by name. After explaining about the fact that we were currently selling by the truckload and playing some big venues with some big names i was told: "Yeah well i aint heard of you, and if you're not big in Leicester then you're no-one!" This attitude may explain why said venue used to be a mainstay on the tour circuit and now goes largely ignored, this along with Leicesters famously apathetic 'hipper than thou' crowds and scene (Which i actually read an article all about in one of the music papers some years back so its not just me!)

All of the above but then work at 9.15am being shouted at by customers

Nice one dude, always good to hear stuff like this!