burgundymouse

Well done! I had my first gig in June and couldn't relax until our encore and then was disappointed it was over! Made damn sure I really enjoyed the next gig and seemed to work as I looked and felt much more confident as a reluctant singing bassist! Good luck with the next one.

I was in a band that cut the second verse of Money for Nothing (faggots in earrings and make up) but we did a storming rendition of Immigrant Song about the Viking Hordes being your overlords.

I bought a 1992 MIM P bass in the marketplace on here for nearly tuppance, got it re-strung and set up properly and I now prefer it to my brand new, paid full price American Standard Jazz. The only problem I have with it every now and again is that it uses me as an earthing mechanism :{ Must get that looked at.

Awwww. You're all lovely. And perfectly sound advice. I'm going to hang around here more often.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1323037130' post='1458633'] . Just heard you doing the full part during the guitar solo [/quote] Thank you! The guitarist shouldn't have all the fun in a 2 1/2 minute solo You're right it really needs the full bass part but at the moment my brain won't work that way

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1323034874' post='1458590'] this seems to be a pretty acceptable rendition! (see what I mean?) [/quote] I'll bank that! My timing can be shocking sometimes - my teacher has me practising with a metronone but I end up tuning it out .....not good. All hlpful comments gratefully received especially by people who maybe have a better ear for this stuff than me.

I've only been playing bass for year and up until 6 weeks ago certainly couldn't sing and play bass at the same time (some may argue I still can't!) but I was rather proud of this being a relative beginnner. Even better, I bought the P-Bass from a fellow Bass chatter - I am now very very unfaithful to my Jazz. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtFSTHLkDU&feature=youtu.be"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtFSTHLkDU&feature=youtu.be[/url]

+1 to the good service. Phoned on thursday to see if they had an Ashdown amp I was interested in. They had it in their Leeds store, shipped it down to Epsom and I picked it up on Saturday. Really helpful staff and they carried it to my car. Its a big store though with lots of stuff you didn't know you wanted until you walk in so might be an idea to leave the house deeds at home.

[quote]had another fag and two pints of London Pride [/s]finished dismantling his kit and put it all away.[/quote] I think I was married to this drummer once!

Count me in with my Fender Jazz and embarassingly small Laney amp. And possibly a Thunderbird Pro IV I have my eye on. And would be very interested in the double bass session if I win the competition in Bass Guitar mag this month!

I'm also a lefty playing a righty. Pure fluke as when I bought my bass I didn't think to ask that such a thing as a left handed instrument existed. So used to living in a right handed world. Us left handed people use more of both sides of our brain because if it you know?