bertbass

+1 to the above. We use a pair of Equinox Mega Bars and one of these, http://www.bluearan.co.uk/index.php?product=Showtec_Showmaster_48_48_Channel_DMX_Dimming_Console&id=SHO50356. Brilliant. We've got a guy who works it all for us, but we could just use the foot controller that comes with the mega bars.

I'd see it as all venues in an area, pubs, clubs anywhere bands play. We have venues that are great for covers and others that only do heavy or metal and a few that you'd be out of place without your cowboy hat and as previously said, good or bad agents and promoters and also venues to play and not to play, infact, everything you'd want to know in advance when approaching a new venue.

Everyone knows where the good local gigs are but it's a lot harder to find gigs not in your area. This a great idea for bands who travel to find gigs around the UK and possibly abroad.

Never thought of that.

I wear a hat and positively hate to see music stands on stage. Learn the song. As a hat wearer what category am I in?

Not sure about the phone db meter. Got a couple and not only are they totally out with each other, they are totally out with a 'real' db meter. If you want to check db levels I'd suggest getting a 'proper' meter.

Don't seem to fit in any of those categories, we must be unique.

1. Pop down to Halfords or Car Crazy and get a can or 2 of primer and 2 or 3 large spray cans of your chosen colour. 2. Try here. http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/category/Decal-Paper. Looks great and clear varnish over the top. 3. Leave the paint to dry for a few weeks, rub down with wet & dry paper 2000 grit and polish to a great shine with T-cut. 4. Leave it as it is. You could flat it down with wet and dry and T-cut it if you want. 5. Car body filler, Halfords or Car Crazy again. Rub down with decreasing grades of glass paper then wet & dry until as smooth as the rest of the bass. Good luck.

There's certainly less people in the pubs now than there used to be and in a pub or club that's taken the trouble, smokers are not standing outside in the cold and wet. they're sitting at tables, under cover and in front of heaters. In fact, it's just like it used to be in the pubs before the smoking ban. The only time the customers go back in the pub is to buy more ale or to use the loos. They're enjoying the band it's just that we can't see them.

I think that the smoking ban is 90% to blame and the cost of beer 10%. Playing inside a pub to 10 people while the smoking area outside is packed is a bit soul destroying as well. The pubs that provide a comfy smoking area seem to get more customers than the ones that put a bucket outside the entrance. The number of clubs that have gone has surprised me I have to confess, I'd of thought that it would have been mainly pubs that would have closed but that's not the way it is at all.

TC RH 450, http://vpub.boyd-printing.com/publication/?i=76122, from pages 52 - 3. and ORANGE TERROR BASS 500, from pages 74 - 75.

This might help. http://www.audiobanter.com/showthread.php?t=125660

Stuff them and use this, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foam-Egg-Box-Mixed-Pack-Profile-Foam-Sheets-10-20-pcs-/360483949739?pt=UK_Packaging_Materials&hash=item53ee848cab&_uhb=1#ht_2303wt_1403. Just staple it in and if you don't like it you can just remove but I'm sure you'll like the less boomy sound.

It's also held on with double sided tape. Give a gently pull where it's stuck and you'll feel / see it. The controls come of with it. You could get mirrored acrylic sheet from here and make your own. http://www.seawhite.co.uk/online/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=acrylic+sheet+mirror&filter_category_id=82&filter_sub_category=true&product_id=116

Nothing wrong with that, he's great. It's up the the rest of the band to try to upstage him, then you've got a show!

If I don't change strings within 3 months of putting them on, I will break one. E, had them break. A, them as well. D, not so often but still break. G, snap like a good'n. Give me any make and I'll break them for you. Mind you, I do use a pick and I'm quite heavy handed.

+1 on the BFM cabs. We use a pair of T39s and a pair of Otop 12s. Yamaha mixer, Peavey 3 way x/over, Behringer and Matrix power amps. Peavey IPA 1600 power amp and EV Force Monitors for, well, monitors. Plus loads of other stuff. Does it sound good? No, it sounds fantastic. I wish I could be in the audience at the same time just to hear it. Actually, as I'm totally wireless, I quite often am.

Hey baby. I hate the ooh aah in the cover, it ruins a good song.

Marshall guitar cabs and Bass cabs of that era used the same speakers, in fact they were the same cabs. I know, I took enough backs off during the time. Guitar cabs were rated at 100w and bass cabs were rated at 75w and had bass on them.

One on each foot surely.

I've put a handy handle on the bottom of my 8x10 so top or bottom no problem.

Gravel or stairs? You pull it instead of pushing it.

When I first started to play bass, 1967, there was nothing. No books, internet, videos or tutors. Infact all there was were records and the occasional sighting of a bass player on TV, plus of course a multitude of live music. Once I discovered how to tune a bass, it was just listening to records and sussing out which notes were being played and playing along until I got it right. Actually, there was sheet music but this was nearly always written in the wrong key, I think that a chap sat down at the piano and worked out what the chords were so the songs were mostly in C, and just gave the chord and melody written in dots. Thinking about it, the words were wrong as well. The first song that I learnt to play the bass line too was Purple Haze and I learned that on a Vox Stroller guitar, that I bought form my Mum's mail order catalogue, Marshall Wards's If I remember correctly, for £19 and played through my Dad's Truvox tape recorder. My first 'real' bass was a Vox Clubman strung left handed through a Linear 30 valve head and a home made 2x12 with one speaker not working.

Tried to wind pickups by hand many years ago and the wire kept breaking so I gave up. Often thought that I'd like to have another go now I'm older and wiser, Allegedly.