Mudpup

Everyone's favourite bass player Mr Mick Mason is playing a gig at the Belmont Conservative Club in Sutton, SW London on July 23rd with the Andrew James 'Phil Collins Easy Lover' tribute band. I believe its a Basschat tradition to try and support members when they are playing locally..... Heres the link 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/events/746320790085019/?active_tab=discussion https://belmontconservativeclub.co.uk/?page_id=2394

I've also found the Gallery guys to be very friendly and welcoming once you're inside. Pressing a doorbell and waiting to be let in is hardly a deal breaker for me. I'm guessing they have that for security reasons - that bit of London has quite a few scoundrels roaming the streets and it wouldn't be hard to run off with some very expensive kit if the door was open. Usually a great selection of gear in there too.

I bought this one mainly because it has a standard kettle lead..... https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_iso_10ac_pro.htm

Why can't you just use a pick?

I was so confident! However the pleasure of the new toy far outweighs the shame and ridicule that I shall now suffer....

Last night's one was a saga! Our scheduled gig was scratched due to a double booking by the venue. Nice to know you're the ones to get binned isn't it.... So I put a post up on Facebook to see if anyone needed a band that night and we were rebooked in about 5 minutes by a venue that we had played at once before a few months back, went down well but didn't have space to book any more as our diary was full. All good and made even better when the original gig got in touch and said the other band had made a mistake and couldn't do the gig and we were back on. Oh no we're not bucko - we're somewhere else now. Sweet revenge!! So this new one is 20 mins up the road from me, an easy load in, got loads of lights so we don't need to take so much gear and a brilliant crowd usually. And I had my new amp courtesy of @40hz to try out. The scene was set. Gopro clamped to the PA speaker in front of me so the bass is a bit high but here you go

Dammit, I'm out. I was super confident this year that i would make it to the finish line as well 😡 I sold my Handbox a few weeks ago and there was a little envelope of cash sitting in the toy fund. I put it in the draw to try and forget about it and was doing well until @40hz listed probably the only amp that had a chance of knocking me off the wagon. He's a great guy that I had dealt with before and the amp was at a great price. My resolve failed miserably and within 24 hrs I had grabbed it and gigged it. It's bloody brilliant..... See you all in 2023!

The M-Pulse 600 changed hands today again. Good to briefly meet up with Simon again and everything is good! Deal with confidence :-) I'm just waiting for him to offload my old S.U.B bass now....

I'll eat pretty much anything that i can find! I have no shame.... Rather partial to a Lamb Shish or a banana Yazoo milkshake and a Snickers bar. McDonald's is best avoided though.

I can't remember TBH - i did it years ago. If you're not a full time musician the tax man probably wouldn't be massively interested in you anyway - remember every bit of kit you have, strings, travel costs, admin costs, promotion costs would all be factored into a tax calculation.

We've been getting paid via them from various venues for years. Never had a problem with them yet. Just submit an invoice by Sunday evening and the money goes straight in the nominated bank account within a couple of weeks. The last one took 5 days....

And here's Stevie again with another amazing bass player - he knows where to find them.....check out the solo at 3:00

One of my faves was TM Stevens. A total monster groove player.......there's nothing difficult in this video other than sitting in exactly the right place and injecting energy into a band that's at their peak...

I was only controlling the pin spots last night as a first attempt but there are 15 scenes set up in them to monkey around with. The rear sweepers are too bonkers on sound to light so we leave them on a slow autorun macro which I can change on a remote and we leave the front lights on a slow 3 colour fade as well. The fazer is on a remote programmable switch as well. It's not so bad really - most things have been set on autoruns historically but we're going to get them a bit more organised with the DMX thingy.

Last night's gig was at one of our favourite venues. Great crowd and we tried a couple of off the wall new songs out which worked out really well. We've invested in a DMX foot controller that muggins has been tasked with operating and I spent a week programming it and the whole gig tap dancing on it. But it worked pretty well. Here's some pics that someone in the crowd took...

Loving the STP stuff - Robert DeLeo is a fab player. Really creative and Plush is a great shout

Personally I prefer a kettle lead - they just feel a bit more robust and there’s always a chance of an adaptor going pop at a gig.

Its a standard guitar jack to 3.5mm headphone jack on my Aftershock I did wonder what you do if your phone doesn't have a headphone socket.......you may have to use a laptop USB instead