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It's a great noise. For my current band, it's 90% fingerstyle, but I love digging in with a pick on appropriate tunes. We do a revved up version of "Paradise" by Dr Feelgood and the plec bass just drives it along in a way you'd struggle to achieve with your fingers. Whatever gets the job done, I guess...

[quote name='Burrito' timestamp='1483746593' post='3209897'] If Johnny Cash can use one they must be acceptable. [/quote] Agreed.

Another vote for the B1. For about £45 you get a brilliant fx pedal with the ability to add another input. You might miss the ability to whizz around the patches as it has two pedals rather than three on the B3, but it crams tons of useful stuff in a compact, airport security friendly package.

"I never travel too far, without a little Big Star" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw

My favourite band sing about one of my favourite vocalists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2TPejDvpA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA21dyNY3V4

Little Angels- "She's a Little Angel".

I use the Zoom R16 all the time. It's ace. I tend to use it just as a recorder and then dump all the wavs onto my PC and throw 'em into Cubase LE4. A relatively cheap set up, but with a bit of care, you can get great results. I still get a bit nostalgic for my old Fostex X15 now and then...

I remember watching an old video where he was interviewed about his life and technique. He came across as a guy who hadn't slavishly practiced the instrument, but thanks to years of hard gigging, a brilliant, musical pair of ears and some early training as a chorister, everything he did was interesting and melodic. And that tone...

A bit of Uke and Mandolin, although in a Psychedelic Folk-Rock band I was in a few years ago, I got to play Dulcimer on a tune.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1480935554' post='3188109'] Why would you want to? [/quote] Most of my gigging basses are bitsas, so the facility to swap necks over makes a huge difference to me. I've had neck through instruments and not noticed a massive difference in sound quality, but I'm not the most discerning of musicians...I had a lovely Spector five string which was a set neck and the neck to body was transition was beautiful. As I make infrequent forays to the dusty end, it was a wee bit wasted on me....and it weighed as much as an aircraft carrier.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1480850565' post='3187494'] Need to teach our drummer that trick, he turned up at last night's gig with several vital bits of kit missing, resulting in a 50 minute drive for the guitarist to collect them (the drummer doesn't drive!). [/quote] I think you need to have a word with your Pop Combo. Mr FinnDave - one week its plectrums, the next week it's drum bits...you could always try the classic "I'm not angry...just disappointed.." shtick.

[quote name='CrackerJackLee' timestamp='1480677088' post='3186281'] Here's the extent of what any band should be doing : [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrVuOzk3z8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=lVrVuOzk3z8[/url] Simple guitar movements are enough. They aren't shakin' the fat. [/quote] Pale photocopies of the real thing. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoN6AKPGkBo[/media]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480566537' post='3185452'] Apparently YouTube frowns on humping invisible bears. Blue [/quote] This is the thread that keeps on giving.

[quote name='stinson' timestamp='1480545651' post='3185384'] That's horrifying. [/quote] Yes. Yes it is.

My favourite video of the last few years and one of my favourite songs too. No pants in this, I'm afraid. I don't think ambient will like it, either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7hkO8v9aiI

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1480540809' post='3185308'] While playing I thought my moves looked cool. When I saw the video, I looked like an old guy humping an invisible bear. Blue [/quote] The more you think about this, the funnier it gets.

[quote name='Bass Culture' timestamp='1480538252' post='3185273'] Stinson, Rushbo - we should have a reunion! [/quote] I'm in...if we wait until 12th September next year, it'll be the 30th anniversary of the gig. I'll just let that sink in for a moment.

[quote name='Bass Culture' timestamp='1480530626' post='3185169'] Was hooked as soon as I saw them doing 'Southern Central Rain' on some BBC music show in the early 80's. 'Life's Rich Pageant' was my personal highlight from the early years, and I've always thought 'New Adventures in Hi-Fi' represented one last hurrah in an otherwise increasingly irrelevant roster of latterday albums. First time I saw them was on the Work 'tour' (one gig in the UK, I recall!) at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1987. All I remember is Pete Buck playing the opening chords of 'Finest Worksong' and turning to my mate, who had the same stupid grin on his face as I did, as our ears were assailed by this complete wall of sound. Bloody brilliant! [/quote] I was at that Hammersmith gig, too. Life changing. "Radio Free Europe" played at Ramones speed with all the house lights on...Robyn Hitchcock on 12String for "Fall On Me". What a night. And 10 000 Maniacs were the support. Oh yeah. I don't remember a BBC version of "S Central Rain", but there was a killer version of it on The Tube... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AinyLYhEpOM[/media]

I became obsessed with REM in the mid 80's. The IRS label albums are all brilliant. My "Desert Island Disc" is "Murmur" - just perfect. And Mike Mills is a wonderful Bassist.

[quote name='ukulelelab' timestamp='1480448447' post='3184526'] 2009 Highway 1 body and 1974 'A' precision neck: [/quote] Beautiful.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1480287693' post='3183163'] Make sure you have a back up computer and line in case you loose the connection [/quote] If anybody needs me, I'll be in a dark room, crying.

...but seriously, as long as you have some spare strings, a spare lead and a spare power lead you should be fine. A tuner of some sort is useful - clip on ones are cheap and (sometimes) cheerful. Pen and paper are surprisingly useful, especially when you have to scribble down the occasional set of lyrics or when your charismatic frontman (who has one admin job in the band...) forgets the piggin' set lists again. A pick or two (if you're that way inclined) in the wallet and you're set. It should all fit in the pocket of your gig bag, too.

Jeez, I'm scared to leave the house now. I'm doing the rest of my gigs via Skype.

I've used a couple of wireless systems - a Line 6 G30 and a Smoothound. Neither have had interference issue and sound quality was great with both. The Line 6 developed an annoying dropout, which seems to be a fairly widespread issue with that model. A great shame. The Smoothound is the mutts nuts. I had an odd issue with it initially which was to do with the length of cord between the receiver and my multi fx, which Chris at Smoothound HQ sorted out for me with indecent haste. I saw Sammy Hagar at the Brum Odeon sometime in the eighties which was notable for a few appearances of local taxi firms over the PA, thanks to Sam's prototype wireless dealio. Fortunately, he laughed it off and reached for a lead...