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I am enjoying the gig, the guitarists are both excellent players and the drummer is great too. He plays really solid and it's great fun to groove around him. I have one more show with them, next week and I'm really looking forward to it

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1438857661' post='2838028'] My job as a dep is always to get asked back. I have an opinion about everything in my bands (don't get me started), but when I'm depping I never get involved in band politics, personalities, arguments or issues. [/quote] The band are moaning about it as well. It's not my beef, I was wondering what experiences other people have had. I dep with them because they are friends of mine. The band is very good, very tight with some quite interesting material that gets me playing in different styles, (although I'm sure Bernard Edwards would rather not hear his bass lines being played with a pick!!)

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1438789199' post='2837357'] That is so true, Skank. That's what these people don't realise - being in a band isn't what you think being in a band is going to be like. They want to be in a band, but when they find out what being in a band is like, they don't really want to be in a band any more. Hence the crap attitude. For a lot of people 'being in a band' is just a concept or a premise or a thought. The actual 'being in a band' bit of 'being in a band' is bloody hard work, and these stupid, workshy, feckless, unreliable, untalented frigging fecking pigs should just stop wasting everyone's time and do us all a favour by fecking off out of it! /rant [/quote] because of this I was going to start a virtual pub band with some mates. We were going to have a long list of songs (that we weren't going to learn) and only book pubs that had closed. It's a smashing idea you know

In my band, I am the singer. I own the PA and the lights and several mics but I have recently rejoined my old band who cart around their own PA in a van, with the lights and a roadie. I still get there early and set the PA up, because I'm the effing singer.

I'm depping for my mates band and the singer, as stated, does what she likes. Last night we had practice and she cried off at the last minute. Good job it's not my band, cos I'd sack her. F*king slacker. How do people think they can get away with being like that and i don't think that she's good enough to have that kind of attitude

my number one bass is a Fender P from between '73-'75. It's fantastic and it sounded miles better than my '62 which I sold because the newer one was better. I built a maple boarded fretless P last year and it sounds epic. Sometimes they just work and if an old one worked when it was new, it should be even better now. The woods dry out and just sound better IMO

[quote name='geofio' timestamp='1438777871' post='2837134'] Minitaur and Roland PK5 or PK5A midi bass pedals total control from your feet, you can change octave and program number also with your feet just store the presets on the minitaur and the pedal switching will go through each program for you which you can select with your feet. used that set up for a long time never any issues. [/quote] don't you need a computer to store preset sounds?

[url="http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn2/FatSting/20131012_1133401_zpsxbonyuhf.jpg"][/url] Here you go. I sometimes roll the cutoff frequency back a little, depending on the room/PA

I've done some surfing and can confirm, there should be made in the usa on the headstock, it can have a trussrod plug, some do, some don't. It looks very clean, almost too clean and the fingerboard looks very dark. It could have 74 pickups on a 76, so for me, a little inconclusive so far.

McMillan 12 step, interface, minitaur, PA. no presets, I use one sound live (think the intro to 'Don't stand so close' by The Police. I set it up every gig by looking at a photo I have on my phone. It sounds great

Their that is all!!

hopefully this video will load, of probably the best Rod I've ever seen/heard

Hi Pete, greetings here from St Margarets

yep, Simon back on drums and I saw jagged edge support Motorhead (a very long time ago)

not only are they really nice chaps but they were fantastic. Anyone else seen them?

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1437139506' post='2823949'] [color=#000000]All very exciting mate, I hope it’s as good as you hope/dream it will be. [/color] [color=#000000]Saying that I thought that a custom/bespoke builder would do what you want and not what he was jigs for. Am I missing something?[/color] [/quote] Primarily Bravewood make replicas of vintage Fender instruments, so i imagine that because Fender didn't offer a 33 inch scale, john doesn't either

[quote name='GuyR' timestamp='1437120261' post='2823680'] I ordered a stack-knob jazz in surf green, aged white guard ,matching headstock and one-piece maple neck. Very happy with the result. You won't regret ordering [/quote] yes pictures please, or it never happened (you know the rules)

eyparts in hong kong. I bought a fretless maple board neck from them. Dots are in the wrong place though (same as custom world guitars)

your bravewood will be lovely. John makes great instruments. As I've said before, I have a '57 'Sting' replica and my wife gigs a '63 in Daphne blue.

agreed, super P in white looks lovely. I had the RV 4 for a while. It was very good.

I have the new Steve Harris P bass in WHUFC colours. Fit and finish are first class and the neck is wonderful. I think the mex guitars/basses have improved massively over the years

if you change guitars enough, you should become quite slick. In my pub band where I play a telecaster and a Variax, I swap between them. It's done quickly and effortlessly. I use the variax purely for the acoustic sounds but because it's a variax I can use it as a backup to the telecaster. The modelled sounds are good enough to get through should I need too. It's also got normal pickups (it's a JTV-59) and they make a good noise too.

I saw a band recently, that had a sound engineer, with an iPad. wandering around the venue to get the sound right. It was dreadful. Muddy as hell. people don't know how to use a mixing desk. They boost everything when they should leave it flat and add a little treble for clarity (well that works for me and the bands I watch that have a good sound). Their sound was so bad that we moved on to another pub

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1433930101' post='2795101'] I find it really odd they would drop the old one and make the only instrument available the one with the West Ham badge, it is as if they have no idea how militant most English people are over football! [/quote] I think it's great that they have done it in WHUFC colours. It does make it more like SH's bass. Yes, unfortunately the slightly half witted football nutters may not like it but that's their problem