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Andertons have more detail. Rumble 40 is £350... Rumble 800 2x10 combo is £769. I'll stick to my second hand Bronco 40 until I can get one of these second hand at a reasonable price.

But would you be offended if they didn't change the line? My band changes the homophobic lyric in Dire Straits' Money for Nothing. I wouldn't feel comfortable with a homophobic insult used in that context. However, if the op is referring to "I look all white but my dad was black" then unless I'm missing something in context or other lines I don't find this offensive, it's not saying being black/ white/ mixed race is good, bad or better one than another or giving an insult. Society still has a problem with race and mixed race and calling that out to think about is no bad thing... Unless I'm completely misunderstanding.

Do you mean the line "I look all white but my dad was black"?

Two things have happened since my last missive on this subject: I have been unable to register myself with Ableton recording software, just had an error on the fender site when trying to redeem the licence code... Have raised a support request to fender so no idea if or when that will ever resolve. Fender have just announced they're putting the newer version of this tech in to a 40watt rumble amp. Guess I should have waited a month!

I read about it via GAK and Gear4music rather than on fenders site... Hadn't thought to look there as I know it's often inaccurate!

I see that fender are bringing the Mustang guitar amp technology to their bass amps and updating the Rumbles (well, the 40watt and a new 800watt) to include the technology they have in the Mustangs. I recently bought the fender bronco modelling amp and despite initial reservations I have to say I'm impressed. Far easier to use than I expected, but the "old" usb cable and so on do feel a bit dated already. Depending on price I reckon that Rumble 40 could be a great practice and recording tool.

It looks like the promoters did what they could, offering the free carer tickets was a nice gesture in my view, then providing an actual interpreter is a massive gesture albeit forced by the legal threat. Do they provide a carer to help people with mobility issues in or out, or just a free carer ticket, etc? For the mum to then moan about no interpreter for the support acts is a bit too much for me. It's not like it was a festival where every act is a knockout, the support would have been some never-will-be act or x factor rejects I bet.

Nothing exotic here. The Hartke chorus is going to be replaced with an Eden in the next few weeks. I use an amp footswitch to bring in tune emulated drive and ashdown sub harmonics if needed. Amy advice on pedal order, saving space, etc. Gratefully received!

Out of interest I contacted the seller to ask what make it is. Just got told "it's a foreign custom bass, no make". Leads me to think it could be an Alibaba special.

Interesting. I do enjoy Google translate on these. "I will not send in the post so do not ask". That told us then.

I LOVE those Steve Harris strings! Does it have his sig pickup in there too? I have the sig pup and (did have, will have again!!) The sig strings on my Japanese P. It's the ultimate gigging bass. The sound is just so big and clear!

No idea what it is, if it really is a "custom" bass you'd think it was worth over 200. Could it just be a can of white spray paint taken to an old Samik? Can't think of any other bass with that pickup placement in lefty.

It sold before I could even go and look at it, sadly.

If you were in my band we'd be doing our best to make things as easy as possible for you and make sure you weren't overstretching yourself. Health and family comes first every time. My band tolerate my lack of availability and so on due to having a baby. Most the others have kids so they know it's not fair on the other half to Galavant off with the band and leave her to deal with everything. I feel bad about it but at the same time it's a way of making everything work. If the band were going to be nobs about it I'd have to leave.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/custom-white-gold-left-handed-4-string-bass-guitar/1283463935 For the Larry Graham fans

Isn't that the art though? Finding a band that has promise, signing them and working on them... If they were already the finished article they'd have been singed by someone else somewhere along the journey. I guess a lot of acts get signed then drop by the wayside if they can't develop, in fact I know someone who has been there and done that a few times. I expect very few "make it" but Oasis did. There weren't many other guitar bands around and most music at the time was dance tripe with repetitive inane lyrics, so there was an opening.

I couldn't tell if it was rosewood or maple at first!!

20% ?!?! Not in Yorkshire.

I enjoy the private gigs, they're as hit and miss as the pub/ bar gigs can be though! I just find the heckling more polite at a private function. My band plays covers, we mainly do private functions for people we know, friends of friends and so on. We also play "festivals" where pubs or local organisations do a day or two of live music. We occasionally do pub gigs but our set is tailored to getting forty-somethings dancing rather than entertaining angry town centre drunks. We played one pub gig last year and our singer lost focus on one song while he watched a fight in the smoking area. The rest of us couldn't see it and wondered what he was up to.

I'm no fan of theirs, only ever bought their records as nostalgic presents for my brother who now lives abroad, but the documentary is a good watch. If you hate their personalities, and I can't blame you for that, you still can't help but admire the hard work, determination, song writing and seizing of the moment. It really shows the band as a group of mates who tried to start a band and just stuck their neck out for one gig where a chance encounter got them a record deal. It's in BBC iPlayer at the moment, worth an hour and a half. Some great 90's pop songs from the days before the internet ruined everything

I have been put off keys players for life by one guy who took an hour to set up his Rik Wakeman stuff, banged on about playing big festivals and needing all kinds of complicated sound equipment. Could barely string two notes together. Had never heard of most popular music from the last forty years (and he was about forty so age was no excuse!). He also got sacked at the second rehearsal then went to pack away his gear and had lost his car keys. Had all of us turn out our gear, I'd got bored and driven half an hour towards home when I got the call to go through my kit to see if o picked up his keys... Anyway after two hours of searching for his car keys he found them in his pocket. Never again.

It's not always like that... I joined a five piece who lost their bass player and rhythm guitarist. New rhythm player is already pals with the drummer. I've been in the band nearly two years and can hand on heart say they are really good friends as well as being a kick donkey band.

You could look at it another way... I'm assuming that you and the guitarist don't sing. Find a singer or maybe a singer songwriter and be their backing. Get some gigs doing acoustic sets. If you do sing, don't look for a singer, but do the acoustic sets! Then get a drummer. Then do bigger gigs. Open mic nights can be good to polish things and inject some momentum and urgency to rehearsal, if there's something to aim for people pull their socks up. Did it myself where there was a singer and guitarist who were flatmates, I played bass for them and we did some open mics while looking for a drummer. A good drummer will want to know you're moving in some direction and not being yet another load of dreamers, so it helps.

Personally I use a hartke preamp pedal with an optional di out so if I'm not happy with the backline I can go straight from the pedal. I also have a di out on my amp head I could use or I now have a fender bronco 40 modelling amp with a di. The lightest and easiest would be di out from the pedal board but that would take some rearranging of the pedals.