Maude

I use one of type of things. Useful for putting the backdrop up and the putting my cab and amp on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351955808450 I don't think mine is as long as this one, more square than rectangle.

If I'd been playing a Yamaha happily for a long time and I had to choose a high end bass I'd get a Yammy 2024x in a heartbeat.

We always just tell them, "We'll do it at the end". It keeps them there all night and we then just apologise and say the Landlord says we have to finish.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1485616126' post='3225339'] There's some good news - his car wasn't written off! [/quote] The line in Solid Gold Easy Action, "Easy as picking foxes from a tree", makes no sense. The registration of his Mini that hit that fateful tree? FOX 661L

I'll start the ball rolling then and say anything by Oasis. One of my bands is a Mod/Northern Soul/Ska band and I've lost count of the times some dickhead has asked if we do any Oasis.

I've got a feeling I'm going to dislike most of the suggestions.

Further to the young kids old bands discussion, my son (16) has just got back from a weekend of seeing Avenged Sevenfold in London and A Day To Remember in Cardiff and announced the band he really wants to see is Black Sabbath.

I seem to remember that anyone can carry out PAT testing, the only 'qualificaton' being that they are deemed competent. I don't mind paying if I'm getting something for it but the guy testing it could be less competent than me to do it.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1485015068' post='3220432'] a badly run pub stands out a mile when posters advertising gigs that have gone are still up, amateurs, same with out of date facebook pages, it's not rocket science is it? [/quote] I might start a band called Rocket Science, at least when a punter ask the landlord "Who's playing in here on Saturday?" they can rightly follow with "It's not Rocket Science is it?"

Anti-Procrastination Song by Stormtroopers Of Death repeated for the whole set. Should be able to do it 2400 times in a two hour gig. If that's not your thing then any set made up of prog rock should piss off an audience, and rightly so

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1484252628' post='3214109'] I'm thinking I may not be alone with: Stop Talking Sense - Talking Heads [/quote] Pah! You can't even remember the title Stop Making Sense. Mine would have to be, Disintegration by The Cure The Real Thing by Faith No More and Substance by Joy Division among many others.

Danelectro Longhorn, or other Dano shortscale. Cheap, very light, short scale, slim neck, cool as hell

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1483898650' post='3210965'] Everything aside, compared to what he does Weller is Jazz, I mean he uses more that roots, thirds and fifths. [/quote] Forget the Jazz debate, what are these thirds you speak of?

Didn't Billy Gould play fretless on a few Faith No More tracks?

My little plan to cut a corner looks like it should work. I wanted to metalflake where the original binding tape would be on Danelectros but as a couple of recent attempts by folks on here have shown, doing it at home is not easy. I am using proper sprayguns to do this bass but the nozzle I have fitted isn't big enough for using metalflake so I tried my plan. I remembered seeing that Duck tape do their tape with different finishes, one of which being a silver glitter. Not knowing what the glitter finish is I feared that the solvent in the lacquer would melt the tape or dissolve the silver colour on the sparkle. I stuck a piece of tape to some cardboard and gave it a couple of coats of lacquer and although it did wrinkle up slightly the sparkle effect stayed fast. The wrinkling was, I think, due to the cardboard absorbing the lacquer and once applied over a painted guitar I reckon will stay flat. The roll of tape is hard to photograph but here you go. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Got some paint on on Thursday but the very cold weather was causing problems with it fully curing. The paint was plenty hard enough to handle but you could leave a fingerprint in it if you pressed hard enough. This doesn't quite show the true colour due to failing light but it's the mint green used on the new shape Fiat 500. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The paint really needed a good dose of heat to fully cure it and luckily with the body being quite small on these I managed to suspend it in the kitchen oven and give it half an hour at 70 degrees, "What's that smell?" enquires Mrs Maude, "Nothing Dear" The paint is now nice and hard and ready for the binding and good lacquering.

Ha ha I had a knot in my speaker cab lead at the last gig, couldn't get hardly any volume out of it. Lucky really the lead didn't burst.

I don't understand how 'patting' electrical equipment can test it. What are you feeling for?

The acoustic version (red one) works well with bass and has a mid control.

Don't want to worry you Pete but someone's left a miniature ice scraper in your arm

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1483016305' post='3204130'] These are people who can't just ignore things that don't apply to them. [/quote] I'll ignore that

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1483016174' post='3204126'] I don't see anyone [i]telling[/i] anyone else what to do. What I see, are people giving their opinions on whether or not they agree that certain "accessaries" are to be used on stage. [/quote] Fair enough. I use mine on stage as it's used for the set list that will be e-mailed to me on the day once decided, it saves printing it out. Also our individual monitor mixes are done via it and not using a backline means that without it I cant change what I hear. It's on a stand behind a PA speaker and in no ones way.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1483015408' post='3204108'] If it improves the quality of the performance. I`m all for using a tablet. Does anyone watching a band really care if someone uses a tablet? [/quote] No, but people on internet forums telling people in bands what to do do.

I'm offended by musicians hiding behind a impenetrable wall of clothing and instruments. Leave your instruments at home and your clothing at the door, once you're up on stage singing and dancing naked your audience will be at one with you. Well that was the plan until the police made their own divide between the audience and us. It turns out just taking what you need to put on a good, solid show is best after all.

I'd always liked the instrument but cost, storage, travel, etc meant I'd never seriously considered getting one. I was into, among other things, rockabilly/psychobilly, The Meteors, The Cramps, Stray Cats, Rev. Horton Heat, etc even if lots didn't use a doublebass. I was between bands and decided to get an EUB to learn how to slap. Bumped into an old mate who asked if I still played bass, joined his band and it turned out the guitarist and the bassist I replaced had a little acoustic thing going with another singer and the bassist back on guitar where he belonged Our guitarist heard about my EUB and said it's exactly what the acoustic band could do with, our drummer also joined using a cajon. The natural progression from EUB to doublebass happened within months of joining and I haven't looked back since.