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Dunlops are now £25 per string!

In Bournemouth??? I suppose it's all the retired colonels hanging onto their service revolvers.

All the videos on how to succeed as a session muso (bass/ sax/ anything) include advice variations on 'don't be a richard'. Be prompt. Be helfpul. Smile. Offer encouragement. Help people pack up. Do they know how diificult that is when everyone else in the band is a richard?

Buying one tomorrow for £90 off Marketplace. I've searched for reviews but wondered if anyone had any thoughts/ experiences they haven't published yet? Specially interested in opinions on the Roswell pups, and neck dive. Are we talking inexpensive quality bass, or cheap bass?

Not for me, even if it is 'music of my life' - what was around in my pre- and early- teens. I tried to treat them with more respect recently when some people were banging on about how Macca was one of the best bassists ever, but I still don't quite get them. As to appeal for young people, the time frames are such that a 14 year of today is around 55 years after the Fab Four. That's equivalent to me listening to music hall music in the late 60s. Possible, but not very.

Two Revelation P bass FL Cort A6 (currently foresail) But I have had 40+ in 11 years. Just couldn't afford to keep them all. I have had four of the same, serially, which is a bit worrying: Hohner B Bass VI, Sire.

If you are having trouble navigating BassChat marketplace it could be because the BassChat sale forum assumes a fair knowledge of basses and knowing what you want. If you have that, it's perfectly easy and straightforward. If you're a noob then I would suggest that the sale forum, while generally safe and reliable, is not the best place to look if you don't really know what you're looking for and are hoping someone/something will tell you what you want. Plus, as you observe, most items are quite pricey. You already have a bass. Work out what you like and don't like about that. Think about the sorts of music you want to play, or players you want to imitate, then look for a related type/brand that olffers you the widest possible range of applications, then go to Andertons, Bass Direct or Bass Gallery to buy. You can get a life time of enjoyment from a quality Squier P bass or Sire jazz bass, or a Revelation fretless. If you want to get sucked into purchase addiction, like we all have, then buy and sell indiscrimately until you finally work out what you're doing and want/need.

Having up to date and attractive social media and maybe a website is vital. Have several quality video clips and stills available and easy to find for venues and punters. Make the venues' job easier by supplying them with posters or at least good publicity shots. My last band had a geriatric in charge of publicity and venues often had to scour our archive for out of date pix of the band.

At a blues jam once, I misheard an A key call as E. Having played like that through the whole number I apologised profusely afterwards. The singer looked at me and said "That's OK, I just thought you'd decided to play the mixolydian."

I'm not sure anyone can help really, but I'm looking for any tips on slapping a Cort A6 with 16mm string spacing. I'm finding it real hard to cleanly hit on the target string with the others so close. Narrower thumbs?

Here in small town / coastal resort East Anglia, pubs almost universally pay £250-300 for gigging bands. Some bands may get more if they're good enough to carry with them/pull in strong audiences.

Diss at the very centre of East Anglia has a jazz club. Quite popular I hear. The only downside is it involves listening to CDs. Like a book club. Any thought of actually playing an instrument is a no-no. The nearest centres of livacious music are Bury St Edmund, Ipswich or Norwich. Which means I am at the centre of 2000 square miles of quiet. That's not to say there are no venues or musos to supply them - for example, pre-covid the Burston Crown had a remarkable array of very high London quality acts - but the OP asked for thriving scenes.

Blues Legend Dave Thomas with his Journeymen at the Burston Crown, South Norfolk, tomorrow evo at 5.

So, after 11 years of playing bass, and having owned 40+ basses and explored fretless, unlined fretless and multistring, and achieved semi-pro status, I decided to give bass a long rest and focus on improving my sax skills. Which was fine until Scott de Vine announces the launch of his compendious slap course. Which would kinda fit with my chosen sax direction of funk. Oh, teed, here we go again. I wonder if I need a new bass for the course? Not sure if my flatwound fretless would cut the mustard, and the six string might make life difficult.

Well, you certainly seem to have the right toys. This is a golden age of online learning. All the advice you could possibly want is available, mostly free, online. By far the most comprehensive resource is Scotts Bass Lessons and I would strongly urge you to try the 14 day free trial to see if it floats your boat. https://playerspath.scottsbasslessons.com/season-2/?utm_source=google-paid&utm_campaign=11666521115&utm_term=116462624067&utm_content=scotts bass lessons&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkt6aBhDKARIsAAyeLJ1X5W7flk96NtWH3_b1izgwrIUnre9pFitsPFh0QIHX9RDD1yQD-P8aAsvjEALw_wcB

Right topic. If you wanted to talk about music here you'd likely get little response. But GEAR... you may expect many, many advices on that. Oh, and I predate you by 25 years, so you are not exactly old.

Woosh... I really don't think you can generalise. Variables are: area. time, luck, 'victim' flag, obviousness of valuables. My own experience of London is overwhelmingly positive. Mostly the scum in any city are looking for an easy mark. If you don't look obviously worth the effort and risk of mugging, you use public transport and you carry yourself with confidence you should be OK.

If your cab is 8 ohms, you will only be getting half the 200w and a bit: 120w-ish. The 500w head would give you 250w ish thru your cab. That's one thing. The other is that the difference between 200w and 500 is not actually twice the power + and huge in audible terms. The third thing is that the minute you decide you actually want to gig a bit, and especially outdoors, 500w will cope much more happily. You may get by with 200w but you'll be ringing its neck trying to keep up with a band of any loudness. As chris_b will say below, sound and tone are important too. IME heads vary very much. It's vital you actually try a variety of heads with your cab, and with a range of EQ settings, to see what floats your boat. "It'll do" on the day of purchase may quickly become "I hate this thing" on extended aquaintaince.