Roger2611

Do you know anything about the bass? It looks like it could be a hand built bass to me, perhaps a local luthier who did a few in a certain area, we had a builder in the Northampton area who built similar styled basses back in the eighties under the name Adam Thompson, I had a lovely fretless which was great other than it was too big to fit in any bass case I ever came across!

I think at best it is a £300 ish Mexican Precision with a Seymour Duncan pickup stuck in, not quite sure how that makes a £1000 bass?

I was lucky enough to have acquired Stiff Little Fingers Flags and Emblems tour back drop (I worked with their tour manager on another project) at that time they were still playing some very big venues so this back drop must have been 20ft x 20ft so far too bug to display anywhere, at some point it must have got put in the old shed where it was fine until the roof finally rotted away...when I finally replaced the shed I found the rotted remains still on a shelf at the back....a piece of memorabilia sadly lost forever now

Mrs2611 is pretty good about it, as long as they are not sitting around in the lounge she doesn't mind, I have promised to sell them all at some point and we can live like kings on the proceeds for at least two weeks!

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1471522738' post='3113640'] It seems odd that people who aren't professionsal are taking backup basses and other kit, whilst no pros that I know do, other than guitarists who use different guitars on different songs. [/quote] I have to disagree with this, pretty much every professional band I have ever seen has a rack of guitars / basses at the side of the stage, just in case. I know a guy who services a certain top players amps, he has a complex looking Ashdown / Ampeg amp stack, the Ashdown because that is who he is endorsed by and the Ampeg for when the Ashdown goes wrong.....I know Ally McMordie (SLF) was using two stacked Ampeg's last time he toured, speaking to the sound guy there was there was a third behind the bass rig as it was quite likely that at least one would pack up during the night! Like an earlier post said, I carry spares for virtually everything just in case, however I have never needed them other than a lead failure at my first big gig in front of a couple of thousand people.....that experience taught me well!

Either Rio or White Boys and Heroes depending on whether it's fretted or fretless party time, my mate annoys me as he always plays the solo from Chic's Everybody Dance when he picks up one of my basses. I can't compete with that one!

I had....ok, still have a Rolf Harris album where he is holding a very worried looking young Kangaroo, it all seemed so innocent when I was eight, but the signs were clearly there!

Excellent, just about finished my current book (The Story of Crass) so I was looking for a new read..ordered!

Do you have to have the volume turned up in order to send a signal through the amp to the tuner? Have you checked the lead from the amp to the tuner is ok? Do you have another tuner you could run out to to confirm the tuner out on your amp is working ok?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-squier-precision-Bass-Guitar-P-Bass-Mike-Dirnt-Edition-/282129225669?hash=item41b03657c5:g:IkEAAOSwaB5XpzO4 These are such good basses, I have stripped the finish off mine and redone it in a butterscotch colour I have done a few upgrades but the basic woodwork remains original, it is light, sounds great, plays brilliantly and out performs most of my other basses, it does more gigs than any of my other basses. If you have been thinking about one of these, go for it, you wont regret it, I think they are that good (the small print.....I am not associated with the seller in any way )

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cort-Action-C4-PLus-Bass-Guitar-Mark-Bass-EQ-Padded-Bag-/302034113258?hash=item4652a2d2ea:g:xPYAAOSwbsBXpbHe"]http://www.ebay.co.u...PYAAOSwbsBXpbHe[/url] This really looks like a cracking spec bass for the money

I quite liked a lot of the songs on the set list and played many of them in my last covers band, we played them well and they went down well, I actually wish we could play to the same enthusiastic audiences with the originals band I play in now! My pet hate in there is "Moves Like Jagger" hateful drivel, I managed to talk our lot out of doing it because we didn't do it justice, it sounded weak and amateur, get your foot in the door and use your wealth of experience to persuade them to weed out the ones that you don't feel go down well.....although you may be on a loser with KOL and Killers they always seem to go down a storm! Take the gig, pocket the money, buy more gear....you know it makes sense!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1470127703' post='3103368'] That's why my next bass will be [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Other%20music%20related/Great%20Guitars/11379_736550003100145_1890228984563342328_n%20Jack-PCs%20conflicted%20copy%202016-03-18_zps9xxthlek.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Painful by the looks of it!

I would go for the US Sub, you are going to get a decent one for the same price as a new SUB4 and probably pick one up for slightly less than a tidy used Ray34.

I missed it but I saw a clip, I was hoping it could have multi coloured led lights pulsing back and forth between bass and amp modulating to the tempo of the song....sweet

I am confused as to why people feel a car repairer won't do a great job, the principals are exactly the same as a car repair, you prep, get rid of any imperfections, you prime, you paint, you polish. £130.00 to paint a guitar body is certainly not cheap, paint wise it amounts to about the same as a small panel repair on car bumper or panel, I have had 3 or 4 bodies done by the defleet site I work with all have been easily as good as any factory painted guitar I have owned. My only caveat on the above is finding a decent repairer to do the job, as insurance companies have cut payouts to a minimum the quality of workmanship from retail insurance approved bodyshops has, by and large, dropped off a cliff, when I get vehicles back nowadays and our customer tells me it had an insurance approved repair done, sadly that usually means a poor quality repair.....but, remember I am paid to spot these repairs and what I see as a poor repair would go completely un-noticed by most people, the most common problem is poor colour match to the un-repaired panels but if you are having the whole thing painted you won't have that issue

I did a charity do with a local band many years back, from memory, the plan was to play 8 gigs in 12 hours, we ran 2 complete set ups with 2 crews, so whilst the band played the first gig we set up the second gig, whilst the band played the second gig the crew from the first gig set up for the third gig etc. It actually went without a hitch, I am not sure if it set any kind of record but it certainly made all the local papers.

[quote name='Luulox' timestamp='1469728052' post='3100723'] Expensive [/quote] Very!

Both great players, Night Time had one of the best bass / drum mixes of it's time, I still think it stands up really well today ( I was lucky enough to see Killing Joke play the album live at Rock City back in 1986 ish), I would say learn to play as many of the songs by these players that you can, as you progress as a player you will find you write basslines with certain songs by these artists in the back of your mind, you will find that your bassline is inspired by them but should stand up as your own style. Both players have been a big influence to me I doubt my playing sounds anything like either of them but they continue to influence how I approach writing a bassline

The man is a legend of guitar butchery, I think of him as the guitar version of the mad doctor in Human Centipede, I bet he has a bunch of quivering guitars chained up in his lair

Mine is sort of sensible, an Ampeg B1E sending out to a David Eden 1x10.....but it gets a bit silly if I run it into the mixing desk which has a pair of Void Acoustic full range speakers and a 1000 watt amp to power them...yeah ok, I have a PA system set up in the spare bedroom

I still have a box full of cassettes under the stairs, not played any of them in twenty years, I think I still have a really nice Marantz twin cassette deck wrapped and boxed in the loft, I know I have a few songs I really ought to transfer to computer but I can't be bothered to dig it all out and see if it still works. My mate still has the first imported Tascam 8 track cassette recorder, I doubt it has ever had more than 5 hours use since he brought it, from memory you had to use top range chrome c90 cassettes and it ran at 4 times the speed of a normal cassette player so you didn't get many songs on an expensive (at the time) tape

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1469544494' post='3099237'] I love the sound of an 8x10 - but they are an absolute ball ache to transport anywhere, and unless you've got roadies/parents/a large estate car, you'll probably get as fed up as I did lugging a cab the size and weight of a fridge to and from each gig. I swapped mine for an Aguilar GS410 - half the size, but packs serious punch and huge volume too, so a much more user-friendly alternative. I did a gig this weekend which had an Ampeg 8x10 cab and an Orange Ad200 head. Amazing sound, but no way would i want to be dragging that round. [/quote] I have to agree, the modular rig seems to be the way to go, I have a 2x10 Mark Bass cab that I use for most smaller gigs where the bass is run through the PA, I can put the 4x10 Mark Bass cab underneath and have a cracking 6x10 set up if I want to (which is my preferred set up for bigger gigs) I can use either the 2x10 or the 4x10 with the 1x15 cab for pub gigs where the bass is not through the PA. Even though the 4x10 is reasonably light I still can't be bothered to lug it about if I don't need to

As others, learn it sitting down, then stand up to practice...unless I am being really lazy.....which does happen....frequently

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1469266001' post='3097011'] Sounds like you're not gigging much or you'd already have a backup. I'd get a D class backup, my backup is an Aguilar TH500 (from the classifieds), and get the SVT fixed. [/quote] Or a used SVT Pro 7 if you want to hang on to the Ampeg look (I won't say sound as to me, mine just sounds like a class D amp without any of the Ampeg loveliness)