Clarky

What happened was that we played as a foursome in the tent at the Upton blues festival - Neil on trombone, Karena on vox/sax (middle lady of three in photo), Wily Bo on vox/guitar and yours truly. Then for the encore we did Tom Waits' 'yesterday is here' and a bunch of the Rattlin Boners in the audience came up and joined us onstage - was very cool. Oh and I had eaten garlic the night before

The problem is that bass is already over £4000 when converted to sterling and would be well over £5,000 after import taxes/shipping to the UK. Thats pretty much double the going rate for a fretless Wal over here (eg, MoJoke has a beauty for sale on BassChat at £2700) and much more than ordering from new with Paul Herman (c.£3500-ish). I guess that - if the reverse applies for US-based buyers having to pay import duty from UK - it may be a lot more attractive to a US Wal fan.

What is your budget Wayne as there is a wide range of amps/combos that could fit th bill? For £400 odd for example there's a s/ h Phil Jones Suitcase combo ( there is one FS on the forum) while for £525 I know of a BCer with a MarkBass Mini CMD121P combo which lots of DBers swear by. if your budget is less I am sure the guys and gals on this forum could come up with ideas too. One thing is for sure, you will need a DB preamp (eg, Fishman Platinum Pro Bass EQ; about £100 s/h) if you want to gig in order to fight off feedback and control the sound

There's a guy on the forum selling an Epifani UL110 (ultra-light but really high quality 10" cab) which would match really well with a small amp

You can use any clean-ish sounding combo either with a DB preamp like a Fishman into the normal input socket (the preamp is so that the impedance of the pickup matches the amp; otherwise its sounds thin and horrid) or into Effects Return input, in which case the combo is effectively just a power amp and all the EQ comes from your preamp. Doesn't have to be a combo. Loads of DB'ers seem to like the £200 GK MB200 amp into any 10 or 12 inch cab (there's a thread about this). If you search the DB forum here, there's a load of thread with advice on this, mate

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We have been having difficulties gigging as Rattlin Bone as the full line-up includes 14+ musicians and entertainers (clowns, fire breathers) - many venues can't take this and we are geographically diverse (from Scotland to the South Coast of England) so rehearsing has been problematic. To add to this, recently we've had complications due to quite major illnesses for a couple of members. So ..... ... we have launched a stripped down largely acoustic version with 4/5 members (guitar/stompboard/lead vox; sax/vox; trombone; DB/bass; sometimes souzaphone) as 'Voodooville'. Only parts of the Rattlin Bone setlist work with such a line-up so we are doing some carefully chosen covers and radical re-workings of other New Orleans, gypsy, jazz & blues songs (eg, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Taj Mahal etc) We've got a page set up on Reverb Nation which includes a couple of demo recordings (St James Infirmary, couple of Tom Waits; albeit these have drums on) as well as some Rattlin Bone stuff: [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/vville"]http://www.reverbnation.com/vville[/url] Hopefully, we should have some more gigs/fun with this line-up as well as doing festivals over the summer with the larger Rattlin Bone. Already have an offer for a gig in Germany in September I'm pretty excited by this

If it has to be cheap-ish gigbag (ruling out a Mono, which is my preferred one) then the Madarozzo bags that BassDirect ships some of its basses in are OK at about £30 http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Madarozzo.html

We're forgetting smooth old George: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imYJpr09IgQ&feature=related

Ronald 'Kool' Bell and pals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xJWQPdG7jE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V4Zr8AgqRA

More top early 80s Brit funk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0hGoESFcE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CqEU0lGzw&feature=related

More classic Shalamar - my word, I made a prat of myself pretending to be Jeffrey Daniels to this on the dance floor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnEkEL2LYQ&feature=related

OMG, how could I forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYPs71B2xAM&feature=related

And rarely heard (these days) top Brit funk, Linx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01qsJ-oZXVQ&feature=related

Oh yeah! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHXj3d4RbQ

[quote name='Mr Bassman' timestamp='1327776881' post='1516687'] which position do you have the contour switch? down is flat, up is scooped [/quote] I have it down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkAO5TwBwo&feature=fvwrel

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1327752058' post='1516184'] [/quote]that looks very cool Wayne

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1327760453' post='1516362'] What was it about 1982? Imagination... Illusion... Too much coke, obviously. [/quote] I saw Imagination live in Oxford about 1982, about the same time I saw your old lot Pigbag play there, discreet! One camp gig (Imagination, obviously)! And here's a reminder of discreet's old gang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omYKI8RJaIg

Whats it worth for me not to change my avatar pic immediately, discreet, thereby making you look extraordinarily dodgy? I accept cheques, Curlie-wurlies etc

Moving on from cocks ( ), here's another classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43qB9FpfCR8