martthebass

Nah I consider myself a weekend warrior who hangs around with musicians.....

Nah Daryl. With time moving on I'm now on lightweight amps/cabs, lightweight basses and lately cab repositioning as my hearing has taken a battering (Menieres...). Hoping we've still got a few years left in us mate.

I did this about 9 years ago. A nice post punk trio I'd been part of for a couple of years was a bit light on gigs and I did 8 dep gigs for a mates band and sort of never left. Felt a bit guilty but the leader of the trio was a bit reticent at playing anywhere out of the locality and was too busy to do much on the getting gigs/promotion front so. There were no histrionics and I still see the drummer often and he's helped me out on many occasions since. Still with the band I depped for - longest dep ever.....

Spent about £45 to see Level 42 and Roachford support at Sheffield City Hall the other week - thought that was pretty good value for money.

Personally I've always considered that the electronics package and construction has more bearing than the tonewood. I generally look for something reasonably lightweight but not so lightweight that blowing on it causes a dent.

Nice little gig at a wmc just outside Barnsley last night. Nice audience but numbers were a bit down, this was our first visit so hopefully it’ll be higher on a return next year based on the favourable comments. That’s it for 4 weeks as we always take a break at this time of year to recharge and get ready for the pre silly season stuff. Normal gear set up, Markbass with the EBMM shorty Ray which I’m now managing to tame sound wise with a few eq adjustments. Footwear - silver converse.

Is this a full conversion over to the 'Short Side' now mate?

Sure he’ll fettle it, he’s my go to for all things bass fettling.

It’s taken over 40 years but, as I now almost exclusively play shorties on gigs, does this make me ‘down with the kids’?

Thought you was retired! lol.

Did a fund raiser for the local tennis club last night, it was interesting….id originally volunteered to play bass in a 70s covers set but ended up playing in a Lizzy tribute, Dr Feelgood tribute, and a 70s glam thing as well. But of a work out but thoroughly enjoyable. It was a pleasure to meet Alan Jones, Shadows bass player who played on a Shadows tribute - really nice guy and awesome talent. He used my MarkBass set up and he had loads of stories from his time in the industry. A more normal night out in Sheffield with Glam Viva! tonight.

The 'OMG' setting on some of the basses has a great sound, but I agree with you that there's probably not enough players out there for the sound to become distinctive.

A shame. I had a US Fallout as my main gigging bass for a couple of years and sound wise it was up there/better than most shorties I'd played (the build was up there with my EBMM shortscale Ray). I only parted with it as I decided to move onto lighter basses for gigging and it was above 9lb.

Can't wait to see them in Sheffield tonight. Bonus of it being at the city hall which was always one of my favourite venues.