martthebass

Get to play this one every weekend in my current band. We even include the choreography....... Love it or hate it as a musician but it's definitely a crowd pleaser which is priority number one for a band like mine.

We had 2 SH09's in the first band I was in (a JD tribute iirc), they were absolute pigs for pitch stability. Great sounds when they were on form though.

We’ve all had em mate, sadly soundmen vary from excellent to barely sentient, you clearly got one from the shallow end of the gene pool. I’d agree generally gigs and dogs don’t mix, Megdog, my wappy cocker occasionally attends backstage at some of my gigs but she’s a good girl 🤣

Gig at the Royal Oak in Linthwaite, packed the house (we’re still world famous in Huddersfield apparently). Great night despite some technical probs (duff monitor, vocalists mic going down). Knackered this morning due to clocks changing.

Definitely hard to please everyone with a generic set list. IMHO best to try not to score the full house on cover band bingo though. My last but one band was a 60s/70s covers band and I definitely grew weary of trying to cop gigs and please audiences. I’ve found it much easier in the Glam rock themed band I’m now in, does what it says on the tin and very very rarely get asked for Sex on Fire.....

Ok R, life’s far too short to argue semantics especially when Vera is about to air on that wonderful Witness channel on Sky.

Nope, you made a comment about poplar, I illustrated it was a common tone wood irrespective of its reversible expansion characteristics.

EBMM seemed to get away with it ok on 1000s of Stingrays.....

My JMJ is smack on 8lbs, balance isn't too bad though so it's an easy lift.

Not really to my taste but it looks like a good quality build, definitely well above average for a home-build.

I still kinda like it but just think it's a bit on the bass heavy side (or is that just how they've recorded it?). I'd have thought at that price point they could've done more with the humbucker like the coil-tapping in the Fallout bass to give it a bit more flexibility.

You could walk it there and back in less than a week 😜

One of the jam nights I go to, the house bass amp has the graphic maxed out above 240Hz.....

Glam Fever, we do erm...70s glam.

A trip across the Pennines yesterday to a small pub on the outskirts of Stockport. An enthusiastic but smaller than usual crowd - the weather had negative effects. Sadly they closed all the trans Pennine roads other than the M62 just after we arrived so the return trip was a real bugger.

Must have been duffers 😜

I’m surprised at that, the Longhorn I had could be quite twangy when the bridge pup was dialled in even with flats

Awesome mate! Have a great 50th!

Stonking gig last night at my local club. We usually get a few friends turn up when we play this place so we asked the proprietor to open 15 minutes early at 6:45 so we could load in and get a bit of a sound check. Alas the punters had other ideas and it was standing room only by 7:15. Amazingly we did manage to get a decent sound - suspect I was slightly on the loud side as I was using my Fallout bass which is a bit hotter than my Mustangs. A guy and his wife traveled from Dewsbury (about 40 miles) to see us and brought a big bag of party wigs which he dumped near the stage - wasn’t sure what this was about...then on the second number he got up and danced his heart out and got all the punters going, distributing wigs for them to wear. It was like having a 70’s glam Bez 😂😂😂 All in all another great night, next week we venture into the dark lands on the other side of the Pennines so we’ll see if our run of great gigs continues.

Fender, MIA, MIM Squier, MII, MIM Musicman EBMM Danelectro Status G&L Lakland Sandberg Epiphone Westone Avon.....the shame RSD Overwater Warwick Rickenbacker Limelight

TBH there's so much signal processing going on I can't tell if it's any good. A 70's Woolworth's bass would sound about the same....

Without any real effort on my part I’ve ended up with 50% of my pack being sig basses. Status CW sig....it’s just a lovely bass and it was one that Rob Green was finishing up for stock not long before he ‘retired’. No regrets on that one. Squier Mustang Mikey Way. It’s silver glitter and suits my glam rock band to a T. It’s also not a bad bass.... Fender JMJ Mustang. I had no idea who JMJ was but this is a great Mustang.

We once got a Mark's and Spencers sandwich and a bag of crisps (sorry - chips Daryl) at a gig in Accrington. It was the least they could do as we were on the wrong side of the Pennines 😉

Seems like Glam bands in the main are a nice social lot. I joined my band as a dep in late 2016 to help them out as the replacement bass player (the original bassist had had a heart attack) needed an hernia op. My 80s band wasn’t doing much so I filled in for the a couple of months. Like you, knew the songs but most were re-keyed. Ended up not leaving.... When the big C struck in 2021 I offered my resignation but the lads wouldn’t hear of it and we carry on at a flexible reduced rate of about 40 gigs a year. I aim to keep rocking until I’m in the ground!