Hi, I have only just noticed this forum, so apologies for not introducing myself earlier.
My name is Rich, I live in Wokingham, and almost exactly two years ago I decided to give bass guitar a go. Before then the closest I had got to playing in a band was picking up plastic instruments on Rock Band!
I joined [url="http://www.therockprojectencore.co.uk/index.html"]Rock Project Encore[/url] in Windsor, and haven't looked back. I picked up a black Yamaha BB424X a couple of weeks later and a small Ampeg practice amp.
Since then I've done a number of end of term concerts with them, and also joined a band formed out of the group, playing covers at friends and family gigs, the odd pub gig or school fete.
As seems to be the way, I have accumulated a little bit of gear so far: an Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi pedal, a Genz Benz Streamliner 900 from petetexas, an Ashdown Mag 600 Evo III and the first of my planned stack of Barefaced Big Baby II cabs. I fear that might not be the end of it...
I love playing the bass, and just wonder why I waited so long to pick one up.