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Bought a Stingray Special from Daryl.  A lovely guy to deal with and a pleasure to hang out and chat bass.   Would have no hesitation dealing with Daryl again, a great basschat member 👍👍

I'm planning another trip in the near future and, have to say, the virtual showroom on the website is awesome - I spent ages nosing around.  A really great addition, wish more stores had this.

Done

Andertons have been very good ime with returns and problems.  Worth giving them a shout I would think then take it from there?  Sounds like a cool feature when it works, hope you get it sorted.

Playing one of our regular venues so should be pretty comfortable.  Longer sets, later finish etc but I'm expecting it to be quite the party knowing how the venue is pretty relaxed and wanting dancing and singing.  I always enjoy NYE gigs as you can pretty much guarantee a willing audience.

We've been together as a unit for so many years that whenever we have any dep, no matter how musically excellent, it feels very strange.  I missed 2 months of gigs after cancer surgery this autumn and was depped by a far more technically astute player.  When I returned, albeit sitting on a stool, the band expressed how relieved they were.  Obviously, I know they were just being polite 😋.

In the longer term, I or the others could be replaced quite easily but it would take some time to get back to the musical comfort that we have and that's something that is very precious to us and makes the whole experience so much more enjoyable.

Of course, the audience never notice if we have a dep 🤣

Lovely black Levy strap.  And a book on Neoprog which is keeping me away from the kitchen for now...

I've had plenty of fanned frets and all of them felt very natural.  And they look super cool.  I'm a sucker for looks.

Having been off gigging for a couple of months with cancer, I've got strong GAS.  In particular for another Bogart 35" 5er which pretty much don't exist unless I order new.  Either that or something else headless/graphitey.  

Or I may grab another Dingwall and get back to gigging them.

Or splash out on a decent pedal board.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Interesting looking device although somewhat pricy.

 

Also seems weird that they make a big thing of error free use on stage and then choose to power it via a USB cable and use mini jacks for MIDI connection. These are both things that IMO have no place in a gigging environment because they simply aren't robust enough.

I do have worries about something going wrong but it's been robust enough...so far!!

We use B-Beat for triggering videos for each track.  I'm no expert on the tech but it seems to work very well.

https://www.m-live.com/en/b-beat/

That's very sad.  A cracking band in both their incarnations.  Always thought his input was underrated.

I can't say for sure but given I had to swap out a 90 degree jack (which didnt fit) for a straight jack (which did) when I got an SR, I'd guess from your picture that it may not fit.  Looks close though, so hopefully someone will have tried it and can say for sure!

Just bought a zoom B6 from Sean.  Great comms, quick and secure posting.  A pleasure to deal with, thanks mate 👍 

I love Mick Karn's work, crazily inventive.  This thread has reminded me to dig out my old Dali's Car album.  The Jansen, Barbieri and Karn work is so cool and a reminder of what great drumming there was on Japan's albums too.

Traded a Stingray 5 for a Bogart with Keir.  Lovely guy, easy trade, great communication.  Top basschatter 👍

Shakin' Stevens - it grooves!

Wizzard - cos it's a little tricky having not played it for 12 months 😛

My main gigging bass is currently an SR iron label MS5.  Have to say, it's lovely, so easy to play, looks great, lovely tones.  I'm looking to get a BTB iron label as a pair.  When I bought it, I wasn't looking for a metal bass (we're a function band!) but it just played so well, it stood out over the dozens of basses I tried at the time.  Honestly, I love it.

I love BVs, playing and singing is far more fun for me than just playing.  My band has 3 BVs and we often have 2 or 3 harmonies going which adds so much.  I also like the challenge of it, great fun.

Definitely a case of practising.  For me, it's all about the rhythm rather than the melody, I need to work out where the vocal rhythm comes in relation to the bass rhythm then it all starts to fall into place.  Mostly!

Like that a lot.  Great playing and the bass tone fits the synthwave vibe very well.  What VSTs are you using for the synth sounds, I've been looking for a good synthwave package for a while (I use Cubase btw).

Cheers Dan, it was an absolute pleasure and the bass is lovely!

Here's MK's version of ET.

Update.. we've found a drummer. Now just have to face the always-fun experience of being nervous in every song 🙃

Gig still on but our drummer tested positive this afternoon and we're frantically looking for a dep. Not looking likely at this time. We missed our last gig before Xmas cos our singer was positive. Covid really is a pain.