Nicko

You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette. The chorus sounds difficult and is, the start of the verse is one note, but hitting it in the right place is an absolute pig. Flea at his best.

Our drummer has cut his hand. It doesn't look too bad but its 3 stitches in the palm. So he cant practice with us for a few weeks and then he's on holiday for 2 weeks. The rest of the band are suggesting rehearing anyway. I reckon its pointless for a bass player to rehearse without the rest of the rhythm section unless you are working on new original material, which we're not. So I reckon the band will be taking a month off. Which is even worse.

Well, that kinda goes without saying. But I'm a relative beginner myself.

I tried several small lightweight cabs running a 250W Littlelmark Blackline back to back on Saturday and thought I would share my impression. Markbass Traveller 102P 4 Ohm Markbas Traveller 121P 8 Ohm Eden Compact 115 8Ohm The 102 was by far the loudest setup - probably because of impedance rating. Overall it was maybe a bit lacking in character if anything. The 115 wasp pretty good, but seemed to lack volume and definiton low down. It sounded great further up (past A string 5th fret or thereabouts) I didn't get on with the 121 at all.

I'm sure this has been done before but... The band agreed to cover Place Your Hands by Reef. I had a quick listen and it sounded quite complicated. But it took about 5 minutes to learn the phrases and another 5 to learn the structure. Any more suggestions for great lines that are like falling off a log?

I'm crying

Love Cats by the Cure. Uses lots of strings and plenty of fingers, sounds fantastic but is actually pretty simple.

1. Jimi Hendix, Like a Rolling Stone, Monterey version: 30 years I've been trying to get anywhere near this - IMHO the greatest piece of rock guitar ever recorded, and got me into Bob Dylan as well. 2. AC/DC Problem Child: I think this is when I first became aware that rock didn't have to involve makeup. 3. Duran Duran: Planet Earth: You can play miusic with guitars and make it sound like this, rock music does not have to involve dirty jeans and leather jackets 4. Run DMC: It Aint Funny: Rock Funk Fusion. And massive medallions. 5. RHCP: Under the bridge: Even befrore I was a bass player this was my favourite bass line. 6. Stereophonics: Local Boy in the Photograph: I come of age as a guitarist - shun the poodle rock and understand that rhythm and melody mean more than flash solos 7. The Strokes: Someday: I realise you can play guitar using partial chords to create tension. 8. The Killers: Somebody told me: I grow up on bass as well. Book: Crime and punishment, by the time I get to the end I've forgotten the beginning. It just keeps giving! Luxury: A fully functioning still

Thanks all - I'm really glad no one said I shouldn't even attempt gigging with such a weedy amp Looks like for outside everyone agrees this setup is completely inadequate! Not sure about why theres a suggestion that an additional 1 x 10 would be less effective than a purpose made 2 x 10. Is this simply down to the cabinet volume?

We played a small outside gig on Saturday. I ran a passive bass through a Markbass LM250 head and an 8 Ohm Ashdown Mi10 lightweight speaker. I always knew it would be touch and go volume wise and basically everything was on 10 except the gain which was around 7 ish so it wasn't clipping. The guitarist is convinced I need to move more air and I'm inclined to agree. So, I have choices - keep the 10" and add one more 10, 12 or 15" additional cab - ditch the 10" and go 2x10, 1x12 or 1x15" standalone - run an output from the LM to the PA As I understand it, a 4 Ohm set up will maximuse the output. An additional 8 Ohm cab could be parallel wired to end up with a 4 Ohm set-up so I'm knd of favouring this route initially. The final setup ideally needs to fit in the back of a mid sized hatch and I need to be able to get it upstairs when I get home. If none of these is going to work I guess its list the LM and seek something with more output? I should say we're a small venue typoe of covers band. The 250 Head shoudl be good for inside gigs, but I guess a little extra wouldn't hurt. I've been keeping an eye on the lightweight speaker cabs thread and personally I'm not convinced I can actually tell much difference tonally in speaker diameters. The 10" sounds fine - I just need more bang!

I agree. Its completely useless. Its been removed and stored inside my MicroPog box.

Saturday was the debut for the band - we've only done open mic nights before. Pretty much everything was against us. Playing at 7.00 pm in the garden, lack of punters, weather wasn't that good, pub doesn't normally do music. But, it went really well. As we did the soundcheck some people came up to us with requests - we don't do requests, but we put them on the PA fom the IPod and I think they really appreciated that. We managed to get pretty much all the punters into the garden and most were singing along. Highlight of the night was "Al the smalll things" which went down a storm with the youngsters. We did an encore of (say it quietly) "Sex on Fire", and actually ended up adding an extra chorus so the crowd could sing along. We didn't play particularly well, and there were a few bum notes form both the guitarist and me, but nobody seemed to notice, possibly cos my set up (single 10" lightweight) was not quite up to an outside gig. I might be looking for a 15 speaker to move some more air.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1432146328' post='2778662'] Find the one you fall in love with. [/quote] ^^^^^^^^^^^This

I've never owned a 'burst. I feel like I've missed some kind of rite of passage. I did have a car with a vinyl roof that always broke down though.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1431950995' post='2776464'] Very much this. If I was invited to audition with restrictions etc.., I'm not sure I'd act much differently. Did you ask him where his guitar was. It may have been in the Car. [/quote] The restrictions were because we had a gig coming up and we didn't feel we could sacrifice the whole rehearsal - he knew that. His guitar wasn't in the car.

I was listening to Me First and the Gimme Gimme's the other day and realised - if you dont like a song play it in a different way. For those who were posting about Jewish weddings - have a listen to MF&GG "Ruin Little Jonny's Bah Mitzvah". I even like some of the stuff on "Like Their Country" Not to everyones taste for sure, but it proves you can take anything and do it in your own style.

Lyin' Eyes by the eagles was the one that I really hated in my last band. Cant stand the song. We currently have Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz) which I dont mind as a song but really dont like playing.

A blues legend. Saw him in Croydon of all places about 15 years ago, and he did about 3 hours on stage (mostly sitting down).

I have two playable and one unplayable. Which is 2 more than I need, and three more than I can play in some other peoples' opinion.

As an update the guy did finally show up with a guitar - I hadn't managed to let the rest of the band know what I thought before they contacted him. He was, shall we say, not great! He didn't appear to know how to turn the amp on, or set it up and was only capable of one rhythm. The search goes on.....

Theres some further discussion here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/256518-tax-avoidance-and-evasion/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/256518-tax-avoidance-and-evasion/page__fromsearch__1[/url]

T'Pau really has to be one of the worst names. Apparently is some kind of Start Trek reference - I wish they'de not bothered to boldly sing.

Joinmyband, but be prepared to sift through the s**t. I found it much easier joping an existing set up than trying to start from scratch.

On my P Bass rolled back to about 80% - sometimes adjusted downwards slightly if I'm using a pick. Tone is rolled back as well - theres a sweet spot at about 90%.

I fear the rest of the band will agree to call him, even though his musical taste is very different fom the band - Dire Staits is not in our set list, and will never be as long as I'm part of it