super al

I've got two lil' barefaced one10s. For gigs I'll use a TC Electronic BH550 up top, sounds pretty good and cuts through the twin guitars and drums of our heavy rock band. I've also got the BH250 for smaller gigs/rehearsal. Great lightweight amp, spectra comp toneprint sounds great on both, built in tuner and I use it with headphones and the aux lead for home practise. I've seen the BH250s on the marketplace here for very reasonable prices, looks slightly bigger than a TE elf

My band (Felis Leo) have lost their lead guitarist, we've looked everywhere, back of the sofa, under the stairs, nada! So we need a new one, we're looking for a team player with a gsoh and knows their way round the fretboard and a wah wah pedal 😁 We play originals tunes with a hint of classic rock, grunge and punk. There's a few new songs that need a new guitarist to put a new stamp on our sound...take us forward with a new feel. Get in touch if you live round ere and this would suit you or you know someone who might like to audition. Cheers, Al

Our drummer's studio is our rehearsal room and he plays bass too...his amp is a little terror running through both an orange cab and a hartke cab, sounds amazing and I'm jealous but, hey ho, at least I get to play through it every fortnight. My old Ashdown Mag 210 combo is probably still in a rehearsal room somewhere in the south, I can't remember who bought it but they said it was for a rehearsal room (my back thanks me for selling it 😁).

There's a couple of appendages that fit either side of the eub body to simulate the acoustic's body. They're not much to look at but the Stagg eub was budget friendly at the time. The neck board isn't as round as an acoustic so playing with a bow is tricky but I only went 'arco' on the intro for Born on the Bayou to get the drone sound.

I would vouch for that @dmccombe7 , I bought a Stagg eub for an americana/country/blues band. Used to get some funny looks when playing live but it sounded pretty good. Nick on drums in the photo was definitely giving me a funny look, possible bum note moment. (Pic is from 2012 I think).

I didn't see this thread either until now 😎 Before January 1st I would've said the band should get the new songs recorded ASAP and released (as a 4 track EP) plus get started on the next bunch of tunes. Also try to get more gigs outside Salisbury, we played 2 gigs where we couldn't see the spire last year and both went down better than some of our Salisbury gigs. Now after last week our new year's resolution is - find a new guitarist 🙄 One of the band's founding members left. The band first got together around 40 years ago (I joined 2022) so it was a lil' bit of a shock. I think it'll be a good thing once the dust settles but it just knocks you back a bit.

I'm sure I've seen a photo of him playing 5 tracks

So many great albums with great bass on them and many I'll check out. If I go right back to the start of my bass journey, Level 42 got me interested in the bass guitar but from there I remember buying three albums quite close together around '87/'88, three albums with great bass playing from the '70s. I bought Heavy Weather and Black Market by Weather Report but the one album I would listen to the most was Stanley Clarke's School Days. It's not just the title track, the whole album grabbed me by the doo doo and I would listen to it over and over again. I was into Stanley's music for a while there, it was a bit hit n miss but School Days, for a mostly instrumental album, BOOM! Just gorgeous.

I play 5 string basses mainly and used all the strings when playing in a function band (I resisted 5 string basses until the keyboard player said "you wouldn't need to change bass mid set if you had a 5" lightbulb moment 😄). Now I'm in a rock band I think in 2 songs I use the B string and never use the G string at all. I could go back to a 4 string and occasionally do in rehearsals but I'm scared I'd have to sell my lovely 5s. Could you use the G string for your other passion @SteveXFR ? Are G strings any good as brake/gear cables? 😄

I was in a covers band, bit of a vanity project for the singer/guitarist. He liked a lot of the same music as myself and the drummer though...blues, early ZZ Top, Little Feat, Zappa, sometimes punk, reggae and country...a real mixed bag, gigs were few and far between. We'd usually rehearse in his shack/shed home in his parents meadow (they had a garden and beyond that was where he 'lived') Most rehearsal nights were accompanied by a spliff going round the 3 of us, our rehearsals were great! Everything sounded wonderful, we were tight...our actual gigs were proper ramshackle though, I guess we missed the spliff when performing 😄 I can't believe we played Salisbury Arts Centre and a similar size venue in Stroud with that band but probably the least organised band I've played with due to the smoke, I remember getting stuck in a loop playing American Idiot cos he couldn't remember the song structure (damn that Green Day for writing complex songs 😄) .. I think I miss a bit of that haziness sometimes Stay off drugs, kidz!

I think Tiger Feet might've been my first favourite tune as a very small kid. My older siblings had a bunch of 7" singles and the one I'd always play was Tiger Feet, quite partial to that David Dundas single too... must've had a thing about tigers (DD's song had a "tiger in my tank").

Pic of me (and part of Paul) underground in Southampton back in September. We played Music In The City, lots of artists playing in unusual venues...ours was in St Michael's vault

Started listening to his Rockonteurs interview just last night so hearing the sad news today after listening to him talking and in fine form was weird and unbelievable. Such sad news. That Stone Roses debut album was epic and those basslines were a thing of beauty... I'll admit I shed a few tears on the way home listening to Adored, Resurrection and Fool's Gold on 6 music. RIP Mani