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12 hours ago, xzodar said:

We use ‘Teamup’. It’s web based and also has Android and IOS apps. 

We use Teamup as well. I say we, but half the band don't bother and moan when I book a gig they are unavailable for. First world problems, huh.

I have used different strap locks over the years. One consistent problem I have found is with thick leather straps. Just bought a new P Bass and the fender strap lock doesn't fit between strap and the bolt.

I think if I were in the situation where I were fired from my band and asked to play next and show and agreed, the period between firing and gig would eat me up. I would be constantly wondering what I did wrong. Playing is obviously good enough if wanted for next show! In the end I'd just work myself into a rage. Op's former band mates handled this terribly. 

Drive from south Bucks to Coalville to play mid card on a 7 band line up last night, where really only the bands showed up. Still, we gave it our all and we seemed to go down well. Headline bands bass player complimented me on by bass lines and tone, so felt like a win despite the disappointing turn out. Feels like original bands are struggling to find an audience atm.

Now available to order.  Surprised at Andertons and GAK.

I have the Nikki Sixx Gibson Blackbird. Rehearsed with it, but never gigged. Cool looking bass, but often think about selling it on.

I would love to ry out the Nate Mendel. Not a Foos fan, but I like the high mass bridge and I understand the neck is lovely.

I would also like to try the new Duff McKagan. 

Maybe time to sell on the Blackbird so I can acquire the Mendel or McKagan,

So if I plug in 2 8ohm cabs, I set the Bass terror to 4ohms?

I emailed Anderons and they quoted me £399. Ouch 

Can't believe no one has mentioned Lemmy and Motorhead! Lemmy was the only original left when they released their classic albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades and No Sleep till Hammersmith.  Even when Phil Taylor and Fast Eddie left the group I don't think anyone begrudged Lemmy carrying on with the name. He WAS Motorhead. 

Wonder what happened with this??

1 minute ago, nige1968 said:

Yeah, but Lemmy does whatever the phuq Lemmy wants! The man was a outlaw and the coolest to ever do it!!

1 minute ago, Twigman said:

We have several designs of shirt. Every time a new one comes out we get a freebie. I generally wear them for work, normally under an open Levi western shirt or the like.

We never wear them on stage. The only 'band' t-shirts we've allowed anyone of us to wear on stage is our drummer, wearing his Motörhead t-shirt - bear in mind we're an 80s indie band.

 

Hahaha, of my old band had a strange rule of no wearing band shirts on stage - they also had an exception for Motorhead!!!

Great topic! My band also sells shirts. I'm amazed by how popular they - so popular the profits should fund our next EP. Personally, I don't wear mine - I find it a bit cringe to wear your own shirt. Having said that, our singer wears his when going to see other bands in the local area and he has people approach him to say they like the band, so I guess the cringe factor is something I need to get over!  I know a band who all wear their band shirt on stage, almost like a uniform. To me it does not look good at all. We have our logo on our amps, so to wear the shirts as well I think would be branding over load! 

2 minutes ago, Monkey Steve said:

I tried something similar in my last originals band.  Mixed results.  Officially we all had an equal say on songs and brought what we wanted to the arrangements. but with the caveat that the writer of each song would have the final say on the other parts if there was any disagreement on whether the arrangements were working.  So it depended very much on which songwriter had the casting vote and how open minded they were about what the others brought to the table.  me and the drummer rapidly noticed that the guitarist would let us try our other parts before insisting that we go back to his (often lacklustre) original arrangement...while also spitting his dummy out if we didn't like what he wanted to do on the guitar arrangements for our songs.

Been there. Politics is the hardest part of being in a band!

With out wanting to sound like a diva, I would make it clear that I wouldn't be playing if the band isn't fully/properly rehearsed. Great to have that one amazing song, but if the remaining 56 mins of the set are pony, it would do far more harm than good. Alarm bells should be ringing that the singer isn't listening to everyone else's concerns. If the song isn't ready, park it - concentrate on the other songs for the gig. If he can't understand that, then future of the group doesn't look good. Hope you can talk some sense into him!

2 minutes ago, Grangur said:

For a light weight cab, it's also worth looking at Barefaced Bass. They get a lot of love here. 

I once had a "BigOne"; their 115. It was light, yet bulletproof as far as it's power handling is concerned.

They don't currently do a 115, but you could ask Alex if he can make one, if 15" is important to you.

https://barefacedbass.com/

I'd love to try them, but they are our of my price range....

Orange Terror 500, Orange SP212 and Ahdown 4x10. I'm getting old and my back wants something lighter than the Ashdown!! Having said that, someone just emailed me to possibly offer me an Orange SP210...

Hi all.

Looking to get an extension cab for my rig. Either Fender Rumble 115 or Markbass Traveller 115. Both are light weight, which I need. Anyone played through both and able to describe the difference? Going to have to be an online purchase as I can get down to a shop selling both....

Ta

9 hours ago, Huge Hands said:

I play in a concert band (brass/woodwind).  Lovely people, but regularly wind me up.

If a gig has restricted parking, the flute or sax players will park right up against the venue doors with no access near or through cars for me, drums or percussion with the heavy gear.  One local event every year we get allocated 3 spaces near to where we play for bass, drums and percussion, but every year I get there and someone else in the band has blagged the three spaces.

If I'm one of the last ones there, they will have set up in their semicircles on stage with no access through the chairs/music stands/mutes/spit rags etc for me to get my gear through to the back.  They just look at you blankly when it is obvious you need to get through and your arms are about to burst having carried it all half a mile from the nearest available parking space.

They also regularly forget to tell the event organisers that I need electricity, or when there is some the band won't move in a bandstand so I'm exposed when the rain starts.

I find bluntness, shouting, and ramming fingers and toes with my gear tends to work well....... 

 

If you selfishly block my path with your car, you can either move it, get some lovely new dents in your car or find a new bass player.

3 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

If your cabs are responsible for the sound the audience hear (no PA support) then you want two exactly the same. 

I did consider an Orange 1x15 I saw on Ebay. Unfortunately, the decision may come down to budget....

My current rig is an Orange Terror 500w, going through an Ashdown 4x10 and Orange isoberic 2x12. The Ashdown is just too heavy for me now, and fitting the rig plus 2 basses onto the car is too much. I'm thinking of swapping out the Ashdown for something like a Markbass traveller 151 or a Fender Rumble 115. So a 2x12 sitting ontop of a 1x15. What other cab combinations do people like/use?

On 27/07/2019 at 07:46, uk_lefty said:

I'll lend out my rig but only to people I know OR if the person running the sound is the guitarist from my band. Though a punk band did decide to max the input volume on my Ashdown head at a festival last year and it was permanently in the red, I wasn't too happy about that but you can't really go up mid set and ask them to be flipping sensible with the gear can you? Was paranoid about the amp for the rest of the night, hadn't had much sleep and during our "headline" set when the smoke machine went off I had kittens!! 

I beg to differ. When a bassist did that to my amp, I just got on stage and lowered it. It was that or just or I turned it off. My head is far more valuable to me than their set time. In interest if full disclosure, I had agreed in adv to him using my rig via their drummer, but when he didn't introduce himself or thank me during sound check for the kit share, alarm bells started ringing.I find the ill mannered ones are usually the ones to abuse someone else's kit.

Thanks for replies - very helpful

Has anyone here ever perforated their eardrum???

Our guitarist just messaged to say he thinks he has perforated ear drum while water skiing. Wondering if anyone here has ever had similar injury? I am guessing he won't be able to gig for a while? We have three gigs in a couple of weeks. Or should that be had???

Ta

am I right in thinking the neck on this is thinner than a usual P?