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    These top class amps are part of an equipment sell off due to finally retiring from gigging. They have a valve preamp stage with a solid state output and are super clear and loud. One of these has been my regular amp to use with a Vanderkley 212MNT cab, also now for sale on this site. I was offered the second LH500 in a private sale and then had two, with one being a back up, but never needed it. I rotated which one I used as a main amp fairly regularly, the other one would come to gigs but remained in my car. (Except one time when a guitarists amp died halfway through a gig) Controls are simple and straightforward, if you are crafting your sound on your pedalboard then just setting the EQ’s around 50% will give you excellent results with no drama. There is a line out for a mixing desk if you need this. Obviously these can be for sale separately, but I’m not asking a lot of money for them as they have clearly been gigged regularly, so maybe you can justify treating yourself to the pair. I’m asking just £70 each for the amps, or £130 for the pair Here’s some Hartke details: The LH500 has a classic 12AX7 Class-A tube front-end design with a solid-state output. Developed with the HyDrive cabs in mind, the LH500 also has more than enough power and tone control to drive any cabinet on the market. This amp provides you with Treble and Bass Shelving to give its warm tone a little edge. Or use the brite and limiter switches to further sculpt your sound. Its intuitive front panel also makes adjustments on the fly a breeze. The LH500 packs a big punch in a portable, roadworthy package. A 2-rackspace metal frame chassis, steel faceplate and handles allow for easy, safe transport from gig to gig. With the needs of modern bass players largely centered around volume and versatility, the LH500 is an ideal solution that gives you plenty of options to create the exact sound you're looking for. Will pack carefully and courier to any UK destination at cost. Or you can arrange to collect from Chichester or Woking, or Putney in London
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    This top class cab is part of my equipment sell off due to finally retiring from gigging. (You can see my recent post in ‘General Discussion’ on this forum) It has been used regularly but has been well cared for and is in excellent condition. I’ve used this with a standard Hartke LH500 and this has made an excellent rig with a clear punchy sound and good portability – cab weight is 25kg. (Hartke is also for sale on here) It comes with an unmarked and undamaged Roqsolid cover, and a standard Speakon cable (can also be used with a regular jack to jack cable) Included is a lightweight crate which is ideal for transporting leads, pedals etc but this also has a high density acoustic damping foam block fixed to the base. When the empty crate is inverted it makes an excellent riser for the cab and the foam helps avoid resonance on hollow stages. See the pictures. It’s easily the best cab I’ve ever owned in my long playing career, and it projects well at all volume levels. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. Will pack carefully and courier to any UK destination at cost. Or you can arrange to collect from Chichester or Woking, or Putney in London Sensibly priced at £500, go on, treat yourself ! 😊
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    Yes, all of these things. The guys metaphors are a bit excessive, but what really made me smile the most is that depressing experience when the band finishes the first number in their set and then realises the background bar music is still playing. And nobody seemed to notice or even care. 😳
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    Hello BCers, I’m approaching 73, and it’s time for me to retire from gigging. This is partly due to minor health issues, but also a lot to do with having no desire to continue driving around the South East at midnight after a gig. It’s become a bit of an issue, especially in winter. After 57 years in bands I think I deserve a long service medal, but I’m not sure who awards these. I’ve been lucky and have worked with some seriously talented musicians over the years. But I’m also not forgetting those bandmates who maybe weren’t the greatest players but always did their best and were genuinely nice people to be around. I’ve written plenty of anecdotes on this forum about my various adventures and misfortunes over the years, and that’s just the stories I can remember. For the last few years I’ve been doing mainly dep work and have worked with all sorts of bands, from elite function bands to local pub rockers. Band politics never change - some bands have been super friendly and obviously really enjoyed gigging together, whereas some bands hardly spoke to each other all night. But I always tried to turn up on time, smile at everyone, and play the right notes, and that’s usually the successful formula for a dep player. I’ll still be a regular on this forum, which must be one of the most polite and friendly forums ever. But that’s what you’d expect from bass players, isn’t it? Sensible comments, witty comments, bit of banter – what’s not to like? Peace and love to you all.
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    Awww, @lee650, sorry mate. I know some people are happy to risk sending valuable instruments by courier, but the very idea would give me sleepless nights. Maybe take a cheap day return from Morecambe to London on the train (£130 ?) and collect it from Putney ? Seriously! 👍
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    Here’s a very nice Stingray dating from 1996, with the two band EQ and maple neck. It’s all original and not messed with at all. Very good condition for an almost 30 year old bass, one or two very slight marks and a slight ding halfway up the back of the neck, which I have pictured. Comes with a slightly scruffy but solid Gator case. Selling as I am downsizing and due to age I’m playing less often now, so I’m only keeping a basic P bass which I have owned for many years. I have been a regular on this site for nearly 10 years, you can buy with confidence. I have great distrust of couriers, so you could collect from my place at Chichester, or via my family you could also collect from Putney or Woking, or I could possibly deliver/meet up anywhere in the South East.
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    A band with a couple in it? I worked in a band with a married couple in it once, and their marriage was clearly falling apart after he (drummer) had an affair. Although they were still living in the same house, she refused to travel to gigs with him, and I had to go over to their house and take her to and from the gigs in my car. Sometimes we ended up travelling directly behind or in front of the drummer for most of the way there or on the journey home. So silly!
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    Hello all, Recently I put up a thread about a 'person' called 'Melvin Pierce' who was flooding YouTube with what appeared to me to be AI generated content. Semi easy listening, soft focus stuff. I wasn't absolutely sure whether it was for real or not, and thought maybe I was letting my imagination run away a bit. And now this appears - The Beatles Rubber Soul album reimagined in a Motown style. And yes, it's all entirely AI generated, and it all sounds just so authentic. If this is what's possible right now, then I really can't imagine where will things be in another ten years time . 😵
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    Oh yes, I've played with these types of people just too many times. Doggedly stick to the script even though it's b.obvious the singer has either skipped a line or two, or is singing completely out of their range....... I did a dep gig a couple of years ago where the band had 'Rhythm Stick' on the setlist. In F, as the original. Not the easiest line to play, and not helped by the newly recruited guitarist playing it in E from the off. He was on the other side of the stage and no amount of arm waving and gesticulations would make him look in my direction. Poor front singer wasn't sure what to do. When we took a break I asked the gitard whether he'd realised he was in the wrong key - he said thought it had sounded a bit odd, but he hadn't changed to the correct key as he thought 'people might have noticed' 🥺
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    1968. 16 years old. First song I ever rehearsed with a band was Sunshine of Your Love. This was round at the drummers house, he had weird parents who were hoarders, they never opened the curtains and the whole place smelt of wee. I was 'playing' a Watkins Rapier 33 guitar, we used to hire an AC30 from the local music shop on a Saturday morning, lug it down the High St and back to his house, and then plug in two guitars, bass, and three mikes. Well, it had six input sockets, didn't it ? One morning, an older guy from another local band came round to see us, and showed us how to play a 12 bar sequence. I was very impressed, and then realised that every single track on the John Mayalls Bluesbreakers album that I was playing constantly at home was simply yet another 12 bar. 😳
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    The greatest basslines - like this one - achieve both ! 🙂 👍
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    Do you know of the Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu in Barcelona? This is the home of the extremely well respected Sant Andreu Jazz Band (loads of videos on YouTube) Might be useful to make contact with them ? Best of luck 🙂👍
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    Joining a pro band when I was in my early 20's, and meeting their guitarist, who I soon realised had more talent in the tip of one finger than I had in total. I had thought I was fairly on top of my game at the time, but (without putting me down) he suggested a few bands and bass players I really should be listening to, and I then realised how ignorant I was of a lot of excellent players. An absolute revelation. He went on to have a long career working as a successful producer and session musician - still active now, although well into his 70's Forever grateful to him. 🙂 👍
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    Oh go on, do tell us who this is.......... 😉
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    I'd never heard of Geordie Greep until a couple of weeks ago. He was the guitarist/frontman with a band called Black Midi. His first album has just been released, and it's the most interesting new material I've heard for a good while. Difficult to pick one track - (it's all on YouTube) - as each track is so different. Here's a track called 'Blues' which maybe gives you a taste. You'll have to watch it on YouTube as it has the dreaded f-word in the lyrics (just once, I think)
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    Played on the U.S.A.F. bases in Spain in the late '70's Six nights a week. Weekday nights you were expected to play 5 x 45's, Saturday nights were 6 x 45's. Sadly it turned out the band I'd joined for the duration was woefully under-prepared for such long sessions, and it was a killer for everyone. The poor front vocalist could hardly sing after the first week, so there were quite a few 20 minute Freebird guitar solos, I seem to remember. I was relieved to get back to the UK at the end of the contract, and vowed never, ever again. 🥺
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    Just in case any BC ers haven't heard of this, here's Percy Jones in full flow. Brilliant.
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    Yes, this is me in 1971 with an original Danelectro Longhorn bass, with the wooden toggle switches. I would guess this would have been made about 1967. Not necessarily of massive value, but incredibly rare now.
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    I read that as "When the nurse stops you weeing on the stage" Still true, though 🙂
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    Oh dear. Never heard of it. What have I missed ? 😳
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    Talking with another muso a few days ago, and we were considering how what was considered cool 'jazz funk' in the 80's has morphed into general polite background musak now. I mentioned a Youtube channel I've come across run by a person (?) called Melvin Pierce which has loads of tracks all done in this style, accompanied by videos of soft focus 'hip' people being cool in various ways, so it all looks a bit like some sort of continuous lifestyle advert. My friend said that he had come across this channel as well and was convinced all the music was AI generated and there was no such person as 'Melvin Pierce' I must admit I hadn't considered this possibility, but the more you look at this channel the more peculiar it seems. Some comments assume Melvin is a sax player, some assume he's a producer, and some think he's a guitarist. Who knows ? There never seem to be the same musicians appearing in any of the videos, of which (I've just looked this up) 132 have been uploaded since January this year. Video below is fairly typical - they're all done in the same sort of style. BC'ers opinions ?
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    Maybe I have too much gear. 😳 By the way, does anybody know where this picture comes from ?
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    In my idealistic youth I thought that everyone working together in a band should be equals. But over the years and many, many bands I realised that some people were always going to have the dominant personalities, like it or not. That's human beings for you. A bandleader can enjoy having the final say, but this also means the buck stops with them if their decisions result in failure. This includes choosing new band members. There's no one else to blame.
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