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    Glastonbury 2023 thread

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    I caught some of Lana Del Ray's set. She was really quite good but cut off short with a good chunk of her set still play due to strict curfew rules.

    Apparently she was half an hour late starting because her hair took a long time, didn't do herself any favours there frankly.

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    Glastonbury 2023 thread

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    52 minutes ago, ern500evo said:

    Did anyone catch Skindred set on Thursday night on the Truth stage? Haven’t been able to watch it yet. Skindred are one of the best live bands I’ve seen. Benji Webbe is a great frontman 

    Skindred are awesome! I love them 😎

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    Glastonbury 2023 thread

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    2 minutes ago, Mudpup said:

    Generation Sex. They're loads of fun. Making it up a bit as they go along, a bit out of tune and screwing it up a bit but enjoying themselves in a grumpy way. Proper punk in front of 100,000 people 🤣

    Quite a lot out of tune now! 😬

     

    Glastonbury 2023 thread

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    16 minutes ago, cetera said:

    Billy Idol staring at his lyrics monitor...

     

    Punk's not dead. Why learn the words when you can just read them?!? Yeah! Anarchy!! 🙄🤣😂🤣

    He's still making a decent noise though - he sounds bloody good for a bloke his age 

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    Glastonbury 2023 thread

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    On 21/06/2023 at 11:47, cetera said:

    Have a great time....

    Looks like my idea of hell though (camping.... with....people....)

     

    I've done it once, but I had private backstage camping and showers/food as I was stage crew on the Acoustic Stage. That's the ONLY way I'd go....

    When was this? I used to work as stage crew on the Acoustic stage!

    How was your gig last night?

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    An early set for a friends birthday. 

    We arrive and alarm bells immediately ring, we are to set up on grass in front of a PA rigged for DJs, outside in the baking hot sun... No flat surface for the drums, and as soon as we chuck a mic up its feedback city. Luckily the guy providing the sound is a smart and resourceful fella, he grabs the DJ monitors on stands and sets them up in front of us (a nice pair of QSCs which were more than adequate) then manages to cobble together a makeshift drum riser out of rack lids.

    We were on far too early, hardly anyone there but played really well - sounded good and a good test for playing in adverse conditions!

    The PA rig was particularly impressive - solar powered with a bunch of Tesla batteries, able to run for over 12 hours on battery power alone. In the bright sunshine was fully charged and easily still running 4k of bass.

    Off Grid Sound Systems if anyone is interested 👍

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    Coping with mistakes live

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    We are a four piece doing (almost) all originals. Usually it's only one of us that drops the ball at a time so we have a mutual agreement that we carry on and you have to join back in. Unless it's a complete car crash and then I guess we'll stop and reset. That hasn't happened (yet!)

    Post your pedal board - Basschat style!!

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    I decided to strip things back a bit.

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    Electric bass goes into Super Symmetry, Poly Blue Octave and Microtubes then into ABY channel A. EUB goes into the Fishman (with a feed out to the mini tuner for a permanent helper) then into ABY channel B.

    ABY into Korg tuner to amplifier.

    I'm a bit miffed I can't fit the Fishman on the board but I can live with it.

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    The name of Your bass

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    1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

    Well, tell that to Stanley Clarke... ;)

     

    He's even taller, and got giant hands as well, beside of course being an absolute master and legend bass player, yet has 30" short scale electric bass as his main instrument of choice, though might I add a really proficient upright bass player as well.

     

    Personally my preferred instrument of choice is a just 28.6" scale Ibanez Mikro Bass, and I am 6"4'.

     

    And how about all those tall fellows playing 24.75" Gibson scale guitars?

     

    Then of course you also have rather short people with small hands preferring to play full scale 34" bass, some even extended scale 6 string bass.

     

    Anthony Jackson for instance isn't a particular tall guy and actually have kind of small hands, yet he's an absolute master on his 36" 6 string bass with full 19mm string spacing.

     

    Showing that choice of scale length really has little to do with one's physical size but rather a question of personal preferences and choice. 

     

    Well I think I look stupid with anything but a full sized bass, so that's enough for me 👍

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