silverfoxnik

Certainly is! 😁

I ran this rig for 5 years and it was fantastic! The 210HE alone was exceptional - tuned to 33kz, great with low B strings and super punchy.. Paired with the 115HE it was even better, and having the height of both cabs was great for on stage monitoring. Overall, it was a brilliant modular rig combined with the V4BH head. My band at the time loved it, but once the band split up, it was too much to have sitting around at home. Weight wise, the cabs were around 60 lbs each, but I didn't mind that at all. When/ if I get back to gigging regularly again, I'd be more than happy to have a similar Ampeg rig/cabs.

Good question! All very subjective (as has already been said) but, as a life-long David Bowie fan, I think I'm on safe ground in offering up the examples of his early recordings up to and including 'The Laughing Gnome' as being pretty dire, stinkers no less! Thereafter, his albums from 'Space Oddity' onwards, up to and including 'Let's Dance' are some of the finest, most stonkingly brilliant records ever made. Admittedly, I know that this is a very biased viewpoint... 😁

One of my favourite pieces of music by Bowie, both on the album and these live performances.. I've always loved David Live too; it's such an important step in his musical his transition from Ziggy - > Aladdin Sane - > Diamond Dogs - > Young Americans.

Wow! These videos are absolute gems - thanks for sharing.. 👍😊 I'd always wondered what happened to George Murray.. He, Alomar and Davis were just fantastic, so creative, so cool.. And what comes across in these interviews, is what kind, thoughtful people they were too, as was Emir Ksasan. Anyway, thanks again for sharing!

Thanks @ped 4 sets of your finest Basschat merch received safe and sound this morning! Soon to be fitted to my basses.. Cheers Nik

I enjoyed that - thanks for sharing! It's always humbling hearing someone of Kent's renown paying tribute to someone who he learnt from, in this case Bill Lawrence.. Absolute proper respect for that, and for both Kent and Bill's work over the years.

Wow, that really is a depressing read.. Imagine if software developers, architects or lawyers, for example, were expected to give away their work for a pittance, or for nothing..

Yes, it's a funny old thing isn't it as to why we bond with some basses and not others? Answers on a postcard to... 😁 I'm still really enjoying this bass Nigel, but have yet to gig with it (for obvious reasons) .. Maybe my views will change after some gigs.. But in a recording environment, I've got to say, it's been great so far!

This one now resides in Silverfoxnik Towers I'm pleased to say.. Loudest output of any bass I've had and has a really fab range of tones.. I've never particularly been a fan of the phrase 'cuts through the mix', preferring my basses to sit in the mix supporting the song as it were.. But if required, this bass with tone and vol pots fully open, literally light sabres through the mix! 😁

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I walked out of a show by The Drifters in a dreadful 'chicken in a basket' venue in Watford once, must have mid-80s.. It wasn't because of the band though, who were great, it was because of the audience. The venue had decided to put on a stand up comedian as the support act - probably because the majority of the punters were air force or army staff from a local base. So, the comedian comes on and he spent about 45 minutes telling mainly racist jokes about 'chalky' and 'golliwogs' etc, which the audience found absolutely hilarious from start to finish.. Honestly, it was like being at a Bernard Manning Fan Club event. And then, The Drifters came on (who must have heard it all going on from their dressing room) and had to perform in front of this completely hypocritical audience, who, without any sense of irony or shame, started clapping away and singing as though the previous 45 minutes had never happened! I was so shocked and angry at the hypocrisy, I had to get up and leave. Still riles me to this day!

"...and if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you..." 😉

Thanks @Deedeefor the robust defence of my 'not trying to find offence'.. 😁 As it happens @Jakester, I know what protected characteristics are having spent the last 17 years working with people with a wide range of them. Just to be clear, I was jokingly responding to @Maude 's earlier comment about how long before '.. someone comes along and starts shouting discrimination'. But beyond that, I do think there's a serious point to be made here about musicians (and artists more broadly) having been treated very badly over the years on this country, not just now as a result of the fall-out from Brexit, impact of Covid:lockdowns etc, but way beyond that. I can remember when, as a young professional musician in the 80s, it was nigh on impossible to get car insurance for all sorts of stupid reasons thrown up by the insurance companies. And t wasn't until the Musicians Union fought quite a long battle for change that things started to improve, with General Accident eventually working with the MU to produce a specific car insurance policy for your average working muso. I was an MU Committee Member for about 3 years when I still lived in London and the number of cases we dealt with of musicians being ripped off and being treated like 2nd class citizens was unbelievable! Anyway, back on topic... That's kind of the point being made by this lady who's set up this cafe in Bristol - as I see it, she's responded quite brilliantly IMHO to that same kind of disregard and lack of understanding/appreciation of what artists/musicians bring to this country. As the actor David Schneider said recently: "Hard to believe that the government utterly screwed the £112bn creative industries for the sake of the £446m fishing industry. Which they also utterly screwed."

Yep! Some overly pious PC twerp is bound to come along claiming that a positive act (for once) of discrimination in favour of musicians - who still are and have been for centuries, completely discriminated against - is somehow a discriminatory act! The mind boggles (especially at my age!!). 🥴😬😁

Good afternoon fellow Basschatters, Have any of you seen this article.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56115602 What do you think..? Seems like a great initiative to me and good on a bass player for coming up with the idea too! Nik