silverfoxnik

Just bought a Zoom H4n from Pete @mybass who as ever, was an absolute gent to deal with! Highly recommended to one and all on Basschat, not just for this though but also for the incredible basses he builds and for being a great guest at the South East Bass Bash in 2019! Oh - and before I forget, he's a pretty nifty player too.. 😁 Thanks Pete and stay safe & well until next time. Nik

Yep, me too Chris! Apologies to the OP but @Paul S 's post and your link to the 4 Yorkshire Men Python sketch (one of my all time favourites) have had me in absolute stitches.. 😂😂

Brilliant, Paul! 😂 Back in 2012, our keyboard player selfishly fell in love with a beautiful Australian girl and buggered off to live in that shanty town called Sydney on the other side of the world.. The upshot of which was that I decided I needed to change my rig to 'fill out the sound' in the band a bit more now we were down to just guitar/bass/drums. So, I picked up 2 empty Peavey 115 cabs and with the very kind help of @Chimike, fitted the cabs with 2 pristine Altec Lansing 15" drivers which, to my ears at least, sounded great with my Hughes & Kettner Bassbase 600 amp. At the first gig with the new rig at a pub very near to me, a load of mates and work colleagues came along to cheer us on which was great... After about half an hour things seemed to be going brilliantly and I was feeling very chuffed with the bass sound.. Then out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that our Office Manager's husband made a swift exit for the door, leaving behind an unfinished pint on his table which was a bit strange as I knew he liked live music a lot and his beer. So after the first set had finished, all very concerned like, I went up to her to ask what had happened and to enquire if her husband was ill or something.. Turning round, she looked at me dead straight in the eye and said he had to leave because the bass had made his false teeth fall out! 😬😁 Best gear compliment I've ever had! 😂

Good question! I currently have 3 rigs, 0 rehearsals and 0 gigs and zero prospect of that changing soon. Proof that I was never good at maths, ratios, algebra, budgeting and forecasting.. 😁

Hi Dave, I can imagine the Ampeg /Berg combination was an absolute joy! A few years ago, I used a Mesa Big Block 750 with a Berg 212 and that was a really punchy rig...

That's my kind of rig right there! 👍😊@dmccombe7

Wow! 👍

Awesome vibe in that room...! 👍👏👏😊

The infamous Bromley contingent...

She does have a point about Precision and heavy rock though.. It has been - and still is - a tried and tested, winning combination for a lot of bassists working in that genre.

Jordan was quite heavily involved... Used to see her a lot as she was also very involved with early Adam & The Ants in '77 and' 78.. She was a really fearsome character! I'm also keen to know who's going to be playing Siouxsie..?

Given the cultural impact of punk I'm surprised its not been done sooner. I'm quite open minded about it to be honest. Wonder who's going to okay Bill Grundy? I think they should get Vic Reeves in for that. 😂

They're geat basses the T-40s @stewblack. I've had 2 over the years and certainly wouldn't say no to a third. Very heavy though! 😬 I like this idea for a thread @bubinga5, but it's one hell of a way of throwing even more Basschat fuel on the GAS fire! 😁

I love that! Thanks for sharing... JO's playing and sound are a thing of beauty IMHO.. As is Karen Carpenter's voice. JO's playing on Ventura Highway still takes my breath away - it'd be great to hear that with just voice, bass & drums.

Wow! That's just so 'nice'.. It's like a South American proto-ABBA/Carpenters/Mike Flowers Pops mash-up..

I think Bass players and the contribution they've made / and make is recognised more and more these days ... There's been a growing awareness helped in no small part by a new wave of really talented players, many of whom sing, write and front their own musical projects. Many of them are female which is great Thats building really nicely on the legacy of Macca, John Entwistle, James Jamerson, Jaco, Stanley Clarke, Chris Squire, Bootsy, Larry Graham, Mark King, Carol Kaye, Kim Deal etc, etc.. and let's not forget Suzi Quatro of course ! So I think it's all good personally. 😊 I'm a bit more worried about the lack of bass guitar in a lot of modern pop music to be honest, given the tendency for 'bass' on records to be a sample generated sub-bass type sound.. That's obviously the vibe that's called for in a lot of pop now, but it's not something I particularly care for.

That's a beautiful rendition of one of my favourite Beatles songs. 😊 Thanks for sharing.. 👍

I believe its all being done in the interests of a mathematical experiment to create the greatest single number in the universe that isn't equal to infinity.. This deal will create that as a result of the number of Spotify streams that it will actually take before Hipgnosis can recoup their $150 million outlay.

Me too.. It's one of the reasons why this forum is still going strong so many years later...