Newfoundfreedom

Yup, me too. I had a boss multi effects pedal a few years ago and couldn't make hide nor hair of it, and everything I've ever tried with amp modelling just sounds awful. That's why I went with the line 6 M13, basically every foot switch is an individual and stand alone pedal, just like haven't a separate effects board.

SQUIRREL!!! I have the same problem. Highly unmotivated and easily distracted. Probably why I'm not a professional musician, or professional anything for that matter.

Sorry? Colour me stupid. What's a slot port?

Yeah, that wouldn't worry me too much as I wouldn't be lugging it around much.

Yup. Therein lies the problem. 😏

Ooh noice! I likes em short and pointy. 😮

Anybody heard of them? Are they any good? This 4x10 cab just popped up one of my local buy sell groups. Decent second hand gear is a bit thin on the ground here in Bulgaria 600w at 4ohms. With the current conversation rate it comes in at about £220. Is it worth the money?

Sadly it appears to be true. 😞 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/22/chas-hodges-chas-and-dave-dies

A guitarist friend of mine told me when he was younger and couldn't afford to buy new strings he used to put his old ones in boiling water and they were good as new. I'd never heard of this before. Anyone else?

Can't speak for the Boss, but I have a line 6 M13, and I find it great for the bass. In fact it's the only effects I use or need.

Plenty of demo videos on YouTube. P

It's definitely Tonic (Tonika). One wonders what the designer was mixing with said tonic when he came up with the design, but I'm guessing it came from a still at the bottom of the garden.

Aha! So it is a stylised "T" as opposed to a "M" Well done that mam. Tonika it is.

Drive, by Joe Bonamassa. A member of my band wanted to play it a couple of weeks ago so we learned it and I absolutely hated it. It bored the sh#t out of me. Now a couple of weeks later I can't get it out of my head.

Hello there in the flatlands. I lived in Skeggy for about 15 years before leaving the UK 3 years ago.

I'm currently using the strings that came with my bass. I'm really thinking that the NYXL strings may be for me because I'm from Yorkshire and they're free!

Not quite. In Cyrillic what we with the Roman alphabet would perceive as an "H" is actually pronounced "n", and what we see as "u" is actually a lower case "i". Therefore MOHuKa would actually be Monika (assuming the first letter is M which is the same in both the Roman and Cyrillic alphabet, as is the o, the k, and the a.) I live in Bulgaria and they invented the Cyrillic alphabet. 😉

I see this all the time with general sales, not just bass guitars. It's like people are so lazy they figure if someone is interested then they will ask loads of questions, rather than going to the trouble of actually posting things properly in the first place. On a local buy and sell site where I used to live every other advert used to say "need gone", like that was actually some incentive for people to buy.

Beauty. I wish I'd bought it first. I can read Cyrillic but I'm still trying to figure out the first letter as it's highly stylised. It's either called Tonica (i.e "Tonic) Or Monika, take your pick, although best guess from the pictures of go with Monika. 😉

I would agree pretty much 100% with everything he says. Yes I listen to different music now than I did as a teenager, but if I were to list my top 10 albums of all time, every single one of them without exception would be albums I listened to in my teens. While listening to music has always been enjoyable, I've never heard a single album or even artist that's had anything like the impact of the bands I listened to back then.

The best one I ever saw was at an Iron Maiden gig. They were being supported by a then (and probably still) little known band called Funeral for a Friend (catchy huh). They were a bunch of fresh faced young lads about 18 or 19 playing to an arena full of Maiden fans who just wanted to see the main act, and they were being heckled mercilessly and having things thrown at them by a couple of hundred hard core Maiden fans right at the front of the stage. Three or four songs in and they were going down like a turd sandwich at a buffet. At which point the singer who was about as old as my favourite socks, walked to the front of the stage, stared straight at the offending crowd, lifted the mic, and in a level voice said "F#ck you! I'm 19 years old and I'm up here supporting Iron Maiden, and any one of you f#ckers would give your right arm to be where I am now", at which point an almighty cheer erupted across the whole arena, the band started playing the next song and all the offending Maiden fans started moshing along. The rest of their set was absolutely brilliant! I've never before or since seen anyone turn a crowd like that. Absolutely legendary!

Sod it! I'm applying. YOUR NAME: Zod The Destroyer (stage name obviously. My real name is just Zod) YOUR BEST PHOTO (link): https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-gurner-from-the-annual-world-gurning-festival-in-cumbria-uk-known-3936055.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=D47B0987-6837-43C9-8FA5-A823F6AACF22&p=5913&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dgurning%26qt_raw%3dgurning%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: I was in a band at school and we did a gig in the gym. YOUR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS (strictly the business part) (1-10): 42 REASON FOR FAILURE OF YOUR PREVIOUS PROJECTS: Left school FAVORITE ROCK BAND: Guns N Roses FAVORITE METAL BAND: Guns N Roses FAVORITE ELECTRONIC BAND: Guns N Roses FAVORITE BASSIST: That dog off of Banana Splits DRIVING SKILLS (1-10): 11 COMMUNICATION SKILLS (1-10): Eh? So, When do I start?

I'm reading, lead singer/ guitarist rock God wannabe and only female member of the band are an item and an absolute nightmare to work with. Other members are expendable.

That's how I do it on a good day. 😂

I'm not sure this counts as my worst gig, as it was also my first, last, and only. So also I suppose that would also sadly make it my best. It was back at high school around '91 at the height of the Manchester music and indie scene. There were maybe half a dozen people in the whole school of maybe a couple of thousand students who were into the rock / metal scene, and 3 of those was our band, plus one older lad who could barely play a note but he was in the band because he had a van and a PA. Anyhow. We turn up to the gig, which was supposed to be several bands supporting a local "professional" band who were actually signed and making records. So we get there having absolutely no clue how a proper sound setup works having only every played through practice amps. But we figure it'll be OK because we'll get time to suss it out watching the other bands before we go on. I still to this day don't know what happened but someone just came up and said you're on first. So off I went onto the stage with my bass, shaking like a sh#tting dog with no idea what I was doing. It was then I realized I didn't even have a guitar lead to plug in, I just assumed one would be provided. So off I went hunting around until a member of another band lent me a lead which I swear was about 3 feet long. Now it might be worth mentioning at this point that our drummer was also the singer, so I was essentially the "front man" as I did a few backing vocals. So here I was. Chained to an amp with a three foot lead trying my best to lean forward enough to get somewhere near the mic. I must have looked like a bulldog at the end of a chain trying to gnaw on a slightly out of reach bone. Looking out across the hall full with a couple of hundred floppy curtain haired indi fans, (I swear all I could see was hair and noses) who had never heard anything heavier than The Charlatans, we launched into our first song, Metallica's Seek and Destroy. ..........nothing ..........absolutely nothing. It was like watching 200 rabbits in headlights. I swear no one even moved an inch. Song 2, Am I Evil, by the aforementioned Metallica, and I'm sure I see a couple of people shuffling and moving around, probably going to the toilet or getting ready to leave. Song 3. Enter Sandman. Luckily this was in quite heavy rotation on MTV at the time so at least a few people had heard it. Then a miracle happened. The whole place was jumping around and moshing. I swear I may have even seen a forehead or two. I walked off the stage after those three songs feeling like a rock God! We found out later the whole thing had been videod and to this day the guitarist, who's still a very good friend of mine still has a copy and occasionally reminds me by sending me snippets. It always makes me laugh and cringe in equal measure.