Richard R

It is a legal contract, so as others have said the best thing is to buy it then flog it later. The financial loss should be small, the grief from the missus will abate, you won't have p-d off the sellerand your conscience will be clear. The latter is worth a lot .

It's, marginally, less bad if you think of it as a left-hander. Turn the photo upside down and the cutaway make more sense.

The link wouldn't open 😞

I think you'll find it's actually DE6 5JQ. (Yes this is desperate bid to drag the thread back on topic!)

PM to follow when I work out how! Rich

I was 🙂. XYX has a pretty fearsome bassline!

This is rather calling to me, as I'm getting a bit tired of headphones or using my lad's 8" guitar practice amp. http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/EBS_Session_60_combo_sh.html This would be my only amp, so just for practice and the occasional coffee shop sized gig. Anything else I would use the church amp and PA. Anyone used them, like or loathe? Rich

What, not even the riff from XYZ?

Actually that does sound interesting - links to reference material please 🙂

Now we all know what a Stub Mandrel actually is, surely that's your porn name?

Second on the bill to Kempfinkle Gun Shop. Which is a real band.

Criccieth Kairos! Sounds more like an expletive than a stage name.

Lots of peeps from the West Midlands too, whereabouts are you? I'm in Solihull, there are others knocking about the outskirts of Brum too. You should Definitely check out the midlands bass bash for next year, on the events listings.

Blimey, I haven't listened to the Bozos since school days. Off to Spotify! 😁

I don't recognise that particular lyric, but that has surely got to be Half Man Half Biscuit!

Interesting question on whether a band can discriminate on grounds of age. An employer absolutely can't, and any company that explicitly said that a candidate was too old would be walking into court and out again a lot poorer.

So next question then - what amplification do people take? The travel bass I have is an Aria Sinsonido, so headphones plug straight in. Do others play unplugged, or with a little headphone amp, or a tiny cab?

Try using his lead, may well be a dry joint. I was at my tutor's on Thursday and had to crank the gain right up to get any volume. Since my guitar was just back from a full service with new strings and action low we knew it wasn't any of those. Swapped out the battery, no change. Swapped guitar leads for his and deafened the neighbours!

Not abroad, but I've taken a silent travel bass on the last two UK holidays. I'm still a relative newbie, so not playing for a whole week sets my muscle memory back aeons. And I intend to continue that argument even if one day I can play entire Yes albums from memory! 👍

"Maybe it's the way you wear your blue jeans so tight, I can put my finger on what you're doing right!" Status Quo, Something 'bout you baby I like. Every teenage boy, and the man he grew into, knows exactly what that's about 😁

It is the bank holiday Saturday. Any chance of the weekend before or after? I expect the missus will want to do something with the long weekend, so it would be easier to get a pass for other dates. Last event was fantastic, so I will make every effort to attend regardless! 👍👍

Is that the bank holiday weekend again?

No, he just likes very clean breakfast cereal.

Sorry for not getting back on this one. "Real life" in the way Seriously, I would keep it simple. For a mixer get something 8 in, main out plus four aux, analogue. That will give you more than enough for the time being. Mic up the singers and the guitarist cab only, use one channel of aux for the singers, and initially just one for the rock band. Remember most active monitors will let you daisy chain, so you can feed the same signal to a monitor for the rhythm section and for git/keys. There are a nice pair of Laney monitors for sale on this site ad a good price. Just work with that for now, and get the FOH sound ok. If the big band can't now hear the guitar because he is turned down, or want a bit more of the band, then you have two mixes available to give them. You should get a decent monitor and PA mix with that, and plenty of channels spare to DI the bass or keys and fly mics over the big band if you want to. cheers, Rich

I can imagine that with the layout as drawn the guitarist needed to really push the volume from the back to be heard out front in a dead hall, which is why he drowned the sax players. I'm supposed to be at work so I'll have a proper think later on, but my first thoughts - independent of any equipment purchase - would be to rotate the guitar, keys and bass round anticlockwise one position, so the bass & drums are on the back row, and the keys and guitar are in front. That gives the guitarist more projection without travelling through four people in front. Bass of course gets everywhere, that's why we're normally stuck in a corner 🙂 Where are you based, and when's the next gig?