Richard R

A few years back on another thread about deps and joining bands, someone kindly offered to post a link to the list they sent their deps, which was the list of songs, keys, chord charts and links to videos. I was trying to find it earlier this year to get some inspiration for practicing things I would never normally play, but couldn't find the thread, or the post. Was it anyone on this thread, and if so would she/he be able to post it again?

What an excellent idea! And as others said above - well done.

Said innocent basschatter would be stuffed regardless of the quality of brief they could afford- the rules are at the top of the thread and have stayed fundamentally the same for years. Plus if she or he is in any sense a gigging musician then chances are they can barely afford a pair of briefs in these straightened circumstances, let alone one with a wig.

That looks the business 👍

You'll have to print your own 😁

Did you get the Beavis and Butthead stickers?

Welcome aboard!

Pop it in the Marketplace section, but say you only want trades?

That could be read that your wife came along with you to carry the bass as it felt peculiar to you. Which would raise a lot of questions...

I'm not a fan of big block MOP inlays, but having those in the same wood as the body looks very smart indeed.

Or maybe a big blanket? Out of interest, who is the insurer?

Welcome aboard! Step away from the marketplace 😅

Welcome aboard!!

Welcome aboard! There is a lot of love for Thumbs here, and as said above, you'll get an idea of value from the marketplace. There are also a lot of old guys who no longer want to play boat anchors and prefer lighter basses. Ask for suggestions in the general thread, and you'll get lots of replies.

Welcome aboard! The other site is very US-centric, which is fair enough as it's a big place. But we're friendlier. 😉

Am I right in thinking "Sweet Home Alabama" was written in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man"?

It was 1974, so of course it looks ridiculous. But it was part of the show and the entertainment, and as long as the audience had a good time that's the main thing. I wouldn't wear it for the worship band on a Sunday mind you! 🤣

Leave the cardboard in the van, then hide it inside the flightcase tomorrow.

This is like Terry and June*, but classier and with PA gear!

Welcome aboard! Nice basses. Stay away from the marketplace, or you'll suddenly have a herd.. 😁

Hope it goes well.

It sounds like you want to grow the scene and are prepared to be more flexible for the long term benefits, whereas the rest of the band all have more of a "this is us" mindset which works in an established scene. Could you maybe thrash out in advance a set of Terms and Conditions that you can all agree to, and then say that if the gig meets these conditions then you will play it?

My kind of congregation!

Here's the story of the last week: We are blessed with a large church which is lively and growing, worship bands who care, and a tech team who know their stuff, test and prepare thoroughly. You know where this is going... 😄 Up on Tuesday to run some tests on livestream & sound, and prep for Maunday Thursday - all good. Maunday Thursday- no sound from the desk main outputs at all, just crackles. 🤔 Fortunately it was a Taize-style service, mainly a capella. 👍 Testing after the service confirmed the final DACs on the desk are dead. (A&H Qu32). ☹️ Up on Good Friday to figure out the work-round. Eveything works! Which means we have an intermittent fault, which is worse.😠 Test everything else in the meantime and thankfully the main DACs fail again! We have a digital stage-box, so we decide to route the LR over the digital link to two outputs there, use the DACs there to covert to analogue then run back to the amps over the old analogue lines. Happy days! 😀 This morning the VDP computer which handles Easy Worship, playing videos and also the baptim- only camera, decides that it will crash as soon as we try to play a video through EW. 🙄 Phone call to another of the team who has EW on his laptop so he brings that over. A few minutes configuring that as a backup, finish just in time for the service and off we go! 20 mins in, first video plays, main PC crashes as expected but flipping to the backup works. Reboot the main PC while that video is on, and we're back in time for the baptisms. 🥳 Today was one of The Best Services Ever! Almost 2 hours, with four baptisms, great testimonies, fantastic singing and superb playing (not me). And no amount of glitches, technical problems, random stuff or gremlins was going to stop it.