Richard R

@bnt, sorry you can't make it. 🙁Thanks for updating the list.

Looks fantastic, the photo makes it look slightly menacing with the hot valves lurking in their cage and the red light like the Terminator's eye. As for names, JapanAmp?

https://youtu.be/Y_X9AyP0d_w Video may not have embedded, so added link.

Is Mr. G a known Dead Head? I bet he grows magnolias.

Enjoy the gigs, and best wishes for the gigs and the wedding. Will you be playing Smoke on The Water at the reception ?😉

You missed all the fun!

Excellent! Don't need a big rig to be honest. With so many basses about folks generally keep the volume down so we can all hear ourselves/not embarras ourselves 😁

Quick - create two more accounts and vote "definitely not" with both of them to counteract your earlier mistake. This stuff matters.

I just hide behind a pillar and try to play the right notes!

A rare breed - do you wear a hat on stage?

That, and because we're sensible, hard working and dilligent musicians, not attention-seaking lead guitarists 😎

Hi, Get any decent USB audio interface aroind the £100 mark and plug the bass straight in, or via an amp simulation pedal, and use headphones. Your recording will be much better than trying to mic up a cab, you will be able to balance your bass volume to the other tracks in your headphones, and most importantly your wife's headaches will go.

I had heard the same origin story, and you're right about the term changing over time now I think about it. To pick up @hiram.k.hackenbacker's point, I think the reason people want to subcategorise music, films, etc., is because we naturally want to understand what we like and what we don't, and often those distinctions are very fine. Without analysing every song or piece of muisc individually, we want and need a way to group things together. If those who like "metal" can hear generally applicable trends and differences between songs they have categorised as "thrash" and "speed", and it improves their communication about the music they like, good for them. We don't need to join in, and equally we don't need to be dismissive. Every hobby has it's subdivisions.

Which brings us onto the question of what defines Heavy Metal, as distinct from Hard or Heavy Rock. I have no idea, except that I like the latter but not the former... 😉

Belated greetings!

Welcome aboard! You mentioned the cab, but what's your bass? Come on man, don't be shy! Anything from a pristine Tanglewood to a knackered Alembic, everything welcome here. 😁

Welcome aboard Step away from the marketplace. 🤣🤣

Welcome aboard! Hope to see you at the Midlands Bass Bash:

Excellent! By then I hope to have sold the S-max and bought something sporty and impractical instead, so we may not be able to all pile in together.

S'what it says in the rules: 😳 Events Members often organise 'Bass Bashes' all over the country. We also attend major music shows and events. This is your chance to meet a Basschatter in the flesh. Clothes optional.

But when he said that, Rorschach wasn't actually wearing his face. 😉

Simplified version, for those of us that don't play jazz: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203221794216

Welcome aboard! Interesring guitar. You'll probably get more replies/ answers if you post the questions in the Bass Guitar thread, lots more people there who can help. (This thread is more like the lobby to welcome people.)

Like the paint. That's going to look great under lights 🤘