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There is one for sale here with the bag to carry it around in. i have the 450w version that is more than enough for my needs. I’m DI’d to the PA if we are playing a bigger venue… TC RH 750

The TC head will be Class D amp and the Sound City ‘old school’. A different class that someone more knowledgeable than me can explain. Any ‘new’ (class D) amp will need to be several times the wattage of your SCs 120w to produce the same sort of power. There are lots of threads here explaining the ‘details’. For your particular problem I would have thought ‘more watts & turn down’ would be the way to go. But beware that you need to make sure bandmates don’t ’helpfully turn your rig up’ thus blowing a speaker.

Considering yes, buying a ticket. Err maybe… Are the people stuck with coming to London still considering a meet up?

Who are higher than America? 😂

I used to buy 10 sets of (guitar) string from Musicians Friend, sell 4 on eBay & I had 6 free sets. Not worth it now, even if you can get them to post here.

Aye, quite reliant on the other bass player standing behind ‘Paul Wellers’ amp. He didn’t play everything but you could see him picking up bits. Plus shaking a tambourine with the left hand and fretting with the right. Was all a bit sad. I can totally understand that Bruce has spent his life on stage so must be very hard to stop.

I'd say 5mm looking at it. Again, never been a problem. I think they sell them differently now. When I bought mine they all had Devon names. This is pretty much 'stock' but it's how I wanted it.

I use a 2.5" Leeden Tor Hiestercamp with two medium weight basses (both just under 4kg). I went for the suede lining so it doesn't slip on my shoulder. Never thought the bass wasn't comfortable or not 'where I wanted it'. Expensive, yes. Worth it. Double yes...

According to Russell at FTJ in Tunbridge Wells last night Bruce has decided not to give up and will play on a bit longer. I was surprised that Bruce did not tell us. But then Bruce only played half the gig and didn’t smile through the whole performance.

Guitarists arn’t out of tune and too loud? 🤔

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The break in period for a Heistercamp is from when you take it out the box to putting it over your shoulder….

Aye, they are only expensive then, as opposed to really expensive 😂! I say that tongue in cheek mind, I have one and it’s brill. Great company to deal with too. I like the Heistercamp logo but am not a fan of ‘branded’ stuff so they put the logo on the tail of the strap for me. I also got a fluffy cow keyring ‘freebie’ which hangs off my leads bag. Opening their packaging is a real treat. You know you have something special!

They would be useful on a Helix to denote the input you usually use. Shame I don’t have one anymore!

At my House Band OM there is an older lady who comes and plays the most fantastic boogie woogie piano. Always fun to play with and easy even if I don’t know the song. She’s also ‘considerate’ about not playing in my space. She’s went through a spell of bringing different musos who would play guitar and sing. Always Jerry Lee, Buddy Holly blah blah. One time this guy was plugging in his Strat so I asked the lady ‘what are we playing’ and she said ’Stairway to Heaven’. I thought ‘an old blues tune I’d not heard of’ so I said ‘key pls, how does it go’. She said ‘The recorded key, you know, the Led Zeppelin song’! Lucky I had the intro to get the chords up on my iPad. The guy nailed the singing and guitar. Amazing!

I play in an originals band locally so we ‘punt our stuff’ at a few OMs, often in pubs we play in (mostly covers). Initially it was annoying as they all have a 3 song limit and our 3x3min pop originals was taking err, 9 mins (ish) and other bands were playing ’Freebird’ like songs AND putting extra verses in! Our response (which seems to be accepted) is to simply look at the organiser and say ‘as our songs are really short can we play another’ and so far it’s been accepted. No frowning on the 3x9min songs as yet but we’re working on it! Can completely understand why organisers don’t want to p people off but surely there comes a point when you ‘ave a polite word? Also, taking ages in the switch over can be annoying. The originals band use a helix & pedal boards but we have them under one arm (guitar under the other) before we’re called. At the OM where I’m in the house band one bassist took over 5 mins trying to find a power supply for his compressor to get ‘his sound’! Which he was hoping to achieve through my amp, which has a compressor on it!

I’ve a number of ‘boutique leather straps’ for various basses but for a rather anchorish P I’ve gotten back into playing I was recommended a 3in Lekato Bass Strap from eBay by SparkyMark of this Parish. They do do colours but I went for plain black. This one I think. Not the fanciest strap I’ve got but boy does it make a 4+kg bass more comfortable to play.

I’m normally over 15k steps 😉

You sure you meant walk?

At ours it’s sometimes ’bandioke’ where someone sings or plays guitar with a band - often for the first time. People have to pop their Cherry somewhere! We’ve had people who were truly awful - but so encouraged they come back again getting better & better each time.

Yes, but so does a Kay and many other basses. It also looked old, although it was loved so not terribly ‘worn’. I think I was prolly more distracted by the next person up calling out the song & key and the bassist coming off handing me his bass and asking me to play it than really noticing what it was. I do remember not thinking the strap was too low or too high so that was a plus. But thinking ‘is this made of balsa’ it felt so “fragile”.

Playing in the house band at our open mic I was asked by another bassist if I would play his bass so he could hear what it sounded like (sigh). Cherry red P. As he handed it to me I only got a glance at the headstock and I thought I saw a circle with a ‘K’. Played a few runs on mute and the neck was ok. When I ‘pressed play’ it was awful. The two outer strings had no volume at all so you had to dig in to them. The two inner were so loud if you touched them they were overwhelming the band mix. The only ‘plus’ was that it was really light! Afterwards he thanked me and said how great it was sounding and as I handed the ‘Kay’s Copy’ back I noticed there was actually a pick in the strings over the headstock logo that made me think it was the Kay Logo. Underneath I saw an ‘F’ so asked him what it was. 1962 Precision was the reply. Owned since new he’d basically ‘given me a treat’ to play an awesome Vintage Bass! I was very thankful I’d thought it was a dog as it would save me thousands as I now didn’t want to own one! Unfortunately that was short lived as he brought its sister, a blonde 1962 jazz, to the next OM. That was LOVELY!

I'd be happy to let Nathan East play any of my basses. Get photos and videos of him doing it and you just added loads to the value 🤣.