BillyBass

I was overlooked for a band, I believe, mainly due to the fact that I wasn't into the sort of music they played. I was up for it and I found that the songs I had to learn for the audition I really enjoyed playing. I really like playing good music with good bass lines. By 'good music', I do not mean music that I necessary like. Certainly, as @BigRedX pointed out above, I get pretty sick of stuff I play myself as I'll be rehearsing the same old song over and over again until its dropped from our set. I'm lucky in that I'm in a band that covers stuff I like and we are broadening our genre to be more attractive to Landlords, playing stuff from different genres I also like. I would definitely join the metal band.

And leave evidence for the missus to see? Are you mad?

This is a Davie 504 video about famous people playing bass. The bit with 'Barack Obama' had me fooled for a bit but, unfortunately, it isn't him 😪 And just like Davie, I've never heard of Riley Reid and have never watched any of her videos on Pornhub. In fact, I've never heard of Pornhub either.

It belongs to @dyerseve, not me.

Happy new pedal day! I'll be interested to see how you get on with this.

I am aware Germans can be very anti racist, and yes, I have heard of the AFD. I was suggesting that maybe Germans don't care about the Confederate flag so much. Not having visited Germany in almost 40 years, I have no idea how the Confederate flag would be considered; a symbol of Southern States culture/music...or a representation of an institution that approved of slavery.

This is the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry on 'Woke' Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".[1][2] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism. Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.[3][4][5]

But not with the confederate flag

40 odd years ago, when I was a punk, Rockabillies in London would all have a confederate flag patch on their jackets. I doubt if many of them knew what it symbolised, it was a cool thing that Rockabillies wore. I wouldn't be surprised if the original owner was in a Rockabilly band, or maybe southern rock. Fast forward 40 years and the flag is definitely not flavour of the month in America and as American wokeism has spread here, people are generally more aware of the slavery connotations of the flag. The OP lives in Germany though, maybe people there don't care about this so much.

Lovely bass. I've been gassing for one of these, on and off for a while now. I'm not allowed to buy another bass before Christmas though. Congrats.

Welcome aboard Ollie

I have several customers that are professional musicians/singers/conductors/composers. The only reasonably wealthy one is a singer that does appear on the telly a bit but her husband is/was a doctor so hers is not their only income. When I say 'wealthy' I mean nice big house in Muswell Hill, North London. The pit players I know from orchestras in London all seem to have comfortable, though not spectacular lives, that includes a relatively well known conductor, married to a soprano that has a few CDs out. One of my customers is a multi instrumentalist that does a lot of work in big hotels in London, mainly on the piano, jazz standards, taking requests from American tourists. He gets his work via an agent and he gets by ok. All of them were brought up with music, taking exams as kids etc. Music was their career path from school. I love playing the bass, especially as my band has started gigging but I am under no illusions about it being anything more than a hobby.

Probably looking for the bar

Sold a Tech 21 DI-2112 to Killerfridge. Very smooth transaction all very quick. I would not hesitate to recommend him to other basschatters wanting to buy or sell stuff.

I have a Boss TU-3, a Polytine 3, a Polytune 3 mini, a Landlord FX tuner, and also a D'addario clip on. I don't know why but every now and again, my tuners misbehave and won't work. At my last gig my Polytune 3 started going funny, that is the letters on the screen just kept jumping around. I had my clip on with me so I was able to tune. At the start of the second set I tried the Polytune again and it as fine! This has happened with both Polytunes and the Boss TU-3, that is why I bought the Landlord FX pedal. In future I'll take two tuner pedals with me just in case, I don't like clip on tuners.

I sold an RM800 Evo II to Scrumpymike. Mike organised the postage and it all went very smoothly. I would definitely do business with him again

I hope the dog didn't get in free

That's quite good. I listened to 'Lost Boys' on YouTube, definitely a Paramore vibe, as one of the comments says. Well done.

The link isn't working Mike.

I think I might try my Elf with the two Barefaced One10s I have at my next gig.

I have recently started wearing varifocals for work and now use them for playing. I can get by without them for bass but that is down to my vanity, I see the fretboard better in dim light with glasses. I took the female lead singer of my old band (a lot younger than me with a better understanding of what looks cool) to the opticians, and we chose a pair of cool looking frames to use with varifocal sunglasses (the ones that turn into sunglasses in the sun, can't remember what they are called). These are my gigging glasses, and I sometimes wear them for going out. I'm vain!

I bought a Legacy 800 head from them last year and it was brand new, with absolutely nothing wrong. It's still going strong and I have been so impressed I've ordered a Fusion S from Andertons too. Originally Polar Audio had loads of really good GK kit on sale via their eBay site. Almost all of that has gone now, though they still have a lot of 210 Legacy combos. If you have just bought the 15combo, you had one of the last ones, so maybe they saved the crap ones until last. Apparently, they were hopeless as dealers so GK gave them the elbow and Andertons have taken over (without the discounts unfortunately).

Like @Mickeyboro above, I would pay to play there. I first went to the Grope & W*nker in 1980, can't remember the band but I do remember a very long argument with a bouncer who didn't believe I was 18 (I was 16 or 17 and looked 12!)

Polar Audio used to be the Gallien Krueger dealer for the UK. They aren't anymore and have been selling off all their GK gear on eBay. Most of the good stuff has gone but they still have some Legacy210 800W combos available. They are a bit over your budget at £699 but this is about half price! A new Legacy 800 head will cost £850 from Andertons and that doesn't come with a cab.

What sort of music do you play? A sonic match made in heaven is all very subjective. I gig my Super Compact and used my RM800 with it last week; we play punk/new wave and I used a Charvel reverse PJ (w/Dunlop stainless rounds) with a bit of bridge pup dialled in but mainly the neck pup. It sounded fine, but not as good as my GL Legacy does, in my opinion. I also prefer the features and knob layout of the GK. So the RM800 is being sold and I have a GK Fusion S on order. Personal taste? Or music/bass/strings dependant?