BillyBass

Welcome to bass chat @MANTIS. Why don't you go over to the 'Introductions' forum on the Homepage and introduce yourself to the rest of the community. If you are MantisKungFu from SBL, then hi!

And governments get away with even more. Their taxes on beer make the stuff, which is 99% water, more expensive than petrol.

You've got a good drummer, that's the difficult bit. Guitarists are ten a penny, guitarists sans ego are more hard to find. We started off as the drummer and me and we have recruited via Gumtree and Joinmyband but we're in London so there is a bigger pool of musicians to tap. We had to go through a few guitarist auditions/phone conversations before getting one that didn't think the sun shone out of his a*se.

What's it like? Any good? I'm a bit concerned I'm going to get some cheap knock off made in Germany by Bosch or Audi or someone and not the real McCoy, made in China.

I looked at a few different tabs but realised I couldn't really use any of them. There is a bass solo tab on YouTube which is useful but unless you use a looper it can't really be done on bass without compromises. So I've been doing it by ear with help from the YouTube clip. It is fun though!

I ordered a RM800 EVO2 from them last Friday and UPS have just told me the delivery will be put back to Monday 23rd☹️ I can't complain really, it was half price. Glad you are getting on with your new rig! Enjoy!

I'm learning the Pink Panther theme. It's the drummer's idea, he wants us to play this instead of sitting around whenever the guitarist breaks a string in rehearsal.

The heaviest bass I own is a MIM Jazz, which is 4.5kg, if I can trust my scales. I'm comfortable with that over my shoulder for 3 hours at a rehearsal. I have 4" Pinegrove straps for my basses, they make a difference. The Sweetwater site lists the weight of the basses they sell, if they are selling more than one identical bass. Its surprising just how much the weight of identical basses can differ. Below is a link to their Olympic white G&L tribute 2000s, the heaviest is 2lb 3oz heavier than the lightest! https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/L2KTBOW--g-and-l-tribute-l-2000-electric-bass-olympic-white This is why I won't buy a bass blind, I want to feel it over my shoulder.

Our drummer is a PAT tester and I am an electrician, so we don't have any worries here. The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 are what venues must adhere to. Having a satisfactory EICR for the electrical installation and PAT tests for the appliances plugged into the installation are ways to prove that they are complying.

Sorry to read this. Hopefully the NHS will help you to carry on pain free and able bodied.

I saw the Cure a couple of times in spring and summer 1980. I liked 3 Imaginary boys, the double A side 10:15 and Killing an Arab was great. I also loved A Forest and got that onto our setlist, briefly. I haven't really heard much of their later stuff. Like a lot of the preceding posters on this thread, I liked the Cure but they weren't a favourite band.

Ah, is that the stuff Fender use for pickguards on their American made basses?

At the risk of being labelled a pedant, 'Don't Look Back in Anger' wasn't a Blur song. It was Status Quo.

I seem to remember 'Whitton Tony' having a Mohican but I didn't get to know any of the Whitton punks before 1980 There were already mohicans in 1979, but it wasn't common. I was 16 and had just left school and by this time there certainly was a uniform as such: jeans, boots, leather jacket with 'Adam & the Antz' or something else painted on the back, badges on the lapels of the leather jacket. Spiky hair a la Sid was more common than mohicans. Girls had Siouxsie hair cuts with leather jackets and monkey boots.

Another reason to go for the 800 over the 500 is appearance. I plan to use this with my black steel grilled Super Compact. It will look the part on top of that, as per all the photos of other bass chatters' RM800 and Super Compact rigs. The black fascia and silver chassis (and vu meter) look quite cool, I believe. I'm not so keen on the look of the RM500.

Is it good for metal?

Overkill? Nah! What about the headroom.

No you don't have to pay an extra 20%, the Vat is included in the price they advertise.

I've just pulled the trigger on an Ashdown RM800 EVO 2 too. £286.00 is a no brainer for me. Even if I don't use the preamp section, and run my Di-2112 into the effects return, £286 for an 800w power amp is still a bargain. Somehow though, I can see myself using it as a standalone amp into my Super compact. For anyone else nervous about VAT and customs duties, the webpage with the product says 'incl taxes and customs duties, free delivery'. After clicking 'add to basket' you go to the basket page and there is a paragraph under the order which states that customs duties have to be paid outside the EU! Following the OP's experience I bought anyway and the e-mail I got from them has the unit price at £238.33 and 'import duties' at £47.67, which is 20% of the unit price, so that's the VAT then. I have not ordered from the EU since Brexit proper happened so I'm not sure if I am liable for any other import duties but if there are any, they will be negligible.

If it was a Rush riff you would probably get a cease and desist communication from lawyers and it would be pulled from YouTube. Great review BTW, keep it up.

Girls with Doc Martens! In my day, punk girls wore Monkey boots, it was the blokes that wore Doc Martens. If you were a skinhead girl and wanted to look hard you might have worn Doc Martens maybe.

And while we're on the subject of punk and non conforming, the guitarist has a beard! And a flat cap! bloody anarchist.

The working class can kiss my a*se Cos I have got the foreman's job at last You're out of work and on the dole You can stuff the red flag up yer hole sung to the tune of 'The red flag'

I have been doing mindfulness meditation for 34 years. I ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1987 and disrobed in 2001. During that time I did a lot of very long meditation retreats, mainly with Burmese masters. Without this training I'm sure I would be tearing my hair out now. Since disrobing I have returned to my last monastery (in Northumberland) at least once a year for a short meditation retreat and I will be back there again in September. Not being a monk any more, having to go to work, having a wife etc mean that the level of constant mindfulness I had as a monk has dropped dramatically, however, one benefit of mental training is the ability to make determinations, as in when such and such happens, I will be mindful. The silver lining in this cloud for me is the determination, which so far I am keeping up, to be mindful whenever my tinnitus comes to my attention.

Apology unnecessary, I wasn't offended. Most people, I assume, would be upset by it as the NHS seems to focus very much on therapy to help people come to terms with it. Our singer has it one ear and she got cognitive behaviour therapy from the NHS, which helped her. Sorry to hear about your missus☹️