chris_b

How much is the postage?

This is just a thinly disguised excuse to start a "look at my great basses" thread. I'm not sure I noticed the straps at all.

I always though the cone excursion (xmax) was responsible for most of the air movement from a speaker. One of those Berg cabs is ceramic and one is Neo. The speakers will be designed differently so they will sound different.

I believe that Alex would be saying exactly the same as Phil. The science remains the same, it's the application that changes.

My trolley/sack truck works on all surfaces and with all loads. From moving amps, cabs and wardrobes to stone sinks in the garden . . . https://www.screwfix.com/p/wolfcraft-heavy-duty-aluminium-folding-trolley-100kg/ It was cheaper when I bought it about 5 years ago, but there are plenty around for £20 - £30.

I hope you can beat this. Best wishes.

. . . . . . and you may not. How much notice does this condition give you? Up until now how many "twinges" have you had? You just need to get a good dep and keep on keeping on.

Great groove, nice lines.

Been there, done that. I was a died in the wool Precision bass player for 25 years, until I switched to 5 strings. Since then I've played a Musicman SR5, Lakland 55-94, Wal and now a Sadowsky Jazz. There's a Lull PJ5 in there as well but it seems to have slipped into second place, behind the Jazz. Same has happened with my amps and cabs. I've gone from a solidly P bass oriented set up to a much more dynamic sound. IMO it's all good, so just embrace the changes. Nothing else you can do.

When I played in a folk rock band the guitarists ate bags of jelly babies. They said the gelatin was good for strengthening their nails. Super glue is good for split nails, and I guess you could cover the whole nail with glue or varnish.

A good luthier could replace it with your name if you asked him.

How much did you spend on your guitars?

Pilot stadium tests for selected sports from 1st Aug. If OK 1st October for roll out. Social distancing still applies. No mention of theatres or gigs.

It's all changed. . . . . . . . for the better. The average cabs are OK, but the good cabs are light years better. Today you can buy a 112 that is louder, has more punch, tone and projection than any 412 from back in the day and there are 212's that can take on 810's. It's a whole new world from when I started in the 60's. I'm just glad I'm still gigging and able to use modern bass gear. IMO I sound better now that at any other time. Buy 2 112's then you can decide how many cabs will fit the gig.

If an operator has to keep moving the fretting parts you might as well employ a bass player.

Scary Pockets might be just covers but they are overflowing with interesting arrangement ideas and very cool playing. A great lesson of how less is more right there.

John East pre amps are fantastic. I've only heard 2 in the flesh, both with Bartolini pickups, and the sound was the best. Good move.

If a company is making basses and selling them internationally you can be sure that they are fulfilling all the criteria laid down by the CITES agreements. Therefore these basses are using sustainable woods.

My school band opened the first set with Last Night and the second set with Soul Finger. Stax is imprinted on my soul.

The Mar-keys were a bunch of school kids, including Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper. They made a record, Last Night, which we did in my school band. I thought the Bar-Kays were Otis Redding's touring band.

As I say, if you can carry it off fine. James Jamerson was busier than most and what he played was spot on. Less is more always comes with the caveat that it doesn't apply to great playing.

Good call. I forgot JJ and Norbert. The Hodges brothers were the session guys for Willie Mitchell's Hi Studios. They were on Al Green, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson etc etc records.

If you can carry off a busy bass playing style then good for you. There are players who can do that and styles where busy can fit, but most busy players seems to be of the "look at me and my clever playing" school. "Less is more" is a way of dropping a gentle hint that someone's "incredible" playing is really a pile of shite, the bass equivalent of verbal diarrhoea, and that their busy and inappropriate lines aren't making it.

Have a listen to the other bass players working in the various studios in the southern states; Tommy Cogbill at Fame, Mike Leech at American, David Hood at Muscle Shoals and Vernie Robbins and George Allen at Malaco, and all the other guys. They were fantastic exponents of the "less is more" school of bass playing.

When I was at school I could get the bus to right outside Macari's shop in Wembley. The brothers probably split their time between there and the other shops, but I remember the same one being there most times I went to visit. I don't recall them having anything particularly interesting on the wall, mostly middle and low cost starter basses, but at the time any bass looked good to me.