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If this amp is that good it deserves a cab that doesn't get in the way or arbitrarily alter the sound. 2 makes immediately spring to mind that would fit that description perfectly.

Ah. Maybe a darker polish for the front, to cover the marks, and a moisture proof spray for the underside?

My straps are the same. It's on the underside. Does it matter?

It's a house band for an awards show. My guess is that George Duke has something to do with the band, and his bass player for a few years around that time was Larry Kimple, so I'll throw that name into the ring.

As an ex-400+ owner I'm going to have to check this out!!

We had a group of Inca pipers at one time, and today there was a young drummer playing to tracks in the main pedestrian area, but never a busking bass player.

I'm not saying the mk1's sound bad, but I've had both and to my ears the US Barts are several levels better than the mk1's.

That was a new one on me, but they are also called Surrey Amps.

So Jewish singers can only sing Jewish songs? Maybe Jewish comedians can only tell Jewish jokes? This is getting very silly.

The summer of 69 had its moments. I still don't like playing the song though.

I believe a couple of guys on Talkbass road test the prototypes and have input to the manuals. While they might not make the final cut, @agedhorse is open to suggestions and ideas, and is consequentially a good guy to have designing our bass amps.

I wonder if this is the work of @agedhorse ?

If AI can make me a famous and talented bass player I'll buy one.

I think The Fearless Flyers use the MBrace Stage Guitar stand. Either one is a great idea for anyone with back or shoulder problems.

Fela Kuti's Afrobeat was a mixture of Nigerian music and American Jazz and Funk, mixed with Nigerian politics. So who was appropriating what? What does it matter that Kiri Te-Kanawa sang Mozart or Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach, or Howlin Wolf toured being backed by the (very white and very British) John Dummer Band? Influences are good. Mozart and Muddy Waters had them. Take them from where ever you can, and make your music to the best of your ability.

He welcomed Ginger Baker into his band on many occasions. I went to see the Fela Kuti show at Sadler’s Wells and Femi got up and sang a few songs. the audience was predominately white British and the band was white French. None of which mattered a jot to anyone present.

Oh dear. I suppose because I'm white British I should only be playing for Morris dancers!

The singer in one of my bands doesn't drive. She gets the bus to my house and we go together, and I drop her at her place afterwards. I usually give the drummer a lift when I'm playing on another band. He's local, gets me gigs and is very good so that's OK by me. In another band, we only gig in London so the keys player gets an Uber to the gig and I give him a lift (about 2 miles) home after. Everyone else drives.

Listen, recognise patterns, play, repeat. Depending on the gig, I might write charts.

I own 3 BF112's and use 2 on 99% of my gigs. I run the amp at the same volume no matter how many cabs I use, but IMO 2 just sound better.

Many years ago I used to dep in a Free tribute band and they were happy with me using my Lakland 55-94, Thunderfunk amp and Berg 112 cabs. They were after the feel of Free rather than the sound.

Boutique instruments have been around for hundreds of years, Steinway (from 1853), Stradivarius (from late 1600's) etc. Boutique basses will always be in production.

There is an Aguilar TH500 and 2 SL112's in the Classifieds. They will get you as close to a vintage sound as you can get in a sensible, well designed package. If Andy Frazer was playing today, and carrying his own gear, I'm sure he'd be using Aguilar.

My Marshall 412 was rated at 50 watts, that's 12 1/2watts per driver. Most cabs were 30" square because that was the smallest size that would fit 4 x 12 drivers. The bottom cab in a stack was sometimes larger, but I didn't like those because they were much heavier. There was no science in our sound in the 70's. I think bass and guitar worked together because we didn't have "bass". The best we could hope for was low mids, and lots of bass lines were also played up the neck.