chris_b

Early Christmas present. The wife will be relieved she doesn't have to rack her brains to think of a present for you.

If you want a smaller BF 212 I'd suggest the SC. A couple of months ago I did a duo gig with my SC and an SM and it was overkill. Just took the SC on the next gig and it was just right.

Love Junior Wells. Great song. My band closed the first set with this for many years. Bass player must be depping. Manages to get the riff by half way!! Been there many times.

Joanne Shaw Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suUTCqEEF38 Shaun Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsXCQTX6Pg Bobby Patterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKmu1ldK50 Jimmy Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKRA0PqoIak

Things have changed. In the 70's I had years when I didn't earn the price of a bass out of my playing. These days I can buy a bass with what I earn on some gigs.

Since the lockdowns, my gigs have paid between £0 (charity gig after the death of a good friend) and £200. The average is between £80 and £100. The bands I'm in are good and I'm also connected to many guys who put dep gigs my way. I look at gigs as being better than sitting at home. Every one is an opportunity. They get me seen and making contacts. None of the guys I work with go out for peanuts, so if I like the band I usually don't even ask what the fee is. I wouldn't leave over money, unless the bandleader was ripping us off!

I always go for the largest gauge I can find. Currently my TI flats have a .136 B string. My DR's used to be the .130 sets. IMO there's more body in the tone with large strings. I play with a pretty light touch, so tension isn't something I notice much.

I was wondering when that penny would drop.

How good a player do we want to be? If bass playing is more than a hobby then the 10k is a meaningful concept.

I thought it was an interesting video. Duck Dunn was the main influence on my early bass playing. He always had a bass line powerful enough to turn goat p!ss into gasoline.

Generalizations are never accurate. When I was younger I was a lot better at some aspects of playing bass, but I know I do a lot of bass stuff better now. At the start energy, determination and keenness got me a long way. Now experience and common sense covers a lot of ground.

I play with a band that uses this between the audience and band. . . . sometimes it works!!

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There's none better than Bobby Bland. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahw5YpAnxW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCRALCd5PKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCmZS_atEU

I had a Vox bass amp which went up in smoke when I was at school, but since then I have never seen or heard of a cab catching fire.

I'd insist on a barrier of some description separating the audience from the band. If anyone was "drunkenly trying to get on stage" I'd be stopping the show, telling them all to stay back and not restarting until they complied.

Yesterday I was playing in a marquee in a field and in the interval a member of the audience came up and complimented me on the bass sound. It's always nice to have confirmation that what you intended was actually being heard by the audience.

Of all time? Dunno, but Cornell C Williams is the bassist who is currently on the top of my play list. . . .

These guys sound like a bunch of amateurs. I doubt they will become any more professional in their attitudes, so you are probably well out of it. The biggest "up yours" you can do now is to find a better band.

OK. I've also been outvoted and played numbers I'd rather not play, but they went down well with the audience, and the band played them well, so I have no problem with any song in those circumstances.

I don't understand how anyone can be playing in bands for any length of time and have no tinnitus at all. Rick Beato's "complete silence" is something I've not experienced for more than 30 years. I also don't get the "intermittent" bit. That's no tinnitus I've ever heard of. I wish I'd discovered ACS moulded ear plugs 20 years earlier!!

If anyone doesn't like the material, all they have to do is say no. IMO that's a great list. Designed to do a good job. The dispiriting thing is when players accept the gig and they don't play the songs well or with no enthusiasm.

There are a lot of people who can't install strap locks then, and it seems to affect Schaller users the most!

I bought the first TTD album after hearing Cass in the Bass Centre, only to find he's only on 1 or 2 songs and not really featured. Don't know if he was on any other TTD albums.