stingrayfan

If you're after a stiff one - try [url="http://www.tribalplanet.com/guitar%20gig%20bags.htm"]Tribal Planet[/url]!

While you're waiting to get your hands on one - this demo's good.

Front pocket normally.... ...normally forget to put one in there though. Needed it at the last gig though - got cramp in my fingers!

Go for it - doing covers is fun and it's not all Robbie Williams or classic rock. PA wise, we've got 2x powered speaker cabs (£250ea), a mixer with FX built in (£100), a powered monitor each (£100ea) and mics and cables (£100ish). PM me if you want details.

[quote name='MB1' post='451826' date='Apr 1 2009, 06:23 PM']MB1. ....Difficult Member?.. [/quote]

GK - £350 is a great price for a Tribute L2000 - that's their secondhand value in the UK. Go for it, they're are great basses. Need a testimony? I gig mine most weekends! You can get Stingray bite, Jazz honk and P bass thump in one bass which is also light and comfortable to play. It was apparently Leo Fender's favourite bass design as it combines the best bits of the others he created. Only con is that the necks have that cheap bleached wood look. Can't really think of any others. Edit: the controls look complicated but are quite simple. Pickups and electrics are US made. 1. Pickup selector - neck/neck+bridge/bridge 2. Series/parallel switch 3. Active switch - passive/active/active boost I usually have both pickups on and the active on, but not boosted. Sounds great.

[quote name='Doctor J' post='451212' date='Apr 1 2009, 09:34 AM']That had me going for a while [/quote] Me too.

Find a new band, that's the solution. Worked for me.

Here you go: Drummer in band turns down gig after gig, causing politics. Eventually bandmembers can't be arsed with it, so two of us call it a day. Drummer pipes up: "...but I was up for playing a load of gigs this year..."

[quote name='grimbeaver' post='449208' date='Mar 30 2009, 08:52 AM']I took the T bird, no one exept another bass player remarked on it, I didnt get laid. Dohhhhh[/quote] Did the guitarist?

Isn't the 5th string for resting your thumb on?

I love that Sadowsky ad: "the last two years have been a period of intense collaboration, experimenting and prototyping ...." And the result? ...a Fender Jazz copy!

Go for the one that's more fun to play.

My drummer's an appalling timekeeper. He once turned up to the gig 2 hours after we'd started it.

Personally, I've gone off the heavy American basses and enjoy gigging the lighter Far East stuff. Easier to play, easier to swing about, great sound and better value The gear snob thing is a bit of nonsense really when you consider a lot of great records were recorded using very average basses.