warwickhunt

My lazy Suday listening/viewing has been 'Daryl's House' for some time. You can find some of the more obscure (for want of a better word) guests to be great; some of the clips with Patrick Stump (being an oldie I had to look up who he was and I was genuinely pleasantly surprised by his voice) are great... Oh and his faces are great! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfKL2jCO-8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=YNfKL2jCO-8[/url] Chop to 3 1/2 mins for the actual track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rLpvWWDJQU

[quote name='dave.c' timestamp='1362314046' post='1998189'] Did you replace the mono jack socket with a stereo one to switch the battery on when you plug a jack in? [/quote] Sounds like this ^

A warm 'Warwick' welcome.

The pub pays us direct (cash) and we forward £30 of the £250 to the agent. It'd be guess work as to why the agent/venue have ceased to want to deal with each other but it could be that the venue have considered paying venues 10% less and thus they are making a direct saving.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1362236504' post='1997379'] Difficult one! what kind of clout does the agent have? Can he get you gigs that you simply would not be able to get on your own? [/quote] Ultimately he is a part-time agent (not paying taxes on this income etc.) who gets us a couple of gigs a few times a year. We can easily get by without his gigs, they are just easy diary filler dates in pubs that are no better or worse than the ones that we get ourselves.

Brief summary; We play pubs and at a couple of them local guys (self styled agents I suppose) book the bands for the venues, in return the bands pay said agents a fee of approx 10%. That isn't the cause for my conscience to be pricked, as it is a simple case of, if you want to use them to get those particular venues/gigs, then so be it (as has been said we get booking for two venues from one particular agent); if you don't want to use agents don't do those gigs! However, we have had contact from one said agent saying that one of the venues wants to go it alone and book their own bands (why that should be so I have no idea because afaik the band pays any fee to the booker/agent NOT the venue... unless they are getting a double kick-back but of this I have no proof). This agent has stated that any band now playing said venue would have any other gigs with said agent cancelled and that band wouldn't get work in any of their venues. To be fair the agent did offer us an alternative gig on the date that he wants us to cancel, though we will obviously still pay him his fee; it could be viewed that the guy is being generous or alternatively he would have lost revenue from us had we decided to continue with the gig, this way he still gets a fee out of us. My principles have me saying to the rest of the band that I don't want to be part of this agents machinations/schemes to cut bands from the venue in question (possibly forcing the venue to reinstate him as the agent) but equally, I don't like being threatened with this axe hanging over us of; 'Play by my rules or I cut you from other venues.' The rest of the band have shrugged and said 'Meh! For the sake of a few gigs a year, let's just knock the venue on the head and go with the agent'. I have said 'For the sake of a few gigs a year, let's just knock the agent on the head and play this venue any way'. Thoughts?

...and at that price 'likely' to remain with its present owner!

Now if it wasn't staged that is one fantastic marketing ploy, I wasn't even looking for new cabs but this thread has me stroking my chin... and up pops a pair of used ones!

Thomastik Nickel roundwound 'Alloys' - they just sound and feel great.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1361738141' post='1990166'] I can only speak for myself, but it took me less than five minutes to get used to the fanned frets. Obviously YMMV and so on. [/quote] 8 people tried my Dingwall at a recent local (mini)bass bash, ranging from a teenager (IIRC 'just' a teenager) to a pensioner (need to confirm that the Bassdoc has his free bus pass) and not one of them couldn't play it perfectly normally in the space of minutes. The caveat being that my Super-Jazz is 32"-34" scale/fanned fret.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1361735823' post='1990136'] Has anyone north of the Tees or south of the Tweed got one of these? I'd like to have a go of one... [/quote] WoT he said (sic)! In fact we can double team on this and between us we have Bergantino (10s) and Aguilar (12s) for the helpful recipient to have a try of!

[quote name='Stan_da_man' timestamp='1361732167' post='1990054'] Okay, I'll admit that's me. [/quote] No! I'm the bassist. [IMG]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/warwickhunt/Spartacus_zpsf2d9a804.jpg[/IMG]

Shame you aren't further North, you could have tried my Super-Jazz 4... and it's for sale! Without wanting this to sound like sales pitch, they are a fabulous bass and the fanned fretting takes ZERO getting used to and as has been pointed out it actually makes playing/fretting/chording easier. The sound is everything you'd expect from a trad Jazz and then some (should have mentioned mine is passive); I've played active basses exclusively for almost 20 years and I thought that the Dingwall would be lacking in top end tone but in fact it lacks nothing. For me the ease of playability just as a bass (excluding the fanned frets) doesn't get mentioned enough; slightly downsized Jazz body, beautiful slim neck but with enough too it that it doesn't feel flimsy with a lovely satin finish, also silly things like the nice rounded finish to the pups which makes finger/thumb anchor a pleasure. So why am I getting rid of mine if they are such fabulous basses... I'm going back to an old Streamer which is a shape and feel I played for many years and just can't get away from.

You can defo get a 4 way rotary as my Dingwall is fitted with one.

Just to further muddy the waters... [IMG]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/warwickhunt/DSC05678.jpg[/IMG]