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TimR

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  1. As others have said, it's a jam. Everyone's interpretation of a tune will be different because you haven't rehearsed together. That's the whole idea. Not much you can do with a drummer who doesn't play solid time other than hope they have a different one available next time. If it's too loud make sure you're wearing ear plugs. Learn to read charts.
  2. This Brad Lang? https://www.taxi.com/members/tMUWdre-QSa6sorKSEufiA-brad-lang
  3. If you're just playing pubs you only need vocals and kick drum, possibly guitar. You need to be able to have a separate monitor just for vocals. The band doesn't need any extra kick or guitar messing up stage volumes. The PA is just bringing a bit of presence over the top as kick drum and guitar will get absorbed by front row of anyone dancing. However, you're not trying to fill a pub with sound, if people want to listen to the band or dance they can come forwards. You don't want to turn the pub into a concert venue. If you're regularly playing big functions then go the full works with a big mixer, but really you can hire that kind of thing in for the odd big gig. Yes, sure, lots of bass players seem to revel in owning a PA and carting it around and setting it up and operating it during the gig. But you will be the one doing all this. Nowadays I prefer to turn up with my bass gear, plug in and play, and concentrate on my own performance.
  4. Thanks, but I am suitably jaded by my experience. I was sure I'd bought the winning tickets.
  5. I didn't win a nice Ibanez on Friday night and I just haven't won a Blue Stingray 4. Back to the Euromillions then....
  6. I have a PA I'm selling. 2x15" Peavey Pro speakers and PV1500 amp. Together with Soundcraft Spirit Folio 16. Reverb and EQ in a mixer flight case. It's pretty heavy in the case. Would be better to split the items.
  7. Thanks. I'm not sure I've used the date part either other than when I've been struggling with my tone and checked the date and realised they really could do with changing.
  8. I bet he never played anything the same way twice. Those Bob Marley songs don't have two single bars the same. 🤣 Ome great lines, impossible to emulate. Didn't he have 100+ kids or something? Edit: 31. That's why they called him family man. 🤣
  9. Take them off. Put them in the packet the new ones came in. Write the date on the packet. Put in gig bag as 'ready cut' spares. Never broken a string but guess there's a first time. Look at packet already in gig bag, wonder at the date. Put them in the massive box of old strings*... 🤣 *no. I throw them in the recycling. Do we have a benevolent bass strings thread where we give old strings that may have a little bit of life in them to old retired jazzers?
  10. This was kind of the purpose of the thread. I don't think a lot of bands understand the importance of the bass player (yes, I know, I would say that). Every band has that function, from orchestras, choirs, electronic music. It's not something you can just bolt on and expect to work. And I'm increasing led to belive that the bass "chooses you", or more subtly bass players are attracted to bass as it suits their mindset.
  11. It's not the studio's fault if the gear is knackered. Testing everything after every band has been in never happens and then chasing bands for busted gear is never going to happen. Many years ago I found a Trace Elliot 4x10 where every driver was torn. How does that happen without the bass player hearing it? They swapped the cab out for me.
  12. Our local studio has an Orange Terror and an orange 1x12" cab. It looks tiny and when I walked in and saw it I regretted not bringing my amp and cab. But it's a serious bit of kit for something so small!
  13. He wore his 'Nazi Memorobillia' for a photo shoot in Germany to promote a gig. Which is illegal there.
  14. What have I started... I saw Metallica and Anthrax at Donington in 1987. The mosh was crazy. It was raining, clouds of steam were rising from the crowd and the smell of damp leather and p... filled the air. I think I may have a Panterra and a Dokken vinyl LP somewhere.
  15. That's the monster part. Imagine being the directors of a company where you're also the product. If you don't want to produce the product what happens to you, and your employees. Well, if you're multimillionaire and the company is worth millions, you pay everyone off and move on if you're sensible. But the pressure to keep the company running must be huge.
  16. Most of these heavy music musicians are well past retirement age and spend more time on the golf course complaining about the kids driving the golf carts into the water hazards. A far cry from when they were driving their Rolls Royces into swimming pools. At some point it doesn't make sense to do the things we used to do as teenagers any more. But what do you do if that's all you have ever done?
  17. Are you guys expecting members of a Thrash Metal band to own kittens and spend their time shopping for soft furnishings?
  18. You're right. No one* other than people who buy and sell instruments or keep an eye on prices have even a ball park idea of what they're worth or cost initially. But the thread is really about a bass player buying a bass. So it's quite important in that respect. *Of course that's the old joke: I hope my wife doesn't sell my basses for what I told her I paid for them.
  19. I had the same from a guitarist over From Out of Nowhere by Faith No More. I think it's just someone assuming it's not possible. Both previous bass players had always used a pick. Newstead only uses a pick.
  20. That bit was a bit odd. I don't think any of them can have a grasp on reality anymore. Maybe they have the same insecurities as anyone who relies on their creative output to earn a living. What happens if I can't write another good tune? The bit when Lars realised Newstead's band were out gigging and drawing a sizeable crowd, while Metallica didn't even know if their singer was ever going to return let alone record or even gig.
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