Beedster

I'd agree re a couple of posts above, a lightweight combo might not be the best shout for a loud rock unit

Absolutely this 👍

Good luck with that 🤔

By which I mean that it sound different to pretty much every other amp I've owned, including the M-Pulse 360 or 600 which are to all intents more powerful/versatile versions of the Walkabout, and I doubt any head will replicate it exactly if that's what you're after

This.....

Whether it's your thing or not, the Walkabout has a pretty unique tone. Best bet to my mind is to but the one on here at present, IIRC it's under £500

Welcome Langy, great to have you here, and as has been said, we've probably all listened to your playing many many times over. I took the Electronic Music Techology Programme at LCF in the early 80's and we used to pop over to Sarm East regularly - ABC were often in around then IIRC. As studios go, it really was the place to be, and some incredible recordings came out of it. It must have been incredible to be part of it and I expect you have some stories.......

51 this year 👍

Yep 👍

BVs can really bring an upright player into the audience’s attentional space 👍

On stage I’m too absorbed with the physical and emotional demands of playing to give a f*** about how I look, in short I’m totally absorbed. In which context an Italian lady came up to us after a gig a few years back. The singer - a good looking guy 20-years my junior - naturally assumed she was going to talk to him. She did, but she said ‘The bassist plays his instrument like it is a beautiful women he wants to make love with’. Still makes me smile, and I like to remind hime. He now recognises the true hierarchy in the band 👍

Best lesson ever? Seeing a video of myself gigging fretless. On stage I assumed I looked/sounded like a cross between Jaco and Jamerson. I was very wrong. Just as Richie Benaud used to say ‘There’s only three things wrong with the England Cricket Team - they can’t bat, they can’t bowl, and they can’t field….’, there were only three things wrong with my playing; tuning, timing, and tone 🤫

Interesting and to a degree sobering read to this point. The good points. I want to go and listen to do much music I’m unaware existed, and will be doing so. The less good? Anyone who at the same time (mid to late 70s) loved reggae, who also - being a longhair - had to endure the ever present threat of walking around a corner guitar in hand to be confronted by a bunch of skinheads (I took several beatings, one quite serious), and who struggled at the time and ever since to understand the fact that the very same skinheads also loved this same music, will find several sections of this book both enlightening and - in terms of the actions of some music business people at the time in essentially hiding the ethnicity of the performers to increase sales and build a white market for reggae - disappointing in equal measure. Certainly, and whilst recognising it was far from reggae, how I view the Two-Tone artists/label/era have shifted hugely. I think I’m going to give it some thought and start a separate thread 🤔 But back to the glorious music which is what this thread is about. Gonna listen to some of this tonight 👍

Nice to see you back Rob, sorry to hear you’ve had some challenges, but yes, bass is very good for the soul 👍

Thanks @SimonK so that’s why we don’t have similar issues with other old and unused sockets on the same amp?

Agreed, but sometimes it’s just poor communication and/or misunderstanding 👍

We’ve played the same set twice the same evening in the same pub, lot of people leave and arrive, those that don’t often too pissed to notice 🙂

Indeed! So is it simply a function of unused sockets, I’m still a little unclear on the actual cause? For example if it were simply an unused socket problem you’d not need to link send and return with a cable, just insert a plug? Am I being daft?

….. by which I mean …. First, have you said in clear terms what you’ve said here, that to all intents you’ve been fired and given no reason, and Second, that as you are friends you are understandably quite upset about this I’ve been here before myself and with friends, the inability of musicians who on stage or in the studio are able to communicate effectively and authentically to do the same when it comes to pragmatics and politics has been a constant theme

Thank you guys 🙏

….painful but not impossible 👍