12stringbassist

Apparently they have had really hideous authoring problems. Some discs are already out there and the verdict on those is that some behave as if faulty, some don't. Better to put it out when they have sorted the discs out.

I bought my Candy Cola Jazz in Boston mid-2008. Rosewood neck, but spruced up nicely with a mirror plate.

Very very sad news indeed. Apparently he had been complaining of chest pains in the dressing room. Although any such reports may not be accurate. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/foo-fighters-taylor-hawkins-r-i-p.1140215/page-3#post-29211337

The final countdown Europe.

First point is whose band is it? Do you work by committee, or follow a leader? If it's the guitarist's band, then him pulling someone in and telling you afterwards is more understandable. If they are gigging without a bassist and not getting a dep in, this tells me three things 1) They don't have the wit to realise the place of bass in their music. 2) They possibly can't hear you, or simply don't listen to you. Some would fix that that by notching the volume up a touch and pointing the amp so the guitarist gets some of the throw. Or by tactfully suggesting that it would all hang together better if you could all hear each other onstage, then sorting the balance out at rehearsal. 3) You are not 100% required for them to perform. They will eventually work out that a fee divided by 3 instead of 4 is more fun. At the same time though, they haven't suggested that you leave, or replaced you. Whether you stay or go, depends on whether you can fix the above things that niggle with you.

I've bought some lovely basses over the years. I have a decent bass rig and an old backup rig, just in case. I play in a pub band, so I don't have much of a profile and I will take any of my basses to any gig. Musically speaking, I can play what I can play and avoid what I can't play or don't like that much. I've bought my decent basses because I fancied playing them, not to impress everyone else. There is only a handful of people who actually look at what the bassist is playing, anyway. So I know my gear will keep working and sound as I want it to and hopefully keep a decent resale value. Fodera? Quite a few of them were Fender copies if I recall correctly. I'd just buy a Fender.

I just learned Here I go again by Whitesnake and we did it in one go at the last jam night on Sunday and even though I was wary of singing it and playing without a couple more run-throughs, it went really well, except the guitarist probably hadn't listened to the version I posted for us all to listen to, so the end went for a carp. I asked how he expected it to end and he came up with an ending that wasn't on the version I posted. He also wants to sing it, which is a relief, as I find it embarrassing front pink torpedo-rock bilge like that. All his now.

I've had a Cort solid body violin bass since the mid 90's. None of the Hofner issues!!

Our NYE gig was odd. The venue asked us to start at 9. This was probably to keep the punters in who were there. About a dozen of our friends came down, which saved the night. The landlord has another venue a couple of miles away and had a tribute act on, who he'd sold 160 tickets for, thereby shooting us in the foot. It's happened before - last time he put us up against an Oasis tribute and we played one set to a nearly empty pub and were paid to go home. We ended up doing 4 short sets going up to midnight and a 20 minute set after. I was home at 1.15am. This very venue:

Nope. Three chaps with unfortunate hairstyles!!

Gig at a small local venue in Bolton. Postage stamp stage. Unless our Prime Minister cancels it for us...

We've got Christmas Eve, the 27th and New Year's Eve, then onwards into the new year on the 2nd, 7th, 8th, 9th. 16th, 12st, 22nd, 23rd, 29th and 30th. It will be interesting to see how many of those get pulled.

Just curious: Which photographer and which image? Please PM me if you don't want to put the image out there again. I run www.slayed.co.uk - so this is of some interest to me.

I thought Let It Be was a tedious and painful account of a band who were getting more and more dysfunctional. It didn't really need to come out. I am watching part one in 20 minute bursts and after three of those, I feel extremely sorry for The Beatles having to go through that back then and to have to endure it again all these years later. It's highly interesting to those who live on what string gauge they used and what socks they were wearing on what day, but for some of us, it's a tedious crawl through some of the worst days of their lives.

If you're looking at Hofners, you'd be good looking at Danelectro basses.

Listening to the track where the phrases appeared first, the only similarity is the lyric. The tune bears no resemblance. The case is a nonsense. I don't think Taylor Swift stands a chance of losing.

So you can't read his mind and for that reason, you have to go? He sounds like a complete knob. You're well shut of him. It won't be long before he's picking the next bass player apart for questioning his authority.. I hope your next band is a lot better for you.

Tim Allen. http://www.originalscratchplates.com/

Guitarists can be awkward, just like anyone else. I had one come into my old band and he actually complained that the other guitarist had more solos. We actually at one point arranged both sets so they took turns and it showed the number of solos were roughly equal. I told him to grow up when he asked us to move our big finish songs around. Thinking everything was sorted, we were at a gig and I caught him darting evil looks at our other guitarist and playing the odd deliberate bum chord under the solo. I took him outside at half time, threw him back onto a car bonnet and nearly yelled at him that the band wasn't about any of us. It was about all of us and if he didn't get it he could f off home right away. That cured him for a while until he did the decent thing and left. They can moan about anything and everything, turn up last, be totally disinterested in new song suggestions and screw up tunes they don't care about. Complain about pay, venues, bass tone and volume. Someone needs to sort the lead guitarist that the OP mentioned out. A band that is struggling to make sense of what one of them is doing is just uncomfortable and it won't get better if he just does whatever comes into his head on any given night. Having to be taken outside to calm down when told that he is throwing the band's performance. Personality disorder. He will never be an asset to any band while he does that. I had a drummer who asked me if I wanted to take it outside, when I wanted to put some music through the PA instead of the same 80's clunge that we endured for a couple of years. It was such a relief to get out of that group. Life is too short to play with idiots.

I use freeac. Never had an issue. Drag and drop your flacs into the program and press one button and they go to the format you choose. All you have to do is set it up once under options to do mp3's @ 320. https://www.freac.org/

My band host a jam night and the rule is own mics and own instruments now, because of covid. Saves a lot of arguments. Landed up letting some kid use my bass this evening, but he was careful with it.