Muzz

Almost all my basses will do a P-sound, pretty convincingly (well, convincingly enough for live work) - it's my default tone, and what I always look for in a bass. I don't have any actual P-Basses any more, and I have no real GAS for one, I had a few, but visually they don't do much for me. So, kind of a split GAS: sound, yeah; looks, no...

I think with a big enough amp, time and space will move around it...

Basses, yes - you'd have a long walk (even on here) to find anyone shallower than me on that basis, but the boxes that sit behind me, sometimes wedged in between the kit and the guitar amps? Not so much - sound and weight are much, much more important.

Wide open all the time. Use fingers/hands to control the volume.

Been gigging BF cabs for a good while now (maybe 50-75 gigs?) along with other cabs, and no issues with construction or durability. Perhaps because they're very easy to move and place they don't get bashed about like heavier stuff... On the schlepping front, yeah, we all pitch in from van to venue and vice versa, but I don't get picked up by the van, or get dropped off, so I load meself from home to car and vice versa, and that's where the weight is priceless, especially, as Lozz says, at 2am in the rain. We changed PA from huuuuge Mackies to some RCF tops and subs, and that was a relief, too. The easier the load-in and out, the more time for soundchecking and the important stuff. We had the teenage son of a friend offer to roadie for us recently...he lasted one gig... :/

I had a black/white ZZB Custom back in the day (and I'd love another, just for nostalgia's sake...) and that had the micro-tuning bridge. Didn't do a lot, IIRC...

Streamliner?

Michael Bolton? It's not either of those dep gigs this weekend, is it Dave? If it is, I can't help but feel somehow responsible...you have my sincere sympathy... If it's of any consolation, I found myself unavoidably playing about a minute and a half of Mustang F@&%ing Sally* on Saturday night... * Yes, this is the actual title...

Never been given an hour to get the sound right. As a consequence, we can do it in 20 minutes, less if we really, really have to... Best 'turn it down' was a hotel we played in Montrose as part of the music festival up there - it was a very posh place, they didn't really want bands on, clearly, but had been dragged into the whole thing as pretty much every other place in the town was hosting gigs. On arrival, they said "Can you play quietly over there?", pointing to a small corner. Accordingly, we set up small (PA tops only, minimal kit, acoustic as much as possible), and the drummer hit the snare once to test it - not hard - the Woman In Charge came scuttling over "Oohhh no no no, that's far too loud: we've a tea dance going on next door, you can't disturb them."...

Another deal with Chris - an amp this time - and as always, well packed, delivered and perfect comms all round.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1430070856' post='2757718'] I want to see a monster head on top of it looking tiny [/quote] Gotta be two SVTs side by side... This is utterly mental, and therefore one of the most entertaining things I've read on here in a long time...

I play in a function band which does all sorts from Johnny Cash to Nirvana to Luther Vandross to GnR to Bruno Mars - all my basses have U-Retros in them, and despite having an iPad with Jamup, I find I just have one tone set on the amp (the fantastic Acoustic preset) and the U-Retro, together with different playing styles is plenty to get all sorts of sounds to cover everything. It's all in the mids...

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1429876277' post='2755847'] A pedal in a head into the same pedal on the floor. Real minimum. [/quote] Have another go at reading Lozz's post, dude...

His house concerts are very special. I keep failing to organise one round at our house... I'm pretty sure the rider details are on his website...