Ian Savage

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1412695064' post='2571086'] 'at last week's gig we were asked to do something Irish - so in the interval we dug the carpark up.' [/quote] Actual LOL

Current 'mid-sized gig' rig: For little gigs, a 90s Trace Elliot 1x15 combo, for bigger gigs, the above with added 1x15 cab - for really big gigs I'm planning on using all of them in a horizontal array don't care about beaming etc, just going for the look...

I'd put a couple of breeze blocks under the stands to get them up by another foot or so (or two of them if you can make 'em stable enough) - you could always wrap them in a bit of fabric if aesthetics are a consideration!

My Tanglewood TEB-12 is pretty much a goner - it's been slung across so many stages I'm amazed it's in one piece! Fretboard's got dents in it, for some reason it won't intonate properly any more, the back of the hollow body's coming away...although it's autographed by Duff McKagen, so it wouldn't be a gigging bass even if it worked!

Damn you work, didn't get home in time

I'm totally having a bid on that

Can recommend the Dunlop Heavy Core strings if you want to avoid 'floppiness' (and who doesn't?) [url="http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/heavy-core-guitar-strings"]http://www.jimdunlop.com/product/heavy-core-guitar-strings[/url]

This is a few years back: [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/smokingbeagle/ianbddrink.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/smokingbeagle/ianbddrink.jpg[/url] I'm an inch or two higher than that now, but not by much.

Would have snapped that up if I'd been close enough to collect, brilliant bit of kit.

Right, come Easter I'll be making myself available to relocate if necessary for the right band - I'm drawn towards Bristol, Nottingham or Sheffield because I've got plenty contacts there but (realistically, apart from London) I'm willing to go where the band is. Only really looking for fairly established or pro-minded outfits, haven't got the time or the patience to build yet another band up from scratch Highly experienced bass player, endorsed, connected etc etc etc, no slounch behind the kit or on six strings either (no soloist really, but handy for rhythm). Fairly rock-oriented in terms of experience and look, but would give most things a shot - if anyone hears of anything over the next few months do bear me in mind!

There was a production company tried to do something like that a few years ago (I know, because I was going to be on it ) but it never got off the ground. As JapanAxe says, Joe Public often doesn't 'get' what makes a musician good or mediocre (witness the cheering at any of Tommy Lee's 'drum solos') so it'd come down to personality and who has the best 'nan in hospital' sob-story even more than the current one does.

I don't think it's intentional, simply that was the only date the venue had available for the Birmingham show! It's run by the guy who used to put on Music Live...