Rich

I'm in two soul/r'n'b/pop covers bands and have started depping for a weddingy type function band. My listening habits are almost entirely composed of prog rock/metal, jazz, fusion, audiobooks, and Radio 4.

It should have said this:

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1510133129' post='3404128'] Very jealous that you're able to make NAMM, I'll have to get Ped working on that one [/quote] He already has. The whole admin/mod team are going, but Ped told us not to mention it to you. EDIT. Oh bugger.

Reading back through the thread so far, it seems that apparently Later is crap for the following reasons (some of them slightly paraphrased):[list] [*]The bands are too extreme or boring. [*]There's no rock, metal or prog. [*]It's not the Old Grey Whistle Test. [*]It's too diverse and lumpy. [*]It's mostly about veterans, indie bands and quirky singers from islands somewhere. [*]It's too polite and needs edge and energy. [*]The acts are only on because they have an album to plug. [*]It's over the hill and stuffy. [*]There are far more well known and popular genres that don't get on it. [*]It needs a more diverse range of music. [*]It's trendy and pretentious. [*]It's not my taste in music. [/list] I think that last one sums it up perfectly. It's crap because it doesn't have the stuff that *I* like. Although I suppose if it's simultaneously too trendy/pretentious AND over the hill/stuffy, it must be doing something right

A beautiful Sei Flamboyant 5. I struggled with setting it up and decided that I'd sell it, when what I should have done was take it to someone who knew what the hell they were doing.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1509970567' post='3402906'] That's awesome. I'm gonna get my wife a cheese hamper for Christmas. [/quote] Best reply ever

3+2, just to be awkward

Pino's hands are ridiculous. His fingers reminded me of the facehugger from Alien.

[quote name='bassmayhem' timestamp='1509722116' post='3401208'] I took the neck, that was a really, really good neck, and threw the rest in the garbage recycling. With a friend's assistance I made a Jazz Bass body of 60 years old solid dried birch, equipped it with EMG DC45 and Hipshot bridge. It ended up being a very good bass. I sold it some years ago to a studio, where it was used a lot. It looked like this when rebuilt: [/quote] Ooh yes. That, we like.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1509632472' post='3400465'] Other band's T shirts ?? Never , never , never. Regularly I change out of one into something else to play. The punters wear band T shirts - the moment you step on a stage you're an artist , not a punter. [/quote] Oh I don't know. It didn't do this Geordie chap any harm

I remember when all this was trees. And you could leave your front door open. Is it time for my nap yet?

Next time someone says "How come we haven't got many female members..?", I'm just going to point them at this increasingly ridiculous thread. I wonder how long this would have lasted on Talkbass?

I have never owned an Ashdown amp, but I have never managed to get a sound I even remotely liked out of one. This may of course be something to do with one or both of the 'you's mentioned by Alex above The only piece of Ashdown gear I've owned was one of the short-lived Freebass wirelesses, and it was dreadful. So noisy, it was unusable.

I've only bought one piece of musical equipment this year, so: Best (only) purchase: fretless Jaydee 'Stingray' neck from greenolive of this parish. It is a beautifully made piece of kit with a flawless ebony board, and I'm looking forward to putting it on my OLP 'Ray body and channeling my inner Pino Best 'rediscovery': my Tanglewood Rosewood Reserve acoustic bass. I'd forgotten how utterly lovely it is, and it feels even better now I've restrung it with some of my old Elixir strings rather than the rough bronzes it was wearing. It now has a permanent home on a stand in the corner of the living room rather than being hidden away in its case.

Hell hath no fury like a guitarist scorned

Only on BC could there be an argument over whether 60 seconds would be long enough to evaluate the music of a dead musician if he ever appeared on a TV programme that he never did and, for obvious reasons, never will I broadly agree with BRX's point -- with [b]the majority of[/b] acts on Later, 60 secs is long enough. 10 is enough for some

Best customer service I've ever had was from SKB Cases. I bought a 6U case secondhand and needed some more of their weird cage nuts but didn't know where to get them. So I emailed them in Orange County USA and explained the situation, and asked if they had a UK distributor I could approach. Back came a reply, "ah yes they can be a bit hard to come by, give me your address and I'll pop a pack in the post FOC". 72 hours later they were on my doormat. Didn't cost me a bean.

This is not helping my GAS one bit great review, thank you!

I saw them in Cardiff a few years ago. Absolutely stunning in every way. Lots of wry Aussie humour, as Dave said, all underpinned with slick flawless presentation and superb musicianship. 'The Great Gig In The Sky' left not a single dry eye in the house.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1507929661' post='3388936'] Our last band photo was laughably poor and made us look like a daytime TV garden makeover crew 😕 [/quote] You can't just tell us this, and then [i]not[/i] show us the pic. 😄

I've got a Behringer BX600 combo that I bought many years ago from a fellow Basschatter for an absolute song. My son used it for a while but now it's back with me. It's the perfect practice amp, with CD and headphone sockets, and it's even loud enough to keep up with my 12-piece soul band at rehearsals.

Last night was a first. I had one bloke complain about the volume before I'd even taken my jacket off. The reason being, we've got "big speakers" and apparently they "look loud". I wasn't going to argue with him. He was Very Big Indeed and littered with EDL tattoos. Thanks to two gigs in two days, I suffered catastrophic callous failure. Blood on the strings. Ouch.

It's a rubbish programme because they don't have bands that [u]I[/u] like. [size=2]Where's that sarcasm smiley when you need it?[/size]

Cool. I like the idea of the semi-permanent tuner attachment. This wee thing is turning out to be a proper Swiss army knife (meant as a compliment ).