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gjones

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  1. Interestingly, I watched a video of Eric Clapton's onstage setup and his tech says he takes 3 electric guitars on tour with him, and they're 3 identical copies of his EC Signature Stratocaster.
  2. I prefer there to be a band leader, with talent, who knows what they want and has a good idea how to achieve it. I'm in two bands, one of which is a band-ocracy and the other which is a band-tatorship. The first has been going since before the lockdown and still hasn't managed to get a gig (our first gig was supposed to be last weekend but had to be cancelled as one of the guitarists had the lurgy). The second has been going for over a decade and operates like a well oiled machine.
  3. I had my bass stolen and had to get hold of a bass ASAP. I had seen a friends band and the bass player was playing a red Charvel by Jackson which sounded excellent. The guy was selling it cheap and I bought it. It did me proud for a year and sounded really great but it was too pointy for me as I was playing in Blues bands at the time and it just didn't suit the genre.
  4. I bought a Fender Precision Elite bass 4 years ago and the jack position is a right pain in the erse. I was always knocking the jack as it poked out from the bottom of the body. Recently the jack input (which is a plasticky, fragile, stereo one) gave up the ghost. I've just recently managed to track a replacement one down and import it from Spain. I'll be fitting it soon, hopefully it will last longer than the original one.
  5. I play various venues where backline is provided and the guitarists in my band usually bring their own head and use the cabs provided. Bass players are not usually so bothered by what amp they're playing through, as they know they're going to be DI'd and put straight through the desk anyway. One of the venues I play has an Orange bass head, which is really bassy even through the DI, so I bring my own little Gallien-Krueger head and play through their cab. The sound I get onstage and out front is much clearer and the sound engineer doesn't mind. I'm sure the sound engineer won't have a problem if your guitarist brings her own combo.
  6. After the incident with the tiny model of Stonehenge and the midgets, I kind of lost interest in Deep Purple.
  7. He's a cheapo headless bass which might solve your problem https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363785824349?hash=item54b353285d:g:eQkAAOSwuNNjRZLK
  8. I had a shot of the Alembic of the bassist in a renowned 70s Scottish Rock band and the action was shocking. Even worse.........he played with flats and a pick. 😱
  9. I used to play with my brother in law years ago - he is the front man and plays guitar. His usual bass player couldn't make a gig and he asked me to dep for him. After the gig he said how impressed he was that I played all the songs in his set flawlessly. I told him that it wasn't such a big deal, as he hadn't changed his set for 35 years (we played that exact same set together, for 10 years, until I left 25 years ago). Some people are just resistant to change.
  10. I bought a Markbass CMD 121 P over lockdown. I've played it at a few gigs and rehearsals and am very impressed with it's sound and how much volume it can put out. It can compete with two guitarists and a loud drummer. At one blues gig I depped on, I brought my Barefaced compact as well as the Markbass. I ended up disconnecting the Compact as it was overkill - the Markbass combo managed fine all on it's own.
  11. Received a VVT loom for my Jazz Bass, from John. Sounds great and easy peasy to fit Definitely recommended. Gareth
  12. I own a US Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass, a US 75 Reissue, a Mex 70s reissue, and have owned a MIJ Geddy Lee and a Mex Roadworn. My favourite is my MIJ 60s style reissue, that I put together from parts off Ebay. It's got a lot of character, plays great and is fitted with a John East Retro pre amp.
  13. Exploring music genres was an expensive habit back in the 'good old days', which meant many people stuck to what they knew and didn't explore different types of music. These days the whole world is our oyster and we can listen to anything our heart desires. I used to be into Heavy Rock, back in my teens and twenties, these days I barely listen to it and I've developed a taste for 'Yacht Rock' (look up Young Gun and Silver Fox).
  14. I've used The Stratosphere a few times https://stratosphereparts.com/
  15. I have a Rumble 100, which is a great little combo, it struggles with loud drummers though. I bought a Markbass CMD 121 P recently, which is about the same size but is significantly louder. If you want a loud but small combo I recommend it.
  16. Oooops! Reminds me of a gig my band did where the night before the gig (which was a Xmas party for checkout ladies from Asda and Tesco) our female singer advised us she had flu and couldn't perform. The guitarist said he could do the singing himself, so me and the drummer said we were ok to do the gig, with him as the frontman. Unfortunately the only songs he knew were Clash and Iggy pop stuff, along with some Johnny Cash numbers done in a punk like style. It did not go down well with the checkout ladies, and they asked for their money back from the agency that had booked us. The guitarist managed to plead our case with the agency (he said if we'd have cancelled they wouldn't have had time to book another band - so we'd done them a favour) and we got our money.
  17. Sitting in a silent, empty, shop demoing basses is not for the faint hearted. The last time I did that was in my local Guitar, Guitar on a wet Wednesday afternoon. I was playing my usual bluesy, jazzy stuff and just for a laugh started to play the sailors hornpipe (it's actually a good warm up routine). At which point all the shop assistants burst out laughing. They listen to you, you know..... Every note. They probably have score cards n all.
  18. Ed Friedland can make anything sound good but people should be aware he's paid by manufacturers to review their products and he gets freebies. So people should take that into account when he gives glowing reviews.
  19. In Soviet Russia there used to be a saying 'We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us'. Your postie obviously feels no loyalty to his employer, because his employer feels no loyalty to him.
  20. Well I paid just under £2000 for a Fender Elite a few years ago. I'd never bought a bass of that quality new before, as I was well aware that as soon as you step outside the shop it's worth half of what you bought it for, but I couldn't find one secondhand and ran out of patience looking. I've got some lovely basses that would have cost me thousands new, but I bought them at half the new price (or less) because they had a few years on the clock, which in my opinion, is the smart thing to do..
  21. Hmmm....my Elite 4 string Precision cost over £1900 in 2018.
  22. A Sue Ryder? Edit: some other smarty pants suggested that one before me. ......Oh well, I'll get me coat.
  23. I've signed up but they don't expect any cash from Fender anytime soon. The website says these type of things can drag through the courts for years.
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