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I like a lot of the later Beatles songs (not keen on the moptop stuff). Are they the greatest band ever? Maybe not, but when you see them in an historical perspective, the work they produced between 1962 and 1970, redefined pop/rock music.

I think it's called being human.

I notice a L2000 tribute is on Guitar Guitar website with a very big reduction. I wonder if it's a stinker? By the way I own a G&L tribute L2500 and the QC is excellent.

Fender should change the knobs on their Jazzes to volume, blend, tone. The historical arrangement of volume, volume, tone irritates me.

I wonder why John McVie is selling this gear at this stage? It's not as if he needs the cash. I suppose he's got to the age where he realises that all he really needs is a Harley Benton Precision and a secondhand Fender Rumble 500. As we all do eventually

The Tomorrow Band are a Scottish band that love a bit of funk. Their's 3 guitarists in the band and they all like a bit off wakka wakka. They back Hamish Stewart from AWB from time to time.

I like DR Hi Beams and Elixirs but the zingiest string for me is the Rotosound Swing Bass 66 steel But that high end doesn't last long, they get darker the longer you play them.

My brother in law started using one. He sings and plays guitar in various bands. I think it was an age related thing. But I've noticed he's stopped now, probably because in photos and videos of the bands he plays in, it wasn't a good look.

I've played my Strat through my GK MB 800 and it sounds great through a 12 inch cab with a tweeter. All the highs you'd ever need. I've not played guitar through my ABM......I should try it some day.

He's a businessman who owns rehearsal rooms and hires PAs. His original wedding band was so successful that he got fed up turning people down. So he set up the second band so that he could take advantage of the demand and it just grew from there. I was kidding about Les Dawson playing in the D team band 😂

A drummer I know has a band like that. He puts together several bands under the same name, with random musicians, depending on how many bookings he gets on the same date. He calls them the A team, B team, C team etc depending on how competent and experienced the musicians are in each band. He plays with the A team of course but gets his own cut from each of the other bands that are playing on the same night. You wouldn't want to get the D team for your wedding. Les Dawson is on keyboards 🤣

Weirdly, fees paid to my band this year have gone up by about 35%. I don't understand it either......

Dimarzios used to have adjustable pole pieces. Not sure if they still do?

Yes Chris Agnew.

Hasn't Perth got a music college? I know a lot of musicians that started off there. I would have thought there would have been a healthy live music scene up there.

Most musicians I know, started learning their instrument as teenagers. Once they started they became obsessive, practicing hour after hour, trying to get better. It takes a long time to hear if you're in tune or playing the right notes to the music you're trying to learn, as a teenager, for the first year, I couldn't even tune my bass properly (I had to get my guitarist to tune it before my first gig). But I kept on going and going. As adults it's difficult to conjure up that obsessive teenage streak. Listen to simple, two, three, four chord songs and play along without notes. And keep on doing it, again and again and again and again etc , etc, until you fall asleep with your bass strapped on, or have to be dragged away from your bass screaming. You need to play along to hundreds of those simple songs (especially your present set) and throw your chord charts away. The singer in one of my bands has been singing the same songs over hundreds of gigs but still has to have the lyrics of every song laid out in front of her (although she never looks at them) they act as a psychological crutch. Make a pledge to yourself that you won't bring your chord charts to your next rehearsal and I'm sure you'll amaze yourself at how much you remember.

Played two gigs this weekend. First was with my brother in laws Blues band on Friday. His usual bassist was off to play in his other band, who were supporting The Damned down in London. He is usually cajoled to play a bass solo in the set when he plays with the band. I told my brother in law that I definitely wouldn't be treating the audience to any of my random noodling on the night. It was a ticketed gig so made sure I learned the set. Only had one meltdown moment when I missed the cue to go into the middle eight of one of the tunes and things went a bit free form jazz. I brought my Markbass CMD 121 combo and a Barefaced Compact, which was a bit over the top for the venue. So I disconnected the Compact and the Markbass sounded fine on it's own. The second gig was Halloween night at my local music bar on Saturday. They had about 5 bands playing through the day(the venue is open until 3am) and we started at 4pm. I've never played a gig there so early but I was surprised to see that the place filled up and we played to a decent sized audience. They'd done the place up like Alice Coopers living room. See picture of soundcheck below.

Crikey that sounded like a loud gig, how's your hearing this morning? .......I SAID, HOW'S YOUR HEARING THIS MORNING?!!!!!!

Have you asked them what on earth they mean? One bass amp is very much like another to the members of a band who don't play bass. The Rumbles have a drive knob that can give you a distorted sound but that's the only big real difference between the two amps. If it's not that distorted sound they're after then I wouldn't worry too much about it. Your Markbass will be fine.

Knows what song we're about to play, the time signature and if he has to count it in.