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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.

You're assuming that the seller is advertising on Ebay. I can pay you, via Paypal, for the bass you have advertised for sale on Basschat, assuming you have a Paypal account. I've used Paypal many times to buy basses on Basschat (and elsewhere too). So the moral of the story is....... if I offer to buy your bass, don't let me pay by Paypal 🙄

Looks like this could be the one https://equipboard.com/items/riverhead-jupiter-rjb-900

Another ingenious scam is where the crook sees your advertisement, then puts something up for sale elsewhere at a ridiculously cheap price (which is the same amount you asked for in your advertisement). When people want to buy his non-existent goods, he gives your email address and asks them to pay you the money via Paypal (they don't know they're paying you of course). You get the money, the courier picks up whatever you have for sale and the person who paid you the money complains to Paypal, as they never received the goods, they get refunded and you have to pay the money back to Paypal.

My band has a regular monthly gig at a large music bar in Edinburgh. I assume it's because we're a decent band that can be relied upon to turn up, as we've been on the go for years. Most of the bands that play there have been gigging there for a long time. The place feels like home, as we've been playing there regularly for at least the last 10 years. Newer bands have a tendency to split up before the gig comes around,which leaves the booker in the lurch.

I asked a previous, lazy drummer with my band, who was tickling his drums, to play with reeds instead of sticks (I persuaded him that it would encourage our guitarist to play quieter). Although the volume was more or less the same, the intensity was much greater, as he had to put a lot more effort into playing his kit to keep up with the level of the band. We ended the gig with him drenched in sweat and the audience shouting for more. It was very rock n roll.

The ability to take advice without getting huffy. The technical ability to act on the advice given. Doesn't forget his flipping cymbals, and gets us sacked from a really cool venue, like the last guy did!

I am playing at a venue, which has a terrible boomy stage, next month. Weirdly, the boom could only be heard onstage. But was so bad it was drowning the guitar out. Last time I played there the solution was to turn all bass frequencies to zero on my amp and for the sound guy to then DI my bass through the PA, where he added the bass frequencies back again. Hopefully I can do the same again.

I've left two bands over the last 2 years. One, which I felt was a hobby band for the other members (I do like to gig rather than continuously rehearse) and the other was a rock band that was taking too much time and intensive work to get things right (although it did get me playing with a pick, which I still do if the song needs it). I still play with two other bands that I feel are more rewarding, both musically and financially. I think two gigging bands are the maximum I can deal with and give 100%.

I do like the MIJ 57 reissue type Precisions. I've owned two and they have a really nice shallow neck and the pickups sound great. I bought an Olympic white one a few years ago from Basschat and it really is lovely. I prefer it to my USA Fender Elite Precision, for just P bass sounds, and the neck is more comfortable.

Ummm.....no? I can never figure out what knob does what, when I have to use them in a dark venue. By the way, I saw that picture of you on my Facebook newsfeed at the weekend. I'm a Facebook friend of the Photographer. I said 'I know that guy........' 😃