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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.

On 08/11/2022 at 16:42, mario_buoninfante said:

That makes sense. In fact, GK have the most highs I've ever seen on a bass amp! Even on their DI out.

But again, it's clearly not for all the use cases

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.

4 hours ago, mrtcat said:

That really is pretty terrible. Depping one or, at a push, two members due to illness or unavoidable issues is one thing but depping whole bands is just misrepresentation. If our front man is ill or suddenly unavailable for a genuine reason then our agent will always notify the client and offer either a dep, a different band or a refund. The band has to look and sound as close as possible to what is advertised. 

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 😂

4 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

 

 

 

 

Your comment did make me smirk though - one of the things that angers me a lot about the wedding scene, is that it's basically becoming a bunch of scratch bands - and that really doesn't sit well with me. There's folk like yourself with a static lineup which is great - but then, the vast majority seem to be a bunch of musicians thrown together at the last minute, going out with scrappy gear. It's amazing how many of the "UK's Best Wedding Band" go out with inappropriate "Powerful PAs" (a couple of Behringer tops), a sorry excuse for "Amazing light show" (a couple of par cans) and sound absolutely awful and totally non representative of the promo material that they present. I don't think thats fair on the clients who have no doubt spent hours choosing their ideal band only for a band of deps to turn up. That's becoming the norm as more and more musicians scrabble about, ditching gigs for other gigs to earn another fiver. I don't want to be part of that scene, especially when I'm the one holding the contract. 

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 🤣

35 minutes ago, la bam said:

Prices definitely 'should' go up for 2023.

 

I'm willing to bet they dont though, and that venues/agents/bookers will try and squeeze bands even further.

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?

Is that a Crafted in Japan Fender? If it is, this is a very low price for a very nice bass.

57 minutes ago, NoRhino said:

 

Yes Chris Agnew.

I think Bob Babbit owned something similar. It's the dream of amazing volume and incredible definition. 

6 hours ago, xgsjx said:

Falkirk seems to be pretty decent.

A big contrast to Perth, where just about everybody that says they're a musician is a lekky guitar player.  I think there's about 2-3 okay singers there & I never met any of them.

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.

14 minutes ago, stewblack said:

New venue for us last night. Cracking gig. One of those nights when the band was just flying. I used the SVT through two Barefaced 15s and it was glorious. 

 

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.

59 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

That shouldn't work, as the payment received would not match the reference of your ad. 

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.