gjones

No problem with a weak G string on this one.

I just bought a 2014 Stingray and I really love it. I have had two USA SUB Stingrays previously but they were quite different basses to this new Stingray. The neck is very different than my SUBs. The necks on those were like baseball bats compared to this one. It's neck is quite shallow front to back and it has a waxed matt finish, which I wasn't expecting. It sounds just like a Stingray should, with that that rasp and a real thump in the bass end. Really looking forward to gigging it next weekend!

A And they're not actually that loud.

At the last gig I went to, I got so irritated by a group of morons shouting at one another and ignoring the band (that I, and I assume they, had paid £40 to see) , I told them to shut the F up. This didn't go down well. The main culprit, a speccy wee scrawny guy, bolstered by lager, threatened to thump me. I can't understand why four people, who between them had spent £160 on a night out to see a band, choose to spend the whole night yabbering sh*t to one another and ignoring the band they came to see?

I've got one on order. I'll hopefully get delivery this Saturday.

My favorite string is DR Hi Beams. They're long lasting, with a low-ish tension.

I've been playing guitar almost as long as I've been playing bass. But I never put in the effort to get particularly good at it. It does help me follow guitarist when I don't know the song though, which is handy. I much prefer bass.

Leo Fender put them there to protect the bass from gamma rays, from outer space.

Many years ago, I was asked if my band would play the Inland Revenue (UK version of the IRS), fraud squad's, Christmas party. I had to turn them down. That would most definitely be 'The wrong crowd' for my then band

In the old days, when my my main income depended on regular paid gigs, I would have jumped at this gig. Luckily these days I can afford to pick and choose who I work with. It would be bad enough playing in a band, with a drummer who played a digital kit, but a band where the singer plays the drums via a shovel? No thanks.

I want to know how you got the word bastard through the profanity filter? Edit: I wonder if I can get the word nasty pasty through it?

I bought a Fender Rumble 100 V3 recently, secondhand. It cost me £165 and it's incredibly light (you can pick it up with your pinkie). I played through it at a blues gig, in a crowded bar, 3 weeks ago and it kept up with a , reasonably, well behaved drummer, a keyboard player and a guitarist, playing through a 50 watt valve amp. I was told it put out a good bottom end out front. I usually take my GK MB500 and my Barefaced Compact to that gig. It's as small as a practice amp but it's definitely loud enough to gig with.

I used to own an Ashdown EB 150 combo. It sounded great. But they do have a contour switch which removes the mids from your sound and with it all definition (it's for slapping apparently). It also has a deep switch and an octaver control which are both pretty pointless. I used to play with all of these gizmos switched off and the EQ controls at 12 o'clock and it sounded excellent.

There must be something majorly wrong with it. Maybe a pre amp or neck issue?

It's just general ignorance. I always reply to private messages as a matter of courtesy.

A professional musician, is a musician that declares his full income, from music, to the taxman.

It depends if I'm being thrown in the deep end or not. 49 gigs out of 50 I won't feel nerves because I'm in my comfort zone but occasionally, usually when I'm depping and am unsure of the songs, I'll feel a bit anxious. I like to feel a bit of nerves, because it shows you're stretching yourself.

There are of course exceptions to that rule

If a band is any good, they will expect to be paid. I therefore must assume that bands that never get paid are just not very good.

Ha, ha....that's my kind of self build

I recently put a set of Fender strings on my P bass. They are a bit clanky but I like it. You just have to be a bit more precise in your playing.

Trust me, those SX basses will be history within 6 months of being a member here. Resistance to G(gear) A (acquisition) S (syndrome) is futile