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He's also selling 8 planks for £99,999. Total bargain. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186277462129?itmmeta=01HXFJGRWSRR35X6DGTD3YX7WD&hash=item2b5f008071:g:cL0AAOSwkH5luT55

I prefer Jazz necks but I have a MIJ P bass with a 57 style neck (wide but shallow) which I also really like. I have a Precision Elite which has a neck which is wide, but not particularly shallow, which I'm not very fond of. I also have a USA Stingray which has a wide and quite deep neck that I'm not too keen on. I'm selling it because I just bought a Sterling SUB Stingray4, which has a lovely Jazz style neck and which I prefer to the USA version.

Money is the root of all evil. If you were all playing for nothing and everybody was happy, I would recommend you ask for the money, that's being put behind the bar, to be paid to the charity of the landlord's choice (possibly The Landlord's Benevolent Society). Problem sorted. No need to thank me.....

I bought this Mighty Mite bass in 1984 secondhand and it played many a gig with me over the years (probably over 1000) . The body has been binned but I used the pickups and neck to create a very nice Precision which I still play regularly.

It's a difficult genre to pinpoint. Some Springsteen can fit the category, some Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Band, The Delines. It's somewhere between country and rock, n, roll. It's one of those, 'I know it when I hear it genres'.

Sold an original Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal for £80 to a guitarist I know. Checking ebay a few months later I saw them going for £500.......duh!

Just recently bought a Musicman Sterling Sub Series Ray 4, from Gear4music. It had an insignificant dent on the back so was sold as B stock, reduced to £230 from £419. I prefer the Jazz Bass style neck on the Sterling to the neck on my USA Stingray and it sounds just as a Stingray should with it's 2 band EQ.

It's the earth wire, which stops buzzing, and should be connected to your wiring loom as show in the diagram below.

I assume there are no monitors onstage, or if there are other band members have nabbed them? I usually don't go through a PA without some form of onstage amp, as my experience of onstage monitors is that they're either to loud or too quiet. I rarely have an issue with feedback though as, although the amp is pointing directly at me, it's usually pretty quiet onstage and I don't use a lot of high end in my sound. If your amp is feeding back try turning the high end down until it stops, you only need it for monitoring and turning the high end down on your amp won't affect your front of house sound. Alternatively, just don't bend over your amp

Everybody sounds like they're trying too hard.

My understanding is that if your amp is digital then you keep the gain down and the master up full. Digital amps are supposed to be noiseless so even with the master up full there should be no hiss. You then use the gain as a volume. If it's analogue it's the other way around to prevent hiss. Personally, with my digital amps, I just treat them like they were analogue. None of them have any tube overdrive and I have a clean sound, so it doesn't really matter.

I saw Anthony Jackson playing in a dive bar in New York back in 2006, when I was on a trip there. I had no idea who he was, other than he was great (and so were the rest of the musicians). They were so good that when I came back home I did some detective work to figure out who they actually were (the guitarist was Mike Stern who used to be in the Miles Davis band).

The singer in the band I'm in is 66 and has had some serious health issues. She seems as keen as ever, and still sounds great, but I feel the writing is on the wall for the band (especially as gigs will be on hold for a while, as she has an operation due in June). We've been gigging for over 20 years without a hitch until now. I've formed other bands over the last few years but lack of commitment, from other band members. has meant they fizzled out eventually - or I left in a huff. I'm no spring chicken either (61 last December) and I don't really want to join a band of similarly aged old codgers, who just want to kill time fiddling about in a band until they get carted off to the care home. Maybe I should call it a day, sell all my gear, and buy a Ferrari (Do Ferrari make mobility scooters?).

I've played a few gigs with my Rumble 100 V3 but it was with a quiet drummer in both the bands I played with. I have a Super Compact and if I was unsure if the Rumble could do a gig, I would just take the compact and a decent amp instead. Is there any reason why you don't want to take your Super Compact?

I once did the same with an Ashdown combo. I used it as a speaker cab for a long time. I even replaced the speaker with a more powerful one. It served me well for a couple of years. But make sure you're getting a very good deal and try it out at a decent volume before you buy. If it's being sold for more than £100 though, I wouldn't bother, as you'll have trouble selling it on.

I've just recently bought a Sterling Ray4 SUB, with a 2 band EQ and I really like it. I especially like the Jazz Bass like neck. I own a USA built Musicman Stingray and the neck is significantly chunkier. The only difference in sound between the Sterling and it's more expensive big brother, is that the USA built Stingray has a mid control. Luckily I like the 2 band EQ.

For me, the best drummers are the drummers that can do it all, from heavy rock, to jazz trios. Most drummers who play with the same band for years, only have the one style. I wonder, does that make them a great drummer, or just a great drummer for that particular band. I watched Dave Grohl sit in the drum stool with The Pretenders at Glastonbury and his style wasn't right for the song (far too messy).

I'd always heard how good Markbass CMD 121 P combos were but always assumed they just wouldn't be loud enough in the type of bands I played in. I saw one for sale slightly used on ebay, about 3 years ago, and it was so new and so cheap I decided it was time to try one. When I actually took it to play with my band I was amazed how loud it was (I've never had it above halfway). I did team it up with a barefaced compact cab for a while but, frankly, it was overkill.

Better late than never.

Excellent! I've had four Ashdowns over the last 20 years and I've never had a problem with any of them. Still have a UK built ABM EVO lll which is still going strong and sounds great.

I found this fella on Gear4Music's Ebay site. It had got a bit of a bash on the rear of the body and was reduced from £419 to £230. It has a Jazz style neck and a 2 band EQ - I do like Jazz necks and I really liked the 2 band EQ that I had on my old USA built Stingray SUB - so decided to pull the trigger and pay £230 for what sounded like a lot of bass guitar for the money. When I received it I was pleasantly surprised that it's 2 band EQ made it sound very like that USA SUB I used to own. I also really like the Jazz neck, which had a really nice low action straight out of the box. The fit and finish is excellent but the fret ends are a little bit noticeable (not sharp just noticeable). I'm used to, relatively, expensive and old basses where the necks are rolled and the frets are filed via a setup, or just decades of use. I already own a USA Stingray but this sounds preferable to my ears and I prefer the Ray 4's neck as well. I can see it being gigged regularly. Here's the bass and the insignificant dent.

Part of the fun of looking for an amp is trying them out. I know you say it's unlikely to go out of the house but you can spend a lot of money on a brand new amp that really doesn't go very loud. My advise is always go for more power than you think you need, just in case you do get that out of the blue gig sometime in the future. Amp manufacturers have all gone the small but LOUD rout in recent years and if you can buy secondhand you can get a small, light and loud amp that won't take up much room in your house. I've owned some big amps and cabs in my time but now own a Markbass CMD 121 P, which ticks all the boxes above. You can get one secondhand for the £400 you mentioned above.

Some paint jobs, like Antigua are very Marmite (you either love them or hate them). I'm not a big fan of Antigua but do love the Dark Knight paint job but some others hate it. Personally I get a tingle every time I see one.

Those would make excellent beer glass holders!