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If you want to earn revenue, you'd be better off writing a song for Brazil's World Cup campaign rather than Scotland's. But being Scottish, deep in your heart, you probably know that already.

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1464117061' post='3056719'] This is what I was saying, albeit in an overly effusive way. Music should be fun and how that fun is achieved is irrelevant. Don't get me wrong about the gigging, I will do so and have my first gig in July, however, that is not why I play. I am also striving to improve, hence taking the Rockschool music grades. The overarching thing is; it must be fun and for me it is. No specific thread or post has made me start this one, I just sometimes wonder if we occasionally forget it is meant to be fun. [/quote] I like noodling but once you start gigging the fun really starts. Enjoy your first gig

I did that with an Ashdown EB 150 combo. I replaced the 8 ohm 200watt speaker with a 4 ohm 450 watt Eminence Kappa. It sounded great and a lot louder. Only problem was that the new speaker was twice as heavy as the old speaker. So, while it made the amp a lot louder, you wouldn't want to carry it too far. So if you want to make your amp louder but lighter, I recommend you go for neodymium drivers.

It's a Stingray he has in that clip, which has a very punchy, articulate, upfront, focused sound. When I want that sound (I no longer have a Stingray), I switch to the back pickup of my Jazz and turn the tone to half way and the bass up high. The original album version sounds like just a P bass or a Jazz.

It sounds great.

He'll just attached it to the back of his car with a bit of old rope and drag it around for a week or two

Playing with a duff drummer is murder. Sometimes there's nothing you can do other than take the money and run.

Watch out for people falling into mic stands and knocking the singers teeth out. It happens.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1405905499' post='2506405'] I hear you Sam, I'm lookin at 61 real soon and last New Years Eve we did a 2-7, packed up ( lights and full pa) and went to do a 9-1. To be honest, I'm retired and while I still have no problem with the 4 hour bar/club gigs, I have the time and means to start looking at national or regional touring acts. I have been networking and sending out feelers. I actually heard back from a young lady from your side of the pond. A blues guitarist singer song writer Chantel, i forget her last name. Blue [/quote] McGregor?

I have some friends, in a cover band, who play songs which sound like this. I depped with them once and quickly realised that the chords they were playing, in many of the songs in their set, were just plain wrong. I told them but they weren't particularly bothered. Their excuse was that they had played them that way for so long that there was no point in changing them. So if you ever get the chance to see a band called 'Bongo Bob '............you'd probably be better off going and doing something else instead.

Heavyweight stuff is going out of fashion, as technology allows us to downsize without sacrificing tone or volume. I know a guy who picked up an Ampeg SVT and 8x10 for pennies. He plays small pubs with it, while the guitarist plays through a 15 watt Fender blues junior. Overkill? Possibly? I personally, live on the 3rd floor of a block of flats, so I'll be sticking with my lightweight gear.

[quote name='neilp' timestamp='1463170403' post='3049316'] What's to learn where that's concerned? Pino's choice suits him, my choice suits me. If Pino's choice is right, then by definition so's mine, and yours. [/quote] Well I do have have people, down The Pig & Whistle, regularly prostrating themselves in front of me at the weekend but the're usually fat, drunk, middle aged men

All the gear and no idea is usually the preserve of guitarists in my experience. But we on Basschat are a different breed from the average bassist. We hear about the mythical Glockenklangs and the legendary Bergantinos the Wals and Pedullas and we know that if we played through that kind of gear, when we played Mustang Sally down the Pig & whistle, we'd have supermodels prostrating themselves before us desperate to have our babies. Of course, on the other hand, Pino Pallidino plays a Fender precision, though a bog standard Ashdown ABM (I know it's his CS signature one but still it's just a Precision). Will we never learn?

This one. http://youtu.be/u0_Ly__GHZo

I had to sack the drummer in my band, who was also my landlord. That was a tricky one.

Who EQs the bass at the desk. It should be pretty easy to roll off the treble and mids and create a thicker sound. If your bass is active you should be able to EQ it before it goes into the desk to get a thicker sound.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1462658322' post='3044782'] Regardless,from the responses here, the consensus leans toward,20 songs for a traditional audition is questionable.IMO Blue [/quote] That wasn't an audition, that was a gig. We had no audition......or rehearsal. I suppose I should have been flattered that they felt I wouldn't need one.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1462617959' post='3044386'] For a typical 3-4 song audition, of course not. For a 20 song audition,yes. The band would have to be paying a lot of money for me to make an exception. Blue [/quote] I agree. 20 songs is a set.

[quote name='anaxcrosswords' timestamp='1462457078' post='3043168'] Have just spent a week learning – but far from mastering – 20 new (to me) songs for audition tonight. Thankfully most are thump-alongs, but there are a couple of trickier ones and I suppose the hardest thing is remembering arrangements, especially because the audio cues I hear on original recordings won't be anything like what I get at audition. Although the set list was sent a week ago my rehearsal time is governed by work; mercifully I work from home, but all in I'm guessing I've been able to devote about 10 hours to it. So different from the old band where our typical introduction of ONE new song gave each of us about a month before we first rehearsed it together. 20 in one week is quite a stretch. Anyone else had a similar monster task and how much fear factor came into play? [/quote] I learnt 34 songs in a week.......phew (well I created cheat sheets). In the end I'd got the date wrong and turned up in the venue with my bass and cheat sheets a week early. In the end it turned out I actually had 2 weeks to learn 34 songs.

[quote name='bigevilman' timestamp='1462656731' post='3044774'] Not fussed about weight (still the sunnie4 side of 30!). Seen the fender TV combos - they look and sound nice! [/quote] I had a TV15. It's very pretty, very heavy, sounds quite like an Ashdown (I quite like ashdown gear) and it's pretty rare. I'd recommend a Hartke HA350, as they are pretty decent heads and are really cheap. Spend your money on the cab because a cheap cab can make an expensive amp sound pants.

I have a set on the way.

My brother is a guitar player. He occasionally deps on bass and plays with a pick. I like the sound but feel you have more control over damping when you play with your fingers.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1462134672' post='3040577'] WTF? Full story! [/quote] Never join a band where the majority of members are more interested in the concept of 'being in a band', than the actual reality of 'being in a band' (ie gigging or recording). In the two years I was with the band, 13 members came and went. I decided it was time to leave after the shambolic recording session, where there was never more than two people in the studio at once and I had to play to a click track, because the drummer hadn't bothered to turn up.

I quit a fake band. It had a website, a facebook site, a twitter site, mystery 'band members' (in fact so it had so many 'band members' that I never got to see all of them in the same room together) and it never gigged. It never rehearsed either, which is irritating when you're paying a standing order, every month for 2 years, for a rehearsal room nobody ever rehearses in.

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1462101776' post='3040230'] Ronnie Wood had played bass on a couple of albums with Jeff Beck and toured with him prior to forming The Faces with Rod. Just sayin'.... [/quote] It's not his bass playing I'm referring to, it's his daily alcohol/pharmaceutical intake (I mean you know you've got a problem, when Keith Richards starts lecturing you on your drug and alcohol use).