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Back at the scene of the crime last night, where the ABM500 I'd borrowed from @merton decided that power amps were passé and decided to blow its one, taking down some other bits with it. I only had two people ask me if I was going to blow an amp this time... Fortunately the new ABM600 held up nicely and sounded amazing, let down only by its operator missing a cue and coming in half a bar too late on one song, causing us to have to stop and start again, but other than that everything went well. Apparently I was too loud, but oh well 🤣 I even managed in this unlikeliest of venues to find a kindred spirit with whom I reminisced about 80s kids TV shows, and agreeing that excluding Tom Bombadil from the LOTR trilogy was a good decision. The band's tab was also comped by the guy whose 65th birthday party it was, which is a great thing in a brewery tap! Back rehearsing tomorrow before the next gig Saturday week.

That's Ryan Gosling, my dude...

Here's one I wasn't aware of...

It is very fun to play!

Yeah, usually a verse and a chorus of Enola Gay as it's pretty simple, or maybe more if it's a particularly faffy setup.

As well as all the excellent points made above, I find having a good interaction with the audience helps, not just the reaction to what we've played. That can even happen afterwards, getting compliments is always nice

I use one of these: https://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_gs_3500_b.htm. It works very well, never had a problem with it.

It seems it's quite similar in not being consistent with candy apple red. When I had a CAR Jazz no photograph I took, in any lighting, really represented the actual colour of the bass in real life.

A fairly in-depth view: I think this cements my decision to save for the Sadowsky. If it's $1150 then that means it'll be around £900 based on today's exchange rates, which means it should hopefully be a merry Christmas for me!

All the current models are being heavily discounted everywhere at the moment so they're definitely imminent.

I really like his bass playing (and enjoying playing Girls & Boys and Country House in our current set) but I went off him after he suggested that playing bass was easy. I know Dave Mustaine has said the same recently but I've always thought he was a bit of a See You Next Tuesday. The man does make some lovely cheese as well though.

Great action shot!

Sire for sure

A friend of mine who is much more musically-educated likes to call that rhythm "the 12/8 plod" (see also Black Velvet, etc)

And what used to be called their "all about the bass" series. It looks like Nathan King isn't doing so much of that as it mostly seems to be Lee and Cici these days.

Sometimes a song is that easy/boring/repetitive that I just zone out, forget what I'm doing and it takes me a second to get back up to speed.

Not just rock singers. I think calling Johnny Cash a singer would be quite charitable but it works.

He's always played with a pick, I think.