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Professional just means you get paid for doing what you do. All the talent in the world means very little if nobody really wants to listen to you. I remember really looking forward to seeing Stevie Vai and my mind wandering after a few songs is they were not 'tunes'. Serving the song is always better than pleasing your own musical self.

[quote name='cycrowave' post='1282421' date='Jun 25 2011, 08:14 PM']yes sir you are right, good night all im off to some toilet venue to watch my mates perform[/quote] Tell us more........ ....ps - I'd give it about a day before I'm proved a hypocrite slagging someone! eg - Did not like friendly fire but wondered if it was a Basschatter playing as there was a Peavey T40 bass on show.

Musical taste is so personal that I try my best not to comment on other peoples as it makes you look like a slevvery, rabid twit!

Young boy from Paisley on just now!! His mum and dad have a good chippy too! Nice white Gretsch bass too!

I'd let my original 62 jazz bass, 57 P bass, steinberger and steinberger cello e-bass burn. And I'm not just saying this for the future insurance claim...............

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='1281985' date='Jun 25 2011, 11:24 AM'][/quote] Sheer class!

I'm a big fan of the Edge and I thought they played safe but Bono himself said it was the 1st time in about 25 years they had not been playing to 'their audience.' Looks like they did do a 'greatest hits' set but in the context of a festival, I thought it was spot on. Now Adam, if you are looking in and you have a spare CS bass........

When I was younger, I envied his burds! Now I'm older, I envy his basses! What does that say about both of us!

[quote name='iconic' post='1281786' date='Jun 25 2011, 07:03 AM']BB414, obscene value for money, Orange ones look the part too [/quote] Agreed - P have the black pearlescent 414 with matching headstock. Great black strings and a growling sound. I would love an orange one though!

Aye - Adam is winning the gratuitous bass change award on the first day! Love his purple custom shop P-bass though!

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' post='1281533' date='Jun 24 2011, 09:14 PM']It's a Shergold[/quote] Sheer class playing a shergold - Solomon Walker - a Fender Artist!!!!!!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1281505' date='Jun 24 2011, 08:53 PM']All I've seen is a fretless 48 string[/quote] BRilliant - Wilson or Fender! Wait - what's Morrissey's bass player playing? Maple Wal? Shergold? What is it? BBC3 (or 4) just now!

[quote name='OldGit' post='773647' date='Mar 13 2010, 04:11 PM']Halfway through a fab dance which had 60 couples barging and swerving their way left and right over huge dance floor I took a step back from the mic, stood on a harmonica that had fallen off my stack, lost my balance and crashed back into my top cab, knocking my percussion box off the top .. The stack stayed up as I tie everything together with a strap Anyway I slid sideways off the stack and tripped on a stage floor light and 'urtled side ways off the stage... Fortunately it was a relatively low one and I landed on my feet. Being wireless I didn't then pull my stack on top of myself but I did stop playing for 8 bars No one noticed except my drummer who was showered with the contents of my percussion box .. Phew, I thought, and then sprained my ankle later doing something very innocuous .. Fun night.[/quote] Failed stage dive...get over it!

Been doing, 'Doncha worry bout a thing' by Stevie Wonder recently! Great stuff - in fact , learn I Wish and Sir Duke while you're at it!

[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/22/adam-clayton-u2-soundtrack-of-my-life?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/2...P=ILCNETTXT3487[/url]

[quote name='4StringFortress' post='1276676' date='Jun 21 2011, 09:20 AM']You can pick up a Yamaha BB 414 second hand for under £200 they are great basses and they cover any style they will want to play. As mentioned before Ibanez and Peavey are decent choices too.[/quote] x 2

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='652317' date='Nov 12 2009, 10:39 AM'] My first gigging bass amp in 79-81 was one of these matched with an ex sound system 1x18 cab Loved the sound at the time.[/quote] Sold one a few months ago. Sat in my garage for about 20 years and when I plugged it in, still great. Guy from Springburn got it for about £40 as a back up!

Great looking bass. Think the colour scheme is stunning.

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='1268718' date='Jun 14 2011, 03:09 PM']Ooops[/quote]...i did it again?

Live it up by Mental as anything?

Good wee vid from Fender. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZzYSgFAlY&feature=player_embedded#at=50"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cZzYSgFAlY..._embedded#at=50[/url]

Call yourselves a bass forum! This and Sir Duke are supernatural basslines!