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Learning the bassline to Loaded was a wonderful distraction from A Levels. Very sorry to hear this news.

Always when I'm at work. Will be great.

We're learning a take that medley..... Where's the gritted teeth emoji?

Absolutely, you need to have an aesthetic the crowd go for. Being a data geek i actually look at the demographic stats from our social media and then apply the marketing principle 'what were the big hits when they were 16?'

We don’t do all out cheese but doing functions it just not worth trying to have artistic integrity. I did see a fantastic band two years ago called Mac and Cheese. The lead singer was like a West Country jack Black, crowd lapped it up.

Ultimately the singers have to be comfortable singing them. We put a lot of thought into choosing songs, normally trying to stay just on the right side of cheese, if indeed there is one.

British racing green? I'm G&L fanboi so love the colours and love Ed Friedland's reviews so the above video was great. Interesting what he says about notes on the G string having more weight.

Thanks for your reply. I’m not an engineer and I’m not in the manufacturing business. I can only imagine the hurdles producing a 300w to those specs. Is there a market? I do wonder who buys all the preamp pedals that are available, not to mention the array of modelling tech out there now. The pitch would be the solution I’m looking for. I do a lot of rehearsals in different places, lots of pit work and some bigger gigs too. I don’t want a combo- very often my amp is crammed behind another player or cymbal stand, I can’t adjust it easily. I want to choose my micro cab or bigger cab, depending on the gig, and I want to be able to carry it all in one trip and use one plug! I bet I'm not the only one!

Quite interesting that two threads of a similar nature have cropped up recently. This and the ashdown pedal board amp one suggest what I've been wondering for a while, is there a market for/ the technology for a class d pedalboard amp that would fit under a board, like a regular pedal power supply? If the baby sumo fitted under a board I'd have it in a flash.

Absolutely, west side is impeccably arranged, sunset clever for clever's sake. With the rather aptly named 'Car Crash'.

Whoops, that's me out then! My peeve, drummers who cant stop tipettiy tapttity bewteeen every song, another go at that fill, the groove the band like with extra ghostnotes, bell of the ride all the time.....

Until you turn the page and its unison with the brass for the dance number.... Dullest show I've played is carousel. West Side is almost the champion for hardest but sunset boulevard takes it for one number, lets have lunch. Pages of incessant register changes, key changes, time signature changes, you name it changes!

Ok so I’m recommending something I use but only because I’m really pleased with it- have a look at db cabs, a small British firm. I have the ten inch speaker version, 7 kilos, sounds smooth not super loud or bassy but works well for loud rehearsals with my 8 piece and no problems at pit volume either.

With the drummer on the show all the slow sections will be speeded up!

Oh god no, there's 100 pages and its in 2 weeks! I'd love to be at the point i could play without looking at the neck but there's some jumps in this part I'm going to have to, so i'll memorise some sections. It also makes watching the MD easier.

I know what you mean but I’m thinking seven brides, South Pacific, half a sixpence etc where it’s not massively challenging.

With difficulty! I’m not a full time pro, and my training was actually on the trumpet, so a lot of my ‘ability’ is knowledge transfer. I was lucky enough to have a really good big band leader at uni who taught us how to think about how syncopations belong to beats, so for instance the last semiquaver of beat one anticipates beat two. (it’d make more sense if I could play it to you!) So I start with the rhythm, then my chord/ scale knowledge is pretty good so I rely on that. What makes reading on the bass trickier than the trumpet is that on the trumpet 95% of the time there is only one valve combination per note. On the bass you can play a major scale from 1st 2nd and 4th position for example, so my biggest issue is planning the journey over the neck so that each section links smoothly. Full respect to expert sight readers!

Like a lot if modern shows they throw the kitchen sink at it, so the opening has a five eight section that's quite quick, then there's a number with lots if Latin rhythms all over the neck, some funk stuff and some swing sections as well. Second act has plenty of tacet though so some relief before another quick number with time signature changes and syncopation. The metronome is on this morning i can tell you!

Ah but montages have music, who’s provided that and how much did they rehearse it? There will be a rip in the time space continuum!

Wow, the part just arrived in the post it looks I’ll be spending the next few weeks in the woodshed! Has anybody else on here done this show? Certainly makes a change from the usual I V I V fodder!

But when you buy the cabs 8 or 9 years ago for £600 plus covers.....🤟👍🔥

Sorry dozing off watching wales Italy with a cold! G&L LB100 (their vintage sounding P model) with Chrome flats Markbass littlemark tube- 500w Aguilar DB112 cabs, in tweed for that extra midrange bump. It is a fantastic sounding rig.

Lb100 into lmt500 into db112s. Vintage without the wooliness.

Superb, very well played.