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76 Trombones - Philharmonic Wind Orchestra 

Para Bellum by Testament,

This Heathen Land from Green lung

sadly it wasn't to be the year for the new Anthrax album. fingers crossed for this year lol

Pretty Vacant  - Sex Pistols

I'd love to see a far east produced 'official' Ricky

a small footprint reissue of the Ibanez Weeping Demon wah.

BC Rich producing quality passive basses again

pm incoming

spiritual Healing - Death

islands in the stream - Dolly and Kenny

Snot - Snot

Cold- at the gates

Rain - trouble

Jilted John - Graham fellows

The day we caught the train - ocean colour scene

My coocachoo - Alvin stardust (?)

Lip up fatty - bad manners

Spanish castle magic - Hendrix 

Enter sand, man - metallica. 
HNY!!

Pm incoming

manic monday - Bangles

Death - Human reissue

Trouble - Plastic Green Head reissue

Mariachi Monday - Arthur Benson

Just now, dave_bass5 said:

That bass drive is a odd one. Its so hot. I use it as my dirt but with the gain at 8 and mixed quite low. 

Certainly odd. Lol

1 minute ago, warwickhunt said:

I play in two tributes; one I do purely as I love the band (Cheap Trick) and the 2nd I joined as I liked the band (INXS) and it was an ideal opportunity to play better/bigger gigs (but not necessarily for more money).  

 

A couple of observations. 

• Be sure you like the material, nothing worse than playing a couple of hours of stuff you don't like.
• Network with anyone you know in a tribute band, you'll likely get any gig/band through contacts.
• Be prepared (if you aren't already) to use IEM and compromise on 'your' sound because you may be doing gigs where you have a 15-30 minute turnaround with other bands.
• Don't take for granted you'll be getting good money; we've done gigs where I'd have been paid more for a pub covers gig.
• Some gigs 'might' end up being percentages of ticket sales (your band can of course refuse these).
• If you choose to do a tribute that is often covered, you'd better be significantly better than the local competition.
• If you choose a less obvious tribute, you could end up with very few gigs... it's a fine line.  
• The singer/frontperson is where it is at (unless it is something like VH), so you'd be a numpty to join a band that doesn't have that main ingredient. 
• If you elect to play 'Fake Festivals' you might need to travel considerable distances for gigs (does anyone in the band work on a Fri/Sat/Sun?), you are likely to be ofeered a series of gigs and you can't cherry pick otherwise the organiser will need to work twice as hard... and they don't like that!   

 

Exactly this

If you set the pre dirty, you can stack it into the dist block, and also use the drive from the bass amps.

On mine I'm using the bb preamp into the gain of the mesa amp block. but for me the bass drive is rubbish - as I can't seem to get enough low end for my taste

P bass

Rotosound swing bass 50-110

tone fully open

slight drive with my Marshall DBS amps eq set as a british frown rather than california smile through 1 or 2 410s

Down in a hole - Alice in Chains