How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

I just got back from a first session with a new rock and blues type band. We are all middle aged and up. 

The lady time I played bass in a band, the bass was by my knees, but now it's past my waist. I'm old....😩

 

I played a Sire V5 through a tech 21 VT Bass 500 head into an Orange OBC 115. Really nice sounding, but not a lot of projection at floor level.  I might switch out for a TC Electronic k 212 (also a lot lighter).

 

The material was pretty much all new to me; my background is punk and metal but I really miss playing. Some of the stuff had been really difficult to learn , and I need to work on my charting. 

 

I'm not sure if this will last, but I'm giving it a few practices to see if it gels. 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by ProjeKtWEREWOLF

[casapete]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Anyone else here who's band doesn't rehearse ?

My duo has been working for around 30 years now without one rehearsal, ever! 😁

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I wish I had something to contribute to this thread. The fact is we don't rehearse. I wish we did. We play around 65 gigs annually and easily have 4 hours of material. 

 

I'm not sure why we don't rehearse. I come from a different background than my bandmates. My background is based in rehearsals and exchanging ideas.  This seems foreign to my bandmates. 

 

Anyone else here who's band doesn't rehearse ?

 

Daryl

I get that Daryl. When we are playing every weekend or every 2 weeks regularly we don't bother rehearsing but sometimes we can go 4-6wks without a gig and always throw in a 3hr rehearsal the week before the next gig just to refresh things in our head.

I can understand that if playing regularly you don't really need to rehearse unless adding new songs.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

6 hours ago, casapete said:

My duo has been working for around 30 years now without one rehearsal, ever! 😁

Aye but you're good. 😂

Dave

[ezbass]

On 26/08/2025 at 19:59, dmccombe7 said:

Googled the Elwood fretless and had different versions appear. I'm guessing as you mentioned Stingray its the L4P version with HH near the bridge. The others were twin HH and Jazz style bass.

Dave

This is mine…

 

[ezbass]

Damn, double post.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by ezbass

[dmccombe7]

12 minutes ago, ezbass said:

This is mine…

 

Have to admit thats a gorgeous looking bass.

Dave

[kwmlondon]

14 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Just got in from a Knock Off rehearsal. Used my new (to me) Sandberg TT Superlight as back really playing up at the moment. And very well it did too, no matter what I’m playing this bass just adapts so well. Only problem is as it’s still quite warm, and we play quite hard I am now very smelly. Yuck!

Oh, tell me about it. I've done some rehearsals where the air con is on the blink and I feel bad for anyone close to us when we go for a post-practise pint!

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Have to admit thats a gorgeous looking bass.

Dave

Thanks. It's lightweight too, a mere 3.2kgs.