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 yesterday at 22:24 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 15 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.

[dmccombe7]

9 hours ago, ezbass said:

This is mine…

 

Wouldn't mind that as a fretted.

Dave

[ezbass]

34 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Wouldn't mind that as a fretted.

Dave

I'd like to try it as such too. However, the neck of my fretted Elwood L (a JJ type) has a slightly different hole alignment on the neck. At least that shows that neck and body weren't 'cookie cutter' creations.

[Bluewine]

10 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

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

 

Dave, While we play regularly which keeps us from getting rusty I would love to rehearse and add a few new songs and maybe change a few intros and song endings. 

 

Daryl

Edited 5 hours ago by Bluewine

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Dave, While we play regularly which keeps us from getting rusty I would love to rehearse and add a few new songs and maybe change a few intros and song endings. 

 

Daryl

Yep that's what we generally do Daryl. 

We recently added 48 Crash by Suzie Quatro, Mamma Mia by ABBA and reintroduced Jeepster by T.Rex and Cum on Feel the Noise by Slade which we dropped 4 or 5 yrs back but decided to give them another go. Lynn now sings the Slade song and the ABBA songs we do.

48 Crash turned out to be the more difficult one to get right because of the mid section but we eventually got it right on the 2nd gig 😂.

We generally try to make a rehearsal a Sun afternoon for 6hrs and bring sandwiches, coffee and of course cake and just feels more like a get together with mates. We normally finish at 5hr mark but studios are almost always 3hr slots but it makes everything a lot less hectic trying to fit a full song list into 3 hrs. With 6hrs we know we can easily slot in new songs and every song we have in our repertoire as some don't get played regularly as we change the sets to suit type of venues. Clubs prefer dancing songs while music venues prefer the rockier type songs or ones like Ziggy Stardust that isn't a very dancing song.

I practice the full song list at least once a week at home anyways sometimes twice.

Was hard work when i was doing the punk band and the 80's rock band at same time.

At 65 i decided it was all too much and dropped it back to our Glam band and its been a good decision.

Dave 

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

I'd like to try it as such too. However, the neck of my fretted Elwood L (a JJ type) has a slightly different hole alignment on the neck. At least that shows that neck and body weren't 'cookie cutter' creations.

I did come across a fretted one that had twin WALBUCKERS fitted and a filtered EQ pre-amp system similar to WAL system and that bass sounded absolutely gorgeous. Bass Direct have it shown but OUT OF STOCK but you can get them fitted with other Humbucker style pick ups and John East pre-amps so i'm guessing they are a custom order thing.

Pic below taken from Bass Direct site and VID below that on Youtube.

Dave