How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

[Gank Bass]

16 minutes ago, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

Second rehearsal with a group. I feel a little tricked into it, really. Told it was "rock", but ended up being 90% straight up blues rock...splitting hairs maybe. 

It isn't my thing at all, and not particularly enjoying it. They're unprepared and musically sloppy. .

I'm almost certain that I won't continue. 

This makes me sad because I miss playing with people, but it doesn't *feel* right.  Conundrum. 

 

Equipment wise, it was a Tech 21 VT Bass 500 head with a TC Electronic k 212 cab.  It's louder than my usual Orange OBC115, but doesn't sound as warm. 

Bass was a Sire V5 (24 fret version). 

Pedalboard was tuner, Empress Bass Compressor and a Laney Digbeth DI pedal.  I miss my stacked fuzz pedals. 

Is there any scope for you to steer the sound? As a spotty teen I was roped into an indie band and ended up pushing us towards a more groove oriented sound which really pushed us forward 

 

(I was kicked out a year later and replaced by a guitarist who was given a bass)

 

😂

[NoRhino]

Sunday and Tuesday rehearsals this week with each of my bands.  Suffering from severe lurgy so both were sit down affairs with absolutely no singing.   

Made them fun by enjoying a session man approach to the bass parts.

[tauzero]

Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.

[Dad3353]

31 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.

 

Break a leg. 

[tauzero]

I forgot to mention - I sit down to play, and the studio has bucket-type seats with bent wire legs. I leant back a bit to pick something up (all four legs still on the floor) and the chair collapsed. I'm a bit on the heavy side but at 100kg I'm not that enormous. There was a second identical chair in the room and that bore my weight for the rest of the evening.

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

On 11/09/2025 at 15:31, Gank Bass said:

Is there any scope for you to steer the sound? As a spotty teen I was roped into an indie band and ended up pushing us towards a more groove oriented sound which really pushed us forward 

 

(I was kicked out a year later and replaced by a guitarist who was given a bass)

 

😂

I'm trying. I get the impression that the drummer is keen to get a more rock sound than just doing Stones, Credence and Gary Moore. I really dislike Gary Moore. 

I'm giving it one more rehearsal, to see how it feels. 

[Bagman]

5 hours ago, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

I'm trying. I get the impression that the drummer is keen to get a more rock sound than just doing Stones, Credence and Gary Moore. I really dislike Gary Moore. 

I'm giving it one more rehearsal, to see how it feels. 

It was an instance of the Bassist needing Less Moore 

[MacDaddy]

Video shoot for a promo for one of the cover bands. We were only doing snippets of 4 songs but it still a full day of filming.

 

 

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

9 hours ago, Bagman said:

It was an instance of the Bassist needing Less Moore 

Moore or less. 

[dmccombe7]

On 12/09/2025 at 10:55, NoRhino said:

Sunday and Tuesday rehearsals this week with each of my bands.  Suffering from severe lurgy so both were sit down affairs with absolutely no singing.   

Made them fun by enjoying a session man approach to the bass parts.

Had the lurgy few weeks back and it left me with a bit of a cough that is slowly going away but a bad cold does that to me these days. If i hadn't tested for it i would have sworn it was covid.

Rest of the band caught it 2 weeks later with no contact from me in those 2 weeks.

Seems to be doing the rounds again.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

On 12/09/2025 at 12:51, tauzero said:

Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.

Got to love your confidence. 😂

Hopefully it went well.

Dave