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

[Ed_S]

Got invited by the drummer of a band I've depped with a couple of times to check out another band of his which is being rebooted. Went down to meet and jam this afternoon, and it's a four-piece alongside singer, guitarist/bv and drummer, playing upbeat rock/alt-rock/indie-rock covers that aren't my usual fodder but I can still see being fun. All involved seem to be affable and have realistic expectations, the singer can sing, the guitarist had his combo up off the floor and was playing at a reasonable volume... sounded pretty good, so I reckon I'll see where it goes.

 

Travelled light as I was on the bus and knew there was a decent cab I could borrow in the room:

RB Streamer LX 5 -> Telepath wireless -> Fly Rig v2 -> Markbass Nano 2 -> Hartke VX215