Bass on a train!

[Leonard Smalls]

I've decided to go to our gig at Rebellion in Blackpool on the train in order to personally save the planet etc... (rest of band all arriving on different days).

As they're providing an AmpegSVT and 8x10 I only need to take bass, helix and an array of funky shoes and trees.

However, luggage policy seems a little confused - anyone know if train travel is easily possible with bass in soft case? It says max size 1m!

[goonerjoe]

Not here to answer your question but what is your band and when are you playing... I will fit it into our schedule!

[Woodinblack]

I have taken a bass on a train. Never occurred to me to check whether it was allowed!

 

[Lozz196]

8 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

I have taken a bass on a train. Never occurred to me to check whether it was allowed!

 

Same here, on both regular trains and on the London Underground too.

[Leonard Smalls]

39 minutes ago, goonerjoe said:

when are you playing

We're Choked....

Playing it Rebellion Sunday 10th at a nice and early 1350, and at fringe festival at the Washington same day at 2100.

[Mrbigstuff]

Never looked at policy either. If it’s busy then a generic soft case should fit overhead, if not choose two seats together and give one to the bass.

[Jackroadkill]

Just choose an appropriately loud outfit; nobody will notice the bass.

[Geek99]

45 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Never looked at policy either. If it’s busy then a generic soft case should fit overhead, if not choose two seats together and give one to the bass.

Unless needed by a pregnant woman, or the elderly, in which case give the seat to them and show the world that bass players are better than guitarists who would fight all comers with sharpened plectrums 🤮so that their Les Paul might enjoy velour and comfort foam and a nice view through large windows 

[Mrbigstuff]

9 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Unless needed by a pregnant woman, or the elderly, in which case give the seat to them and show the world that bass players are better than guitarists who would fight all comers with sharpened plectrums 🤮so that their Les Paul might enjoy velour and comfort foam and a nice view through large windows 

Absolutely. I would say just if anyone else needed it there’s rarely harm in using the overheads. After six string guitarists*, there’s nothing worse than the bags on seats crowd on a heaving train.
 

* A joke before I get torched

[Dad3353]

To repair my road-side Thames 15cwt van breakdown, I took the London rush-hour tube with a six-foot long greasy, grubby, smelly prop-shaft in my hand, to get to a breaker's yard. No-one objected, and I had plenty of space all around me, both there and back. I don't think a bass would cause any issues. 

[Geek99]

4 minutes ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Absolutely. I would say just if anyone else needed it there’s rarely harm in using the overheads. After six string guitarists*, there’s nothing worse than the bags on seats crowd on a heaving train.
 

* A joke before I get torched

Just don’t mention them. It saves on tar and feathers. And matches and shovels. And time spent digging holes in remote locations 

[Jackroadkill]

8 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

And time spent digging holes in remote locations 

 

What are you, an amateur?  You make them dig the hole first, man.  Jeez....

[Geek99]

7 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

What are you, an amateur?  You make them dig the hole first, man.  Jeez....

Sorry - my sadism gene is malformed 

i did think however that it might be fun to prank future archaeologists by using an axe to cut off their feet and put them near their heads so that maybe the archaeologists could form a theory of the feet being somehow involved in the afterlife journey