BobVbass

Yes!! Sub octave was fab on my ABM

I love Duck Dunn's on She Caught the Katy and Sweet Home Chicago just so smooth and full James Johnstons on Biffy Clyro the Captain is fab too

I always wondered what happened to the drummer of Loudness

We had this problem for ages - I always found in ears were fab for the mix but always made me sing flat for some reason (lack of talent probably :D) in the end the solution was a digital mixer so everyone could have their own mix then either in ears (drummer used those and loved them)or me and the other singer/guitarist used smaller close monitors Mackie SRM 150s - the key then is to run your mix loud through the FOH and convince everyone else to turn the backline down so you can hear the monitors Lots of the "loud" actually comes from finding space in the EQ for the singer's voice in his/her monitor

My s12T was definitely middy - it really sang and had a very colourless response if that's the right word - it felt like you got the true sound of every amp - astronomically loud as well

looks like a gen1 Super Twelve to me - I used to have 12T, fabulous cab

MB1 😎 RIP, thanks for everything xx

I'm exactly the same I was going to buy a Gibson Les Paul at 2 grand until I played the Epiphone Plus top pro I actually bought at £500 ish - It feels fab, sounds fab, plays brilliantly, actually has more features like a coil tap honestly can't fault it and I don't have to be too precious about it either even though actually I am because it's honestly a fab guitar

So I did a big event for trans awareness in September and got a few good things done - I had a huge team of people helping me so I thought I'd do something fun. Never done any recording before (or not for 20 years) definitely never edited a video before and learnt to play drums and guitar to do the track. Everything on it is me (so I can't hide from any bum notes :D) I know the bass video is out of sync but after I'd spent hours on everything else I ran out of time Anyway - be gentle but happy to have constructive criticism - and if nothing else its started my writing my own songs again after a long long hiatus

Hi Rich, I'm from Brighton and its grey horrible and rainy so let me know where you are and I'll go there instead Welcome

So many interesting replies, it's really made me think about what I like about gigging and what I don't - I'm in a three piece and they're both really lovely, in ten years we've barely had a minor disagreement, we're booked up for a gig every fortnight for eighteen months or we were. Playing with people so long and so often is fabulous - we know what we're thinking and do have a great laugh. I make a nice but of pocket money from it too. The setting up, taking down, travel is an utter PIA and that used to be completely put in the shade by the enjoyment of performing which was just brilliant. I guess that changed a couple of years ago when I started to transition - I went through a year of utter hell - whizzed blokes at working men's clubs etc, not being able to use the loo for six hours etc - performing became nothing but stress and even though I kind of got out the other side of all that crap I think it's taken the shine off things. I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water and I know it's actually useful for people to meet their first trans person but I play to escape the rubbish not just get a load more. I guess there's no rush to decide.

Haha thank you

I do "Elsie" - the only way she be leaving me is by prising her from my cold dead (and perfectly manicured) hands

yes I've been playing loads of guitar recording and just messing about and really remembering the love of playing in general. I used to love the performance side of things but I just feel "meh" about it now - I do loads of public speaking these days so I was wondering whether that was having an effect as well - weird though

haha yes - nice to see you're still around as well