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Welcome! I know zilch about the grades, so can't help there. Although from Essex, almost all of my extended family live in and around Lincoln these days. What's the music scene like up there?

The Kingman may not be a looker, but they have fabulous necks if you like Jazz necks. Mine easily blew my £1500 Warwick Alien into the weeds.

Go three-piece! Wish we could go back permanently!

Welcome!

64, and don't gig enough! I do find it hard, and arthritis certainly doesn't help, but 4 to 8 gigs a month is fine. I'd possibly do more if they were available.

Welcome!

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1490792591' post='3268026'] Any teacher worth their salt would have no problem with this. Plenty of my students have no aspiration to play in a band. Not inclined or simply wouldn't have the time to devote to it. They get the same 110% from me every lesson. [/quote] Nonetheless, the few lessons I took were[i] utterly dependent [/i]on the fact of being a performing player. And this was with a nationally recognised organisation. Doing it for pure self interest would have lost me my place on the course. EDIT: I would dearly love to have a shedload of 1-2-1 lessons - not dissing the idea at all!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1490732526' post='3267552'] Being in a band is work. Whether you get paid for it or not. You are producing a service with your labour. No discussion. Whether you see it as difficult or hard work is another thing entirely. But it is work. [/quote] Yup.

Also true.

Another vote for BBs

These are great basses!

Good answers!

Ok, I do consider it work as it helps us survive. So that might be part of why it's weird for us.

See post #53 for an actual event...

Drives my wife nuts, it happens so often.

I'll outline a scenario from recently to make it absolutely clear. We were at a lip-reading class, and the question was asked as to how we had lost our hearing. When it came to me, I said loud music because...etc. The lady next to my wife turned to her at once and asked if she went along to every gig, then was negatively surprised to be told 'no'. My wife suggested that it would be fairly odd if I went to her work every time she went... Get the drift? Why do random members of the public think like this?

I'm still thinking my point is not being grasped. Do other people, on finding out from one's other half that you are a practicing muso, seem to think, for whatever reason, that she should attend every gig? Is that not completely weird?

Remember that part of the question is that people seem to EXPECT my wife to attend every gig, regardless, for whatever reason...that's what neither of us understand!

While I have every intention of having a good basic 5 again (likely another Yamaha BB), I find four and twenty eminently suitable for me just now.

Really appreciating the answers, everyone. Not heard yet from any of the lady players - similar problems? Re the trust issue: my wife is quite often asked, "Don't you mind him being out doing this?", with the obvious nod to the, in my case, female element of the audience. These days, her answer (not yet deployed, but ready) is, "He doesn't know what [i]I'm[/i] doing while he's out..." So the trust issue has to work both ways.

Out as a 3-piece again - my favourite! Very good gig in a small pub on the old A30 in Devon. Was rammed! Where did they all travel from? Well, one bloke apparently timed his holiday in Miami so's he'd be back for the gig...! And really good pay to top it off. Result!

Yup, that's not a good situation to be in!

Pics duly added to first post!

Excellent replies, keep 'em coming!

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1490429340' post='3265040'] Are you mad, man? This is Basschat. Our membership can't resist. [/quote] OK, OK, I'll try and get one up!