stingrayPete1977

Nothing is "free" though really is it? I just did a quick quote , a £1000 of cover with insure4music is £30 a year.

I'm a technophobe but I know since the new rules came in recently about data storage etc we've had issues where certain emails wouldn't go through.

I think he's on holiday, it was mentioned at our bass geek meeting last night.

Which public liability insurance is best for metal?

It's good that you get all that FREE stuff for £221 though, lol

I don't think many people in your average weekend function band will qualify for a concession so it's nearly TEN times the price if you just need a certificate to satisfy the venue, to do it legitimately a five piece band would all need to be members at a cost of £1105, a five piece band with Insure4music can be had for less than £50, that's quite a difference unless you are going to require a grands worth of advantages a year.

It's £221 a year to be a MU member, an individual policy with insure4music is £28, I did the whole band including raising the cover from 1 to 2 million for £55 a year. Its only £69 with ampband.

Does the public liability with the MU cover a whole band or would every band member need to join? Unless you need the extra features of tye MU it's a hugely expensive way of doing it for a typical function band.

Which is a pound more than insure4music for a 5 piece for £1m.

I've just renewed ours with a new one, been with ampband for a few years but insure4music are cheaper.

They should have called it a Silhouette bass really as it looks just like the silhouette guitar.

I'm hoping he's going to get a tobacco burst Stingray with a white pickguard just for another one bites the dust, be rude not to add it into the set?

Or a Classic 5

And there you have it, boom.

I can't see how anything is easier to set up than a pair of RCF tops!

I'm not sure tbh, they are closer to each other than the 725 are to the 735 by a long way though AFAIK.

We've used them for large function rooms /social clubs and wedding marquees, a piece of advice a mate gave me was that for weddings and functions you only need the dance floor area at full volume, great auntie Ethel sat at the back isn't that bothered about heft! Obviously a gig watching your favourite band that you've paid £100 to see you want to hear just as well anywhere in the venue. All that said I'd happily put my 735s against your alto sub and any 12s as tops, take into account you could use your sub with the RCF tops and you'll have a killer pa with only three boxes.

For something like a marquee or large pub you'd still need a sub if you're putting the whole band through them. The 735 and 745 are a different animal really.

Pair of RCF 735a , leave the sub at home.

I did mine in 2012, I've got about 75% movement in all directions left.

I've never heard of three weeks in plaster, could it be that it's a small fracture and they want to let it fuse but not cast it for so long that causes more ceasing of the joint than needed?

Does he play a lot of lead stuff?

Depending on the break he'll be doing well to gig this summer Imo, mine has never been right since

It's very hard to judge Imo, the comparison with old cars is the closest we've got to compare with in cultural and time scale, the same thing was said thirty years ago about really old stuff 'veteran' as it's now called, people thought once no one had living memory of those cars the value would drop quickly over a ten to twenty year period, who thought the guy with the Sierra with a body kit and massive turbo during the 90s would be into cars from the Edwardian period within a couple of decades? But it happened, prices have gone mental. Look at antiques that don't do anything useful like paintings or items rarely used like ink Wells and hat pins, plenty of people still collect them just to have on show, which for many 70's Fenders is about all they are good for anyway, lol.

Brass bands do have their place.... Yorkshire!