stingrayPete1977

As much as I'm not a Clayton fan that's a great looking jazz bass!

Did they have any other guitar stuff?

[URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141102_103604_zpseb6n54ip.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141102_103604_zpseb6n54ip.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I dont normally do 6ers but I do like that

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1417466844' post='2620708'] dood Dingwall don't pay Novak anything anymore. The patent expired so no-one pays to use the fan-fret idea. That's how patents work, you develop an idea and the patent makes sure you are paid by anyone using your idea For a Set Time. It's different from copyright or trademark. How do you feel about the Super P & J models ? [/quote] Beat me to it!

What about Dingwall P and J basses then? Lol

Dakota (both of my bands so you can count it twice) Teenage Kicks (both bands again) Valerie Superstition Mustang Sally

I've owned, lent, gigged or tried loads of great basses including some real high end stuff but I'm always happiest with some form of Stingray.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1417436271' post='2620250'] No – I would say that one of the biggest mistakes you can make is pandering to the audience too much! Obviously you have to play stuff that your audience knows and likes but if you let them in effect choose the set list, then even though you will get a good reception you will always be yet another band playing the same old songs that every other band does. None of our set list would be on any list of overplayed tunes yet anyone with a passing interest of the genre (I try to discourage people from promoting us as Classic Rock) would know pretty much every tune. Therefore, when we play Guns n’Roses tunes we bring out Nightrain rather than Sweet Child and we play Sin City rather than Whole Lotta Rosie for the AC/DC tunes. The audience knows every song but doesn’t hear the same as every other band playing the pub circuit and we seem to be picking up a decent following after a handful of gigs… [/quote] We don't play the songs they ask for buy they still ask for them, although we do have alright now and Dakota in the set the rest of it is proper random, great for pubs which is where the trio mainly plays but terrible for a wedding which I do with my other band. My function band does play some ska so I apologise for being a tribute band and closing venues down in advance for no apparent reason, lol, even if the venue is desperate to book us again as we had the place pumping all night last time, we had to start removing tables half way through!

The thing is I've seen these bands that do "something different", it's often played very well but to an empty room!

[quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1417371028' post='2619654'] What did Billy say then? [/quote] When asked can you play Valerie in Eb with a horn section he said "err let me see, nope but I can twiddle with three fingers all over it instead if you like?", something like that anyway

Parallel, one lead to each or loop from one to the other if the cabs have two speakons labelled parallel inputs?

Classic black black and maple, nice one

The last two bands I've joined have set out to do something different, you get two songs in and "do you do any kings of leon, sweet home alabama, sweet child?" etc , I suppose you have to give them what they want?

I guess people are coming at this from various angles to be fair? I am the local bike and can be found with almost any outfit around here so first come first served is the only way I can do that but I suppose if my function band picks up a lot of gigs for next year then I'd be less inclined to offer my services to every man and his dog.

Show me a genre of music without a stingray being used and I'll take that seriously

[quote name='jgmh315' timestamp='1417201006' post='2618223'] I always liked Billy Sheehans answer to that question. [/quote] That is fine if you are either Billy Sheehan or you only want to play what he plays, playing Eb on the 6th fret of the A string IMO sounds rubbish if the song is not suitable, Valerie for example.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1417199976' post='2618203'] oh I see... I thought you were suggestiong they sounded particularly amazing on a Tuesday [/quote] He had a BBQ in the summer with most of his friends being hippy musos too the night revolves around a jam session, I can confirm it sounded just as amazing on a Saturday night too

The studio I practice in on a tuesday belongs to our guitarist, he is a music teacher and a great bassist/guitarist/drummer, he has an SR505, a Danelectro (?) and a Warwick Thumb BO 4 string, if I go straight from work or on my motorbike I use the SR, I really like it and would happily use one for every gig forever really

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1417131684' post='2617482'] Pete, have you booked tickets for their UK tour? I am furious that I cannot get to any of the accessible venues. (all standing only too it seems). Details under their videos. [/quote] I will try and go to one, I have had a lot of treats already from santa so I am struggling to blag it at the moment! Robyn

I think rather than alter how they are run I have just accepted they are not for me, you need to realise for those guys/gals "schlappin da shid" out of a Statii all day is 'their gig' IMO. So me telling them to stop is the same as people telling me to stop during my gigs (which they sometimes do, lol). It is a shame but there you go, I have moved along

[quote name='kulabula' timestamp='1417198190' post='2618173'] Wow, that's a lot of advice chaps. After a lot of debate, I'm going for it!! Both feet. I'm gonna get an SR 605 , and do this thing!! [/quote] Cool Great bass too, I play an SR505 most tuesdays for a few hours, its a cracking bass

[quote name='goingdownslow' timestamp='1417166981' post='2617633'] I have regularly seen the fifth string being used only as a thumb rest. [/quote] I have been on a gig where I can see the resident 'expert' telling his mates that I am not playing the B string, nothing but a thumb rest etc etc etc what they dont know is that the songs where I do not use it even for fretted E for example are songs that I sometimes play on Double Bass, I purposefully do not use the B string on any of those many songs to save facing the restriction of four strings on my DB or EUB the next night/week whenever.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1417168954' post='2617665'] The first gig offered thing only works if all the gigs are the same standard.... You can't expect a 'touring pro' to keep your gig free at the Dog and Duck if he is committed/contracted to another unit. You have to reasonable and also fair... If you want these people in your band..and you should, IMO.. then the diary and availability of other options is paramount. So, there will always be a pecking order in this scenario. The ability to keep a diary does indeed avoid a lot of hassle though... [/quote] Unless you really are that good (by you I mean anyone reading this in general rather than you as such JT) then dropping a gig for a better gig will get you sacked fairly quickly IME, if the band is made up of a consistent set of members as a lot of the bassist's here probably are then the rest of that band would rather have a slightly less brilliant bassist that wont drop them in the poop last minute. I have only pulled out of one confirmed gig as my brother anounced he was getting married that day and wanted our band at the time, the others were finding it hard to grasp that we either did my brothers gig or no gig (or at least not with me) at first!

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1417189194' post='2618019'] Sadly I don't read, wish I did. Reading would be unaceptable in all 3 of these performance scenario's anyway. Although I'm sure I'll have some notes taped to my monitor for the first few gigs. As to your 1st question I'll have to let you know in January [/quote] One thing I have found since learning to read (not sight read either, I am really slow at it) is that you dont need to have a stand in front of you and sit on a stool for it to be useful, I can 'see' the awkward runs or rhytyms in a song to some extent, I imagine those who do it well can almost see the whole song in dots!