stingrayPete1977

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1361522306' post='1986824'] Weddings is what we do ! I fall in the bookings for 2015 Category. I have to say I love the " we are going to start a wedding band " thing it makes it sound so simple. I have played in every situation I can think of over the years and the hardest gig i have done is a wedding gig. It's easy to get a pub rockin but to play a room that has just sat down and stuffed themselves of food and had a long day is a different matter.then do it so well that you have every weekend booked for the year and keep it that way for the years to follow. I am not saying it isn't a lot of fun but its not as easy as they might think. 6 Anyway, why bother with these guys. Find a band that is looking for a bass player and is already on the way to getting some gigs. I always found that the worst part of setting up a band is the first 6 months as finding five people who get on can be tricky and this is normally when you chop and change a few members to get the right crew. With a reply like theirs I would count myself lucky and move on. Btw if anyone know of a good sound guy looking for a gig in the west of ireland give me a shout. [/quote] We are just starting a wedding band at the moment but to be fair we have all done it before, it is hard and we have decided to start off all legit from the off so we won't be able to do them for feck all like we have in the past. I know what you mean about tough audiences too, I hate those random week night ones, who wants to party until late on a wednesday when they need to be up early for work especially when they are in a bad mood after having to waste a holiday day on a wedding they did not want to go to!

This is not helping my gas!

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1361527073' post='1986910'] I went to buy a Zoom pedal once off a forum member. He kindly gave me a play of his 5 string and for some unkown reason the extra string just befuddled me. It was so emabaressing, as I sat there plink plonking away. I have no idea why it did that to me, but it just reinforced a prejudice that I already vaguely felt against 5 strings at some basic level [size=3][i](ie: A bass has 4 strings, any more than that and its not a bass. Sort of thinking) [/i][/size] [size=4][i]So my 'transistion' was non exsistant, and always will be [/i][/size] [size=4][i][size=3][i] [/i][/size][/i][/size] [/quote] If you search back on basschat I made a post fairly similar to yours, even got into a heated debate as I felt so strongly, sold my '71 MGB GT and bought my first pre EB and I love it, never gets played as a year later I switched to 5 strings

[quote name='graham1945' timestamp='1361486482' post='1986610'] Yer 'tis! Have just had a Bartolini p bass pick up fitted by the Bass Gallery in the neck position (after this photo). Graham [/quote] I like it!

They do make a deluxe one with a better finger board and stuff, is another couple of hundred quid.

You know Bob I'm not sure there is, I thought I would try the Stagg then upgrade if I could play it but the only ones worth going to for me are a lot more cash like the Yamaha Silent basses, There may be some more obscure ones I dont know of but just trying them to play before buying to compare is a challenge! Get a Stagg and do the mods and you wont be dissapointed If you go for Spirocore strings or similar you are up to £450 anyway, add a bow at £100 and a few other bits and its adding up, a nice bass with crap strings is not going to be better than a cheaper one with good strings from what I have learnt so far.

Some poor bugger is going to register as XXXXX and get all sorts of grief

Still not discovered who this is then? Damn Bass Collection gas now though, I thought it was.

If they (and fwiw others commenting in this thread) were so 'pro' I doubt anyone would be bothered about people being in other bands, all the best pro and semi pro bands (for want of a better term) I know have at least one stand in for every member of that function band, the best wedding bands have some bookings into 2015 with almost every weekend taken for this year, even 'pros' need a weekend off now and again

It's not a bass collection is it? No fret makers and something on the truss cover, just my luck to fall for one after seeking my last one!

I do actually like that bass what is it?

I like his tobacco burst bass, waistcoat and glasses!

Ha

I've got an Atari 2600 but can't find any of this music in any of the menus?

Yes the spike does rattle a bit, I have wrapped mine in the thin foam that it was packed in and sellotape, fine now

No idea

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1359721761' post='1959303'] I always shave off a couple of euros everytime my girlfriend asks me how much i payed for my latest aquisition... [/quote] I try and shave them off from the end, £1000 becomes £100 for example

Must be good if there is so many pages about them? I wonder if they have an album coming out or something that needs promoting, I did notice a lot of talk about mop tops which I can only presume are some form of sweater?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1361304812' post='1984336'] Holy crap - I thought it was about the Beatles. [/quote] Who are they, some new band?

Does anyone? whats this one about anyway, horse beef or reading music not being compulsary was it?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1361301992' post='1984249'] Flipping hell! I can't believe this is still going! Please lock the thread before we die of boredom! Oh yeah... IBTL. [/quote] I think I did that joke a while ago?

Yes I would like to see it

[quote name='lastnotleast' timestamp='1361300527' post='1984223'] Yes but how many of you know what the tertiary dominant chord is in the key of Bb? I have been told that there is now a guitar which plays in tune no matter how badly it is out of tune. These folks are not musicians but rather "guitar owners". [/quote] My mate does a gig with a loop pedal and a Variax guitar, makes some good noises! Has the lowest 3 strings as a sort of 51 P bass sound and the other 3 as steel strung acoustic mainly then swaps to a strat or a Les Paul for the solos, crazy eh?

Are those the ones with 15 frets or something?

[quote name='megallica' timestamp='1361300378' post='1984216'] It was a pretty obscure model of a bass that has been out of production for 20+ years, so I did search completed listings on ebay but this didn't turn up any results. I have had some great buying experiences on basschat as well but I was pretty naive when I started out on basschat I was happy with the bass before and to a lesser extent after. [/quote] Tricky one with obscure stuff I guess, I have paid £1200 for a pre EB Stingray but I would not really like to sell it on at that price, try and find another (even the white refin on ebay is £1400) , If I sold it for £1500 ono on basschat I would say that is still a pretty good price, does that make me a flipper?