stingrayPete1977

What about the inca?

I have sent an email to the guy I know and told him where to look! Black one is just like mine

Ebs freak posted two in a row! Null and void Or Bilbo wins?

You make it sound so simple TimR! Like many of us here I have done allsorts of stuff, spent years doing pubs and clubs with a blues rock band at the same time in an indie rock band doing weddings, functions and a few pubs etc, after 5 years of functions doing covers its been quite nice to play in an originals band again even to small (very small sometimes!) Audiences that appreciate our skills. That said I have done that for a couple of years along with some function dep gigs to keep my hand in and have just started a new function/pub covers band and will be back at it earning a few quid next year once my broken arm is fixed! As for bribing people with cds etc if you give 20 away that £20 per gig at cost plus a few t-shirts its going to get expensive every week, sure we could do it now at our age but we are too old for fame and fortune in this fickle world and thinking back to my teens it would of been too expensive to do. Audience reaction after your first song should be enough to tell where its going imo/e usually downhill for me

Inca silver

That's not really my point at all but hey what the heck who cares

I might know someone interested in the black one

Should be a nice little bundle of strings and plectrums etc on its way other than that I'd keep it.

I do both with varying degrees of success, sometimes its busy sometimes its empty regardless of what we do, if the previous band does not watch us i dont watch them, sad but true. If they are on first i always watch though.

Some people would rather play their own music for free to a handful of people than a packed out venue bashing out mustang sally, if they did not we would have no new bands to do covers of at functions, not even sex on fire!

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1355328430' post='1897009'] I think it's awesome. Since it's already deviated into maple v rosewood and back again, I think the REAL question is, which is best? 1. Mark King playing fingerstyle on a maple-boarded ash-bodied Ray through a 100 watt all-valve amp into a broken-in BF Super 12, or 2. Flea playing slap on a rosewood-boarded modulus through a 300 watt class D head into a fresh Baer ML-212. [/quote] Always flea

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1355328056' post='1896999'] Is this one still going? It must be a record! [/quote] Its record that just has a looped noise at 25hz on it, parp!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1355324033' post='1896935'] I never take a crowd for granted but we do our homework. We've done the usual London circuit which was on these sames lines....hasn't everyone..?? But any mistakes we make..we don't tend to make again. 1 gig of this ilk is kind of forgiveable but you should get the message about what works for you and what doesn't. This is also why I like money to be a factor in these gigs... it SHOULD focus the minds on what needs to be done. We have this 'bunch of youngsters experience thing' all the time and, tbh, they will have to get their arse in gear as does everyone else. That allpies to any band as well, as far as I am concerned... For me, I was working function circuits at 16 or 17 and it was a great learning curve. I have the most time for kids who will promote their own shows and also come along and support others.. Depends on your emphasis, but you can either do the gigs that get you out to play... or you can do the gigs that you wnat to do, but you have to work it. There are gigs out there, you just have to get them...but it all comes down to whether people will buy what you are selling and there are no garauntees in that... [/quote] In the same way you think these gigs sound bad many 17 year olds would hate doing the function circuit, I know I would of done

He was a pie eating nose picking w***er!

The time people are spending breaking in cabs could be spent eating a pie, practicing a tricky riff or picking their nose all of which I have probably done whilst my new cabs sit dormant waiting for their first gig Lets be serious just for a moment, someone playing a p bass with flats through an ashdown rig compared to ebs freak playing his gb bass through an ebs rig is going to be 1000000 times more different than anything breaking the speaker in will do.

Maybe we should have a winter rig made of old worn out cabs?

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1355316862' post='1896790'] Is any bass worth 1500? [/quote] All the ones that sell for £1500

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1355234944' post='1895709'] The gigs sound soul-destroying to me... If you don't play to a crowd, I don't see the point, so this sounds like the death-knell of a band . [/quote] And how do you know that's going to happen, how are a bunch of youngsters going to get experience of playing live, how many massive bands had to do these gigs before they got to be in your position where you have this guaranteed crowd?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1355308408' post='1896589'] That's because everybody is else is knocking them out instead... [/quote] I wouldn't buy one however cheap they made them

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1355301854' post='1896459'] Stack 'em vertically - then the badges look right! And when you get the other two, stack 'em on top. Use stepladders to adjust your amp. [/quote] Correct, ratchet strap round the lot

I love my mutes! Never recorded anything with them engaged but used them plenty of times, love cats by the cure for example.

They look sh*t on the side and that is the most important bit imo the badges are the right way up and the cabs are the same width as the head too, why would it come crashing down people have been stacking two 4x10's for years!

I dont know, i remember when the fake rolex watch thing kicked off years ago and someone asked the boss at rolex what he thought, he said the sales have gone through the roof as people that can afford (or cant even) now want the real version, two years ago no one knew what a rolex was! Same happens here i bought my first ray in 2002 within a few years i wanted a pre eb. I bought a yamaha virago years ago and got so sick of people asking me if it was a harley davidson i ended up buying one! Ebmm were one of the very last companies to introduce budget versions, squier,epiphone,warwick rock bass, cheap ibanez and yammys,charvel, charvette etc all predate the olp,sterling range and the sub basses in most cases.

Verticle for the win