stingrayPete1977

Ernie ball super slinkys are a popular string, or regular slinky in the five strings 45-65-80-100-130. Those are my favourites.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1499813115' post='3333866'] Fine by me. I play for a living and would happily invoice for all services rendered. In an area with a busy music scene I can't imagine how so many venues wouldn't benefit from writing off those costs, and how so many musicians can scam their way through gigs. It is illegal, after all. Maybe we'd get a bit more f***ing respect and have our services and skills bought with a more reasonable amount if we were known to be running a proper business by more venues and punters, and gigs couldn't just be thrown around week in, week out for pocketmoney. But them maybe I'm just a jaded breadhead who cant possibly love what he does because he wants to do it by the book. [/quote] There's nothing illegal about being paid in cash, the venue will probably have made an entry into their books (that's not our job anyway) and the person receiving the cash can keep records and pay any taxes/receive and rebates on the cash at their leisure. If you ring hmrc and tell them roughly what you are bringing in against what is going out for most weekend warriors they'll say don't bother of it's below a couple of grand, my wife ran her own business for a year and they did exactly that when she rang them and gave them the sums.

[quote name='leroydiamond' timestamp='1499690781' post='3332948'] Terrific service for sure. After this, Fender might be inundated with a barage of dodgy jazz bass guitars that made it through QC over the years☺ [/quote] The postage fees on a 70s Jazz would cost about the same as sending a baby elephant by post!

Have you grown a quiff? Once the quiff grows you'll have it nailed, it's ALL in the quiff!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1499164083' post='3329585'] Why on earth would you touch the controls on a bass? Set and forget, guys, set and forget. [/quote] By law a bass should just have a single humbucker

Yep, cool!

Excellent, can't knock that.

I had a trans green SB320 Bass Collection, it was a great bass, probably still is whoever has it. I didn't realise that it had no fret position dots until about a year after I got it!

I've seen some right precarious looking rigs, mismatched cabs, one large cab stood on end of smaller cab on it's side then with a huge head overhanging the top cab either side, handles and feet glued back on and the tolex peeling off here and there.

My dad has had this one this week, he's selling a dining room set for £300, bloke wants it 100% and is going to put the money into his account including the £400 courier costs to take it to scotland, he wants my dad to forward the 400 quid onto the courier, he's obviously going to cancel the payment once my dad's genuine 400 hits the false account. They've no interest in actually collecting anything other than money, I'll bet it will be the same and he'll want you to send £50 or more to 'his courier'. The daft thing is if he'd asked to forward £100 for delivering the table my dad would have paid it!

I saw Soundgarden a couple of years ago, Chris Cornell's voice was excellent still, the recent album is great too, such a shame

Have you got a 'DFA' knob on your amp?

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1499275554' post='3330487'] Though I do agree, it helps and I use them for that reason... 'A bit of basic theory, job done' might be more pertinent! [/quote] True but Eb on the five is going to sound more in keeping with a typical song with lots of open E string notes played on a four than a four with the Eb played up on the 6th fret A string of a four string bass imo. Generally I prefer a fretted E on the B string these days too.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1499208137' post='3330047'] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson"]https://en.wikipedia...obbie_Robertson[/url] Played with and wrote many good songs for The Band [/quote] Never heard of them either

Never heard of him.

It's not by mistake that many covers bands have male and female lead vocals and if they can be combined into another instrument (our male drummer is a great singer for example) it makes the money go further or opens up gigs a five or six piece don't want.

It was a long time before I was convinced that taking things away is better than adding more and more, same goes for volume, I've started to make the guitarist turn down after he inevitably creeps up during the first set, everything is in the p.a. that I control so I can easily bring us up to suit but if there's only one thing that has changed since the correct sound check it's better to put that back where it should be! Guitarists

Five string bass, job done.

Most bands will be pulling more than a home studio all from one cracked socket behind the gambler soaked in beer in your local tickled trout

I'm sure someone here will have seen Bernard live?

If you don't like it then you don't like it, I didn't like it

I've got a couple of bars of bass notation, I had it done before I could read notation! It's a bluesy swing on my chest

Ah what about the stage bleed though......

Plenty of folk enjoy stomping along all night with ACDC without any silly frills or trebly clank.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1498566211' post='3325543'] It's a bass player's online forum. We're not allowed to talk about bass playing now? I thought he overplayed, and showed some (IMV) quite questionable taste in places. Still a great player though and I wish I had half of his chops! If Nile Rogers likes his playing then who am I to slag him off? Bizarrely though, it seems that some players are fair game for the criticism all the time. Geddy Lee? Flea? Mark King? Janek Gwizdala? I don't see why Mr Barnes should be above that? [/quote] Exactly, it's not like I've gone onto their twitterface or whatever to slag them off. My wife came in during their set , "ooh I don't like that plunkety sound" walked out.