stingrayPete1977

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[quote name='keving' timestamp='1494528666' post='3296801'] I think if used to refer to all guitarists then it is disrespectful at the least, although I've always thought it referred to the specific type of guitarist that has no awareness of the rest of the band. What I find much more offensive is the ginger bashing that seems so prevelant these days. It's almost as if people have finally accepted that it is wrong to abuse people based on the colour of their skin so have moved on to the colour of their hair. Where next, the colour of their eyes? [/quote] It's the only thing we've got left! Chin up rusty

Ah the old misery stick! I prefer playing upright these days, there is something proper about it.

What does it matter who played on it, they're all unconvincing anyway

Credit where it's due +1 for 10cc, that's one tight band. I also enjoyed the Latin funk type band "something machine?"

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1494360842' post='3295394'] I'm a Ginger Tosser. Knock y'self out... [/quote] Shut it carrot top!

"I'm not convinced" isn't much of an opinion really.

Dave Grohl played everything on the first Foo Fighters album.

I think we've had this thread before a few years ago, I don't use the term but at the same time it doesn't really bother me either, my parents would still use the term retarded or backwards at times but they are not being nasty, that was the term they grew up with, funnily more people would take offence at retarded now than "a sandwich short of a picnic" or similar, my parents still use 'coloured' instead of black as that was the polite way for them, black would have normally been followed by another word beginning with B when my dad was young! Times change and you need to see the context it is used in IMO, that's where the written word on the net can go astray at times. I might start a thread about picking on gingers now .........

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1494268508' post='3294571'] And all of the guitar stuff apart from the solo. [/quote] Yep but still doesn't meet Jenny's requirement, if Steve Lukather doesn't count as a guitarist that recorded bass on one of Michael Jackson's biggest hits I'm not sure what we're after?

Funilly enough it's a Genz NeoxT 2x12 that I use too!

Elvis Presley.

Steve Lukather played bass on Michael Jackson's beat it.

Regarding organisers "throwing bands together" I'd actually rather watch four very different acts than four 'new wave hypothetical death folk' bands.

I'm not being arsey, I've got a pair of RCF 735s right here, for a typical gig where I don't know the PA situation I could do EXACTLY what you are suggesting but I never have! Getting a complex full range bass mix including lots of FX to the back of a big room without over powering the PA system and keeping a balanced mix across the room is practically impossible using it as backline tucked up one corner, the bass will travel and the intricate bits will get lost, the voice coils are meant to be at ear height for example, I hate it when you go to a gig and the bass sounds brilliant for the first couple of songs then they click a pedal and it's gone! Flea does it even with a pro sound crew!

It's just a lot of work taking your own PA to a gig just so the bass sounds killer even though the FOH PA sounds crap?

I don't miss those gigs really, if there are four bands on with an average of four members per band and I'm in one of them then that's approximately 12 people, if the gig really depends on those 12 it's not much of a gig imo! More the merrier of course and it's the lack of audience that's the killer, IF the fans of each act all came to see you you'd have a good gig and i can see the appeal, I've been there many times but they haven't they've come to see their mates normally and each set of mates mainly watch their friend's band then leave, ah I remember the 'headline slot' back in the day, what was a crowd during the middle bands had become a handful of people and David Badiel once!

I'd rather use the RCF speakers as the FOH then you know you've got a good front of house, if the front of house isn't much cop then chances are you'll struggle to keep your rig volume low enough as it will be moving at lot of air, I struggle with my Genz 2x12T in those situations no matter how low I try and get the volume.

What sort of gigs require a full pa system on stage just for bass monitoring duties?

Tbf I can get a crap mix out of anything, I'm sure I could ruin any benefits these barefaced pa cabs can provide!

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1493996898' post='3292507'] It looks like a nice bit of kit [/quote] What is it they say about "one man's treasure"? I've got a bad back just looking at it

I've got a few fivers but the oldest is a 2004 Stingray

Toys, prams and popcorn everywhere but all I can add is a +1 to the RCF tops, they're brilliant! How can one cab handle everything from lovely female vocals to a nice low B and everything in between?!

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1493899183' post='3291618'] Well given that BSSM came out in September 1991 a "Flea era Stingray" is actually spelled "Mark II 4-string Wal bass"... [/quote] Or the five string Stingray he used for some tracks on BSSM, if the Wal was so good why didn't it get on tour? Maybe they are crap live