Lozz196

I`m going back to about 2009 when a band I was in played a scooter rally. We had to provide full backline and PA, but the gig was indoors (the rally was at some clubhouse in Kettering) there was power etc. We were paid £400 I think, plus free camping - as the bands name was The Daves our 4 tents became Camp David.

I think I`ll get this done, good call methinks.

Yep, caught me out the other night. I’ve now taped an instruction onto the amp to check this now so I hopefully don’t cause myself major panic anymore.

What the phonk!

I do understand that aspect, I play all of the ones that I`ve bought as investments, I just don`t rehearse or gig with them.

It is possible to both be a bassist and buy basses/instruments as investments.

Pretty much the same for me.

I remember back in my youth turning up to the studio and the producer being rather miffed that my intonation was out. I didn’t even know what intonation was, I just played the bass set up as it had been when I’d bought it. I think that’s my only faux-pas re studios.

Going by what I`ve heard at The London Bass Guitar Show you`d probably be named as a bad bassist. I remember trying a bass out there and playing Warhead by The UK Subs with a plectrum and people were literally open-mouthed, seems I wasn`t a part of the slappers gang.

The main thing I get from that is: “I wrote them for nothing. It just doesn’t seem right to pay these astronomical numbers of dollars for something I created for nothing.” Fair play, I see where he was coming from.

I struggle with that big time, mainly as hearing wise I can never fully - or sometimes hardly - understand them.

Hubba hubba, Marshall making Ampeg look positively tiny there. Am very envious, having heard a couple of bands use the full VBA stacks they are immense, VBC412 my fave ever cab.

That second pic makes you look like you’re levitating.

And the below, tho apparently it could also be about toast

Def, really nice gesture that

Sounds to me like the gain/drive is on - maybe the on/off switch for that has broken leaving it on.

Motörhead - Ace of Spades currently on (10pm - 11pm)

Yep, the moisture in the air is what chills the bones.

My thoughts are not that far from Ampeg but seems to have more of a lower mid bias than that of Ampeg which seems higher.

Yep I had mine set so that the loudest notes - usually the low G - pushed the needle into the red.

Political views - at least in the punk scene anyway. Not so often linked to parties but more views of how poor things are and how they could be made better.

Just shows sometimes we already have the instruments that we gel with best already. For me no matter how a bass sounds or looks if I don’t gel with the neck - including the finish on the neck - then it’s game over.

I’ve a tear in my rotator cuff muscle in my right shoulder that over the years has affected my whole back with regards to posture amongst other stuff. This year I’ve also put my lower back out a few times including a bad one around Feb where I was in constant pain and had (and still have) restricted mobility, though fortunately not too bad. As such I’m now at the point where the weight of a bass is a very important factor, for this reason have gone short scale.

I’d open eagerly and enjoy my new bass. When I’ve flown for gigs the bass has been in the hold at however many feet with I’m assuming no heating, I’ve had to use the bass the same day and never any issues.

It’s funny but on the punk & rock scenes quite often the bands are the weird ones by being the most ordinary looking, in comparison to the audience.