Lozz196

I never bothered with any of this until my last band, I have a piece of each bit of merch we did, plus a copy of the gig listings. I also have a tattoo of the bands logo, all the names of the countries we played (9) and the logo of the Rebellion Festival with the years we played it.

Harley Benton get a good write up, I’d also put forward Squier Affinity, once set up properly they play very nicely.

Similar to @FatDrunkStupid as I have the exact sound I want - Fender JMJ Mustang into Sansamp Bass Driver v2 - I can’t think of any other gear, other than a blue JMJ. I think they look great but as I have 3 black ones I don’t need any more basses.

Furthering on this am jetting off to Portugal on Monday to record our (The Spacewasters) 2nd album. No instruments needed as the studio has them all (I’ll find out what I’m using when I get there), accommodation at the studio. Now we’re not professional, no chance of being so and under no illusions that this makes us so, but what a great hobby to have where we have the opportunity to do something like this.

To put things in perspective in 1985 £599 could buy approx 1000 pints of lager so that was a significant outlay for an amp back then.

In my old band it was all the band leader, on there pretty much every day chatting with other bands, posting re future gigs, new merch, talking with fans, new tracks/videos etc. He said it was invaluable in getting the band work. With my current band again it’s band leader but much less content, a much more relaxed input.

Aside from Basschat I don’t do social media. I’ve looked at both my current and previous band’s Facebook pages just to see what goes in but other than that not interested.

I don`t really care if people are using their phones or not, held aloft or not. I don`t understand it mind, I prefer to concentrate on listening mainly but also watching the performance. Maybe I`m just too old to multi-task.

Yep, whilst I was in my last band pretty much every weekend we were up & down the country, staying over in hotels, getting planes or ferries to other countries, was great. On the way to the gigs we used to discuss our day jobs and always end with “and that’s all they’ve got, where we’ve got this”, looking forward to the gig(s) we were on way to. Sadly the workload just got too much for me in the end but I loved all of it, where I’d like to have had more time doing it I got 6 great years.

Back in my Knock Off days we had a few people make their own tees, and if I recall correctly we were contacted by a band about them recording one of our songs. I never heard it but I really hope they didn`t do a better job than us.

Contact Ashdown directly re this, they should be able to advise what is suitable. I did pretty much the same with a pair of RM210s that I had, they put in some type of Eminence cones for me, made the speakers sound a lot better.

Rockpile were one of the first bands I saw live, was about 79 when Dave Edmunds was in the charts with Girls Talk.

Another thought here, has anyone had people making bootlegs of your merch - t-shirts etc?

Strangest time I was recognised was at Hamburg Airport, by The Macc Lads of all people - we were playing the same venue that evening.

I`ll have to make the effort to come and see you goth chaps, @Clarky & @BigRedX, you`re doing some pretty decent gigs/venues.

Things like: Where was it I saw you last, followed by, is that where you come from or are you local to this venue Elaborate about the headlining band that eve You doing Rebellion this year I`d usually get something from that that made it look like I had some form of clue about who I was chatting to. I find once I know someones name I can link them to things, Gary from Luton, Pam & Darren of Manchester etc.

That happened to me a lot in Knock Off as I’ve a dreadful memory for faces. First few time’s was embarrassing, I then developed certain questions to bluff my way out of it. No, who the feck are you wasn’t one of them 🤣

I think my experiences were that I worked with Simon Cowell before Simon Cowell had been invented, for example people saying "you`ve got to wear this" "you`ve got to stand on stage like this" "you can`t say that through the mic" all that rubbish. I wouldn`t mind too much but one of the bands was a punk band, that all seemed far too much like conforming to me.

1991, since 1987 I’d been in two bands in no succession with guys who were desperate to make it, all that showed me was music was my hobby, what I did for fun and that I had no intention of making it my day job.

Shame, would have loved to see adjustable drive/distortion/whatever people want to call it on a Bass Driver which doesn`t affect the overall volume, similar to that which is on Ampegs SCR-DI. The Ampeg is a great pedal but it`s not as good soundwise - imo - as a Sansamp.

Very fine idea, that

Well I haven’t got a current one and have no desire for a new one, I far prefer basses.

I’m pretty sorted at present, got all the gear I need (and in true Basschat style obviously much more as well).

I was fortunate enough to be at that gig @PaulThePlug, awesome though it was so loud it gave my elbows hearing loss