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Yeah it just wasn’t “me”, Bas. Very good pedal, did exactly as described but as I often find - to the cost of my wallet - I just prefer my bass/Para Driver/amp set up. Anything else in the line and it just sounds “wrong”, much the same as when I play a non-Fender bass. I suppose it just means I’ve found my ideal set-up (with backups, to keep on topic).

Ah so it’s on for this year then, did wonder if they’d gone ahead and done the deed or were going to wait til the next Rebellion.

I learned to play with a pick and whilst I have recently learned to play finger style I doubt I’ll ever use that method in a band.

Yep, think covers bands in pubs will be hardest hit by this. Gigs on the originals circuit I’m sure will flourish as people will be itching to get back and see their fave bands - I know I’ll be at a good few once it’s safe to do so.

I was in the crowd in Finsbury Park in 96 for Filthy Lucre by The Sex Pistols on their reform tour. I was also in the Hippodrome Golders Green late 99 for Stiff Little Fingers for one of their live albums, Handheld & Rigidly Digital.

Ideal, have main and backup amp in same case.

That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of that but yes, maybe it’s more the hard lacquer on the maple boards than the actual wood itself.

Dunlop Tortex 1mm or Ultex 1mm Triangle Picks Elixir Stainless Steel Strings (45-100 on Precision, 50-105 on Jazz) Fender Precision with either Fender Custom Shop 62 or Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Pickups, or Fender Jazz with Custom Shop 62 Pickups Fender Instrument Leads TC Polytune, Seymour Duncan Studio Compressor, Tech21 Para Driver v2 Ashdown ABM600 EVO4 or Ashdown RM500 EVO2 OBBM Neutrik Speakon Leads 2 x Ashdown ABM210H EVO4 PRO-NEO Speaker Cabs

Thanks for the tip, machine set to record both

Well in the cases of instruments that I’ve owned, I’ve found: Ash tends to have less mids than alder, so sounds a tad brighter. Mahogany has a deeper richer tone than alder. But I stress, this is only in regards to the instruments I’ve owned and where I’ve had the same instrument in both wood varieties in order to make comparison. I would echo the maple/rosewood thing though, at the Herts Bass Bash I think most that were there heard the difference on the shootouts we did.

For some reason or other I never got round to buying this, might have to remedy that situation soon, thanks for the reminder.

Not an album but a single. Never heard GBH before, luckily I loved both the A and B sides. Even more fortunate was fast forwarding some 35 years and playing on the same bill as them.

I’ve found with every bass that I’ve had that if the pickups are adjusted to manufacturers height spec that the E string is overpoweringly loud in comparison to the others. As such I lower the pickups to about 1mm height from the body of the instrument and that usually tames it - and then adding in light compression evens it out even further.

Hopefully Rebellion will now be ok too (start of Aug)

Moving on from my all time fave, All Those Wasted Years by Hanoi Rocks, others I like are: Filthy Lucre - Sex Pistols (in 1996 reform tour at Finsbury Park) Dig The New Breed - The Jam Live at River Plate - AC/DC Live in Yugoslavia - Anti Nowhere League Lets Boogie - Volbeat

For the budget it’s difficult to not think of the Fender Rumble, it fits the bill nicely on all aspects.

All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks, in 1986 I think I must have played that tape - yes tape - every day, or at least near it. I now have it on CD and it just takes me back to the happiest time of my life listening to it.

Was that 2008ish, if so I was there and although I love the band I couldn’t even tell which songs they were playing for much of that gig.

Motörhead at Hammersmith Odeon 1985, their 10th Anniversary Party. They were deafening in the bar, with the doors shut, but in the venue part itself, well you know when a band is so loud you can’t hear yourself speak, well they were so loud I couldn’t hear myself think. And there were all these pilchards shouting louder, louder. I nearly became religious and prayed for quieter, quieter.

Covered in Skas

I saw The Stranglers supported by Wilko in about 2010 and thought the same, tho I did stay and watch all of The Stranglers set. Wilko/Norm had so much raw energy it was amazing.

Agree, in an old band I used our guitarists Roland Jazz/Chorus amp to record with, it sounded great.

Three things that will help us all on offering some advice & recommendations: Budget Type of music/band line-up Does it have to be lightweight gear

Sadly - as I love SLF - these aren’t the only things I’ve heard about Mr Burns that are less than appealing. Yet credit where credit is due, a mate of mine interviewed him for TV and he said he was the nicest guest he’d ever interviewed.