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I think we’re fortunate in these times to be able to carry either a DI/Preamp pedal or small Class D amp as backup, certainly wasn’t possible in the 80s when I started gigging - and even if it had been I’m sure I’d have still spent the money said backup would have cost on lager & vindaloos.

Agree, I’m a child of the 60s so the 70s & 80s were my musical eras, when I watch Top of The Pops reruns on TV from the 70s that magical era had more than its fair share of rubbish.

I`d agree with the other posts, on a budget difficult to beat Vintage basses, they punch far above their weight in quality, playability and sound. My old Vintage Tony Butler Precision I`d put above a Mex Fender in terms of all three, at a fraction of the price.

Ironic......

Cant seem to reply on the above, but to answer the question Bas, it was a strange one. Before setting off for the gig I plugged in and tested the (passive Precision) bass as I always do, tuned it, all was ok. Got to the gig, plugged in on soundcheck, nothing. Tried different leads, nothing. Soundman opened it up and there was a shorting issue on the jack that he didn’t have the tools to fix. So I had to borrow a bass. Made worse by the fact that the first band on the bill had flown over from Germany and I was meant to be lending them my bass. So as said, lesson learned, only happened once to me, I don’t intend on it happening again.

The only time I ever needed a backup bass Was when I hadn’t brought one with me Lesson learned

That’s quite telling in itself.

Always worth having a backup. At Rebellion in 2019 I plugged into the provided - and obligatory - Ampeg SVT, got levels etc, all good. Waited til we were ready to go, got the go signal, turned up the volume on my bass, hit a note just to make sure, nothing. Luckily there was a spare SVT behind the stack. I could have DI’d via my Para Driver no problem, but just shows, a bit of gear can fail at any time.

Quite a lot of the time, on the punk/Oi scene I found that a lot of the newer bands coming through had a hunger and a desire, plus were bringing something fresh and new to the scene.

I saw it and thought it was pretty good, great to see them not taking themselves too seriously.

Plus 1 on both points there.

I’ve never had a bass with a reverse P pickup but to me it makes so much sense, tighter more focused sound on the thicker bassier strings, more lows on the thinner twangier strings. Interestingly we did a blind Precision bass shootout a few years back at the Herts Bass Bash, with the overall and runaway winner being a Mark Hoppus Sig Precision with reverse P pickup. It was up against some seriously expensive instruments but with a room full of bassists voting with their ears only it trounced the others.

Motown as well maybe, again low end & low mids make those great bass lines flow.

On one of our songs on our last album I think it was 248

In my last band much of the time I’d be using shared or provided rigs going to FOH PA so all my eq/sound came from my Preamp/DI pedal, as such I carried a back up for that. In my current band, for our one and only ever gig that we intend to do I’ll take a backup amp as it will be a pub gig with vocals only PA.

I’ve had a couple of Korean Squiers which were ply and they were great basses, didn’t notice any issues with them at all.

I never knew Satellite was a cover version?

I love that part too, the start of it on piano then when the guitars come in, just fantastic music to me.

I can see where @Maude is coming from, a fairly easy song to translate to weekend warriors, with a pretty good singalong chorus.

The piano but at the end of Layla, which is my fave part of the song btw.

That will be my approach Paul, at the moment I don’t need a 5 string bass, and won’t get one until I do, but should the need arise I’ll have to focus solely on it to get the best out of both it and me. I’m be sure at some point it will happen.

For rock & funky pop, if not already in the set I’d put in: Play That Funky Music White Boy - Wild Cherry

People behave been banned for talk like that 😂