Lozz196

Given that I’m leaving my band I’ll be in the position of offloading a lot of gear. Am currently trying to justify to myself that having 3 Precisions when not in a band is acceptable. So if anything my GAS for 2020 is finding a reason to keep stuff I don’t need, rather than buying more stuff I don’t need.

Excellent, well done sir!

TIs take a while to get used to with their tension being a fair bit less than most other strings. It’s something I’m going to encounter again as am going to have flats on one of my Precisions. From recall I adjusted fairly easily, especially considering I used them for my current band and my playing style for that is quite hard hitting. Won’t affect it this time though as they’ll be on the bass I’m going to use for learning genres/songs other than punk.

Wowzers!

100 Club gigs are great, hope you had a blast Col.

Add in the hands as well, a very important factor imo. And do agree the OP doesn’t need two basses..... He needs three!

Spot on Chris, that first song is the song where people/audiences generally formulate their opinions on the band, makes no sense to not hit them with a good ‘un.

Panic Re-evaluate Then panic again.

I don’t necessarily have a settling in song, but do have a fave to play which is 3rd in the set. As much as I love the two before it I’m glad when they’re out of the way and we’re onto song no 3 - This Ain’t No Love Song for anyone interested btw.

Excellent topic, a real feelgood air about it.

If I understand that correctly Bill - please bear with me as not too good on this stuff - if a valve amp has 16ohm & 8ohm selector then it’s ok to use a 4ohm cab and then just choose the 8ohm setting? Am asking as our guitarist has a Marshall with the above selector switch but often there are only 4ohm cabs available.

I`ve had an easy life 😂

Probably be Holidays in The Sun by The Sex Pistols. Great song, and a chance to sing the cracking backing vocals.

I did hit someone who was spitting at us in the face straight on with the headstock of my bass many years ago. Back in my early 20s I had the energy, strength, anger and ability to do that sort of stuff (as in lift a bass guitar higher than waist height). Nowadays I’d probably criticise their curtains or something equally severe.

Agree, it’s how we were designed as an animal.

I had a PF500 that was great, really nice recorded sound from the onboard DI as well as sounding great live. I believe the earlier issues with these are long gone now.

Nice parametric options.

Sounded particularly nice on the neck pickup.

We all have input but I’ll figure out some bits of it, such as ‘no those songs have similar starts, space them out’ and the singer will have input on ‘those two are b’stards to sing, space them apart’. The drummer will just hit things in time.

Well we don’t socialise outside of the band but we gig so much that would be difficult anyway. We spend so much time together gigging/touring that it would be rotten to spend it with people you don’t class as mates, so mates they be.

I managed to snap up an amp a good few years back for about £150 less than RRP on Xmas Day online.

I’ve done similar, had a card posted through the letterbox saying sorry we missed you, so opened the door and loudly announced I was now back home. At least the postman looked - or attempted to look - sheepish.

I read all of this and thank my lucky stars I’m in an originals band. The only people we get on stage are the ones who’ve been thrown there by the rest of the audience.