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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.

He’s happy he got the gig, let’s give him some slack and congratulations.

@Graham56, re "I'm tempted by the Ashdown. I had a Mag 300 head before which had a great sound, but couldn't keep up (this was with an inefficient 210 cab). I do keep seeing comments about Ashdown output not being as loud as the wattage suggests but other people love them." This might have been the case with earlier ranges - I have to admit I thought this with an early edition ABM500 I had as a backup amp - but I`ve got the ABM600 & RM500 which are current ranges and irrespective of cab/cabs I`ve used these have always been plenty loud enough. For reference I play in a skinhead/punk band so not exactly quiet music. Like Markbass I find the Ashdown amps work well with Precisions - I used to have Markbass amps myself but moved them on due to needing a bit more upper-mids and drive for my current band.

Def, Ashdown make great quality, great sounding amps, and are very good on customer service. I`d avoided them for years based on the "woolly" comments that I`d seen banded about but got to use them as provided rigs and realised that they are top quality amps, so ditched the gear I was using in favour of Ashdown and never looked back. It`s unusual for me to keep any amp more than 6 months but I`ve now had my ABM 600 almost 3 years. I`ve also had the RM500 for a fair while too - sold my v1 to get the v2 purely due to the brushed steel front panel (much more middle aged eyesight friendly) - and it`s a cracking amp.

As I’m leaving my band I’m going to be offloading a lot of gear this year, can’t promise I won’t buy anything but will def be more out than in.

It’s something that seems to be common amongst many comparisons, the cheaper items seem livelier at lower volumes. Now whether that means once you get to loud loud volumes that means they sound harsh I don’t know, but if I think in regards to all my gear, the costlier items all sound much mellower/subdued than their more cost-friendly cousins at home volumes. Btw I’m talking same model, such as US/Mex Precisions, Fender/Squier guitars.

I’ve only auditioned twice for bands, rest of time I’ve been asked. First time was a local punk covers band who I knew, so knew what the band was about, what their gigging calendar & strategy was. Got the job and took it, was great while it lasted. Second was a rock band that put an ad up on here, based/rehearsed in High Wycombe. I got it, but the drive, which used to take me 40mins when I worked there in the 90s took over an hour on a summers eve, so I was up front and said that I knew I wouldn’t last doing that in winter. Still stuck around for a few months til they got someone permanent. And given that I’m soon to be bandless who knows what the future may bring, all I do know is that I won’t consider any bands that gig countrywide, and travel for hours to gigs. And given how much I’ve done with the current originals band I’m not sure I could even get close with another so I’ll probably look at covers. But for the moment I just need a rest from it all.