Lozz196

Hi Harv, I’m in Knock Off, done a good few gigs with yourselves (and hopefully more to come).

Hi Joe, was a great gig, really enjoyed it. I currently use a 2015 US Standar, with the Custom Shop pickups. Plus my trusty Tech21 Para Driver for eq/drive of course.

Yes they'll be fine, I use them on my Fender Precisions.

Dear Born Yesterday I’ve worked with Guns N Roses/Kady Ga Ga etc, never heard your band but offering you a European tour. From A Scheister

Looks like a nice bass but agree, bit costly, especially as all that will more than likely happen here is swapping the $ for £ with no change of numbers.

Am wondering If I know you @MrMenace, given both your ID name and music type.

Just ordered 7 sets of Warwick Red Label Steels - £62 inc delivery. They seem to have gone up a bit on Amazon but Gear4Music had them at a good price so bought myself pretty much a years worth. Which is nice.

Last nights gig was great, we played at The Dome in Tufnell Park on the last night of The Old Firm Casuals UK Tour. Also on the bill were Rats Nest and Grade 2. Probably full - 500 capacity - for most of the night, all of the bands got great reaction from the crowd, this wasn`t a "too cool for school I only watch the main band" night. Now some parts of punk, like street-punk/Oi get clobbered a bit by those who see the shaved heads and DMs and start thinking of right-wing leanings. Well Lars, the singer from Old Firm Casuals put this rightly in its place saying his band were anti Nazi/anti fascist and no-one in their right mind followed that sort of cr*p. Probably received one of the biggest cheers of the night, this from a room full of skinheads - go figure, you labellers! There were some very messy sights in there by the end of the night but absolutely no bother, everyone had been drinking singing beer, and left the fighting beer behind the bar. Great night, I feel privileged to have played with OFCs again as they`re one of my fave bands.

I’ve found that Markbass cabs seem to have a high-end roll-off, so swapping to the Bergs may well bring these in, so in effect making the tone broader.

Very nice, personally I’d put tort on there for a real 60s vibe.

Fender Custom Shop 62, as found in US Standards 2012-16. Warm, rich sounding, great mids not too sharp on top-end, just a great vintage P-bass sound.

My gigging basses are Olympic white - which our drummer describes nicely as cheesecake colour.

The height of those two 410s is likely making the sound clearer - pop your Toneman on top of another cab and I`d bet the muffle is reduced.

Congrats Col, chuffed for you.

Good points, for me, for both bands I’d simply had enough of playing in bands and just wanted to go down the pub with my mates. Both singers in both bands were also a bit difficult to deal with and that may be a big factor, I’m not sure that I’d have stayed if they were easy going chappies tho, the pub just meant more to me back then. Both bands had gigs booked which I honoured til the replacements could take over, and I did fill in for one gig when the replacement was on holiday.

Both times I’ve left a band that was intending to carry on Ive said I’d stay until they got a replacement up to gigging standard - with the surety that they would actively seek one. I’d been in the first about 3 years, the second 2 years. With each band I’d have been happy to walk at the time and not look back but my sense of decency simply said that was wrong.

I’m sure it’s different in the covers world but for us as an originals vsnd if any of us can’t make it we don’t play, no deps/stand-ins whatever.

I found getting the feel and groove of a Pump It Up by Elvis Costello took a while. Not a particularly difficult line to play, just the feeling is way different to my regular style, which is why I wanted to learn it.

I borrowed one for a while - was 30+ years ago, but to my recall it was a very good bass.

I think it’s the convenience that they bring. At any gig, no matter what amp/cab is onstage I know that FOH will get the sound the band wants due to my Para Driver. Really makes gigging easy, especially on shared backline/15 min changeover gigs.

I was in a band many years ago with a guy who had a real bad run in life at the time. He got very angry and bitter as a result, turning very political and became basically difficult to be around/in a band with. So I left but now in later years I wish I’d stuck it out a bit longer and just been a better mate.

In the unlikely case it can’t be saved I’d look at the ABM600 EVO-IV. I’ve had a good few Ashdown amps, thought all were good but the 600 rules for me.

First time I used an SVT stack I was very underwhelmed at the sound when trying to get a good sound from it. Then the whole band started playing and I realised what all the fuss was about, sat beautifully in the mix, no booming, no weediness, just solid bass presence.

I used to have one of these and agree, brilliant cabs, probably my fave cab I`ve ever had but similarly too heavy for me now. Got to use one just before Xmas and I was really tempted to get one but the common-sense-monkey in my brain talked me out of it. I also used to have two Barefaced Super12Ts - the amount of sound from these two was so immense that unless a really big stage I couldn`t use both, and at rehearsal rooms the sound was all-enveloping. In my opinion two lightweight 212s is a modular solution to pretty much all gigging needs.