Lozz196

Lovely looking bass

That is a great tone, I’m a Duff fan too

My last gig with The Spacewasters was early Sept, we have one this Sunday and had a rehearsal on Saturday to run through the set a couple of times. More than anything it was for the 2 guitarists who in the downtime have got together and worked out "this solo is best for you/this is what I should do for rhythm underneath" sort of stuff, they got to put it into practice on Sat and the work they`ve done really went well.

I`ve put a sticker on mine that reads "if no sound check headphone switch on the back" as have been brought to a state of major panic at gigs when my RM has appeared to not be working due to this.

Interesting that given he both tuned up to F# and used quite light strings his sound had such a good low-end.

On the basses I have with through-body stringing I always use it. Not for sound, or string tension, but to make sure those darn ferrules don`t fall out and get lost!

In my two gigging bands we had set formats, either rehearsing a set for a gig, or rehearsing to prepare for recording. If the latter the songwriters would bring the gist of the song in and then we would work on it together to get it in its final form. In my non-gigging band we often suggest a new song and learn it, only for the guitarist to turn up having forgotten to do just that. In his defence he is like this throughout life, not just with regards to the band.

John Taylor - boost those mids Deon Estus - Jazz Bass

And a queue jumper, going by the above

Can’t Explain - The Who

And probably a lot better too, Dave

Through the body it’s slightly more.

Slightly higher string tension on string through. I have found on my string through Precisions that there is a tad less mids but we’re really talking a waffer theen meent amount here.

That’s a good point, and yet another way the audience get ripped off - if the artist wants/needs a certain amount to make the tour viable then having 40% taken from them will just result in an increase to factor it in.

Same here.

Looks great Mike

Returning from one of our trips to Germany, we got talking to a chap at Hamburg airport. He asked if we were a band, turned out he did band transport/tours. He was touting for business and swiftly established we weren’t in the league he worked in, but in chatting to him he said that his last act was making well over half a million in merch at some gigs. I won’t name them but we are talking a top act. I suppose with £50 t-shirts at large venues it’s possible.

Darn, not going to be able to make this now, apologies

Sadly and not exactly about cost, going to gigs for me now means unless seated I can`t go, standing for a whole evening just too darn painful on my back.

Does look great. I had a similar setup back in the 80s.

When I saw The Darkness last year Justin Hawkins, in between songs, announced that The Darkness` No 1 fan, Karl, was in the audience that eve. He then said, Karl, as you`re our No 1 fan how about putting your effing phone away and watching us. Did get a big laugh - rather ironically from many who were holding their phones up.

Senses Working Overtime is a classic, loved that when it came out and still do

Yeah I`ve had the Classic Vibe and the original Player, the Player a better bass imo, though much of that could be my preference for a maple fret-board as do prefer it to rosewood. But the CV as a base for modifications such as pickups etc def worth considering especially if rosewood fret-board is a preference - edit, and there`s currently one of the original CVs up for grabs on here at present.

If only there were a black/black/maple..........

I`ve got tickets for Volbeat at Wembley Arena in a few weeks, at £50ish a very pleasant change to pricing, as most gigs are way more expensive. Volbeat are a pretty big band and I have in the past paid more for tickets for smaller bands so it`s refreshing to see a big band not try and max out their tickets. But then Volbeat seem to be fairly old school to me, release an new album/CD every couple of years and then tour it.