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My initial thought is that this is incredible (albeit paid-for) publicity. Bet you his next tour sells well - assuming he can find venues to accept his booking.

I didn’t like the whole ‘each knob has an effect on the other’ thing. Could never get a sound I liked out of it, played through various Barefaced and Aguilar cabs. There was always a horrible gain in the sound when it approached gig volume, even with Drive completely off. On the other hand, my DB751 sounds quite simply superb.

+1000. The show I went to on 1st October of this year was virtually identical to the one I went to on 26th September 2017. I think it's invidious to call the tour 'Wisdom of Crowds' and to expect the audience to be happy with a carbon copy show. The part where Theo etc pretended to be Peckapella 'for (their) first gig ever' made me cringe this time. I would think twice about going to see them live again, particularly at the cost increases by a tenner year on year.

Saw the mighty Vulfpeck on Monday past in Dublin, Joe used his new Sterling for the full show. Sounded like flats indeed but the FOH sound of his bass was poor. Lacked any definition compared to his J tone. Met Theo after and he said that they have a new FOH engineer on this tour, so that could be to blame.

Is your bass set up correctly? I.e. are the pickup heights consistent with distance from the strings?

The disappointing thing about most Stingrays I have played is the uneven output from E string to G string. Going by the Ernie Ball forums, an awful lot of owners suffer from notes on the G string getting lost completely in the mix. This is surely a design/QC fault. You think EB would know better! It's up there with the horrible sharp pickup surround edges on a Rick.

To my mind punch is midrange - I would look at Markbass or Aguilar.

I like the Sennheiser E935 or Shure Beta 58A. I sing backing vocals in most registers including falsetto and find they both have a nice even response from bottom to top.

In Belfast prices are around the £1,800 to £2,000 mark for a 5 piece band, 2 hour live set followed by 2 hours of disco.

Worth every penny. Superb sounding gear.

A great guy who took time to answer some questions I had via email about his equipment during Tull days. I still have the emails in my inbox somewhere. RIP Glenn

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That guitar riff in Limp Bizkit's Hot Dog tho. Worth the profanity!

Isn't Sting about to release an album with Craig David?

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Hi guys Does anyone on here have experience of playing a resident gig in a ski resort? Looking general advice on how to approach it, tips, contacts etc! Many Thanks D

Joe is also touring with a band called The Olllam later this year - watch out for the name if they are in your area!

Racism noun prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Nope - nothing in that lyric remotely suggests any of the above.

Agreed. I had a hankering to buy that exact combination a year or so ago, and the only options were Sadowsky UV or Maruszcyzk. Nice to see the colour combo back in the Fender roster.

Re: your $20 Mayall story. That seems like a really cheap ticket? Some of the gigs I play in the USA with no name acts have $20 covers. Mayall is more than likely to be paid a set fee by the promoter of the show/tour regardless of 100 or 1000 punters showing up. The money definitely comes incrementally from a run of shows - you need to be doing 7 to 10 in quick succession for it to be sustainable IMO. I heard a story that Nile Rodgers' guys are on $500 a show but that everything else is taken care of (food, travel, accommodation, instrument techs, dry cleaning etc etc). 20 shows a month and that's some serious cash going into your bank account back home!

I remember seeing a bass of his for sale in Ireland a few years before he died. Apparently in later life you could find him plodding along with blues bands in local bars. Didn't Fender release a Noel Redding signature Jazz?

Pleased for you that this has been resolved. I'd still like the shop to take ownership of the issue however and acknowledge you were in the right.

My knowledge of him stems from watching various clinic videos, and he's not a great bass player IMO.

My upcoming gig on New Years Eve will be my 185th of 2017. To be fair, this includes weekly residencies as well as some extended tours of the USA, GB and EU. To be honest I feel like I could have done more - have had plenty of nights off where I wanted to be gigging.

I didn't get Jaco until I listened to his playing with Joni Mitchell - sublime. Picked up a couple of Weather Report albums thereafter, which I could stomach as they appeal to my prog side! His playing is superb.