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You need to start trading up Dave. Get yourselves a couple of these for touring with. plenty of space and only one driver and some of these to fill it That's you sorted for the gear and you'll need some of these to help shift it All good to go now Dave.

Thanks for sharing that with me. I was always a huge fan of Trevor from Bowie to Uriah Heep. Always thought his tone with the Kramers was excellent. Then again his Fender tone was excllent too but the Kramers had a bit more edge to them and they looked good. When i saw him on the Conquest tour in Glasgow he had the one pick up version as it was first time i had ever seen one in the flesh. I still have the programme from that tour and i think there's a pic of Trevor playing the bass That's a fantastic piece of history you have there. Nice one. thanks Dave

My exact thoughts Stewblack. 👍

Ours has eyelets and we usually hang using bungees to the nearest hook or whatever we can find. Failing available hooks we'll hang between 2 rear lighting stands. Ours is approx 3m x 0.5m. The writing is actually done in purple but venue lighting and camera have put a darker tint on it. Dave

When i was younger i could only afford one good bass Seriously tho i've always had more than one bass since my very early years playing but like you i only ever took one bass. When you're young you never imagine anything going wrong. That comes with age Dave

Yep i bought some of his albums after the split. I really liked it. Been a long time since playing them as they were tapes. From memory i thought it was more like how Supertramp would have been if they hadn't gone down the more commercial route of Breakfast In America but as i said its been a very long time. Might youtube that now LOL Edited :- just had a quick flash listen to In the Eye of the Storm and on hindsight i think its actually more like Breakfast In America style. Dave

Pretty sure Steve Hackett's bass player in 70's / 80's Richard Cadbury had a weird bass rig that i think was something Steve Hackett requested. Not sure all the details as was a long time ago but basically his bass went into a stereo flanger / phaser effect then split into a bass rig at each end of the stage giving the bass a very full sweeping sound. I remember seeing him live on the Spectral Mornings tour i think it was and the bass was amazing. Sure someone on here will know the exact details of this set up. Dave

Or he's just showing off his collection to help book sales.

Our guitarist will use an acoustic 12 string in a few songs but he's looking at trying it with his Les Paul using some kind of pedal to see how it sounds at rehearsals first. I'll take a 2nd bass but its purely as a back-up. Dave

Agadoo Rumours album Almost anything by boy or girl bands. Mostly because of what Casapete has mentioned above. All grossly over-played. Rumours album had some songs played almost every pub or club (disco) you went to. Dave

Chris Squire used to swap between his Ric and other obscure looking basses on the tour i saw them. Nick Beggs changes between his Ric, Spector and his Chapman stick basses. Never really seen anyone change between P & J basses mid set. Dave

Geddy Lee in recent years although not so much in his earlier tours.

100% agree. I went the Markbass route and it was OK but not quite right so went back to big amps and cabs. Mesa rig is my best to date. Still to try the Mpulse thru my Berg HT322 at a decent volume. That's for my next rehearsal Many of my experiments in 80's were because Neil Murray was doing stereo outputs from basses and bi-amping his then Peavey amps. All made sense back in the day when i was younger and fitter. Dave

i used my Roland GTB mfx unit with left going to a Warwick head and running a more bass sounding EQ and the other right hand channel going to a GB Streamliner head running a more mid to high sounding EQ. At the time i had a Bergantino AE112 stack and a Berg HT322 cab (12, 2x10's + horn). I wasn't after more volume but it allowed me have a perfect Low end bass tone that i could bring in as much as i liked. It certainly gave my bass a lot of depth but i got fed up humphing all that gear around for gigs. Now i have a Mesa rig. Years ago in 80's i ran a Roland pre-amp in to 2off Matamp valve power amps into 2 seperate custom cabs. A 2x10 cab and a 1x15 cab. Sounded big and warm with my Jazz bass. Really depends on what you are trying to achieve with it. I never ran any effects. The Roland had a compressor built in. Edited to add that PA signal was always taken from the Streamliner head and FOH added their own amount of low end as required. At the end of the day it was only for my own personal on stage tone. Bit overkill i think but always fun experimenting with your gear. Dave

To be honest the Ric just didn't suit what i needed at the time. I have recently considered buying another one. Don't let my youth experiences put anyone of the basses i mentioned. All great in their own right. Just depends what you are looking for

Probably had a few over the years but in order of how useless they were :- Ric 4003 - always wanted one and after getting it in 80's i found it very limiting in tone. Think i had it about 3-4mths. Shergold 4 & 8 string twin-neck bass - again early 80's (possibly late 70's) was huge Genesis fan me being just 9.5 stone it was just too heavy for me. WAL fretless - My dream bass at that time and again 80's only to find it had a dead spot Eb on G string and WAL weren't interested. Traded for a Fender Jazz. On hindsight after many years with varying basses the dead-spot may have been down to strings or something other than the actual build but i'll never know. Dave

What were you doing

Nice looking P bass.

Now that works and is very good. Liking that. Somehow the family link makes it feel right and a good way to go if possible. Not sure how i'd feel if the full original band were replaced by younger family members tho. Not forgetting Tim B Schmit aint the original bass player either but he's probably the more famous one these days.

on one hand YES, on another NO but good to know i can rely on you and your excellent advice sir.

Great wee review of a gorgeous looking bass. Like the maple necks as you seem to get more "twang", "zing" not exactly sure what you call it but its definitely there. I'm with you on the strings. Very zingy at first and then they just fall into a great mid-based tone and i use them until i feel them tightening up a bit on the bass then time to change. They aren't too expensive either and they seem to last me about 3 mths with me playing mostly at home for 1-2 hrs a day and rehearsals every 1-2 weeks with gigs as and when we can. Def my fav bass at moment and i'm slowly selling off my other basses. Just a Fender PJ and an Overwater J4 (not a Tanglewood version tho) and i'll be left with just 4 decent basses. I'll then add a VS4 i reckon or maybe another VM4 with maple to because i really like the Sandberg quality and sound at the moment. I blame Cuzzie for all this Sandberg GAS Dave

Don't you put fresh strings on for every gig ?😜

In no particular order but here's my top 10 :- Genesis - Seconds Out Floyd - DSOTM Rush - Moving Pictures Camel - A Live Record Arjen Luccassen - Lost in the New Real Sound of Contact - Dimensionaut Greg Allman - I'm No Angel Chris Cross - Christopher Cross Rainbow - Rising Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards Dave

Most times i think i'm ok within the genres that i play but then i hear someone doing an amazing bass solo like Manring, Berlin or Caron and i slide back into being a 3rd class bassist. I get plenty of compliments from bands i play in but its when i compare against people that can truly play i don't match up. When it comes to sound at a gig i regularly think my bass sounds off but then i see the bass Vids that people post and i think it sound great. Obviously the FOH guy is doing a better job than i am on stage regards bass tone Dave

Paul Stanley's son is a pretty good guitarist.