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It's a public performance so I would say yes.

Looks like a fair bit of space both East and West of the P U cover. I shall play hunt the masking tape when I can see in the shed tomorrow and update.

They're here, thanks to @Lozz196 Just placed them, no holes yet...

This exceptional Basschatter sent me some pick up and bridge covers when he spotted that the ones I had were not right for my bass. Unsolicited, asked for no money, just put them in the post. What a great guy, deal with utmost confidence.

As above, please

Please tell me you just did that on Photoshop

Keys guy in one of my bands may have all the above faults he may not. If he ever turned up to a bloody rehearsal we could find out 😒 However, fantastic player just joined another band, offered to chip in to studio costs for a session we'd booked before he joined, never interferes with my frequencies, transformed a good band into a great one overnight. I'm thinking of not lifting any of his patio slabs then....

I made a similar return last year. My bank balance has collapsed. Be warned.

Hello from another west country bass player. We particularly love those who come over from the dark side.* *Guitar not Chepstow

Btw thanks for the thread revival I missed this first time and it's been hugely entertaining, but more importantly it's pointed out some of the stinky poo that has come out of my mouth over the years. Hopefully I can learn from it.

Band leader: we should all have cool nicknames for when the singer introduces us, like Rocky Montana Me: Me: Me: go home Rocky, you're drunk

I'm wondering whether an elongated thumb rest running from the bridge right through to the farthest point of the body might be an even more unsightly solution. 😉

I started playing the wrong song once. Mental block centred around associating the titles to the tracks. That was a car crash. I somehow mangled the intro of the Guns and Roses one into the Bon Jovi one (can't bring the titles to mind even now). This is a genuine problem only really highlighted when I have to start the song. I get around this by using ireal pro as my set list. That way the chords are there on my tablet as a reference which works on my brain in a way that song titles don't seem to. Of course as it's a mental problem, now I can at a click bring up the chords I never actually need to. In the old days I used a magic marker to write the first bass note next to the song title on my set list; lower case for higher octave, capital letter if the first note is in the lower octave. My rationale was whatever happened I'd come in on the right note and at the right part of the fretboard. Hopefully everything else would then click into place. Just a comfort blanket but it worked

I have no experience of the Ampeg cabs. Well, I've heard others playing through them and they sound awesome but not tried them or the Ashdown myself. I used to play through an 810 all the time, it was an Eden and it sounded just fine to me. However now I've used Barefaced I doubt I'll ever go back to heavy cabs.

I have one student right now, she swaps singing lessons for bass but it's something I really enjoy.

I've just come back after a couple of days trying to get my head straight. Or straighter at least. Absolutely overwhelmed by the responses here. Thank you all so much. Those prone to depression will understand how difficult it can be to climb back from any disappointment large or small, those who haven't suffered still took the time to respond with positivity and love. I am humbled and grateful, thank you all.

Been playing for decades now. Big stages and small, theatrical to rock and roll and every point in between. 2017 the wheels fell off, lost marriage, home, mental health, work, just about all of it. Was lucky to have a family member willing to put me up so had a roof. Got a small pay off from the ex so she could keep everything and help ease my way into whatever awaited. Decided to embrace my 'freedom'. Buy decent gear, keep a vehicle on the road and get out there and call myself a musician. Took lessons, joined bands, started bands, depped in bands, placed ads answered ads. Gave it my all. This week the money ran out. I'm not earning anything apart from the occasional dep slot in a function band and the odd £50 here and there which gets eaten by petrol and rehearsal money. So I finally lived the dream, for a whole 13 months. Got pretty good at the bass by playing for hours every day. Learned I can improvise live to a good enough standard to get paid and asked back. Made some friends. But that's it. I'm going to have to get a job and go back to being a hobby bassist. Unfortunately at my age and with my checkered employment history, the economy about to collapse, and enjoying very unstable mental health, my prospects are not great. Perhaps I just left it too late. I did enjoy saying 'musician' when people asked what I do for a living, that was the first and only time since entering the workplace in 1980 that I've derived any pleasure from answering that question. But it was a sham.

My singer is obsessive about messy cables and so always brings a suitcase full of XLR cables and routes everything around the back of the drummer. Monitoring and effects will always be the weak link - obviously. Some folk favour the isolation of in ears others the little mike stand mounted mini monitors. I have one of the latter and it performs very well but you know what? I'm old school, I actually like a row of monitors across the front. Delineates my space from the steaming hordes. Also looks proper somehow. I know I'm a dying breed, one day there will be no visible amps, no cabs nor cables or stands. It'll be different. Not better or worse just different. Not how I like it but that's just my taste.

I love it. Truly love it.

Some of my amps could not cope with the master up full. Rather they could but the venue wouldn't. The Orange Terror for instance. There isn't a setting on the gain nob low enough for that kind of caper. You'd need to employ a team of nano robots to ease the gain up to 0.01 and even then I'd want some acro props at strategic places to be on the safe side.

There is the third camp. Neither cramp nor poseur. Those of us who don't take ourselves too seriously and are just having fun.

Thanks guys. Knew you'd be there for me

OLIVES?? Why that makes me mad. Evil devil's food.

Friend just bought himself a bass. Rather nice Squier Precision 5er, and for a bargain too. It had something called a ramp fitted between the pick ups. Lawd knows what or why this chunk of ebony had been shoehorned in there but I bet someone here can tell me.