tauzero

He played it live by playing the notes in reverse order. It was such a signature part of the song that he finished up playing it twice.

Did you have the rogue pictures imported (in the bottom panel) but not specifically inserted into the post? If you do that then the pictures get appended to the end of the post as presumably there's an assumption that you want to use them.

You could try supporting it by the body and the headstock and resting something reasonably heavy on the neck.

My band that eventually folded a few years ago had Mrs Zero as lead vocalist. The only two negative reactions we had were one when we were trying to recruit a guitarist and one potential candidate said women couldn't sing rock, and one from an audience member who decided Mrs Zero couldn't sing and followed her everywhere telling her so, even into the toilets. He was a big bastard so no question of just giving him the kicking he so richly deserved [1] - I assume he was the pub bully. So yes, there are some dickheads around. OTOH, we played in total to thousands of people so it's not a big proportion. Did the promoter hear you at this gig, or is he just going on the fact there's a female singer without hearing what she's like? [1] As a devout coward, I would obviously have delegated this task

Put strap locks on the bass. Everyone has different favourites, from Grolsch bottle washers up. Nothing more embarrassing than twisting your strap when putting the bass on and having it crash to the floor (fortunately I say this without personal experience). Take a fan and a towel. Make sure you know where you're parking and whether you're loading/unloading from there.

Don't you have a reunion tour to pay for your divorce?

It's the English equivalent of "schadenfreude", which, as a German word, is no longer permitted since Brexit.

The band that I dep for has a mandatory bass solo. Just the one, though.

Well, I didn't take the photos. That's guitarists for you. The monitors are Alto TS408s, which have the mains leads and XLR leads coming out of the back. When the audience are literally inches from you, them treading on a mains lead and pulling it out is always a possibility. And although the room on Saturday was comparatively massive, the enthusiastic dancers and sing-alongers got as close to us as possible.

Many years ago, I had two and they sounded quite different. The fact that one was fretted and the other was fretless had nothing to do with it, obviously.

A Flying V that's had its airworthiness certificate rescinded with extreme prejudice.

I used a fretless Sei Original 5 for my main bass for several years - switched back to fretted for the current rock covers band but do use fretless now and again when I feel like it, and take the fretless out as a backup bass. May switch back to fretless. I decided to use fretless for the originals band as it seems to fit better than fretted, trying using a 6-string fretless which seems to be working quite well.

After a fallow couple of months for Dirty Roses, with just a few dep gigs for the Bonnevilles thrown in, we had gigs Friday and Saturday. Friday was in Polesworth, about five miles from my house - small pub, made a bit more crowded by the pool table pushed to one side. It was cool though, there are a load of 12" fans mounted to the walls. Mrs Zero decided she'd come out as well, just two weeks and a day after her hip replacement - recovery proceeding apace. Slightly rusty but no huge mistakes other than a totally false start to Paranoid, one of the songs that's been a permanent fixture in our set for ever. Oh, and someone accidentally pulled the mains lead out of the monitor on the guitarist's side at some point in the second set so he couldn't hear the vocals. And someone came up to me afterwards and said that my Sei was the most beautiful guitar he'd ever seen. Gear: Beautiful Sei Flamboyant 5 headless -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. Footwear: Caravelle memory foam trainers. Second one was in Cheltenham, 70 miles away for me. Load in and out was from a car park right at the back of the long thin pub to the stage area right at the front, and as the singer was busy directing the guitarist and drummer (separately) to the hidden car park at the back of the pub, I had to unload all my gear (basses, rig, PA), which is probably a month's worth of cardio exercise for me. Large room, we were right by some opening French windows [1] although the downside to this was that there were a load of smokers outside. As I didn't know what the temperature was likely to be, I'd brought my massive fan, which proved a good idea. Initially it was a bit sparse attendance but a birthday party and a hen party showed up and the numbers swelled. There was one (relatively) young woman there who looked completely off her face (I had nearly two decades of marriage to an alcoholic so I know the look). She made rather close approaches to the guitarist and the singer (who both carefully avoided eye contact) and then when I decided to go walkabout a bit later on, she made a lunge for my bass, which I protected while beating a hasty repeat. At the end of the set, we did the standard pause while pretending we've finished and waiting for someone to say "more!". And, as always, some did. I noticed that one of them was the gaffer who was just outside the French widows, enthusiastically shouting "more, more!". Well, if the gaffer wants another song, we play another song. Of course, someone had accidentally pulled the mains lead out of the guitarist's monitor, but he coped. Had a moment of epicaricacy on the way home - driving along the 4 lane section of the M5 in lane 1, cruise control set to 70, and there was some dickhead bimbling along in lane 3 slower than me. So I stayed in lane 1 and went past him, and a short time later I saw in my mirrors two cars going past him, one either side, which then both went past me. Then the lane 3 hog suddenly came shooting past me just as we came up to a gantry showing 60 limit - I slowed, but lane 3 hog kept on at about 80 past the gantry and the HADECS cameras which flashed him. So he might not get done for lane hogging but he'll get a come-uppance of sorts. Gear: Sei Flamboyant 5 headless -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. Footwear: still the faithful Caravelle memory foam trainers. [1] "French widows in every room!" - Gerard Hoffnung

Just be sure to report that on the "BC Cats" thread.