tauzero

She should have invited Donald Trump. Allegedly.

"When I said to use a P, I meant the bass..."

And with a really gorgeous wife/car?

For a lead amp, you can't beat Trace Elliot, although they may use depleted uranium instead of lead.

Someone seems to have nicked two of his strings, and his frets. Saying that, the documentation is also for a four-string guitar. That's one less than Keef.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

Somebody liked it enough to buy it.

Whichever bass I fancy using that day. Normally the fretless Sei 5-string but not always. Same combo as it's very very lightweight.

Behringer products are hand-made in Germany? Who'd have thought it?

My old club band was rather further down the food chain than the Stray Cats, but we didn't soundcheck either. Guitarist/singer did the vocal-only PA, which was already at the right level for the drummer, and I adjusted if necessary in the first song. Conversely, we recently supported our percussionist's band. "They never soundcheck", he told us. One hour soundcheck, after which the bass was overwhelming and the PA sounded more muffled than a Precision with flats going through an Ashdown.

Not sure if it applies to all early Warwicks, but the JD Thumb had a very shallow neck - I think that was a general early Warwick thing. In contrast, the Spector neck is quite chunky. I could never get on with a Spector neck, otherwise I'd have had one as they're very nice basses.

Don't forget, the answer is always "new bass". You don't have to get rid of the old one though.

We sometimes play "Relax" for a soundcheck number, and I have been known to go to the bar and buy a pint while playing along to it.

I would make a wild speculative guess that the people voting on this have largely ignored the mix (apart from the Newsted one, and maybe the last Flea one) and listened to the isolated tracks. In which case, they didn't listen to any Yes.

I was in a prog rock covers band that sadly never got past rehearsals. There were some excellent songs that I would have loved to do. And we did the best cover version of "I know what I like in your wardrobe" that I've heard. Favourites among them: Back street luv - Curved Air Don't fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult In a broken dream - Python Lee Jackson Nights in white satin - Moody Blues ("our song" for Mrs Zero and me) Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel Sylvia - Focus Tomorrow night - Atomic Rooster Silent Running - Mike & the Mechanics (bassline only slightly more complex than Waterfront but a great song)

That explains it then, I don't think I went past page 1. <makes note to look further down in future>

I used to play with a ceilidh band. For some reason on one occasion we'd swapped to using my PA - we normally used the dulcimer player's, who was married to the melodeon player. The melodeon was always a nightmare as it was very liable to feedback. I could hear it OK, and it appeared that the guitarist and dulcimer player also could, but at the end of the set with the mics still live and a face like fury she bellowed "I couldn't hear myself in the f*cking monitors!". Mrs Zero (who was the caller) and I eventually left the band - it was a good band but it was getting too stressful with the seriously mardy melodeon player. I'm not sure why people think eye contact is so important. The only time I make eye contact is with the keyboard player when the singer/guitarist goes off-piste and we exchange glances (all in good humour). Ear contact is useful though, as is playing all the right notes in the right order.

Tasty!

Seeing as I can't have a Sei, it would have to be a Warwick Thumb headless (what they should have done in the first place), 5-string but with 4-string pickup placement, JD neck profile (shallow), fretted and unlined fretless.

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Depends whether he's playing chords or notes, and what he uses as a reference point. Our guitarist (who can't play barre chords, removing that complication) uses a capo on various frets and just tells us what chord he would be playing if there wasn't a capo, the keyboard player and I work it out from there. It's useful to be able to read a guitarist's fingers for chord shapes if you get thrown in at the deep end, which is even more fun when they're using a capo.

I've only heard my nephew, a talented multi-instrumentalist, play a couple of times, as he lives in Cornwall. He has put a couple of videos up on Facebook but only keyboards, drums, and guitar, he hasn't put any flute up yet.

Yes, see page 1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boston-Guitar-Strap-Locks-Chrome/dp/B0013NDUP0/ (also available in gold from Amazon) or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Boston-Straplock-system-Black/264998676193 for black ones. Also https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264970357764 The ones with two nuts on the strap bit are better than the ones with one nut. Boston have proved compatible with Schaller but not all Schaller clones are.

That depends on whether it's new or second-hand. If it's a second-hand bass worth £250, £310 is quite a lot to pay.

GR Bass AT Cube 800 combo. 9.5kg (or 5/17ths of a furlong in old money) which is good for my back.