Graham

I must confess to not having played the 5-string version, but a G&L L2500 sounds like what you want :-)

It's just booze, 2 weeks without it won't be hard - I reckon if you try it you'll find it a lot easier than you may have thought.

[quote name='jmchich' timestamp='1373734488' post='2141117'] Amen to that. If you like it, it doesn't matter too much what genre it's in. Only thing it's useful for is to find other similar bands. For example, when I started listening to Stoner/Doom/Sludge metal I only knew a few bands, and knowing what the genres were called helped me find other bands. [/quote] As an aside, if you're a doom fan and don't already, I can heartily recommend following "DOOM And All It's Sub-genres" on Facebook, a bloke who puts up a load of YouTube links to doom songs every night, I've discovered a few bands I really like from there.

Really good, played a summer fete in the next village, was silly hot but I had a big 2ltr bottle of water so was okay. Crowd were up for it and were up and dancing in the second half - probably helped that the food stalls were packing up as we arrived but the beer tent was open until the end. I played pretty well, odd duff note but I played through and I'm not sure many people noticed. Best bit was as it was an early gig - on about half 6, finished about 8; my wife came and brought both our daughters with her, the older (4) loves seeing me play anyway so she had a great time but this was the first time the younger (20 months) had seen me and enjoyed it rather than just crying / sleeping through it. Also, the band leader ended the evening by confirming what I'd suspected over the last couple of months that rather have me in as a dep he's going to split the gigs half and half between me and the other guy as he's got a lot of other commitments at the moment. It's the best possible result from my perspective, I get a decent number of gigs but am not out every weekend and the other guy, who's a mate, still plays too. My youngest watching the band

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1373495855' post='2138393'] If anyone mentions Mark Hoppus they're getting punched in the balls! [/quote] I do like the intro to Carousel though :wink:

I'm a big Rancid fan - Old Friend, Timebomb, Black Lung and Axiom all jump to mind, but Babylon's Burning by The Ruts is my favourite punk baseline at the moment

check out James Pearce from Brighton's Stone Circle who were our old tour buddies. They are heavily influenced by Opeth and he more than rises to the occasion.

My daughter keeps saying "mummy can you get me a bass with four strings like daddy?" As she is a real girly girl and loves pink I'm quite tempted to buy one, stash it in the attic and spend the next few years upgrading the pickups, hardware etc until she's big enough to play a full-scale bass.

Where are you based? You'd be welcome to try my Tribute L2000 if you're nearby. I have serious SB-2 GAS, but can't find one local to try out.

On Radio 4 this morning they mentioned that Brian Travers formerly of UB40 is currently gigging with tribute act UB42 and wants to play with every UB40 tribute going. Class act there I think.

You may be on to something with the bass enhancer, as enhancer circuits tend to scoop the mids in favour of the top and bottom, though I'm not familiar with SWR amps so can't be sure in this case.

don't worry about that, just enjoy playing it :-)

I have thin frets on my Lakland Duck Dunn, which I think of vintage and bigger ones - jumbo I'd have said on my G&L L2000, I find I do prefer the frets on the G&L and make the odd fretting error sometimes I wouldn't have made if the fret was bigger. It's far from the end of the world though and doesn't stop the Lakland being my go to bass.

Don't know how much use this is, but here's a video of me with my Duck Dunn which has Fralins, the P pickup would have been soloed in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJhwuQf91E

At the moment I'm either practicing covers for upcoming dep gigs or I'm writing for my prog project, I'm looking forward to being a little less busy and can just learn some songs for my own enjoyment or work on some theory. That said, I've managed to squeeze a couple of Megadeth songs into my practice time this week - Tornado Of Souls and Rust In Peace...Polaris, pretty much nailed Tornado Of Souls, but haven't quite got all the riffs right on Polaris; Megadeth tracks are really good for your speed and dexterity.

It may be a great bass, and if you have and and really like it I'm glad you're happy. Doesn't change the fact it looks like a Squire Bronco though.

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1372761200' post='2129509'] Yip! [/quote] And another, glad they're doing something new though, I quite like the idea of a single pickup with the rotary switch. Edit: that should have read, "something new that doesn't look like they've raided the spares draw and jammed together whatever was available"

Megadeth Love them, but what a god-awful name

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1372708050' post='2128983'] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFATnRUeQM#at=39"]http://www.youtube.c...FATnRUeQM#at=39[/url] Hopefully the above link will work. My G&L in action. [/quote] tasty tone

Cheers Garry, I'll keep that in mind, see if I can persuade the wife that disappearing for a few hours one evening is a good idea (feel free to make a whipped noise). But here's a couple of videos that set off the SB2 GAS in the first place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d-TWBj46tA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZsWYcjEzk Apologies for the Matchbook Romance song - sh*te band, great tone.

That's fairly inoffensive as decals go isn't it? I wouldn't have known it was the Biffy logo and I quite like them.

Yeah, probably a bit too far Hhow do you use the dual volume controls and what sort of tone do you go for?

I've got a hankering for a G&L SB-1 or SB-2 really liking the sound of them on Youtube, but have never tried one in the flesh - who lives fairly close RH19 (East Grinstead, West Sussex) have one I could try out? I can bring beer / wine / doghnuts with me and any of my gear you might want to give a go. I really like the idea of one of these, but want to see if it's "just" GAS or if it will be right for me, cheers.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1372503032' post='2126490'] I often wonder where that one was now. Now I know. . [/quote] The mods you did are great, I've decided to leave her passive and predominantly use just the P pickup, but really like being able to dial in the j pup for the rockier numbers.