police squad

also, remember to enjoy yourself.

driving here too. I'm lucky that my wife will often drop me off and collect me, if the gig is local

thank you. It sounds mega with it's fender flats

I enjoyed that, thanks for posting

I bought a boss pedal from them. Defo would buy from them again if I needed too

I saw them at Wembley arena just over 20 years ago. Glen was in the audience there too. She sang great at that show

I played the violin from the age of 6, till 13. At 13 I bought a bass. This was 1981. My brother played guitar and we would jam together a bit. I played along with the Jam, The Police, Duran Duran and Saxon!! My first band gigged within 6 months of me buying my bass. I had/have a very good ear and could pick stuff up quickly After a while I decided to learn the songs on guitar and used my violin knowledge to work out the chords. Firstly by playing the scale and then arpegiating it and working out the chords from the arpegios. I now know that my violin theory had really stood me in good stead. The difference between major and minor (flattened third) and sevenths etc. My bass playing wife has been studying piano for the past 6 or so years and has learned much more theory than I had and I have learned from that too. In 1989 I joined up with a guitarist to do a mainly 60s duo. I didn't know hardly any of the songs but listened intently whilst we were playing. I soon worked out what chords would be played if a song was in a certain key. Needles and pins in A. C#m, D, E, it's not really that hard. I still learn songs this way now. I'm no virtuoso on guitar or bass, but I know I'm good enough to do what I need to do and have fun

No it doesn't. Custom shop '62 fender pickup This thing sounds amazing

I use a vox tonelab LE for guitar, in both my band and my duo. Works great. and depping on bass using my normal bass rig, everyone has IEM, so the bass amp isnt very loud. I could probably ditch it altogether and use my Tech21 pedal IEMs have really changed my whole perception. I'm loving it

I'm on Fender flats on a P bass atm. I liked the flats on my JMJ so have put them on a P bass. It's my first time using flats on a P to gig with. tension is good . Sound is mostly good too but some of the tunes I'm playing do need rounds (Clash/Jam) but I'm coping I think

I sing lead and do BV when playing with other singers I'm depping with a great band and the drummer does all the obvious harmonies, so I look for different ones. We ended up with 4 part harmonies on I fought the Law, on Friday night. (guitarist sings to). Sounded quite good

so in a slight change to all this, I'm currently depping in a well known local band. Their bass player, Iain (who is on BC but I don't know his user name) has a detached retina and is out for a month (maybe 2). They have an enormous set list, it's all new wave/ska. I did a gig with them 3 weeks ago but now I've done 3 last weekend and have 3 more this weekend and 4 the next. I work full time and am learning the songs virtually. I listen to them at work all day, and work the bass parts out, mostly in my head Yes I am making mistakes during the songs but I am trying to remember which ones are knowledge based and which ones are just hitting the wrong note. I managed to put the knowledge based ones right. EG, I was missing a chord in Lip up fatty. It was an E and a B flat. The keyboard solo in No More Heroes is longer than I think so I keep my eye on the guitarist's left hand. Each gig they try and vary the set, so I have lots to look at between the gigs too. It's great fun working this way and the punters don't really notice the mistakes. No car crashes so far keep smiling, laughing and dancing. It's all about the show

@fenderfever nasty injury sir, I hope you get the surgery you need quickly.

two here aswell. Ever since the pickup went open circuit on my P bass and left me with nothing

great bass line

I've owned this bass 33 years now. I did hundreds and hundres of gigs with it. Literally 100 a year for nearly 20 years. My wife named it 'Old Faithfull' because I was playing it when we first met (and she plays bass too, so recognised it when we eventually got together 16 years ago) any excuse to post a picture

I depped in a rock band yesterday. Wore ear plugs (ACS moulded). Stood right next to the drummer, they weren't that loud but how I longed for my Inears. No wedges, couldnt hear the vocals, hard work really

here's a link to my for sale ad, which shows the wear

I had a flea bass when they were first released. It did a lot of gigs and by the time I sold it, you could see more primer as the top coat was rubbing off nicely. It was a lovely bass too. Great pickups, I shoud have kept it but fancied something else.

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