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Fix You by Coldplay. by far the best thing I've heard from them, I find the rest of it dull

great idea. Cocktails and Dreams wins it for me. My 80s thing is called Miami Vice

All based in souh east kent 1982, I was fourteen and did my first gig with Glass Maze. Bass and vocals. mainly T.Rex and Buddy Holly covers. Drummer grew up and played keys for Toyah for many years. We had two young Royal Marines on brass a few years later. Out of Touch. About 1986.Guitar and vocals. Rock covers, did a few pub gigs 1987 Joined another pub rock band called 3AM plyed bass and B/vocals This morphed into Roadhouse. Rock covers with an ex Tenpole Tudor drummer. bass and eventually lead vocals too I joined an originals Band Called Hope n Glory. Big hair, 80s rock.Vocals only this one. Interest from Rod Smallwood but the band folded. The Crack. 1989. 60s covers, Bass and shared lead vocals with gutarist. Beatles, Marmalade, Beach boys, Searchers, Hollies. Great band 1990 Scandal. Pub rock, many gigs, great band bass nd vocals About 1998 ish The Little Alligators. bass and b/vocals. Guitarist from Scandal and his wife singing. Bit more modern stuff with girl singing About 2002 I joined Live n Kickin.Guitar and b/vocals, then I replaced the lead singer. Theyy been going about 15 years at this point. Very succesful local rock covers band 2010 reformed Scandal for a bit Then did Aftershock with the kid from Britains got Talent on drume. Very good band, guitars and vocals 2 singers, me and the drummers mum, her husband on lead guitar and my wife on bass. Band fell apart Rejoined Live n Kickin again, just as a singer but replaced the bass player when he passed away Miami Vice. 80s duo, guitar and vocals. Very succesful and still going Miami Vice reloaded. Same as the duo but a full band. The most amazing rythmnn section I've ever played with

that's a great 80s band name

I have my 1982 pbass special in a gear 4 music tweed case and it's fine

the pickup on my JMJ mustang is awesome, I thought it was a seymour duncan but the blurb doesn't say but I've just watched a 2018 review online and it is a seymour duncan. The newer ones claim to have a specially voiced pickup, whatever that might mean

a squier classic vibe p bass would be good. Also I can highly recomend a Vintage V4. Great value and great quality and sounds like a P bass. I have 4 Vintage guitars and they are all very good instruments and have good pickups too

I remember watching the BBC series, 'Rockschool'. They did an episode on reggae. It was very informative. The last reggae song I played live was 'Stir it up'. I found that missing the 'one' (first beat of the bar) made for good space. I didn't do it all the time but it sounded good

I use a sennheiser wirelss mic. Ew100 G4. It's analoge and on channel 38. Needs a license. It's awesome. Never had a problem in the 2 years I've been using it. Done about 100 gigs. If I was going to wireless for my guitar/bass, I would go sennheiser ans stay analogue

plonker comes to mind.

my wife worked shifts for many years and was also on call out too. She knew her shifts well in advance and was able to gig regularly. When we got together she was playing bass in an all girl sort of pop punk group and a classic rock band. Eventually she left the girl group and I started to dep for her classic rock band (they were mates and we used to play together in previous bands) as her shifts changed. It can be done but family probably gets in the way too. We dont have any kids but lots of people I know, have their playing restricted a bit by having kids etc. Even our dog is more important to me than gigs now.

I've been using QSC K12 x 2 and when needed 2 x Ksub. Allen and heath zed fx desks. The desk makes a big difference to the sound too. I've used this gear for over 8 years now. It's awesome. For a monitor, my duo uses the behringer b205. works a treat. I listen to the FOH mix through it. It helps us know that the FOH sound is balanced. When we go out as a full band (with bass and drums) I use a wharfedale evp 12 inch powered monitor. Again with the FOH sound in it. On stage volumes are low, guitar is a vox tonelab pedal into the desk, bass is bergantino head, 2 x cabs but low volume on stage. It works very well like this, for us anyway. Having a monitor has been the best thing to improve my singing, I can focus on pitch more than ever now.

I had the Ampeg PF500 and loved it I now have the Rootmaster 500 EVO II and love it just as much. If you're in Kent you're welcome to come and try it

note selection isnt the problem here, it's chords. I thought I would be able to just see it, but I need a book to tell me the chords. Also, I stopped playing the violin at 13. I got my mandolin when I was 47. A long time had passed but I still kmow the notes etc

I need to dust mine off too. Spent 7 years on the violin, then switched to bass and guitar. Mandolin came about 7 years ago, i thought I would be able to work it out but couldn't. Time to have another go methinks

yep, not often I get to the end of these videos but I enjoyed it. They all sounded very P like to me. I think my favourite was #3. Nice one

my wife and I talk about this all the time. Who's rock n roll and why are they rock n roll. If your persona in a band roll is rock n roll but you decide to be polite and well mannered off stage, go and do the shopping etc, are you still rock n roll? answers on a post card to the usual address and we won't be able to returm your paintings..........................

I enjoyed it

wow, just wow. I missed this thread when it first started but that is first class all round I would definately come and see you

totally agree with you Geoff seems like a great drummer too

I loved it. It really helped me whilst I was learning different stuff. I particularly enjoyed the reggae episode

Funny isn't it. I've never had speaker lead problems 😅I used a speakon. I thought I should use them because it was the new 'norm' I thought I had bought Neutrik (I usually buy Neutrik stuff) but I'm not even sure where they are now, so checking could be difficult

I had similar problems with my ampeg PF500 and Mark bass cabs, so I just reverted to using jack to jack. Maybe I'll look at my speakon cables to see what they are. What exactly is the advantage of speakon?

I recently sold a fretless version like this (natural and F/less) and my wife has a R/W board white one. Awesome basses