peteb

I love Walter, but it's a completely different type of music! It's great fun to play music like that and great to see live, although the studio albums often don't live up to the live experience. It's not about songs, but the performance and the feel. It is pretty simple music to play, but difficult to do it well. As you say, there is a sense of being generous to those sharing the stage rather than being competitive - it as different to the social media shredders as it is to mega-productions like a Beyonce show!

But they are unlikely to do so. They won't appreciate having got caught up in this and pursuing him through the courts is likely to be embarrassing and won't do any good to the brand. Far better to cut ties with him and draw a line under the whole affair.

That rarely happens for white collar crimes, especially in finance and related fields.

I've used this offer a few times before. The only issue with the 34" scale is that if you string through the body, then the E string might not be quite long enough for some basses. No problems if you string through the bridge, or if you get the XL set.

I've got a single iGig, which I bought secondhand and have had for years. It's great when you are just taking a bass to a gig and don't want to carry an extra bag. You can get virtually everything that you need into the gigbag (even many small amps). I've also got a iGig double bag that did a lot of gigs and is still OK, with a little bit of visible wear. That can get heavy with two basses, but that is something I quite liked at the time - more difficult for an opportunistic thief to nick! These days, I'm generally using a Mono Vertigo for my main bass and a Mono Sleeve for the spare. They have a lot slimmer profile and therefore take up less space / easier to jam into a car with loads of other gear. The storage on the Vertigo isn't bad and I can get everything that I need onstage into the pocket, but I do miss the top storage pocket for car keys & phone, etc that the iGig bags have. You have to weigh that up against having to carry less bags. Pretty much every time I use a gigbag, it's to carry from the car to the venue. The one time I had to walk any distance to the stage (across a Butlins camp in Skegness), it was with the double iGig bag carrying two basses, which was a bit of a nightmare!

I would say that the old iGig is as good as the Mono Vertigo (I've got both). The thing about the iGig bag is that it has more storage, which is very useful. I don't think that you can get hold of them new these days, but someone is selling one in the classifieds on here. As I said before, a GruvGear GigBlade is up there as well.

So, a 63 body with a 82 neck and a Fralin pickup! It might even be a decent player's instrument, who knows, but ridiculous to be putting it up as a vintage bass with a vintage price tag!

The Stones are up there wearing Converse or whatever, and they're about 105...! I'm sure punters think that your Vans are perfectly fine...

There are plenty of options out there. A GruvGear GigBlade bag stands up to a Mono bag. Get one secondhand if you want to keep costs down.

Yep, I tend to go for Vans myself, except that I tie the shoelaces! I used to wear Converse but, even though they are undoubtedly the coolest option for urban footwear, unfortunately they are too narrow for my feet...!

I must admit that I have succumbed to wearing slip-on Sketchers trainers, but I still can't bring myself to wear them on a gig! A couple of the guys in a band last night were not so fussy, proudly rocking the Sketchers onstage...!

An interesting one last night, the 'occasional' blues band playing as the opener in a three band bill in a pub! The headliner was a goth band, with an original indy type band in the middle. Essentially the gig was everything we would normally avoid - too many bands with nothing in common, playing in a pub with not enough space for not much money. Originally we thought that we were being offered a normal pub gig to cover another band pulling out, but it transpired that we were part of a multi band bank holiday event. Anyway, the blues band doesn't play enough gigs (due to a couple of members being very busy with other bands), so it was nice to play live together again - Facebook had just informed us that our last gig was a year ago! The gig was pretty good, we sounded as if the last show was a week ago and went down really well. All the people involved were great, even if there was a bit of a clash of genres. Every band used my cab, which wasn't what I originally intended. In another thread, some people were saying that they never let anyone else touch their bass. I'm usually pretty relaxed about that (to a point), as you have to be a bit of a d1ck to damage a FSO type bass. I'm more bothered about other people using amps, as you can do damage if you don't know what you're doing with absolutely no ill intent, as the girl playing bass for the goth band nearly did at the soundcheck when she plugged her amp into my Berg cab while my amp was already running and then wondered why it wasn't working! I quickly unplugged my amp (a MB LM3) and then adjusted the gain on her TE Elf so that everything was OK. I took my amp off after our slot and let the middle band use the Elf, just in case!

One of my bass playing heroes and by all accounts, a bit of a character...!

I saw Zak with Moody, Boz and a great singer who's name I can't remember (who went onto tour with some 60s heritage band) at the Royal Standard in Walthamstow in the early 80s. Zak would have been a teenager at the time (I wasn't that much older). Great band to see in a pub! Edit - just looked him up, the singer was Spencer James who later joined The Searchers