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Walworth Road - I used to rehearse in a studio down there (forty years ago)!

You will be pretty much passing my gaff on the way down. I will bring some Pastéis de Natas!

It's a small sub-set - bass playing pub landlords in the south of England who play GB basses...! 🙂

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Baz??

A pretty good drummer of my acquaintance is flying out all over Europe (he's in Lithuania at the moment), playing theatres to big crowds and (I assume) earning decent money - just for playing in a Coldplay tribute...!

I think that you might want something different in a compressor than someone like me is looking for. My understanding of pedals isn't as detailed as yours and the way I use them is a lot different from what you do. I'm just using a comp to help the bass find its place in the mix rather than as an effect.

To be fair, it's not the £300 price tag in itself that is the problem, more that I've already spent a fair bit on the M87 (now going for £230)...!

In addition to PIno and a number of big names, a fair few of decent players I know use a Cali76 and apparently it is the one to go for. However, I'm not sure that I can justify dropping a further £300 on one - just how much better will it be than the M87?

I was in exactly the same position as you - I appreciate how and why compression is beneficial, but struggle to hear the difference between different compressors. I got the M87 and struggled with it at first, if anything it seemed to be making things worse! Then I spoke to a bass playing sound engineer of my acquaintance and asked his opinion. He just told me how to set it up and said 'trust me, this is what you're after'. I still don't really understand the reasons why, but since following his advice, the M87 has just worked really well. It is always on when I'm playing and I wouldn't be without it...

I can see the set now - end the night with an encore of a medley of Crazy Train, Highway To Hell and Do You Believe In Life After Love!

I agree! The trouble is that many people react in one of two ways to a woman playing bass because it is still seen as a novelty, despite all the names being quoted here (and I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Tal Wilkenfeld). Either they are condescending and refuse to believe that they get any recognition on their own merits 'because they're a gurl', or, they fall over themselves to over-praise a girl's playing 'because it's a gurl', which is also condescending in my book. Blu DeTiger is a pretty good player, but many here have reacted in a way that they wouldn't to the many dozens of similar players out there.

I was under the impression that she had recently been out on tour with her own band, playing arenas supporting Sabrina Carpenter. From looking on her Wikipedia page, it looks like she has already done a fair bit of touring.

That's just idiotic and is justifying everything that @Misdee has been saying! FWIW, I would guess that her success is largely down to her being an aspirational figure to her followers on social media who are impressed by both her abilities and her image. I would imagine that many (if not most) of these followers will be female.

Which by several accounts led to his sacking - his good looks were taking attention away from McCartney, while he and Lennon were setting themselves up as the leaders and focal point of the band. Bands eh...!

C'mon, that's mainly BS and you seem to enjoy coming in and aggressively posting about a subject then getting all upset if people call you out on it. FWIW, I agree with most of what you now say - my issue was that saying that she was 'intermediate' was diminishing her, as was the general tone of your initial posts. No, he's right, her appearance is a big part of her success and to point this out is not being sexist. But so what! Looks have always been a big part of success in popular music, male or female. I put forward the case of Nikki Sixx, but the same applies going back to Frank Sinatra and Elvis. Don't you think that part of the Beatles initial appeal was that Paul McCartney was very good looking and record companies knew that would appeal to teenage girls?

I know, it's a bit bizarre

I don't see the issue with her stage clothes at all - surely she just dresses pretty much the same as any 20 something girl has done on a night out for the last forty years.

Young female (and male) musicians will most likely be on other social media platforms, rather than on a forum like Basschat. Like it or not, music (especially ensemble playing to the public) has been dominated by men throughout the centuries, going back to strolling minstrels in the medieval period. That's not to say that there hasn't always been female musicians, because there always have been, but it has historically been a male dominated arena. I think that it is great that artists like Ms DeTiger are getting recognition and have the potential to inspire young women to play instruments like bass, but those who want to become gigging musicians will have to develop a thick skin and not be too bothered by negative comment if they are to survive, just as young male musicians have to. It isn't for those who are easily offended or upset.

A guitarist not bringing a spare is unforgivable - I've gigged for more than 45 years and only once broken a bass string, while I've played gigs where the guitar player has broken three strings on one show (fortunately he had a couple of spare guitars and the guitarist from the other band changed a string for him while he was playing the other guitar). I will nearly always bring a spare bass, but on the occasional gig it just isn't practical. Whenever I find myself obliged to bring just one bass, I make sure that it is a passive.

Fortunately I had a spare and no one noticed that any thing was wrong!

Yep, a couple of times - wiring problems (last time was when a wire had come lose when I had just changed batteries, for a main stage gig at a big bike rally in front of 2,000 people).

But it is and always has been, same as any artistic pursuit (or even sporting for that matter)!

To be fair, it's just one guy saying "she's a girl and she isn't as good as Marcus Miller, it's all woke innit"! Everyone else is saying that it's a positive thing that she's up there as an potential inspiration to young female bassists. If your niece (or nephew as well for that matter) is going to make their way as a musician they will need a much thicker skin than allowing themselves to get upset by this type of nonsense.

Surely an element of diversity is essential in order for anything to survive and thrive - that's just how nature works...