Maude

I'd say take as many as you really need, as long as they don't detract from the bands performance. In other words, only you knows.

As long as they've got heft you'll be fine Seriously though, for £150 I'd let someone else do it, you can still be involved but if it packs up on the day you don't want to be running around trying to fix it, or more to the point, your new wife won't want you to be.

I don't like purple on a bass and really dislike pearloid scratchplates. . . . . So why do I like that so much? And I mean really really like it

I've forgotten what this thread is actually about but I recall it's something about gigging tips. My tip would be to exaggerate your movements. What you think are sensible moves on stage are barely noticeable from an audience perspective, so be larger than life to get the moves noticed, unless your thing is standing still. On the watch front, I never wear a watch but as one of my bands is a mod band, I can't see accessorising sharp suits, shirts and stylish shoes with a nice watch could hurt, surely no different than adding a silk scarf, tie pin or any other accessory. Like everything, what works for some won't work for others, no hard and fast rules, even on Basschat.

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1486586141' post='3233089'] There's nobody to me more cheesy than Barry Manilow, but I think the arrangement of Could It Be Magic is perfection. [/quote] I absolutely adore Copacabana.

I have offered to the risk away from landlords by playing for the evening and they can then pay me what they see fit. If he hates it, don't pay us. If he loves it, pay us the going rate for bands in his venue. Somewhere inbetween, pay us somewhere in between. Just make sure you tell him you're prepared to do it this way as you're confident he'll love you, all you ask is he's fair in any payment. If you don't mention that bit you could come across as desperate. There's a risk they'll say you were sh*t and not pay you, but in my experience if you were good he'll want to book you again so will have to pay you. I've never not been payed this way and a couple of places have given us extra above their normal rate. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Bear crates are massive and tricky to coax the bear out of

I use one of type of things. Useful for putting the backdrop up and the putting my cab and amp on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351955808450 I don't think mine is as long as this one, more square than rectangle.

If I'd been playing a Yamaha happily for a long time and I had to choose a high end bass I'd get a Yammy 2024x in a heartbeat.

We always just tell them, "We'll do it at the end". It keeps them there all night and we then just apologise and say the Landlord says we have to finish.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1485616126' post='3225339'] There's some good news - his car wasn't written off! [/quote] The line in Solid Gold Easy Action, "Easy as picking foxes from a tree", makes no sense. The registration of his Mini that hit that fateful tree? FOX 661L

I'll start the ball rolling then and say anything by Oasis. One of my bands is a Mod/Northern Soul/Ska band and I've lost count of the times some dickhead has asked if we do any Oasis.

I've got a feeling I'm going to dislike most of the suggestions.

Further to the young kids old bands discussion, my son (16) has just got back from a weekend of seeing Avenged Sevenfold in London and A Day To Remember in Cardiff and announced the band he really wants to see is Black Sabbath.

I seem to remember that anyone can carry out PAT testing, the only 'qualificaton' being that they are deemed competent. I don't mind paying if I'm getting something for it but the guy testing it could be less competent than me to do it.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1485015068' post='3220432'] a badly run pub stands out a mile when posters advertising gigs that have gone are still up, amateurs, same with out of date facebook pages, it's not rocket science is it? [/quote] I might start a band called Rocket Science, at least when a punter ask the landlord "Who's playing in here on Saturday?" they can rightly follow with "It's not Rocket Science is it?"

Anti-Procrastination Song by Stormtroopers Of Death repeated for the whole set. Should be able to do it 2400 times in a two hour gig. If that's not your thing then any set made up of prog rock should piss off an audience, and rightly so

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1484252628' post='3214109'] I'm thinking I may not be alone with: Stop Talking Sense - Talking Heads [/quote] Pah! You can't even remember the title Stop Making Sense. Mine would have to be, Disintegration by The Cure The Real Thing by Faith No More and Substance by Joy Division among many others.

Danelectro Longhorn, or other Dano shortscale. Cheap, very light, short scale, slim neck, cool as hell

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1483898650' post='3210965'] Everything aside, compared to what he does Weller is Jazz, I mean he uses more that roots, thirds and fifths. [/quote] Forget the Jazz debate, what are these thirds you speak of?

Didn't Billy Gould play fretless on a few Faith No More tracks?

My little plan to cut a corner looks like it should work. I wanted to metalflake where the original binding tape would be on Danelectros but as a couple of recent attempts by folks on here have shown, doing it at home is not easy. I am using proper sprayguns to do this bass but the nozzle I have fitted isn't big enough for using metalflake so I tried my plan. I remembered seeing that Duck tape do their tape with different finishes, one of which being a silver glitter. Not knowing what the glitter finish is I feared that the solvent in the lacquer would melt the tape or dissolve the silver colour on the sparkle. I stuck a piece of tape to some cardboard and gave it a couple of coats of lacquer and although it did wrinkle up slightly the sparkle effect stayed fast. The wrinkling was, I think, due to the cardboard absorbing the lacquer and once applied over a painted guitar I reckon will stay flat. The roll of tape is hard to photograph but here you go. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Got some paint on on Thursday but the very cold weather was causing problems with it fully curing. The paint was plenty hard enough to handle but you could leave a fingerprint in it if you pressed hard enough. This doesn't quite show the true colour due to failing light but it's the mint green used on the new shape Fiat 500. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The paint really needed a good dose of heat to fully cure it and luckily with the body being quite small on these I managed to suspend it in the kitchen oven and give it half an hour at 70 degrees, "What's that smell?" enquires Mrs Maude, "Nothing Dear" The paint is now nice and hard and ready for the binding and good lacquering.

Ha ha I had a knot in my speaker cab lead at the last gig, couldn't get hardly any volume out of it. Lucky really the lead didn't burst.

I don't understand how 'patting' electrical equipment can test it. What are you feeling for?