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We played with Midge Ure a few years back, he went on stage with a single speaker Vox Valvetronix amp and a battered Marshall blues breaker pedal and used an "out of the box" Vintage Midge Ure signature guitar and sounded every bit as awesome as you would expect an ex Thin Lizzy guitarist to sound, all in all he had about £600.00 worth of gear and about a million quids worth of talent...I was hugely impressed!

I think I was 17 or 18, it was at High Hall at Birmingham university in front of a 1000 people or so, nervous, not half!

Yes, and IMHO spending £1500 plus on a mass produced bass may well leave you happier than spending £3000 plus on a custom built bass, unless you have the skills to be able to explain exactly what you want out of your custom build.....have a look at the sheer amount of custom shop instruments that are out for sale on eBay, all of them would have been dream basses for someone that didn't turn out to be the bass they dreamed of?

Many years ago I played a farewell gig with a covers band I used to do sound for in London, the bass player refused to do the gig so the band asked me to play, I agreed as I had some time available to rehearse the set, the vocalist sent me through a list of 20 rock classics we were going to play....now for my first mistake, I checked with the vocalist that everything was being played in the original key...yes was the response! I turned up to the gig confident that I knew the songs well enough to do them justice but I had scored out a basic tab for any of the more complex songs...as they say "job's a good un!" It very quickly turned out that pretty much none of the songs were played in the original key with everything being somewhere between a tone up or down! I managed to muddle through most of it without making a complete fool of myself...the crowd seemed to be enjoying it so the band decided they would play some of the other songs from their set...songs I had never learned...I remember playing Queen's One Vision and I am looking at the guitarist waiting for a specific light to go out so I could see what chord he was playing....I enjoyed the gig and learnt a lot about being prepared and not relying on the vocalist to tell me whether it is in the original key or not!

I use the Digitech Drop, it's OK for a tone down but anymore and it sounds way too artificial, don't get me wrong it sounds artificial even on a semitone drop but not so much that your average punter would notice it! It's a shame as it works really well on guitar but just doesn't manage it on bass but, it is the best I have found so far!

I invented "banging bungalow" a few years back, it's like "hard house" but for those of us too old to manage the stairs!

Acme Sewage Company (Punk band) Yodaclub (Indie band) Love the Acme name, meh about Yodaclub name but we have just celebrated our 10th anniversary so I guess it ain't going to change!

Flipping whatsits if you had asked 4 days ago I drove from Northampton to Addlestone to play at the Cave! Not back down that way until June now!

How about a nice Candy Apple Red, this one is red tint over a gold base coat

Have you tried your bass in the boot, I had a couple of Octavia VRS saloons over the years and I could get two Precisions in gig bags immediately behind the rear lights (at the wide bit!) my 11 plate was slightly better than my 64 plate but even with the 64 plate the little plastic divider on the left can be removed to make it wider...not sure you would get a Thunderbird in there but anything Precision sized will fit in a gig bag

I shifted a whole load of basses, amps and cabs through Bass Direct last year, I told them what I wanted back for them, they priced them accordingly and all but one (an ultra rare Bass Collection 801) sold quickly and I got back what I needed, I sold the 801 through a friend to his daughter in Brighton, she got a cracking bass for not a lot of money and I got back what it owed me, TBH it was completely hassle free!

I have the Digitech Drop, it is OK on bass, I used it for a full tone drop in the rock band I used to play in, it sounds OK but you can hear that it is a processed sound, it is more convincing on a guitar! If you can find one, grab one, they are an easy way to quickly change tuning as long as you are not dropping too far!

Totally agree Lozz, I find a setting I like on my Boss CS3 when practising at home then hate it as soon as I try it onstage, maybe that is the real truth about compression, it only sounds good at home!

I have quite a few spare MM pickguards and sadly none of them fit the current SUB series

The Mission in Leeds this year, Mr Hussey was drunk and arrogant, the sound was really poor and the set felt totally flat...always loved the Mission but that was the last time I will be bothering to see them if the singer can't be bothered to put on a decent show, I had friends that went to Nottingham and London and all said it would be the last time they would bother going to see them!

Psyche has a nice bassline, great guitar parts and killer lyrics!

I prefer the look of laurel to pau ferro but I do have a few pau ferro necks which I have darkened with some stain successfully, I would rather go for a maple board if I can't have rosewood anymore

Depends on the music I am playing but in most cases it would be my much modified Fender 50's classic bass....all the Precision bass I ever wanted!

My wife and I went for dinner in a local restaurant and we noticed somewhere in the background was a lone guitarist playing an acoustic and singing gently along, nothing unusual until he launched into a fantastic rendition of Kraftwork's The Model...not a song I had ever considered as an acoustic guitar track!

Out Spector Forte ESP Horizon 5 Bass Collection 801 Fender Precision Lyte Fender Precision Custom Shop 62 Fender Jazz 62 reissue Status Energy Matrix USA Stingray Sub (bad move, regretted that one!) Full Mesa Boogie Subway rig In High quality Precision self build Aria TAB60 Rockinbetter rickything Epiphone Thunderbird (atrocious thing!) USA Stingray Sub (to replace the one I regretted selling!) Sterling Sub Various Boss bass pedals...that I rarely use! Focal Alpha 80 evo studio monitors All in all, for the first time in many years I have put cash back in the bank!

My 735a is at least 2 years old and is still on the original battery, however, the bass is not seeing a lot of use at the moment

My current favourite of theirs is Pictures of You which has a really nice bass guitar sound in the mix

Status seemed to be quite big in the 1980's?

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And I thought this thread was going to be about Feeders greatest song....flounces off in a huff 😂