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I played a jazz gig on a borrowed very cheap Aria bass a year or so ago. Bare in mind I’ve been playing 6 string basses for about 12 years now. So yes, my bands don’t have sets as such, I’m just given charts to read and play from, but I’d definitely be able to play a gig using such a bass. I’m a huge believer that it’s the player not the bass anyway.

Following my earlier post, I think I'd also get confused, I get confused very easily.

It's just a change of key, so E would be Eb. I wouldn't down-tune I'd find it weird playing a B and hearing a Bb. I'd rather just transpose and know that I'm playing a Bb instead of a B, if you see what I mean .

My sleep pattern is a little different to most people’s, I don’t usually go to bed until about 3am anyway, then I get up between 9.30 and 10.00. Consequently any sleep inhibiting issues that would be caused by the gig have passed by bedtime.

I thought I read that it was seeing an American guy slapping that Mark King started?

It's a little like saying well stone-age man only needed............ He did the majority of his playing at a time when there were very few extended range instruments around. Five strings instruments were just starting to be accepted as a means to cover bass parts previously played on a keyboard. Who knows what he'd have gone on to do?

My siamese objects to your thread title by the way

I've done a lot of solo bass gigs over the last year and a half and was quite nervous at the first one. The only time that I was really nervous was when I did one with Steve Lawson last year.

This is the version I've always played, we did it at uni too and it was pretty much the same as this. I'd be playing it from the 4th fret of the E string up, that's where I'd be playing the Ab. The highest note os the Db which I'd play on the 6th fret of the G string.

A friend of mine does it all the time. He knows enough people that who he knows can just turn up and play. If one person can't do it, then he knows several other people. I've done some nice gigs with him, there was a Christmas market in Birmingham, best of all was a bandstand in the middle of a lake in Worcester.

This is why I won't post a bass, or anything really expensive or fragile. Often the insurance that they insist you take out doesn't cover instruments anyway.

It’s an arrangement I’ve got with a jazz band I play for. If they’ve got 30 gigs over the year then me and the other 2 get 10 each.

Train and walk.

Stainless steel tend to be rougher to the touch than nickel, hence more finger noise, at least in my experience.

It’s great, I no longer need worry about walking through doorways, or like just now walking along the aisle on the train.

It’d be a pointless bass gig bag if the only room for the headstock was 8cm.

No it’s a guitar gig bag, that’s why I answered.

Should point out my bass is a headless Sei too, 34” scale and there’s a good bit of room between the top of the instrument and the top of the gig bag, at least 8cm or so.

It would indeed, but try the Fusion Urban guitar bag first. A whole lot cheaper, more pocket space, and it's better padded too. https://www.fusion-bags.com/collections/urban