FinnDave

Our harmonica player shot one or more of her album covers back in the day, speaks very highly of her.

Saw this for sale here this morning, it is now my latest acquisition, and very nice it is too. Sounds good acoustically, and surprisingly good through an amp as well. Quite a lot of bass for not a lot of money, I can see this one getting quite a bit of use in its new home.

I'm sure he said something that sounded quite like that at the time.

I don't think he meant that they are all bass strings. You probably wouldn't get much further than Leeds with all those little guitar strings included!

I've had a Fender Classic 60s Jazz MiM for the last five years and it has never ticked. Neither has it tocked. I recently bought a small Peavey combo for home use, and that definitely ticks when in tuner mode. Great basses, though, defiantly worth eliminating the ticks.

It does sound funny now, several years later! Though to be honest, low temperatures on the river on an autumn night aren't so much predictable as unavoidable!

It's a lot more annoying if the person responsible for the noise is an incompetent harmonica player. Other than an incontinent bagpiper, I'm struggling to imagine anything worse. Especially when said harmonicist insists on playing through an insanely loud, heavy, and bulky valve combo so he can get 'his tone'. Playing in a key vaguely related to the music the rest of the band would be a lot better than searching for some mythical 'tone' from a five quid instrument and a thousand pound amplifier.

She did get a lot of verbal about it, but we were unsure where she kept her hogans.

I experienced the opposite to the 'band inside, audience out in the sun' problem when playing at an autumn festival at a pub on the Thames. The bands were outside, on decking over a bit of the river, and when we went on at 9 pm, it was getting chilly. By the time we'd finished the first set, only the most hardy were outside to listen (and the most nicotine-addicted). We played the second set in hats & gloves and huddled around the fire eaters laid on by the pub as a means of keeping warm. We were basically playing to large empty field, with full PA, lights, etc. but no one watching us. Inside the pub, people were having a good time, enjoying the music (so they said) and keeping warm. I just wanted to set fire to something, preferably the pub, simply to warm up again.

I assume you mean vocalists? We used to have one who'd check her Facebook between verses.

I searched the 'for sale' section yesterday and went through pages of Precisions and couldn't find them. Until a couple of days ago, I could find them easily by going to 'content I started' and now they are not in that list.

Enjoying this thread! I've fallen off the edge stages (several), played while completely off my head on painkillers (prescribed, post-op), had the stage invaded by drunk punter who laid himself out cold after walking into something hard and heavy, had a bass amp fail on the first song (brand new amp, too!) and a bass damaged by falling into the drum kit (both these happened on the same gig), played with former star singer so drunk she couldn't stand up without holding to things (mic stand, wall, guitarist), and I've had to dep for bass drum using my right foot keeping time stamping on the hollow wooden stage (while still playing bass) for an entire gig when the drummer was diverted to hospital on his way to the gig. That's the last couple of years covered....

Yes, that's one of them, where's it hiding? There's another for a Classic 50s Precision as well.

I have several basses for sale, each has their own thread in the for sale section. Yesterday, both of the Precision basses vanished, I can't find them in the For Sale section nor can I find them under 'content I started'. Bother threads are a few weeks old and have been bumped regularly, both have responses, but another of them is visible anymore, at least not visible to me. Can someone who understands how this forum work please find them for me?

I'm another satisfied user of the ACS pro 17s, had mine for nearly 5 years now and still going strong. I bought a pair of 20db filters last year and use them for particularly loud gigs, otherwise the 17s are spot on. It takes seconds to change the filters, and a spare set costs about 40 quid, from memory.

My first decent bass was a Guild B301 in the late 70s. I had spent years playing cheap Fender copies, and really wanted a Precision, but for some reason when I had some money, I went to A1 in Manchester and bought a white 301. Sounded great, but suffered from serious neck dive problems. I didn't keep it long, can't actually remember where it went or what replaced it now, lost in the mists of time. I certainly don't suffer any pangs of nostalgia for it. I'd advise you to try it on a strap before buying, I bought mine after playing it sitting down in the shop and didn't put it on a srap until rehearsal that night - I was appalled by its dreadful balance.

Or there is always the Finnish version

Your current rig is close to what I am using/aiming for - I play though a SansAmp into the power amp section of a Rootmaster 800, then Barefaced Super Compact or Super Twin. Bit pointless for me to ditch the Ashdown as it does good service as a power amp, but if it needed replacing, a power amp like a Crown would be top of the list.

I've ditched combos and gone back to head and cabs, same head but 1 x 12 or 2 x 12 cabs depending on the venue. More flexible, easier to carry, and I am not convinced that many combos are as efficient as a well-made cab.

Yeah, the antennae are always like that, and as the amp is behind me, the tx in my pockets is facing it, anyway, no problems in the last couple of years since I bought it.

No iTunes doesn't open FLAC. But I did manage to burn them OK, we are now in Devon and the CDs of the last gig kept me sane while I drove (sane is obviously a relative term here).

Not when you work in a newsroom, no news means got to find stuff to fill the time available!

I use a half metre lead from OBBM, right angle jack at the bass end, straight one at the other, plugged into my Smooth Hound transmitter which I then slip into my back pocket. No problems at all. So far I have remembered not to sit down....

You could always ask Dave Kitching to tell you about the time someone called 'Pretty Woman' and he went into the Albert King song. Rest of the band were playing the Roy Orbison song of the same name. But you can imagine that when Dave tells it, it's a whole lot better than that!