FinnDave

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1504018165' post='3362144'] Most home insurance will cover PLI as long as it's not for your business, trade or profession. So it's worth talking to you insurers exactly what that means if you are not technically running a business. Then get it in writing. [/quote] My home insurers are very helpful, but insist that playing gigs for money makes it professional use and therefore not covered under home insurance. I get a good deal from our local insurer as my wife works there, but they still couldn't bend the rules that far.

We haven't been asked for any evidence of PLI in the last 4 years, not even just asked if we have any. Still carry the insurance though, just in case.

Gear 4 Music have changed the estimated delivery date for new orders to February now! Hopefully that won't apply to existing orders, as mine is still due on sept 1st according to the order details.

I have renewed my band's PLI just a couple of hours ago. We've been using http://www.insurance4performingarts.co.uk for 4 years now, never had to make a claim but they seem reasonably priced and easy to deal with. I am fairly certain that we started using them as the result of asking a similar question to yours some years ago!

[quote name='clivem' timestamp='1503911785' post='3361430'] I'm holding-off pulling the trigger until someone who has pre-ordered actually receives one..... So please post as soon as you do! [/quote] Definitely!

[quote name='clivem' timestamp='1501586598' post='3345670'] Curious, the ebony and white models still say estimated 01/09 on the G4M site.... but the sunburst is now 30/12. [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Vintage-Pro-Electric-Bass-Tobacco-Sunburst/1X0Q"]Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage Pro Electric Bass, Tobacco Sunburst[/url] [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Vintage-Pro-Electric-Bass-Alpine-White/1X0O"]Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage Pro Electric Bass, Alpine White[/url] [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Vintage-Pro-Electric-Bass-Ebony/1X0P"]Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage Pro Electric Bass, Ebony[/url] [/quote] Estimated delivery on the site is now mid October for the sunburst, but my order for one still says Sept first. Perhaps the first consignment has sold out on pre-orders? I should find out within a week!

Played in Melksham, Wiltshire, last night. Good venue, very enthusiastic audience and decent management, an ideal gig but an hour and a half from home for me, which combined with a one AM finish made for a late night. Still, I was in my bed by 4 AM. It obviously went as well as I remember, as today we have been re-booked.

I've got the same bass (except for the colour) and it is very bass heavy. I use rounds on mine (currently strung 120 to 55 and tuned DGCF) and get a decent enough sound from it with the mids boosted on the amp. Same thing with my Gibson T Bird, except that uses 110 to 50 strings and is in standard tuning. The two of them sound and feel very similar to each other. I play with a pick so like the bottom heavy sound, I find my Fenders a bit twangy in comparison.

And once you're making amps as well as cabs, there's a range of Barefaced combos to release! I have to admit that my Super Compact & Ashdown Rootmaster 800 would make a great combo, especially with a second SC as an extension cab.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1503407528' post='3357957'] Definitely get an X-Ray if you haven't already. Personally I'd load up on powerful painkillers and do both gigs, but I'm reckless. Not reckless enough to ride a motorbike however, I gave it up when my son was born... [/quote] I played a couple of gigs after my bike accident loaded with painkillers, but that was 3 or 4 months after the accident. At two weeks after the accident, I had my right arm and left leg in plaster and was so full of morphine that I didn't know which country I was in. I also did a couple of gigs a week or so after a prostatectomy two years ago, again sitting down and so loaded with painkillers and whisky that I didn't realise I was playing at all, just enjoying the music. I remember thinking to myself 'I wish I could play bass like that' and then looking down at my fingers without really understanding I was playing. Mind you, it wasn't the first time I've experienced that, but the other times haven't involved anything you can get on prescription!

If I'd bought a Suer Compact when I first tried Barefaced, then I'd have a second by for the same reason, but I started with a Super Twin, so have a 2x12 pr 1x12 set up, depending on the venue. I'm also having something put together so I can link two amps without ground hum etc, and then I'll also have a 3x12 set up with two amps powering them!

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1503309204' post='3356997'] As above really there used to be some really funny people on the forum and you could always crack a joke but now some people seem so grumpy and just seem to want a row sign of the times? OK rant over lol [/quote] It's a long time since I've done any rowing but I do remember it as good exercise, though falling in the river could ruin your day.

They're great cabs, perhaps I'll hear them in action as we do most of our gigs around Swindon.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1503230710' post='3356555'] Finally, don't expect applause! It happens, but the only guaranteed clapper is a drum solo, no matter how bad! [/quote] People applaud the drummer at the end of his solo. They are celebrating the fact that it's over.

Bought an Ashdown Rootmaster amp from Roberto, thoroughly excellent chap to deal with, went more than an extra mile to make sure I was happy with my purchase. Which I am, it arrived Friday and I used for both sets of last night's gig! Thank You Rabbie, you're a credit to this fine community of bass players.

I play bass like a guitar during the solos in my blues band, probably a result of growing up listening to Jack Bruce on the live Cream stuff.

Just in and unloaded after playing a private party gig between Lechlade and Swindon. The venue was a large marquee in a field, the event was a 50th wedding anniversary. Very professionally put together, proper stage, large generator, everything went very smoothly. i was playing with a guy I do occasional gigs for, but hadn't payed with since December, bit we went straight in with a different (and very good) drummer with no rehearsal and came out smiling. I used my Gibson Thunderbird through an Ashdown Rootmaster (non evo model, bought here on the the forum and had it since yesterday!) through my Barefaced Super Twin. I was happier with my sound than the guitarist was with his, but we both suffered tuning problems as the temperature fluctuated widely. Overall, a good gig, well paid, well received by a happy audience and we enjoyed playing.

I use a 2 x12 (Barefaced) cab with Ashdown heads (ABM 500 & 600, or Rootmaster 800) and it's plenty of volume for any gig. I'm assuming anywhere where that isn't enough would be putting bass though the PA as well, of course.

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1502789574' post='3353499'] A new look for your range that leaves the owner thinking "wow, these are gorgeous!" (and not "ok these are great sounding cabs but shame about that metal grille look"). There I've said it! [/quote] As the owner of two Barefaced cabs, both bought new by me with metal grilles specified, I have to disagree! Even a pristine cloth front reminds me of the dreadful old cabs that you used to see kicking around in the 70s and 80s with sagging fabric and/or bloody great rips across them. I really don't want to be reminded of that aspect of the 'good old days' at all!

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1502781145' post='3353396'] I'm a bit clueless about these things but why would anyone want to take a pineapple to a festival anyway [/quote] It gives them something to look forward to, it's a dull life being a pineapple. I think they deserve bit of excitement.