FinnDave

Definitely - I've seen him in our local one, reading the Daily Mail.

My SR 1006 cost me just under 600 quid complete with East pre-amp and original HSC.

I'd be tempted to put the drummer through the PA. I don't mean miking his kit up, I mean repeatedly pushing him head first into the speakers until he gets the message. Having his own combo for the bass drum has to be one of the daftest ideas I've ever heard.

There are three levels of SR basses, standard, premium, and prestige. The 1006 was the prestige model in its day, and is a damn fine bass in this day and age too.

I have an Ibanez SR1006 which was made by Cort - and it is an exceptionally good bass for the money I paid for it. Mine has an East pre-amp which probably adds to the tonal range (the bass came with this fitted, so I haven't been able to compare to with the original pre-amp). Definitely a good manufacturer as far as I can tell.

The description seems pretty honest though, and he asks for the buyer to collect 'so they can see what they're getting' which seems fair too.

One week to go!

I think Sunfly is still gigging (they were on the same bill as one of my bands a couple of years ago), Steamroller definitely are - I was recording with their drummer earlier this year.

I consider myself to be doing well if I need fewer than four trips from car to venue and venue to car before and after each gig. Only reason for wanting to be able to carry everything at once is if you are playing in a big city centre and can't park anywhere near the venue.

Probably the Chromes I sold Pawel a couple of months ago, I remember he didn't get on with them and re-advertised. Could have saved time and postage and got them off me back then!

I've been using the same Barefaced Super Twin for the last 6 years, powered for the first few years by an ABM 500 evo II, but bought a Super Compact last year for smaller gigs, also a Rootmaster 800 head fro the same reason. I sold the old ABM thinking I'd use the RM for everything, but bought another recently as there is something about that sound. So I'd say amp & cab GAS is not affecting me too much. Basses, though - having decided to stick with what I've got, I've still managed to buy seven this year (so far)!

Yeah, I can't really be sure whether I went up a flight of stairs or not 35 years ago!

I only went there once, when I was rehearsing nearby with a band based in Acton - we'd all pile into a van and drive through the centre of London to use a downmarket rehearsal studio in Wapping, so I had to pop in - and popped out with a new Trace Elliot combo. I can't remember the type now, but it was a 4 x 10 and bloody heavy. I lived on the third floor of flats in Acton then, and there was no lift, so I had to carry the damn thing up and down the stairs all the time. Sounded great, though! Pretty sure the Bass Centre was up some stairs then, or maybe just the amps were. Would have been about 1983/5, somewhere around then, anyway.

It would take less time asking every member of the audience than it would asking every member of the band in some of the places I've played in!

Both my six string basses have LaBella FLs and I play with a pick - perfect sound for what I play (Grateful Dead tribute band)

Exactly this. I don't want to sound different, just to sound the way I want to sound.

Drummers! What do they know, eh?

How much do you charge for a full set-up? You obviously know what you're doing! I don't think my local chap would know where to start to adjust the cringlewangers, and I can hear they aren't right when I play my bass.

Drums can sound different??? Seriously, though, I have recordings of myself in studios and live, and can't tell from listening whether I was playing a Precision or a Jazz, or a Gibson, or an Alembic, or even one of my Ibanez six strings. In fact, I can't really tell for sure whether I was using a pick or fingers on that day. I think pretty much every bass I've played can be made to sound very similar to the others. They may sound different at extreme settings, but at the sort of settings that suit the music I play, they are interchangeable.

Fingerplate, scratchboard, picktrum....the list grows daily!

You forgot why, and I've forgotten why as well now.