Woodinblack

We are lucky in that in 3 years we have only been more than 15 miles from home on 5 or 6 occasions.

In that case, do what the wife of the singer in our band did, went through the gigging calendar for the following year and blocked out every other weekend.

I would also say, if I am not gigging there is also no reason to go in a pub, I don't drink and I really don't like people who have. Luckily our singer seems to deal with them well, so I don't have to.

I love gigging. For me, if there is no gig then there is no reason to be in a band. Certainly not the sort of bands I am in! At the moment the load in and out from gigs is starting to p me off a bit because not everyone is pulling their weight, but I am sure that will pass. Well, that is very different, I wouldn't want that at all. For a start, no money, not interested - we do some charity stuff now and again, no problem with that, but not charity for a pub! Its not a question of needing the money, I really don't and don't look on it as a way of making money, but if I am drawing people into pubs (and who knows if we are, but that is the point), then I want to be paid. All my gigging money goes to pay for instruments and things I use when gigging, so it is a self sustaining hobby. To the next point, sometimes it gets too much. I get very frustrated if I haven't gigged for a while, but on the other side of the coin I get very annoyed to not have a break. If you do it every weekend it starts being like a job, and I have a job. It has to be the right amount. That probably is the killer there. What they want is not what you want. If you aren't enjoying it and you are not getting paid, there is no point staying there, give them notice, let them find someone else. Sounds more like you would enjoy it if you a) got some money and b) got to choose low stress gigs less often.

Haha, see. I wasn't wrong 😀 i would say though, watching the other video that popped up with the hairy guitar bloke that was really good on the sounds (couldn't watch the pedal guys video, I didn't find them anywhere near as funny as they find themselves), I would get it now if it was available, so I was wrong on that bit.

I think motherfluffer has much more impact than the original!

I have had 2 squire bass vi"s,, i bought a black one when it came out, then sold it because I wasn't really using it that much. Then I got a white one as it was local and cheap, but again I never really used it that much. they were good, a bit clunky and the bridges as many people say are fairly awful, but I am not sure the clankyness isn't just a function of how they are rather than how they are made, ie, a short scale bass with tight spacing. Personally I think if I did get another (which is still tempting if one came up cheap) replacing the bridge for a fixed one would be a good idea and solve a lot of the problems (I never used the trem on one)., I had an SRC6 as well. This is a lot better built but whereas the bass VI is a skinny faffy bass, the SRC6 is very much a downtuned shredder guitar, like a proper ibanez super strat but lower. If there ever actually was a bass that was good for metal, that is it!

We played a charity gig at a school, sadly we had to play later as the guitarist took an evening job and can't start things until 9, by which time the crowd had gone down a lot, but those remaining appreciated it. But seriously our drummer needs a gag for such gigs, his word choice is not safe for school. it was a religious school, it as the singer was still trying to get his sax connected we thought we would start with a song the drummer sings, so we started with highway to hell. Seemed to go down fine!

Perfect!

I have a whirlwind cable from 1991. Fender could learn a thing or 10 from it.

Every time fender come out with a new range or a reissue of a 1992 reissue of a 1982 reissue of a 1974 reissue of a 1968 reissue of a 1954 reissue of a P bass, you hear 'why doesn't fender come up with anything original'. The answer is this thread. "What is the one thing you would really like in a bass" - 'oh I will have a P bass in a slightly different colour please' And its probably right, that is the only thing that would sell.

I didn't mean the basses, I meant the other instruments. Regardless of how your mandolin playing is in your fingers, it still has 8 strings!

In a folk group? Aren't most instruments in a folk group a lot more stringy, like mandolins etc. And hurdy-gurdies!

What a really odd thing to think. I only play 5 strings. I have played a 6 string live but didn't get on with it. So if you are playing mustang sally, don't you think having a 3 string bass is pretentious? I mean, you don't need more than 2. How about the guitarists, they sure as hell don't need all those strings (ours doesn't!) and don't get me started on keyboard players! But in answer to the question, I play a 5 string because I play a 5 string. If I was playing prog rock or disco or covers, I would be playing a 5 string, because that is what I play.

So, in the general scheme of mentioning some new effect pedal which @Al Krow will eventually go out and buy, use, be impressed by, get fed up with and then sell before I get round to trying it, has anyone tried the new Boss SY-1 on the bass? I was thinking of getting either a VB-99 or a SY-300 or even I guess a Future impact, but this is cheaper than all of those and in the (obviously officially processed) videos sounds quite interesting. Certainly a lot less space than all the other effects, and I am sure I could probably find some space to fit it on a pedal board.

The trick now is to get a conversation without them just randomly stopping talking and never hearing from them again!

Seven? Hardly even worth getting started with..

Just booked royal blood in August.

If it is the series / parallel switch that G&L do, you could do the same on the jazz, it would be the same as the S1 swtich on some jazzes. I had that on mine, it was very useful to give it a bit more of a kick.

Oh - Parts - I read that very wrong and was wondering how your rehearsals panned out...

I tried that - it is so weird. Never had any use for it. Bandmix too.. never got a band out of that, but have got a friend, so I guess that is ok. JMB though, I have had two productive bands, and offers of others from it (and a 3rd based on being in the first), so yeh, it is a pain sometimes and there is a lot of time wasting there, but I am more than happy that I have used it. Same here, plus all the 'go and hang out with local bands'. Who the hell wants to go and see some cover band in a pub Luckily, it seems a lot of people do. If you get abuse, you will be in the productive side of the site, at least it means they aren't ignoring you, which is the main thing!

I would normally say Geddy lee as he has been my all time favourite bass player, and probably more than anyone the reason I took up the bass but because of the music I am listening to now, I will go for Mr Nick Beggs, as he is in everything I am currently listening to!

Oh he played bass like that guy from Gillan!

Well, there are some accounts of it above but it is certainly not a widespread thing, we are on page 39 of this thread and it only cropped up a page ago!

At least some of you look happy to be there!