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I had the short scale P bass. It was a decent enough, the frets seemed ok, the tuners look crap but held their tunning. The bridge was pretty crap quality and the strings didn`t line up near the pole pieces but I swapped it out for a bridge with threaded saddles and that solved my ocd. The strings went right in the bin and I stuck on a set of D`addario short scale at £20. For £70 delivered it was worth it. It is 3/4 size P bass.

Just a few weeks after brother George passed away, Malcolm has died after suffering from dementia for a number of years. It is a horrible condition that has affected so many family`s, including my own. Thanks for all the great music. Rest in peace.

Bands, who would be in them???

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I would think the min stack would be okay for home practice or maybe with an acoustic band but no chance with a loud band I`m afraid. Why not keep your eye on the market place for a head and cab option? Or something like a Fender Rumble 500 or a TC BH250?

I have owned several Japanese Fenders and whilst they are good basses, some people seem to think they are some kind of holy grail bass. This one is a prime example.

An almost brand new 2008 P bass in black and maple and one of the last lot of Ashdown ABM 500 evo 3. The rest I can deal with.

Best purchase: Yamaha BB 1024 in sunburst. Got it for £500 along with a quality gig bag. Worst purchase: Boss OD 1 distortion pedal. What did I buy this for? God only knows. Moved on swiftly to my guitarist mate at a £20 loss.

I was once stalked on the phone by a middle aged woman from Kilmarnock who wanted to audition as a singer for a band I was trying to get together. Talking to her on the phone, I could tell she was a nutter and send her a text saying we were really looking for a male vocalist, I should have put this in the ad etc. She tried to call me 3 times and sent about 5 texts in one day telling me she was the person for our band. In the end I had to block her. Thank god I used my spare mobile for the advert.

I don`t think that you can blame the sites. I have joined a couple of bands through them. The problem is most people who advertise on them are either dreamers, bedroom musicians or just time wasters. The good thing about JMB is if you look in the profile section under the advert, sometimes you can spot the serial advertisers who haven`t deleted their old messages and give them the old Merv the swerve. As long as you can put up with the nutters, these sites are perfect for us weekend warriors without a network or the professional contacts.

I use the Hercules one with the straight pole. I think it was around £30. Nice heavy base that doesn`t use much space and has no long legs that people fall over when playing the Dog and Duck.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1507903665' post='3388709'] Additionally in my old punk covers band we worked on the theory that if it hadn`t been in the top 30 many punters would be unlikely to have heard of it, so no matter how good a song it was, not top 30, we didn`t play it. [/quote] Exactly, 100% agree Lozz. The amount of times I have had this discussion with other band mates trying to add in an obscure song that no one has heard of depresses me.

As long as you enjoy being in a band that doesn`t really want to gig, wheres the problem? The problem comes when people get into it without really saying what it is they want to do. After leaving my last band with nothing but a bad taste in my mouth, a band just getting together in the studio just to belt out some tunes sounds good to me.

I could be wrong but aren`t these things boat anchor heavy?

The Zoom B1on is a great bit of kit. Tuner, drum machine, lots of good effects and not a lot of cash: whats not to like? And later on, stick it in the front end of your amp. Fabby doo!!

The 250 runs at 4 ohms to the internal speaker so no additional speaker option. I owned one a while back and it went up in smoke (as did a few others) but that was an early one and they must have solved the issue. It was a decent amp with some useful features. Second hand, I would go for the Ashdown as they provide power at a decent price especially second hand. Or how about an old Trace combo? Loud but lots of people don`t like the weight so they can be found for a decent price second hand.

[quote name='nicsim' timestamp='1506795500' post='3381210'] Cheers for all the comments and opinions. As luck would have it an ABM version has popped up as well. One thing that puts me off a 1x15 is the fact that if I put an extension cab into the mix (say a 2 x 10) it just looks (and possibly sounds?) odd. I've never had the luxury of a two-cab setup, but I always think it should be small speakers above big speaker. Unless anyone else has different experience? [/quote] Trust me on this. If you are doing pub gigs, an ABM 1x15 will be more than ample for any gig. I gigged a 1x15 MAG 300 for years and it never went above half way.

[quote name='shamrock198804' timestamp='1506636390' post='3380157'] I've been using Alpine Music Safe Pro for many years now and I couldn't be more happy with them. Note that their price is much more reasonable (for such a simple item) than ones recommend above. [/quote] I use these ones myself. I bought 2 packs so I could have one set with the silver and one set with the gold plugs. Do the job fine.

I had a similar issue with a guitarist. Great player, decent guy but no mobile phone and getting hold of him was murder. In the end I gave him one of my older ones and told him to get a Tesco sim card for it. Fast forward 2 months and he still hadn`t got a sim card for it. Which was very annoying as his wife worked in....Tesco!! You just cant win with some people.

I recently played a club in Dundee and as we were headlining, we finished at 12.15 am. It took me 1.5 hours to get home to Paisley, just outside Glasgow in my car, sharing with the rhythm guitarist who chipped in for the cost of the fuel but using public transport? I wouldn`t even know where to start and it would have cost me more in travel costs than I got for the gig I imagine. In my view, to be a gigging musician, you need access to transport.

Bridge of sighs is superb. The singer / bass player on most of his early stuff is Jimmy Dewar. My wife worked in a local hospital in Paisley where Jimmy sadly ended his days. He was still a character but apparently had a strong dislike for Lulu who he played with in the 60`s!

The LH500 is a good amp. I got mine for £200 new and have gigged it a few times and I prefer the simple eq to the Trace it replaced. It`s not that heavy at 11kg and fits in a 2u Gator bag. Of course if you are used to small class d amps, it will seem large and heavy but I like it and it does what it says on the tin so to speak.

According to an interview on Ultimate Guitar, it`s all a lot of tosh. The interviewer asked Alex and he said that they were both working on their own projects and had no plan to do anything together at the moment.

I haven`t touched the set up on mine since I bought it. I have kept the stock strings on it as well which is unusual for me. Glad you are liking it.

I got the same deal and I love it. Did you get the very nice gig bag with it as well?