jezzaboy

My bad, it`s a gig bad but a rather nice one. Would set you back about £50 if you had to buy it I think. The bass is really good. I have always preferred the Yammy P pickup to Fenders and it looks stunning. I don`t think you will be disappointed.

Some of our US brothers take the very severe hump if you slag off US made products. Maybe that`s a good thing, to be proud of products made in your own country but the quality of some Gibson`s, Fenders and Ric`s does leave a lot to be desired. But that could be said of most mass produced manufacturers. Give me a Tokia over a Gibson any day.

I`m surprised that they are still in stock as well. I bought a BB1024 from guitarguitar around May last year and the guy said they had bought up all the remaining UK stock. Mine was £500 including the superb case which was a bit of a bargain.

I have never heard of a shop using this sort of statement before. I don`t know how I would respond to this.

I have a LH500 and played in an ac/dc tribute band and it had all the power I ever needed and we were quite loud. I had 2 Ashdown cabs, a 2 x10 and a 1 x 12 and used both together most times. Agree totally with Chris above. Get another 8 ohms cab and you will be rockin.

For rock and metal, you can`t go wrong with a SR300, the newer one with the powerspan pickups. Ibanez are generally really well made, good sounding instruments. I have an SR750 and it`s a great bass but a good bit more than your current budget.

A keyboard. I bought a Casio, returned it a day later. Then I bought a nice Yamaha and realised after 2 days, Rick Wakeman Im not. Took quite a hit on it to. A lot of replies re heavy gear. It has never bothered me in the past but a few weeks ago I had an "acute strain of the lower back" and my 11kg LH500 and 19kg ABM cab, is bloomin heavy when you have an injury, so I can add heavy gear to the list.

About 7 this year but I left the band in May. Highlights were headlining the Almost Blue gig at the Beat Generator in Dundee and playing the town hall at Bonfest in Kirremuir. Pity the other gigs were crap

That picture of the bass when it was white is cool as. To me, the P pickup doesn`t look out of place and would be a cool mod.

Yes they do. Get them from Thomman, they do a set that fits MM basses. I think I had to buy the 5 string set for some reason and they cost about £65 delivered.

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???

What is the Members Total Reputation?

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.