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24 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Max load capacity 150kg. Do they have a heavy duty version for Trace Elliot cabs?

It wouldn't be strong enough to hold my SVT 2 Pro amp head  then!

Have big hair, will disco!

2 hours ago, Kiwi said:

12 hours ago, 4000 said:

The WHOLE band vibe had changed. 

It wasn't due to the bass player.

Is that not what 'e said?

8 hours ago, 4000 said:

I did see eventually see them with Nick Fyffe but it wasn’t the same, no disrespect to Nick, who is a great player. The whole band vibe had changed. 

Apparently Nick Fyffe was joining a Jamiroquai tribute band when he got the shout to join the real band so he must have been able to handle Zenders bass parts to a decent enough standard.

https://fb.watch/8tdzQYc-AJ/

You have to ask yourself what most of the originals were using. I would agree P bass all the way. obviously there are a few exceptions but in general that's what folk used. P bass with the treble turned up.

I'm sure you will come up with a decent sound mate as the sound in your classic rock set up is spot on.

I'm more a Lidl man myself, so no help here.

49 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said:

I'm listening to everything on this page on top of each other. Tell me I'm the first to do this.

I posted ages ago that I had started right at page one and was working my way through and finding some real gems. Im at page 64 so far.

Live wire, an AC/DC tribute band playing locally. We saw them before and they were excellent.

I honestly have no idea when I became a fingers player. I definitely started playing with a pick but at some point I have changed and I am buggered if I can remember why or when. I like to play pick for some songs because of the attack but I admit to not being great with a pick. Certainly with string skipping.

Geddy Lee manages to get great attack and a pick sound from playing with his fingers, so it's not always down to the hard plastic creating a good percussive sound.

Just now, stewblack said:

maybe even kiss his ring.

Eew! I will do anything for love but I WON'T do that!

Can you only watch this on Youtube?

24 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I’ve forgot a few leads before but never my fingers 😂

I have been known to forget my head on occasion right enough!

1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

 

Text book.

I'm guessing it aint his first rodeo.

1 minute ago, FinnDave said:

I don't think that's ever been considered 'OK'. If someone had done that to our female singer (back when we still had one) they'd probably have received a good kicking from everyone in the band.

I agree and we would be the same. Poor choice of words I think. I was generalising

9 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Right then, let's have an uninvited, unexpected inspection of your nether regions then.  Fair's fair, if you're going to be like that.

 Calm down lads I would never consider doing something like this ok at all. What I am saying is back in school you did things like this and in general snowflakes have changed everything. Sexual harassment is never ok.

Just now, wateroftyne said:

 

You're either being wry, or you think that would be acceptable behaviour. Curious to know which...?

I don't think it's acceptable behaviour at all but back in the 80's and 90's it would be considered just a good lads laugh and the girls would laugh too. I don't mean snowflakes about this, but in general. Things that used to be considered ok are now big no no's.

I can get quite a punchy toppy tone and I use fingers. I do change strings very often and use exclusively stainless steel rounds and  push the mids on my amp right enough. I use a pick for some songs but only for the attack. I struggle to feel comfortable with the pick on bass.

22 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said:

Was playing a rough pub in Bingley West Yorks yonks ago. The stage area was also an area where the pool table was and in order to move it they had a purpose built trolley. Come our set they have moved the Pool table and the trolley instead of being under the pool table was loose at its side. Our female singer (who was never usually seen in anything but jeans) was wearing a skirt and a whizzed punter lay on his back on the trolley and pushed himself across the floor to do a bit of up-skirting ( although it was not called that then). Never seen that before or since.....

These days, thanks to snowflakes, that would be sexual harassment or something of that kind.

56 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

They weren't trying to be funny, or even post-ironic

What kind of a band are you? Every one knows that any band should be able to do any song at the drop of a hat.

We were actually asked this frequently when we said we didn't know particular songs. 

1 hour ago, Muzz said:

one hero just stood right in front (like, a foot in front - there was no room for him to get round in between 

This happened to me many years ago. We were playing in a pub with a very small stage only about 12 inches high. Just enough to lift the band above the punters. This ignorant girl came and stood right in front of me on the stage with her back to me. It was clearly meant to wind me up as she came from a hard family and was friends with an ex of mine. The security moved her off and she waited until he moved away and stood there again. I was singing and playing and had to suffer this until she got bored with her stupid little game. I had the last laugh when we got a good reception right enough.

9 hours ago, Bunion said:

Would have been better if she’d tried stage diving….

And crowd surfed

I have been playing and singing (I'm the vocalist so I am singing pretty much all of the time) and people have come up to me and said how's it going? What are you up to?  I mean seriously?

Man this brings back some memories for me. Why do drunk people think that everyone in the bar wants to hear them sing rather than the band? It happened to us so many times. Then there was the can I sing? Every time they were rotten and if you refused they got shirty.