Al Krow

We try to 'refresh' our set lists from time to time and have just included a few new tracks that seem to be going down really well with our audiences. But these were all from 1988 to 2014. I had a start-of-the-year look at our set lists and noticed we've only got two tracks from the last five years (Jan 2015 to Dec 2019): Fonsi - Despacito (our lead vocals is bilingually Spanish which really helps!) and Portugal.The Man - Feel it Still. Had a listen to the top 20 best selling singles from 2019 this morning (believe me, it's the sort of productive / useful cra*p you get upto when you've signed up to a 2020 gear abstinence thread) but nothing jumped out at me as being an obviously good track to include in our sets! Be really interested to hear what modern tracks you have in your set lists from the past 5 years that are fun to play as a band and go down well with your audiences. Please feel free to post links of the tracks themselves or your bands playing them. Cheers AK

Did I say 10/2 against? Looking very generous now... 😄

Congrats! What are you going to be playing it through? You gonna get a chance to try out in a band mix soon? Waaaay back on this thread @jrixn1posted a couple of pics of his 434 with some bespoke PGs - looked fantastic. And if you want any PG Tips then @AndyTravis is our very own Mr T.

That's the nice thing to having signed up to this thread. You know you shouldn't be getting any gear: so you low ball. If they say "no" you still feel virtuous (albeit only just, after all you've flirted big time right? 😁) If they say yes, then you've stopped caring about being on this thread. Win win!

Yeah, but you've been a fan of Ibbys, you play through a BF SC and you're a bass player who's never used pedals live in 40(?) years of gigging. And no one has ever sacked you for not using a compressor. Not once. What's not to love about that? 😁

I could lend you my spare SH and you could (if you like it) buy it off me for its current market value but on 1 Jan 2021. Nothing pre-agreed of course and you can return it to me at any time for no cost. ...Phew, bacon saved! Anyone else looking for a loophole, please PM me. My rates are sometimes reasonable.

And yet I do recall that it was only days ago you were suggesting we put our wives out to work to buy each other basses...some folk never learn eh? 😁

I think @bassfan should start putting some odds against our names as to who's gonna make it through January 10/2 against for you Walshy 😁

And so it beings 😂

@Bilbo sorry to hear about the heart attack - hope you've had a successful recovery and feeling mended. That sort of thing must always come as a shock. Quite a stilted year for me - a couple of bandmates moved away in both of my bands and our key lead vocalist was down with tonsillitis at start of last year, meant we did 26 in total, 21 of which were in the second half of the year. 75% of our gigs are functions these days but our regular pub gig has been a key foundation for building up the bands, and is still a lot of fun. As much as I would love to be as busy as some of my esteemed BCer's above, not sure that Mrs Krow would be too happy, so maybe 35 to 40 including some mid week gigs is a realistic number for me to be shooting for in 2020.

Unlike me

Day 3 and no one's fallen off the wagon. Yet.

PS anyone seen how many basses Geddy Lee has in his collection? Just sayin... 😉

Wise words indeed. I knew I was doing something wrong and finally now I know: I really must stop trying to play two basses at once. Besides my bandmates have often said they looked silly strewn across my diminutive frame, necks clattering. One bass at a time it will be from now on!

So are you now a bass GAS-free zone?

And what's wrong with that? A bit of window shopping never hurt! Besides we need to know what we're saving up for in 2021! 😁

Not all NT basses cost the earth. You'll be gobsmacked at the price of this one:

And great in real life on the SR Premium range too!

@Paulhauser - thanks for that. Seems to me that your experience is the Euro 5LX stack up pretty well, in general, against the US NS models. But you've found a particular gem amongst them.

He's a seriously capable youngster! But I think has re-confirmed to me that it's going to have to be Nords rather than the Barts.

Yeah - I found buying a Spector has resulted in a lot bass GAS gone! Very helpful for GAC 2020. All about timing, right? 😁

Average White Dirt

You've just been on a stand up comedy course haven't you? 😁 The point of this thread is surely not the winning, but the taking part? And then failing spectacularly in about July.

But you do have a fantastic bass collection! I dread to think what the total spend on your current collection is, but I'm guessing it starts with a "2"... Yup, given that strings are an allowed 'consumable' (aka nicotine patch) this could be the year we become world experts on different types of string - haha!

Day 2. Anyone else breaking into a cold sweat and suffering shakes? 😁