Frank Blank

Which is exactly what I was saying.

I walked into the venue about five mins before KJ took the stage so I’m afraid I missed Turbowolf. Well there were a few reasons for my harshness, mostly it was the dreadful, dreadful quality of the sound, just a muddy dirge, no clarity or articulation at all, you could barely discern notes on the bass. Geordie’s once magnificent guitar sound now sounds like a reedy goose fart, thin and watery. It felt like they were just going through the motions. They don’t rehearse for tours, haven’t for years and frankly it shows. Jaz’s voice was on the verge of disappearing, he was really struggling especially with higher notes, this is understandable after touring but along with all the rest it was just awful. I have longer standing issues with them live, same old underehearsed set of songs played with no passion. I’ve walked out of the last two gigs before this but yesterday was the last straw, I’ll not go again.

I have such an irrational aversion to yellow unless a canary or a banana, ridiculous really.

...and behind you *whoooooooo*

But you’d always be thinking ‘that ‘orrible yellow is just behind me, plotting, conspiring’.

If I needed any more convincing of the FRFR route... Just walked out of a Killing Joke gig at UEA Norwich (I lasted a song and a half), lacklustre performance, ‘orrible sound generally, but the bass! One of the muddiest, least articulate sounds I ever heard, just a low end hum and rumble with barely discernible notes. An unspecified lump rolling through a swamp. I’m sat in the car listening to Radio 4 and reading Basschat instead. All that amplification on stage and just a dirge our front.

*waves*

Killing Joke currently on stage at UEA Norwich. I beat a personal best this evening walking out after a song and a half...

Just opted for the Fishman Platinum Pro from GAK, cheers all.

Yes, *squeeee* me first, me first *shaves off eyebrows*

Irony - sarcasm - rudeness - the inability to covey nuance in written text. All these things aside, we’d really like you to bring your Wal basses.

Cracking band, first saw these on Later... thanks for reminding me!

@Bassassin what did you scrape the horrid brown gloop off with? I’m liking the look of that for my SR500 and SRC6.

You are in excellent company Sir, JJ Burnel was a classical guitarist before taking up the bass.

I'm with @Teebs as wide as possible and personally I've never purchased a patterned strap.

Just realising my first comment was a little far from welcoming so, welcome, Sir.

Yes, but he/she's crossed the house so to speak so good on him/her. Bass playing is a bit like Hotel California, You can check out any time you like but you can never leave...

Based solely on the response to Damon Albarn on here I've sought out the The Good, The Bad & The Queen album and am thoroughly enjoying it, some lovely reggae influenced bass lines running through it. I remember my Dad *spits* turning TOTP or the radio off when Bowie, Roxy Music or Sparks (there were more, it was quite an extensive list) came on, it was a clue to the music actually being interesting.

Welcome to Essex.

Cheers Pete!

Having played here again I had a better look at this top and the make is Maine, anyone know anything about these amps? I love the tone of it and would love to find one.

MacBook Pro, all the way.

I have a Kingman, it’s really loud and allows you to ‘dig in’ like no other acoustic bass, if only they made a short scale version...

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