Don’t you worry about any of that, the Bass Bashes are the very antithesis of all that old bollo. Your description of your playing is exactly how I’d describe mine and I have a gas at the Bashes.
It’s no good preparing pieces to play, you can’t hear anything over the cacophony of everyone playing everything all the time and then you can’t hear anything over the post-prandial burp/fart fest.
🤘 That video has just made me long for a heaving pub full of loud rock, in fact I’m actually craving a cigarette (I don’t smoke), a pint (I barely drink) and I’m considering purchasing my first bikers jacket for forty years, loved it 🤘
I had a 70s disco reggae thing going on today Third World leading, inevitably, to Eddy Grant...
...not that it matters but I don’t even know if it is reggae. I know I love that squelchy electronic sound in this song.
Keep going, there’s some silly ‘big amps are best’ nonsense early on but it soon settles into a really thorough discussion of the topic. Reading that thread lead me to totally change my views on bass amplification and ultimately to a completely new rig that I’m really happy with.
No. After reading comments from people far more technically knowledgeable than me on the highly informative...
...thread I decided using a sub was pointless.