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Yes, I was thinking that. She makes it clear you would need to be well prepared, and you can only order one lesson at a time, so she's clearly protecting herself from time-wasters - quite rightly. But she's obviously a superb teacher. I've promised myself time over the holidays to work through as much as I can of her playing tips: https://www.carolkaye.com/www/education/tips101.htm

If I had a list it would probably be this https://www.jasonrasomusic.com/basslinecontinuum and something (possibly several things) from here https://shop.carolkaye.com/ and a proper traditional winter ale.

Also an Ovation 12-string, a red MusicMan and a Yamaha TRB5. https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/davidleonarmarke-0?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 As said, hope they'll all go to musicians and not collectors.

Kelby Ray was their bass player in their previous line-up as American Bang (worth checking out if you like their music). "I split the sound from my lap steel into 2 parts. One goes through some effects into a guitar amp, the other goes through some effects into a bass amp." Full interview here: http://thinkcountrymusic.com/whats-new/kelby-rae/

Completely agree! I don't understand why bronze rounds are recommended for acoustic basses. Feel and sound harsh imho. Flats for a tighter sound, and tapes if you want to sound like a db.

My beautiful Ibby 1406... May well become my main gigging bass ... just so light and beautiful and versatile ... need to get used to the taper between nut width and bridge width, I'm trying to use every note on the fretboard 🙂

I'm coming to this from being lucky enough to have a 1966 Gibson EB2, and unlucky enough that it lives with my son (drummer and occasional bass player) in Nashville, and realistically I'll never be able to get it back to the UK, or to gig it if I did (too fragile and valuable). So the JC satisfies my lust for a hollow-body that I can pick up any time, and gig. In fact I gigged it within two hours of buying it from @Pow_22 before our gig on Sunday 🙂 I don't have the technical knowledge of many BC peeps to do a proper review. But I like the simplicity of the controls - numbered dials for tone and volume, and a 3-position tone switch so you can easily change sound - say between verse and bridge. I don't usually like a gloss neck, but that wasn't a problem. It really does need flats! I have D'addario chrome flats on my two fretless basses, and the Elite stainless steels on this feel surprisingly different - more slippery - almost as if they were somehow flatter. But they're right for it. Once you pick up a (semi)hollow-body there's no looking back (imho). There's a visceral resonance that a solid-body just can't have. And just so much presence. If only there was a 5...

Welcome! The only other bass player in my excellent local om has gone from Fender P to viola-bass to U-bass for reasons of weight - back and shoulder problems - the U-bass sounds better than the viola imho! But there's nothing as good as a full size long scale bass imho... hope it goes well!

Aren't they gorgeous? 🙂Shame about the neck dive, but a wide rough suede strap should be enough to control it. Yours like mine is missing the pick guard - I don't like the original white, but for me it just looks like something's missing without one. Can't find a black replacement, so thinking of having one made or even trying to make one myself.

Perfect thank you! Good site to know about in general, too. Trust the BC community to know these things! 🙂 (2009 in case anyone else is wondering...)

Does anyone know if there's an online key to Epiphone bass serial numbers? I've looked and can't find one. Trying to date the beautiful Jack Casady 0902220012 which somehow came home with me yesterday 🙂

Just back from playing the band om / jam at Bar110 in Tyldesley run by @12stringbassist. Made to feel very welcome, small but enthusiastic audience. 4 song, 20 minute set - with the unexpected bonus of a sax player sitting in. Guitar, drummer and singer had to leave early, but the keys player and I got to jam for a while with the house band later. We're all buzzing and looking forward to going back. A useful lesson though in how different the sound is on stage and in the room. From where I was standing, the whole sound was blurry and out of balance. I'm just listening now to the recording and it's crisp and well balanced except that the bass is too quiet. I'll turn it up next time!

Perhaps a bit ot, but for most of you who are in established bands and being paid, it's one thing. Otoh the first regular repeat gig we had was Sunday afternoons in a fun local pub which is also a social enterprise / community centre, and we were happy to play there, just to get some gigging experience and to support them. But they gave us lots of excellent food and beer, which was more than we were asking for, and made everyone feel good.

Met up with Paul before our gig this evening - we had arranged through BC for him to bring his Epiphone Jack Casady for me to check out. Honest description on the marketplace, very reasonable price, lovely bass. I'm even more impressed because he remembered that I had expressed an interest a while back and got back in touch when he decided to sell. No pressure to buy even though he'd come out specially. Excellent transaction, lovely guy, highly recommended.

Welcome! Any initiative to make live music, and playing music, more accessible, especially for youngsters and beginners, is A Good Thing. Hope it goes well and that you find it useful being here.

Welcome! And of course we're interested. I bet a lot of people on here wish they had someone trying to find a favourite bass for them!

Welcome - nice basses!

Welcome!

Welcome!

Imho it's more about respect than food. I've never (yet) played in a function band, but I've twice booked a band for a function - for my wedding in 1999, an excellent local pub covers band with the wonderful name of Gene Therapy and the Chromosomes, and for my 60th birthday party in 2015, Kyla Brox, and Virgil and the Accelerators. Both times I made it clear in advance that they would have as much to eat from the buffet as they wanted, and an open tab at the bar. For the first they only arrived to set up after the other guests had helped themselves, but there was plenty of everything left. For the second the musicians got first dibs. All were musicians I'd seen live and chatted to many times, and I'd booked them because I liked and respected them, but I'd have done the same for anyone I was prepared to book. Musicians aren't servants, they (we?) are skilled professionals and should be treated as such. As I said to the buffet and bar staff on both occasions, "Musicians are important, and should be looked after."

Welcome!

You don't have to turn it up full... I live in a tiny flat with thin walls with a MarkBass 500 combo volume set to 1 and the neighbours never complain. (or perhaps they don't dare... 🙂 )

Welcome!

The best at different things can come at different times in our lives. My best as a university lecturer was about 15 years ago, and I recognised that and gave it up 10 years ago. I will almost certainly never be as good a bass player as I was a lecturer, but my best as a bass player is yet to come. With care and practice and a following wind I won't live to "cessation". I don't want to.

So I'm not the only one who wears a bass-clef t-shirt while playing bass? Nice bass 🙂