Bob Lord

bought a markbass LMIII from Will (top one in the picture) Price was good, item was in great condition as described, p&p and dispatch time were excellent, as was communication cheers!

it's fine so far, but I always get someone else to two the head with me. I try to be careful. Hardest bit is hoisting the head onto the 8x10. It's just a bit too high and a bit too heavy. Wonder why on earth i'm dragging this stuff about when everyone else seems to be using super light cabs and tiny class D amps, but when I start playing I always glad I bothered

Hi amp gurus, need your wisdom... The SVT-CL will go down to 2 ohms. There's a switch on the back for you to select whether your load is 2 or 4 ohms. So, no problem plugging it into two 4 ohm cabs in parallel... But what if I have a 4 ohm and an 8 ohm cab? Would they draw the same power? And would the impedance of those cabs in parallel (2.67ohms) be likely to cause any issues if the amp was switched to the '2 ohm' setting? What about the 4 ohm setting? Cheers!

I had one. Sounded great, but was backbreakingly heavy

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craddock hair!

Funnily enough, mine's played Glastonbury too! I got it off the bloke who used to play bass in The Enemy, and he used it when they played in 2007. Not particularly a fan of them, but it's a kinda cool bit of rock triv

killer horn section

my mum will always be cooler than me, because not only did she see the Beatles twice in Nelson (small Lancashire town, next to Burnley), she also saw the Stones there too. And The Who.

I've ended up in a few punk bands in my time - not because I love punk per se, although I do love loud, energetic rock n roll (which is basically all it is, anyway). And what I've found is that there are always audience members for whom their identity as 'a punk' or an 'ex punk' is really precious to them. Fair enough. But after the gig, they always seem to want to prove their punk credentials to you, the guy in the band. Endless war stories about having seen some obscure band playing some obscure toilet in 1978. And they've always been in a band themselves once

yeah, it's weird that a lot of people don't think most of it is a skill like any other skill, that can be learned and improved with practice. As if you could throw a tuba at someone and they would start parping away amazingly at their first attempt. Some have a better aptitude for it than others, but everyone can do something. I think deep down people know this, but use the 'oh I have no talent' thing as an excuse for not ever trying

there’s never been a time in the history of electric bass where bolt-on necks were seen as a hallmark of inferior instruments

the same chord changes tend to crop up again and again, so it's always useful to have a bunch of different ways to (for example) handle a ii-V-I or a I-IV, so you're not always consciously thinking too much about it as you're playing (unless you want to) I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down and working out - off the meter - a bunch of different options for connecting chords. Although the ultimate aim is to be able to hang in there as the chords whizz by, you can hamper your progress by practicing in real time all the time - playing with some crazy fast tempo bebop Jamey Aebersold book 43 shizzle before you're ready won't give you enough time to really digest what you need to learn. Sit and really carefully woodshed as many different ways you could outline the chord movements, over really simple changes. Your vocabulary will end up being all the stuff you liked and kept top tips: roots and fifths are good, as are 3rds. being aware of the key and the full chord you're playing under will help you choose the right scale tones Chromatic approaches, especially to roots, are nearly always great sounding. It often sounds good when you keep going in the same direction through a chord - it sounds like you've got a plan don't be afraid to play half-notes don't be afraid to play the same note again over the same chord! remember you're playing a song, or accompanying a melody or a soloist. So what you play should be appropriate, and make sense in that context. If what you play would have been the same regardless of what the other people were doing, or what the tune was, then something's wrong

amps with the fender tone stack can sound fantastic used for bass, through a bass cab. At home, i've played my fender jazz through my 68 fender twin custom reissue into a bass cab, and it sounds great. Lots of low end, and a sweet clean sound. Have tried the same thing with a JCM800 though, and it sounded....well, not crap but certainly a specialist kind of sound. Maybe if you were in a Motorhead trib