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just listening to it on Spotify, not as bad as I thought it would be

waste of time for the east midlands, is there an alternative?

the Undertones are my favourite and to be fair they're all the originals (the drummer was temporarily missing the last time I saw them) except for Fergal, and Paul the new(ish) singer does a good job, SLF still have Jake Burns and Ali McMordie as originals, but I can't take Jake Burns seriously, he's put that much weight on and wears ridiculous shirts, shaved his head now, I did used to wonder whether he wore a wig. Seeing the Buzzcocks at the Scarborough Punk Fest next year, not sure about that one tbh, no Pete Shelley is hard to imagine, the Ruts are good value, are they still Ruts DC? seen the Stranglers a few times I sometimes think they're just going through the motions, just one original now, wouldn't pay to see them unless they're on at a Festival I'm going to anyway. And that's the rub, the Undertones are the only ones I'd pay to see at a stand alone gig, the others just happen to be on at a festival I'm attending.

I get the impression that the artists that some BCers think ought to pack it in are the artists the never liked much when they were at their peak

I suppose I'll keep going till I physically can't do it anymore, although I'm less keen, at one time if we didn't have a gig at the weekend I'd be "we haven't got a gig this weekend😒 now its "we haven't got a gig this weekend😀"

yep my thoughts exactly, carry on as long as they want too, one of the problems with social media and youtube etc, is, while people will enjoy a performance live, when looking at a video of the gig in the cold light of day it can sound awful

funnily enough I was listening to an old recording of a gig I did back in 2005, about a year after I took up bass, I was surprised how good we sounded (as a band) I always thought I'd (we'd) got better over the years, maybe I haven't, well not a lot anyway

I wasn't saying a HPF is not worth having, I use one myself, the Zoom B1on has one, just referring to the above post

whenever I've had booming it's not the very low end but around the 100Hz range, I thought, maybe mistakenly, that anything below about 30 Hz is inaudible to the human hearing, well it is to mine anyway

I like to think I'm adequate, but like @Phil StarrI've got an awful ear, takes me ages to figure out a bass line in a song, I usually get there with the help of Googling tabs (some of them are awful too) and Audacity (slowing down and moving up an octave). Our guitarist makes me sick, he figures out a song by just listening to the record a few times and knows instantly when I've got it wrong 😡. I'm trying to learn Blister in the Sun at the moment and really struggling with the phrasing and speed edit, oh yeah, the thought of jamming along fills me with dread

I'm just learning this, our drummer wants to do it, definitely hypnotic

yes

classic pop in ads is great, classic tracks that most 'normal' people don't know are suddenly well received at our gigs

Did a gig last night using the XLR out on the Shure base unit, everything was fine. Can recommend the the Behringer MA400 for anyone with a similar problem. Thanks for everyone's suggestions, they've been invaluable

my Fender V2 cabs have a tweeter rocker switch to select off, full or -6db, I have them off, sometimes they get moved accidently, I never notice till I actually look at them, tweeters on bass cabs seem counter intuitive to me. I never/can't/ don't want to, play slap and use DR neon strings which are quite bright

Don't know about anybody else but I find it impossible to test an amp (or anything else) in a music shop (unless you take the whole band with you and do a gig) gear4music, for instance, have a 30 day returns policy, so you can try them out properly before deciding

Not saying this was the case, but sometimes bands sound like an inaudible mess because they are 😆

I read an interview with Macca a few years ago where he said he'd always had trouble with the G note being slightly out of tune on his Hofner but his luthier had done a lot of work on it and sorted it out, if my memory is correct and I didn't dream it 😊

yes that's the problem 😀

I play with a pick, I think a pick players nearly always cut through better live

we played the Butlins introductory stage a few years ago, the bands before us had a loud bass drum and a bassy floor tom, before we went on I politely said to the soundman, we're old school can you go easy on the bass drum for us? we had a great sound as various phone footage confirmed, funnily enough all the bands after us sounded good too

has Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll with Keith Richards been shown anywhere recently?

had a look tonight, there is an XLR socket in the back, when I asked why he didn't use it he said "Well it works from the other one so I never bothered" told you he was a technophobe, I'll try it at our next gig

I've not actually looked at the shure base unit carefully, the singer says it's not got a an XLR out, but he is a technophobe, if he's using the instrument out it could explain the high output, we're feeding the PA from the MA400 via the thru connector. I found out you could reduce the output of the mic by 10db by holding down the channel button that improved matters

I once bought a lefty electro acoustic off them, sent the first one back, ridiculously high action, second one was just the same, gave up and got my money back, good returns system though