PaulWarning

all good advice, except what's all this locking into the bass drum? very old school

wonder what drummers say about bass players?

the first 2 years were like that, the last 7 have been increasingly a little more fraught though

I've used these for a while,on balance I think I prefer Elixers but I use these because, like you've seen they look good under UV lighting, especially seeing as how I play in a punk covers band, they last me about 6 months, flake a bit where I hit them with my pick but nothing too serious , lose a bit of zing but it is a bass I play so I'm not bothered about that. As for the roughness I've never had any trouble playing London Calling. Some people complain Elixirs are too smooth! I get them from the USA via ebay, about £25

not mentioned yet, Macca, his voice is terrible these days, Ringo sounded far better at the recent 50 year anniversary of the Ed Sullivan show, who'd have thought that? and Jagger still sound good if this summers concerts are anything to go by. So as ever, everybody's different

boost them mids, around 400hz, loads of bottom end might sound good when you're playing on your own but in a band situation it just gets lost in the mix, IMO, of course

occasionally I'll have to tune my MIA P if it's a humid atmosphere or cold but I have to adjust every string the same, sometimes I forget at practice then remember half way through the night and find it's been out of tune, has anybody noticed? have they hell.

can't stand that Dominic Littlewood, his fake sincerity gets right up my nose, and Shure are hardly likely to admit that some fakes are as good as the real thing even if they are.

the purist HiFi view is the more components between the original signal and the power amp the more in degrades, by removing the preamp altogether you're getting a cleaner signal.

[quote name='dand666' timestamp='1401356772' post='2462699'] But to some of us, this is our job, our full time wage, it's not about 'ripping people off'. We provide them with an evenings entertainment, at to be honest a cheap price compared to the rest of the wedding. I see your point, and even now, sometimes it baffles me that we just got paid x amount for a gig, in the end of the day I just want to play music. But I also need to pay the mortgage! [/quote] fair point, if it's what you do for a living, like the rest of us you get paid as much as you can but I would imagine most bassist on here don't depend on gigs for their main source of income and like me it's just a hobby, something I would do for nothing because I enjoy it, any money I get is just a bonus

another one for google here, we have a band calender that everyone can log on to, works pretty well, we get the occasional cock up but it's a lot better than anything else we've tried

seeing as how I play in a band because I enjoy it and not for the money, I'm happy to play for whatever, done 2 wedding gigs, one for my daughter which obviously was a freebe, and one for a regular to our gigs, we were more than happy to do it for £50 expenses because they were broke. We've got another coming up, we are charging the pub (£250) rate we're not into ripping people off. But the pub rate varies, if the pub says they can only afford to pay £150 we're usually cool with that, to be fair we've never played for that and the place has been rammed, we have been known to give some of the fee back if there's not been may in, pubs are struggling and closing down so it's not like they're lining there own pockets at our expense, we played a 40 minute set last night for £60, PA supplied, on a Wednesday night what else would we be doing?

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1400850028' post='2457518'] Tribute bands, there are only a few I'd think of being in, and one day may get round to putting one of them together. Dr Feelgood, CCR and LynSkyn, perhaps Booker T & the MG's, that's it. All the rest have either been done to death or not worth doing in the first place. Now if I can just find a singer who sounds like John F I'd be sorted... [/quote] Don't Dr Feelgood do the rounds without any of the original members, doesn't that make them a tribute band?

just got back from a Busking trip in Nottingham, I use a roland mobile cube that works off 6 AA batteries, a very apologetic policemen asked my to move a long as they'd had a complaint that I was too loud, Rock and Roll

funniest tribute I ever saw was in Tenerife, billed as a Karen Carpenter tribute, her voice wasn't bad but she must have been at least 15 stone

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1400490079' post='2454226'] That's interesting but what Rap or Rappers would you say were the originals? [/quote] just googled it, apparently it started centuries ago, so I suppose everything is just a progression, at best, of what's gone before

slightly off thread I'm afraid, but when do people think something truly original came along, can't stand it, but Rap was original, Chuck Berry? Jimi Hendrix? perhaps Black Sabbath? the Beatles and the Stones certainly weren't, most successfully musicians were just good at reinventing the wheel

I think if the tribute in question is of a band you can no longer see there is more justification for it, once saw a Hendrix tribute which had me open mouthed, he looked like Jimi, played like him, wasn't left handed but played a left handed strat upside down, that made me smile, I prefer it when they don't take themselves too seriously, having said that I saw a Quo tribute which I enjoyed, joking about the wigs they were wearing, it was down the local pub, free to get in, decent pint, what's not to like if you're into the band?

because something in the human psyche makes us crave approval from others, that's why we love it when a gig goes well or somebody compliments your playing, and why there's like button on Facebook

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399968206' post='2449336'] 100%! I hear bad reviews of Elixirs all the time but I love them. [/quote] like most things in life, there are loads of opinions on strings, if it wasn't like that everybody would buy the same ones and Basschat would be a pretty boring place

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399900116' post='2448739'] Haha I do play pretty hard, fret clank is part of my tone! I don't have problems with Elixir strings though, they lasted me a year until I snapped the E [/quote] something I've never managed to do, snap a string. I'm guessing you like a bit more top end zing to your tone than I do, I used Elixir happily for a while till I found the call of neon pinks string too hard to resist, haven't found they flake any worse than Elixir's though

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399834402' post='2448178'] The neons have duff G strings as well. Plus they die after about 2 gigs, faster than uncoated strings. Oh and the coating comes off and makes a mess of your fretboard and hardware. [/quote] Christ, and I thought I hit them hard. Just had a thought, you have to make sure you're don't damaging the coating when you pull them through the bridge

I've been using neons for a while now and have never noticed any dull strings, and they last a long time

yep same seller and same insertion time, but different description and £200 price difference, not saying there's anything dodgy, just don't understand why he's done it

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Left-Handed-USA-Precision-P-Bass-1978-Great-Condition-/221434688928?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item338e8935a0 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-USA-1978-Precision-Left-Handed-Lefty-Bass-Natural-P-Bass-Great-Condition-/321399989544?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ad4eea528 what's going on here?