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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1407215847' post='2518371'] "Fight for your right to party" , doing soon at a wedding as the last song in what I consider one of the best sets I've been asked to play, horrible way to end a gig for the bassist , but then again it's not about me Played "America" and "she's so lovely" as a dep recently, those 2 songs make me fall asleep mid gig Ah, and "sit down" [/quote] Ah Fight for your Right, used to play it the same as the guitarist then realised you just play A (in the key we play it in) over the guitar riff and it rocks a lot better, I break the monotony by doing the shouty backing vocal great fun, if the song sounds better with a simple bass line that's good enough for me

is there a thread running here, the simpler the bass line the more the crowd enjoy it?

talking of punk bass lines, how about this, and I think the bassist did the mixing as well lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91A8z__t0o0

not sure whether it's been mentioned already but I love playing Holiday in Cambodia

what's good enough for him is good enough for me

Macca's only playing a short scale bass, let him try it on a big fat P neck with the bass below his waist line, I can't play it properly either and that's how I console myself

[quote name='Paultrader' timestamp='1406147929' post='2508864'] I lock in with drums, drummer smiles, band sounds good. (Drummer provides rehearsal space, lends me his bass amp at practices, always has a beer in the fridge, is all round nice guy - the result is happiness all round!) [/quote] nothing wrong with locking into the drums, in fact its essential, but I always think if it's just the bass drum it all sound a bit ploddy, personally I take more notice of the snare

if you're cack handed and learning from scratch, learn right handed if you can

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1405957928' post='2506923'] What heresy is this..? ... Nah, it was tongue in cheek ribbing, that's all. There are styles which benefit from 'locking', others where it would definitely be detrimental. It's never a Good Idea to totally [i]ignore [/i]the drums, though. Best tip..? Protect your hearing whilst it's worth protecting. Once it's shot, it's shot for good and for all. [/quote] Phew, glad you weren't serious, thought I was doing it all wrong

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1405956508' post='2506909'] It depends on the repertoire (ie: whether one is playing music or not..! ). [/quote] bit of a narrow POV there, being in time is compulsory but just playing a note when the beater hits the bass drum is not

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