Stub Mandrel

It depends on the venues you expect to play. If you are genuinely backline only and expect to play medium to large pubs or clubs you'll probably need more than 100W unless it's a very gentle band. That said, investing in efficient, quality speakers (whether in a combo or separates) can make as much of a difference as multiplying your amp power by ten. My backup TE Elf at 250W is more than loud enough through my 4-ohm GR Bass AT212, but struggles to keep up with a drumkit through my teeny 8-ohm Phil Jones C2.

All the time, always have and hopefully always will. <Edit> and my 'first date' with my current partner was taking her to one of my gigs 🙂

That's great. You can the overlap between punk and Hawkwind.

So that's all settled. What about tribute bands?

It's unfortunate that the PRS site doesn't explain thing with that level of succinctness. I'm still trying to get my head around teh busking thing. Do buskers get a fee for playing their own songs, or does submitting a setlist just trigger a payment of £1.47?

If I am able to come I will find summat for the raffle, even if it's only a roll of gaffa tape!

Last night's amp setup. Note master volume... not through the pa either.

Gigged the MB5 again yesterday. Sounded great with the warman pup although only one song. Did have to up the gain a bit.

No, there are hints such as basing the playing of covers on a 'sample basis' of setlists but without clear details for how this works. The website also seems to suggest that they make small payments to buskers, however the writing is so confusing I may be wrong on that.

I tried to work out what they actually do, but their whole website seems to be written on the basis of providing partial information, so you have to contact them to find out what is actually needed...

PRS is only interested in getting venues to pay for 'TheMusicLicence' while bands and venues can submit setlists they (rarely?) request them and AFAICS the money goes into a pot which gets shared out pro rata. If you play your own music the writer (not performer) can submit a setlist to be paid a pittance...

Can't fool me, that's just a rework of Roll Over Beethoven.

Exactly. There's a 'right' sort of cover and the wrong sort some professional musicians like to look down on.

Oh well, that's John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers consigned to the dustbin of history for a start. And God help any folk or jazz bands out there... let alone the orchestras! To be honest I read the original post and assumed it was a troll - let's face it almost everyone on Basschat is in or has been in a covers band. For the vast majority of us it's the only way to be in a gigging band. Back in the 80s/90s I was in bands who had less of a following than the blues band I'm in now, but we would play a whole night of originals in a pub or club and get a response comparable to what a covers band gets these days. But there can be a lot of creativity in playing covers (especially blues where improvisation and random events are de riguer). It need not be cross-stitch, it can be more like needlepoint where you may well be embroidering an established design, but you have all sorts of choices of stitch, colour and texture. Ultimately, people playing and listening to live music is one of the most unifying and positive things human beings can do. From being one of a bunch of drunken students singing Hey Jude on the way back from a pub crawl to gigging 'popular tunes' to improvising a bassline to a song I've never heard before at a jam, it's all good. Music should be rated by what it brings to people's lives; discussing its originality or technical merits can be fun and entertaining, but that doesn't really matter. If people are enjoying, or getting some other benefits like solace or nostalgia, from making or listening to it, music is good. Be grateful for those who add to the sum total of music that's there to perform, but don't diss cover bands for giving people what they want.

'Gothweed' 😁

GRBass At212s

Played the Terrace in Uplands Swansea depping with Up To Eleven, dep guitarist too. Three long flights of stairs and small stage (so keyboard player was semi-detached to the side!) Basschatter @Franticsmurf came along and made some generous comments about my sound. Here's a piick of my head to prove how low I had my master volume! Was not packed for the first two set (American style gig!) but numbers went up and down and they were noisy and at least some of a very youthful audience danced and sang to most numbers. We played a ragged and rapturously received version of 500 miles, followed by Don't Stop Believing-which we thought we nailed but got no reaction at all! One very drunk girl wanted a Miley Cyrus song and spent ages trying to get the guitarist and singer to agree to doing a song they hadn't heard of. Then spent two songs holding her phone up in front of them, presimably exoecting them to learn the lyrics while playing someting else...1 Third,late set it filled right up and we had a big bunch of very amicable but wrecked lads dancing in front of us. Minor stage invader dealt with by his mates! So an entertaining night even if I didn’t get home until 2am, very stiff... Pics courtesy of @Franticsmurf 👍

http://warmanguitars.co.uk/ I had to slightly open up the hole in the pickguard.

My 40th P has a very deep coloured laquer on the neck. Lovely colour.

100% agree with this, always seems poor when people can't seem to wait to get out the door. I know a baschatter who may feel a bit sheepish if I mention one band that started their three songs with Dark Star 🤣

It is indeed. Give us a shout!

My dep next Saturday. "This Saturday at Uplands #1 venue The Terrace at Whitez we present a newbie the brilliant 'Up To Eleven'...they will be belting out a huge 3 setter " Edit: Just noticed that's my elbow on the right!

The active Hohner Jack basses not only have a switch, but they also allow you to play in passive mode when off, so a dead battery is not gigs terminating.

+1 🤣