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[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1454015704' post='2965564'] Not owned by the same people apparently. [/quote] Used to be, but Doug and Charlie are no longer connected to the Kew shop. I believe they still have an excellent repair dept.

Good call. Drop Alex an email and ask abut his 110 and 210 cabs. I don't know these cabs but they might be better for upright.

Just seeing the ad reminded me that the Vanderkley Aurora goes to 2 ohms.

I've played Bergs exclusively since 2008 and a CN212 for the last 2 years. Not quite a CN112 but very close. I love the Berg sound and I thought I was playing the last cab I'd own, but then I had a chance to pick up a couple of Super Compacts. I knew they would be good, but with either my Thunderfunk or TH500 my bands now tell me I now sound bigger, fatter, fuller, clearer and louder. With a weight of 21lbs and being able to use 1 for many gigs where I'd have previously used the 212 maybe I have reached the last cabs I'll own. I rate both makes very highly but my preference is for the SC's.

Various TC amps are either 2ohm or 2.6ohm, my Thunderfunk TFB750-A and the Mesa D800 goes to 2ohm. You can also run 2 4ohm amps into 2 4ohm cabs by daisy chaining the amps.

Does the band get a share of debit and credit card sales? I've seen card sales excluded and that means that the band gets not a lot at the end of the night.

As an Electronics Engineer you should find the technical information on the Barefaced website an interesting read.

[quote name='rjs1909' timestamp='1453848186' post='2963506'] I feel that Jamerson overplays a lot of the time. [/quote] I voted Stax, but Jamerson overplaying? Nooooo. He was a maestro; the inventor of "proper grown up" bass playing. His note choices were complicated or simple but always the peak of melodic and rhythmical playing and always appropriate to the song. I've been a Duck Dunn fan since I first heard Green Onions (I know that was Lewis Steinberg) but Jamerson was the first genius of the electric bass. I remember hearing For Once In My Life for the first time and wondering how that could be played on a bass.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1453878241' post='2963629'] The media and recording industry are doing their best to kill gigging. [/quote] Actually a lot of gigs are being killed off by the supermarkets undercutting pubs and noise related laws which are being rigorously enforced by the Councils.

[quote name='probablypike' timestamp='1453877769' post='2963627'] I've heard that for the first time since recorded music was widely available, artists are making comparatively more money through live gigs than ever before. [/quote] That's probably because they can't make any money from recording any more.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1453853764' post='2963568'] You also missed out the "have a wide range of interests because life's too short to spend it entirely on playing bass". It's a big wide world out there. [/quote] And I've been around it several times and lived and worked in 4 countries on 2 continents. As for bass playing. . . the gig is the buzz and the bass is the tool that enables it. Every day playing a musical instrument is a day that should be savoured.

If I had to stop gigging I'd probably stop playing bass and buy a piano and play that at home.

I don't do multiband gigs so maybe my world is different to yours, but I don't understand all the "engineers want this" and "engineers want that". I only get FOH occasionally in functions and festivals and the guys are usually good. They're flexible, will let me DI from the amp, with a post signal and will talk to me about the sound I want. I've never been dictated to about "what my sound should be".

Charlie Chandler at Hampton Wick or Chandler's at Kew.

The Night was recorded in the same year as December 63 (Oh What A Night), 1975, and that was Don Ciccone on bass. So as the lines, playing style and sound are pretty similar on the 2 songs I'd say that it is definitely Don Ciccone.

IMO quieter is better, but most bands are too loud. I'm too loud, but I play loudly in loud bands and the venue's hardly ever tell us we're "too loud", so what do I know. I spent years trying to rein in noisy guitarists and drummers and failed. I was like the idiots that drive in the fast lane at the exact speed limit. I gave up that "them and me" sh*t and joined the party. My ear plugs are protecting me from any further damage so I just get on with playing in the band. Last Saturday's cover band was very loud and next Friday's Americana band will be very quiet. I love the variety. As a bass payer I get more favourable comments on my playing than I did when they couldn't hear me. The bands usually get rebooked, so the conclusion I draw is that a good sounding band is better than a bad sounding band band. . . at any volume.

I have 3 basses and they are all 5 ers. I have never seen any logic in the "the original was recorded on a 4 string, so that's what we should use" argument. Play what's comfortable and what works.

Could have been Don Ciccone. He was the 4 Seasons bass player at the time.

I had 6 months off. When I started again I excluded Off Topic.

I don't mind a player with 1000 watts or a half stack. I mind when they can't get a balance, decent sound or play [i]with [/i]other musicians.

There are many reviews on Talkbass.

It doesn't matter that matchsticks are softer. All you have to do is to make sure that the hole is filled with the wood then the pressure of the screw will be enough to hold everything together. You don''t even need glue if the filling is big enough.

Let us know what your band thinks. On my first gig with my CN212 the band were gathered around in the interval just gawping at it.

There's nothing odd, revolutionary or new about Single Cut basses. My first bass was an SC and it was made in the 60's, a Framus Star Bass, small body. [url="http://[URL=http://s293.photobucket.com/user/chris_b_photo/media/CopyofFSBme2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm45/chris_b_photo/CopyofFSBme2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]"]http://[URL=http://s293.photobucket.com/user/chris_b_photo/media/CopyofFSBme2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm45/chris_b_photo/CopyofFSBme2.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/url] Most SC basses with their lumpy, shark and big blob top horns don't look pretty to me. My ideal SC is the Rob Allen Deep and Anthony Jackson Fodera.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1453113899' post='2956384']Bear in mind with flats, they last for ages so although initial outlay may be £40 or so, it will last you at least a year [/quote] Lozz. . . my Lakland/GHS flats have been on my P bass for 4 years and I wasn't planning to replace them, ever!