chris_b

No one needs to play through an amp at home. Put it all through headphones. I have a very noisy neighbour and we've had to endure DIY at all hours and for days on end. I know how it feels to knock on their front door at 1 am to ask them to stop hammering. We came to an agreement that he wouldn't make noise after 8 pm.

Does it work on a low B?

The best sound I heard out of a Markbass rig was a guy using 2 Standard 102HF cabs. More punch and thump than a 210 and 112 rig, and much more than Traveller cabs can manage.

A Barefaced Midget or Super Compact and a good trolley will get you a mobile rig with more tone and volume in the smallest space.

[quote name='Weststarx' timestamp='1436876704' post='2821562'] I just want to feel like I'm living life rather than just excisting [/quote] Richard Briers' advice to budding actors was; "If you really want to be an actor, don't. If you really, really want to be an actor, don't. If you [i]need[/i] to be an actor, OK". If you want to be a professional musician just to get away from a boring office job then you're not basing this decision on the right criteria. I'm not sure what you think the life of a "professional" musician is, but if you think "existing" stops when you get your P45, you've made a big misjudgement. Are you a very good musician, flexible with a great tone and ability? Do other people think you're as good as you do? What else do you bring? BV's, another instrument? Do you read? Are you regularly called up for deps and to join start ups? Have you got contacts? A lot of contacts, who are all working? You don't have to look far to find fantastic musicians who are struggling to make a living. Sorry, but I think you need a better office job.

Music in the 80's was great, if you were looking in the right places. Tina Turner, Robert Cray, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Delbert McClinton, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and many more were making good records and touring. Little Feat reformed. There was a lot of good stuff happening in the 80's.

Move over Nathan. I'd be in Stevie Wonder's band.

In some of the clubs it seems the standard way of getting paid, when the promoter started getting funny about the money, was to pull out your pistol and put it on the table. As a reminder that you wanted [i]all[/i] the money.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1436717035' post='2820153'] I have a great early 60s live CB album 'Chuck Berry on stage 'All the tracks are just studio versions with applause dubbed on. [/quote] That would have been the record company selling the same album twice. Used to happen a lot and the artists wouldn't necessarily have been told. Chess put out several Bo Diddely albums which had a couple of demo's and a load of his songs played by someone else.

IMO the only good performance Chuck Berry put on tape was Hail! Hail! Rock And Roll. And that's probably because he wasn't in control, Keith Richards was.

That's too embarrassing to watch.

The musicians were very variable, which was a mistake. Chuck thought that everyone had come to see him, which was true, but he soon got a reputation for putting on poor gigs. In a way he wasn't wrong because despite taking the piss he still managed to work for over 60 years. Chuck didn't have a set list or announce the numbers, he just started playing and his songs were played in C, Bb, Ab etc, not in guitar keys so some bands had a big learning experience. I don't watch Chuck Berry live for the above reasons, but I have most of his records. You can't imagine the earthquake they caused in the minds of musicians around the world in the 50's and 60's.

I feel sea sick watching this. . . . . . [url="http://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpf1/v/t43.1792-2/1055257_1388541874696707_758388339_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjE1MDAsInJsYSI6MTEyNn0%3D&rl=1500&vabr=739&oh=b607215934c61b306f545c195c1164ae&oe=55A1D364"]http://video-lhr3-1....4ae&oe=55A1D364[/url]

In the mid 70's I played in an appallingly awful workingman's club band. The organist told me how they played an Irish club in Willesden and at the end of the night the club manager came up an told them to play "the anthem". Blank looks..... "the national anthem", he said. Ah, OK, so they started on God Save The Queen. About a dozen people shouted at them, the Irish National Anthem, you F*ing idiots. The whole place stood and sang without the band, who didn't have a clue how to play the Irish National Anthem. They did get paid, but apparently weren't asked back!

Ahh. . . Can the Can. . . leather jump suits. . . . . it was a great year. I used to drink in the Raven at Stamford Brook with Mike Chapman, about 5 years before this. He was a penniless singer/songwriter trying to make his band Tangerine Peel famous. Just look at him now.

When I saw the Stones at the O2 Darryl Jones only got about 2 shots all night on the big screen behind the stage. Even the unnamed keyboard player got more screen time than Jones. But then these guys, even Darryl and Pino, are not the stars, they are just hired help. They'll get as much coverage as the backing singers and horn section.

Only replace a bass if the new one sounds better.

For me the pinnacle of bass playing had been reached by 1973. Clever playing and "circus bass" techniques are impressive and are quite interesting, but are ultimately useless in my playing environment. My 9p.

Marc, What music are you playing, how loud are you intending to play and what's your budget?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1436606437' post='2819435'] TH500 with a SL112 ...but I would definitely add a 2nd SL112...no doubt about it. [/quote] +1 Out of the 2 choices I'd do this. I use TH500's and I had a GB STL9.2 which was very good but I kept the TH500 because it worked better with my Bergantino cab. I know nothing about Genz cabs, but it sounds like the (unnamed) extension cab isn't a matching GB, so I'd probably give that a miss. 2 112 cabs sound very good together so I'd always go for a modular 212. Have you listened to these rigs? Have a listen and see which one you prefer. PS Fender's ownership of Genz seemed to have no impact on their products. GB continued to design and manufacture top class gear right up to the end, so that should not have any bearing on your decision.

I put a Bergantino AE210 and Gen1 Compact together. At front room levels it sounded very, very good. Call Alex and ask him.

Ringo is another under rated drummer. He changed the way most drummers played and performed but he wasn't the "force of nature" that Baker was and others became. You can list as many great drummers as you like. You're only disagreeing with [i]my [/i]definition, not what Ginger Baker was or the influence he had on rock drummers. Before Baker there weren't any "rock" drummers. After Ginger Baker . . . . . you can't count them.