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Early Jamerson and all Babbitt bass lines are pretty straightforward. You should be able to work out a lot of the Motown bass lines. Most people need help with the Jamerson "golden period", but I'd work up to those. Duck Dunn was on Stax, not Motown, but you should be able to work out his bass lines pretty easily.

After rather a long time on Basschat I've seen that all anyone needs to criticise is an opinion. But life is like that, isn't it? You get to know whose opinions are worth listening to and whose aren't, but expertise generally isn't a prerequisite to telling someone they're doing it wrong. I tend to tell people I prefer [i]xyz[/i] rather than your [i]abc[/i] is crap. That way you can discuss differences in opinion.

No lessons. . . . but search YouTube for Stax, Chess, Pye International and Checker records. They are all great songs and pretty easy to pick up.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1436188911' post='2815710'] Can't be more vacuous than Metro, can it? [/quote] It always was. . . .

I'm lucky enough to be able to buy before I've sell. I have to because I gig every week. I've had good and bad experiences from Melody Maker, Exchange and Mart and Loot, eBay and Gumtree. BC has not been without fault but it's been the best so far.

What's your definition of RnB? The original RnB from the 60's or the new RnB from the last few years?

I'm not sure this is going to work for Alex. Most guitarists I've played with and seen in the last 30 years have used Fender combo's. A couple have used Mashall or Mesa half stacks, but IME the valve combo by Fender is the one that gets used on most gigs. I can't see guitarists buying a cab, then trying to work out what amp to buy to go with it.

I could read muisc when I left school. Self taught, the school was no help at all. I even did a couple of sessions reading the dots, in the early days, but all that disappeared over the years through lack of use.

Most guitarists I play with are stuck in 1957 and slightly later, 1968, for the predals. Nearly all the keyboard players I know are switching to Nord's. The drummers are a mixture. I played with a guy who has a modern custom "coffe table" drum kit. Sounded pretty good. Some of them are using double bass drum pedals but mostly the kits are pretty conventional. I played with one drummer who had a fantastic kit. 3 hi-hats, full drum and cymbal compliiment and pink sparkle. Brilliant drummer and a great sound. But it's the bass players who are moving ahead with the quality of their sound and the technology of their gear. Well mostly. There are still a lot who are equally stuck in the 60's, which isn't always a bad thing, if you can lift the gear.

I shouldn't have looked. I'll never get to sleep now!!!

This isn't a problem. For 5 years I ran a 500 watt amp through 2 AE112 cabs and never got to half way on the volume controls, and we wern't quiet. I doubt you'd get to the point of doing any damage unless you try to go to 11. And why would you do that? This should give yo lots of nice headroom for a great sound.

I don't try to recreate sounds of bygone times. All the gear was different, the amps, cabs, our ears and memories, all different. I don't see much hope of recreating an old sound with modern gear. Either get the old gear or get a good sound out of something modern. Have you tried an Aguilar TH500 or Ampeg SVT3 PRO? Or an Ampeg 115, Bergantino HD series or Barefaced Retro Two10?

You can daisy chain amps by running a lead from the send on one to the return on the other. You plug the bass into the "send" amp and that gives you 1 pre amp running 2 power amps and 2 sets of cabs. That's good for volume, but if you bi amp you'll need both pre amps, so you'll use a split lead or A/B box. PS. For 2 sererate rigs, I believe the tuner out into the input of the second amp would work. Try it you won't break anything. Start with the volumes very low. Also the send from one amp into the input on the other might also work, but the signal will have already gone through the first pre amp.

The guitarist shold have owned up. Receiving adverse criticism is not a comfortable experience but if you think you are any good at what you do, you should be able to accept the opinion of others, and know if it is justified or not. Maybe he didn't know he cocked up. That would be worrying.

Get a 200w class D amp and a 110 or 112. Slightly bigger but you'll get better tone.

You play with professionals and it'll work. Play with amateurs, the selfish or the thoughtless and you get all the problems you're describing. How good are your man management skills?

Dump both combo's and get an amp and cab that sounds right, everyone can hear clearly and gives you a great sound.

I heard he was in a hospice. Very sad news. The Grease Band was an inspiration to me when I was kicking around in the early 70's.

Whoever followed Keith Moon was in for a pasting. Same for JE's replacement. Whatever anyone else thinks The Who works as a unit now. It would have sounded terrible and been musically stupid to have tried to find another Keith or John.

I didn't eat for 2 days before my first gig. Just do your best. It's as good as it is, just make sure you do it all better next time. Enjoy the ride and get as many gigs in the diary as you can.

These days I'm playing through one of the best sounding rigs I've owned. I'm running an Aguilar TH500 through a Berg CN212. But hold on. . . that's the worst of all worlds according to some people. So how come is it a universally acclaimed pairing for volume and tone? I wonder how that can be if D class amps and neo cabs are as bad a some say. The OP was asking for info. I guess he's got his answer. Ultimately he has to make up his own mind based on what [i]he[/i] hears.

I didn't see it but Stuart Zender used to play bass for Ronson.

As Townsend said, "It could have been better, but it's as good as it is".

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1435570623' post='2810016'] I wasn't sure how well an act like that would translate to bigger stages and having seen a bit of the Glasto footage I'm still not sure. [/quote] Were we watching the same program? What more could Ty Taylor do? He owned the stage, audience and the sound tower. What more could you want?

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1435578583' post='2810125'] It's outrageous to knock these guys [/quote] Rich, there's enough negative posting here to warrant some extra positive posting to balance up the thread. This post also addresses the ageist crap some of us have to go through on a daily basis.