chris_b

I get that some can'/won't do this, but IMO we should all be able to separate work from play and, if we do it properly, enjoy both. I depped for a cover band on Saturday and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. The set, band, venue and audience made it a great night. On Thursday I'm gigging with my old fashioned R&B / Rock n Roll/ Ska band. It not really my thing but I expect everyone to be dancing and having a good night, so I will too. Saturday is a dep with a pickup band and, as yet, I have no idea what songs we will be playing. I'll probably find out when we get to the gig!! The jury is out on this one! Sunday is my regular Blues Band. That will be a good evening with an appreciative audience, sitting and listening. Variety and good players keeps it interesting, a happy audience and getting paid makes it worthwhile.

Old school flats? Don't try to find a set of flats that feels like a set of rounds. That's not what they do. Get the heaviest set of LaBella flats you can find, and love the thump.

All good crowd pleasers. That's what Top 40 cover bands are for. I have no problem depping with these numbers in the set. At least I don't have to learn 15 songs that I'll never play again and suffer a lukewarm response from the audience. One song which always raises the roof is Hi Ho Silver Lining. We only have to play the first verse and the audience sings the rest of the song, louder than we're playing! I'm sure the band gets rebooked once a month on the audience reaction to that song alone!

When I was in a duo with an acoustic guitarist I used an Aguilar TH500 and a Bergantino AE112. The tone was incredible. I'm still using the TH500 but the Bergs went awhile ago. For small and quiet gigs I now use a Barefaced Super Compact. Again, beautiful tone.

It was the Sadowsky SBP-2 preamp pedal. I see there’s a version 2 out, mine is v1. I just used my Cort Jazz on tonight’s gig and the preamp worked well.

Hearing protection is not an area where anyone should be cutting corners. Just saying! I've used ACS at Santa Pod, NFL games, concerts and gigs for the last 20 years. A drummer friend has used both and rates Loop Ear Plugs, but I'm sticking to ACS for now.

Chaps, I appear to have lost the ability of marking forums as read. I click on the button and nothing happens. I have signed out and back in again, but the problem continues. Any ideas?

Bands with personal issues; The Kinks, The Beatles, The Stones, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Cream, etc etc . . . . You don't have to like everyone in the band, you just have to be able to make music with them. Success is good at papering over the cracks.

Cheap basses always have cheap pickups and electrics. It's where they cut corners. I have an inexpensive jazz bass which sounds OK in the right circumstances. Putting in Barts, Nordstrands etc would cost more than the bass, and resale value would be through the floor. My solution, which got me half way there was a Sadowsky preamp. On a good day, I can almost imagine I'm playing my Sadowsky Jazz. So get the best preamp you can find.

If this amp is that good it deserves a cab that doesn't get in the way or arbitrarily alter the sound. 2 makes immediately spring to mind that would fit that description perfectly.

Ah. Maybe a darker polish for the front, to cover the marks, and a moisture proof spray for the underside?

My straps are the same. It's on the underside. Does it matter?

It's a house band for an awards show. My guess is that George Duke has something to do with the band, and his bass player for a few years around that time was Larry Kimple, so I'll throw that name into the ring.

As an ex-400+ owner I'm going to have to check this out!!

We had a group of Inca pipers at one time, and today there was a young drummer playing to tracks in the main pedestrian area, but never a busking bass player.

I'm not saying the mk1's sound bad, but I've had both and to my ears the US Barts are several levels better than the mk1's.

That was a new one on me, but they are also called Surrey Amps.

So Jewish singers can only sing Jewish songs? Maybe Jewish comedians can only tell Jewish jokes? This is getting very silly.

The summer of 69 had its moments. I still don't like playing the song though.

I believe a couple of guys on Talkbass road test the prototypes and have input to the manuals. While they might not make the final cut, @agedhorse is open to suggestions and ideas, and is consequentially a good guy to have designing our bass amps.

I wonder if this is the work of @agedhorse ?

If AI can make me a famous and talented bass player I'll buy one.

I think The Fearless Flyers use the MBrace Stage Guitar stand. Either one is a great idea for anyone with back or shoulder problems.

Fela Kuti's Afrobeat was a mixture of Nigerian music and American Jazz and Funk, mixed with Nigerian politics. So who was appropriating what? What does it matter that Kiri Te-Kanawa sang Mozart or Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach, or Howlin Wolf toured being backed by the (very white and very British) John Dummer Band? Influences are good. Mozart and Muddy Waters had them. Take them from where ever you can, and make your music to the best of your ability.