chris_b

This has been my view from the start. If you can write a song and sell a million copies, then it's a good song. Too may people confuse this with personal preferences.

I'm currently using a couple of BF One10's but seriously toying with the idea of getting a headphone amp. My music source is the laptop and silent practice would enable me to play later in the evening.

Most of the short scale basses seem to be designed for "small" people. All I want is a short scale. I don't want a small body and I definitely don't want anything less than 18mm string spacing.

Not really. The amount the cone moves will create the SPL, not the size of the cone.

What does your Mezzo weigh? There is one on Amazon and they list it at 12lbs! That must be a printing error, surely. I'm becoming more interested in short scale basses, as long gigs can leave me with aching joints, particularly in my left thumb.

Early Christmas present. The wife will be relieved she doesn't have to rack her brains to think of a present for you.

If you want a smaller BF 212 I'd suggest the SC. A couple of months ago I did a duo gig with my SC and an SM and it was overkill. Just took the SC on the next gig and it was just right.

Love Junior Wells. Great song. My band closed the first set with this for many years. Bass player must be depping. Manages to get the riff by half way!! Been there many times.

Joanne Shaw Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suUTCqEEF38 Shaun Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHsXCQTX6Pg Bobby Patterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKmu1ldK50 Jimmy Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKRA0PqoIak

Things have changed. In the 70's I had years when I didn't earn the price of a bass out of my playing. These days I can buy a bass with what I earn on some gigs.

Since the lockdowns, my gigs have paid between £0 (charity gig after the death of a good friend) and £200. The average is between £80 and £100. The bands I'm in are good and I'm also connected to many guys who put dep gigs my way. I look at gigs as being better than sitting at home. Every one is an opportunity. They get me seen and making contacts. None of the guys I work with go out for peanuts, so if I like the band I usually don't even ask what the fee is. I wouldn't leave over money, unless the bandleader was ripping us off!

I always go for the largest gauge I can find. Currently my TI flats have a .136 B string. My DR's used to be the .130 sets. IMO there's more body in the tone with large strings. I play with a pretty light touch, so tension isn't something I notice much.

I was wondering when that penny would drop.

How good a player do we want to be? If bass playing is more than a hobby then the 10k is a meaningful concept.

I thought it was an interesting video. Duck Dunn was the main influence on my early bass playing. He always had a bass line powerful enough to turn goat p!ss into gasoline.

Generalizations are never accurate. When I was younger I was a lot better at some aspects of playing bass, but I know I do a lot of bass stuff better now. At the start energy, determination and keenness got me a long way. Now experience and common sense covers a lot of ground.

I play with a band that uses this between the audience and band. . . . sometimes it works!!

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There's none better than Bobby Bland. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahw5YpAnxW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCRALCd5PKA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCmZS_atEU

I had a Vox bass amp which went up in smoke when I was at school, but since then I have never seen or heard of a cab catching fire.

I'd insist on a barrier of some description separating the audience from the band. If anyone was "drunkenly trying to get on stage" I'd be stopping the show, telling them all to stay back and not restarting until they complied.

Yesterday I was playing in a marquee in a field and in the interval a member of the audience came up and complimented me on the bass sound. It's always nice to have confirmation that what you intended was actually being heard by the audience.

Of all time? Dunno, but Cornell C Williams is the bassist who is currently on the top of my play list. . . .

These guys sound like a bunch of amateurs. I doubt they will become any more professional in their attitudes, so you are probably well out of it. The biggest "up yours" you can do now is to find a better band.

OK. I've also been outvoted and played numbers I'd rather not play, but they went down well with the audience, and the band played them well, so I have no problem with any song in those circumstances.