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Russell Jackson was a big influence on me too. He was the first guy I saw with replacement pickups in his P bass, Bartolini's. I bought a set from Chandler's the next week. They were a huge improvement to my sound.

I have TI flats on my Mike Lull PJ5. I tried @Happy Jack's Fender Precision with La Bellas and they sounded good, but not good enough to make fork out for another set of strings. The heavy duty La Bella 1954 flats look interesting but the TI's are still going strong, so I still have no inclination to change them.

So is the memory foam strong enough to support the bass?

These straps look interesting. I recently discovered that my Harvest strap, thick, wide, very comfortable, heavy leather, weighs in at 1lb. So my weight limit for a bass wasn't 9.5lbs! I've been carrying 10.5lbs! These are all small margins, but when you have issues, believe me, every ounce counts. Looks like it is a 1" strap in the middle with 1" of memory foam either side. Does the memory foam support the bass or is it just for padding?

There was great music being made in the 80's. Released in 1987, this signalled that Little Feat was back on the road. . . . Let It Roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY48CYcNuKA Released in 1989, my fist encounter with Delbert McClinton. . . . Live From Austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhDx7SWjnk

Etta James https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZrbCMFnli0 Joe Louis Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_k-Jwmmw3Y Terry Callier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMb-lmUF3o Boz Scaggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuIh5xnrJE

Keb Mo. . . .

If you want to sound like Joe Dart, get a Jazz. That's the bass he uses on gigs.

I've just been sent a couple of video clips of the first pro band I was in, playing live on a European TV show. the singers were pretty cheesy, but the band was good. I was just a few months out of school and they were recorded in December 1968! No, I'm not putting them up here!!!

Nice. I love his stuff.

It means the club has reduced the cost of its own insurance by not covering any third parties, ie the bands or other entertainers. So if your PA falls over and hits someone etc, your insurance would be paying out rather than the club's insurance. If you don't have insurance the you'll be stumping up the cash out of your own pocket.

Radio Luxemburg, Pirate Radio (Caroline, London). Alan Freeman on Radio 1. Ready Steady Go. Melody Maker. Friends record collections.

People like them and order them, so Fender make them. Easy. No for me. I prefer to make my own scrapes and dents, but If you have the cash, why not. I briefly played a Custom Shop Pino Precision. It was one of the best playing basses I've picked up, and the Master built are supposed to be even better. If you want to fork out £6k or more on a bass these Fenders should be on your audition list.

I've been using NYXL's for about 4 years now. They are full range but with a nice lively top end, which lasts for a long time. I change my strings once a year and there is still life left in them.

I'm more interested in what appears to be his bass gear for that gig. It's listed as. . . . “The bass is a 1957 Precision. The pickup is from the Seymour Duncan custom shop. It’s a single coil, P-Bass stacked pickup model Rev1. The strings are DR Low Rider nickel 40, 60, 80, 100. The wireless units are Sennheiser EW500 G Series. The bass goes from the wireless receiver to a Pete Cornish switching rack and then is routed to an Avalon VT837 preamp which is sent to a Lab Gruppen PLM20000Q power amp. The speakers are from Clair Brothers Audio. There are two ML 18s with a single 18” speaker in each box and two 12 AM speaker cabinets on top. There is a 12” speaker and a 2” high-frequency horn in each cabinet.” Impressive rig. I'd like to hear it.

IMO flats work well or not depending on your style and the music you want to play. My blues and soul bands get the PJ5 with flats and the loud rocky bands get the Jazz with rounds. The cover bands could get either depending on how I feel on the day. Lozz, from seeing you play and some of your videos, my guess is that you are a rounds man to the core.

I have a Wolfcraft trolley, even for my lightweight cabs. I'm done carrying anything if I don't have to.

I briefly owned a D800. It was a good amp but I slightly preferred my Aguilar AG700. The D800+ seems to be a few steps on. I'd like to try one of those.

I never went to Eel Pie Island. Last buses running at around 11 pm made getting home pretty difficult, but I saw Fleetwood Mac, Cream, John Mayall, Jeff Beck Group, Hendrix etc etc many times at gigs including the Ricky Tick, The Starlight Ballroom, The Manor House, UFO, The Flamingo, Middle Earth and the Blue Moon in Hayes. Never played at any of those though. I did get to play the Marquee, Ealing Club, 100 Club, Cavern, Tiles, Reading Festival and both Whiskey A Go-Go's, but the one gig I wished I had played was Woodstock, and maybe also the Fillmore's, East and West.

If this is for silent practice, why have speakers at all? Checkout a Palmer Pocket Amp Bass.

I gig in several bands and most of them are a mixture. Some only play covers, but most play covers and originals.

Hold on. . . . an HPF isn't a prerequisite for a good bass sound, or even a good bass amp. There have been bass players using classic rigs and sounding great for the last 70 years and HPF's have only become a "thing" in the last 2 or 3. Choose the amp that sounds right.

This is Rock and Roll ffs! The only non negotiable is it has to sound good. If it does then the notes you used are irrelevant.

You want to play every song exactly the same as the original? You've got a better memory (and less imagination) than me.

That doesn't describe anything played by JJ Burnell, James Jamerson, Paul Jackson, Wilton Felder or Duck Dunn.