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    4 of us got together last week to film 4 songs for a promo video and we all had to take a Rapid Lateral Flow test and show it to the drummer before he would join us. His daughter is quite ill and living at his house, so I can understand the caution. I feel that me and my family have safely come this far. Messing up right now and getting ill would be a crazy thing to risk. I have no advice to the OP re band members, except chose professional players. But even that isn't a guarantee of finding "normal" people!
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    If that's anything like the gig bag that came with my Sadowsky Metro, forget it. Buy a Mono M80 Vertigo. Seriously better protection. Recently there were a couple in the classifieds.
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    If you think one sounds good? Use both. Even better.
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    I'll play anything I'm asked. Listening for pleasure? That's a much more specific thing!
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    I bought an aluminium foam filled case for my RH750. Cut the shape out of the foam and you have a well protected amp. My cabs have Roqsolid covers.
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    Tort dust is the best.
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    Hopefully mine. They certainly weren't appreciated when they came out!!
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    Looks familiar!
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    Around 2007 I compared Epifani and Bergantino 112's. Epifani used bigger cabs which gave more low end, but sometimes, on acoustically poor stages, the low end was harder to manage. My preference is to use smaller more controlled cabs.
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    The peeling tolex issue should be settled by now. I can't comment on your dealings with the company, but if you want to sound good, put that behind you and try another Two10.
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    If there were no bass guitars, there would be another instrument playing bass lines. As has been said, people might not hear our instrument, but they always know the music isn't sounding good if we drop out.
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    How old is this? Cheers
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    Jamerson is the GOAT. They never put the vocals down with the band so any shots doing that are publicity shots.
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    Re Rule 6. I had just joined a band and the singer called a song I didn't know. I whispered I didn't know it, and he whispered back, yes you do!!! It was unbuskable and i spent the whole song in search of a root note, harmony or any note that wasn't discordant. Things got so bad that I actually stopped playing in the middle 8. After I mentioned it to the guitarist, who'd been in the band for 18 years. He said he didn't know it either and was following me!!!
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    So maybe it's not wrong at all, just different.
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    I believe he did say that. Also Roger Sadowsky said the same about his NYC and Metro basses. These less expensive ranges aren't cheap basses. They have the same electrics, hardware and QC as the more expensive lines.
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    The minimum I'd gig with is 2 x 112 cabs. I have gigged 1 x 112 but that was an unusually quiet band.
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    I've found what claims to be the original of Down The Dustpipe, by an Australian band called The Mint. It's the same song but is a very cheesy sing-a-long down the pub arrangement. Nothing like the Quo's turbo charged version and nothing like Quo's "sound". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSvp2KHol00
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    I don't understand the need to sell stuff when a band breaks up and the gigs dry up. If you still want to gig you have to treat this as a temporary lull. I'd keep everything and find that next band.
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    A firm and polite "No", always works for me.
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    If it's a good professional tribute band then I'd expect to be playing the gear that the original band used. A semi-pro tribute band, maybe the bass should be the same colour? A band leader might have requirements, but a bog standard pub band telling me to buy any bass would get a very short answer. My basses are a P bass and a Jazz, so I don't usually get negative comments about my gear. I wouldn't pay £2.5k for any bass!
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    Quo invented a great style and made it their own. Maybe they should have thought twice about some of the songs they covered in later years. Anyway, while I prefer the Quo of the 70's, I'll happily applaud any band that is still packing them in 50 years later. We supported them a few times in the early 70's and one gig was the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-Super-Mare. The dressing room was in a different wing of the building, a long way from the stage, must have been about 100 yds around all the corridors, when they started up we had to shout to be heard!
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    How old, what is the weight, what preamp, string spacing at bridge, scale length, any issues apart from visual blemishes?
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    I would have preferred an ebony board on my Lakland. IMO they just look great.
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    I drive a Volvo so that explains a lot.
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