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I gig with a Markbass 103H and had no backup but I've just bought an Ashdown 2x10 redface off of Nancy Johnson on BC (nice bloke) to use at a little regular music club gig and will now take that as a spare to larger gigs although I don't expect any breakdowns with the Markbass.

[quote name='Jase' post='441455' date='Mar 22 2009, 01:36 AM']That it does.[/quote] You must be as sad as me posting at that time of the morning.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='441932' date='Mar 22 2009, 08:15 PM']If you have lost interest in playing music why not start a Prog Rock band ? [/quote] Ooooh bitchy, put the claws away.

Here's mine. I think it looks pretty cool.

My main bass is a 5 string as it suits me but in your situation, I make you right. If I use my 4 string jazz, I only ever use the G string for pops when slapping. If I play "notes" on the G, it usually gets drowned in the mix anyway around the 3rd to 7th frets but then, that is the nature of a Jazz bass.

Stopped using PMT years ago. I used to live close by to the original in Southend when Simon and Terry used to actually serve in the shop. Me and my mates had spent over £12,000 in the shop up until then. I bought a new Fender USA jazz 5 and was told that I had to pay an extra £90 for the Fender hard case. When I checked the Fender website. It was listed as an "outfit" including the hard case. I raised the point and they agreed, after a row, that maybe they'd been hasty in asking for the extra and offered me a non Fender case FOC. I declined and never went back. (Nor did my mates)

Looks great, well done and, what a coincidence, Travis Perkins are just putting the finishing touches on my first signature bass.

Don't buy it. They're absolute sh*te. I don't really know that, I'm just trying to help.

[quote name='William James Easton' post='432876' date='Mar 12 2009, 09:01 PM']i cant find anyone else. bassists are easy to find coz basses are easy to play! [/quote] Hmm, easy to play? That's alright then. For a moment, there I thought it was hard when trying to nail that Stanley Clarke number. Don't give up, just look for others to play with. Your two mates aren't the only two other musicians in the country and if your thinking of packing it in just because of that, then maybe it wasn't that much of a passion in the first place. Playing in a pub band can still be fullfilling. 75% of it for me was the crack with the other guys in the band NOT, just the songs. You can always stick the odd original in the set if it's good enough. That's the real acid test in a pub normally associated with covers bands.

Fwee Wodderwick

Had this problem myself and it took a while to get out of bad habits. Now I keep my fore-arm and wrist on the same plane and the pain has gone.

Check out MarloweDK on Youtube. Ignore the smug look like he's thinking about what he's going to buy at Tescos that afternoon.

In the current climate, there is no need to put up with bad service or product quality and, as an "ex" employer of staff, I would want to know which of my staff are f***ing up my business. I fugure that you'd be helping out the owner by telling him what's happened and why it's cost him a sale. However, if you then accept the bass or cab at a discount, it's sort of going back on your principles as you obviously wanted "unmarked brand new" gear in the first place.

Just play it in 10ths.

Apart from bypassing the system, I'd take a compressor if your head doesn't have one to even out the loud bits. Oh bugger, just read the posting date so the gigs over!!

Mail him any Thin Lizzie MP3 and call him a pillock. Nice to be able to use all methods if you can but surely it's what works best for you and the song.

No need to slap, leave tons of space and move in to the drummer's house. That's the team. Forget the rest of the band.

I can drive a tractor too. Welcome.

Look for a Status energy 4 stringer. (it'll have a headstock) Classy, cheap slapper heaven.

Welcome to Basschat from France (ex Billericay, Loughton, Woodford Green and Shenfield)

I want you back. The Jackson 5 and Animal by Toto

I should have one, that way I'd get it for nothing.

It's a very fine line between "genius" and lost the plot.

[quote name='Telebass' post='405776' date='Feb 10 2009, 10:44 PM']The ultimate bass is simply the one you like playing the best, through the amp that you like the sound of best. The 'ultimate' bass is like the 'perfect' tone - a myth.[/quote] I agree 100%