rOB

I've sometimes thought about a cheap, headless, stick bass to have as backup. Small and light package to load and store on stage.

Something like this 

Has anyone taken that approach?

Sorry to hear you didn't get the spot. All the best for whatever is your next gig.

Nice one. Enjoy learning the songs and playing!

I saw the Staves and CMAT yesterday at Moseley Folk Festival. Great performances and lovely bass playing from both bands.

Interesting. I'll be following this discussion.

I wish him the very best with it. Even if we can buy strings online from him that might help support.

How frustrating. I'm sorry your time was wasted.

My view is that if you want to and it makes you feel more confident (not necessarily younger looking) then go for it. 

You clearly want the gig so I wish you the very best of luck.

I'd love to hear how it went. 

Wishing you all the best

1. The guitarist and I both moved away for work at around the same time. The band continued for a bit with a new guitarist.

2. Two of the members were nurses. One was able to arrange their shifts to commit to gigs. The other wasn't able to do that so booking any gigs became impossible.

3. I went to live in New Zealand for a year and got back to the UK but had to live in a different city. The drummer had multiple other projects on the go too.

4. The pandemic happened and when things opened up again our guitarist moved away. The singer lost interest and stopped replying to messages. I still jam with the drummer from time to time.

All reasonably friendly. 

No issues with mine. Had it for years.

21 hours ago, Bassman68 said:

You’ve obviously never tried an EBS Microbass 3 then?

I'm aware that some do. Microbass 3 is one of the ones that do isn't it. Well pointed out.

I wish all these great pedals had tuners built in. Then a player could more easily just use a single pedal for Di, drive, EQ and tuning.

I guess there must be a good reason.

Nice one, really clever solution.

Lovely instrument too. 

Nice work, I've tried a few different options for tilting and lifting cabs over the years, and I agree, many are too shallow as they're designed for guitar amps.

Your solution looks excellent.

There's the Fishman Fission? Gives octave up, forth below and 5th above.

Very lightly dialed in might be worth a thought?

https://youtu.be/I2XKZNMR2Pc?si=Nru8jA1-zZ2A1wxi

Nice work! Glad it's made such an improvement.

7 hours ago, DTB said:

So if you were seeking a bassist would you have one that played competently and was easy going but walked very slowly with a stick and needed help with gear?

Yep absolutely

Unplugged for me. Plenty loud enough to hear what I'm playing. 

11 hours ago, Geek99 said:

It’s a bass bag mister ? Why sully such a nice gig bag with a toy bass ?  

Good point. I'll be hurling the other instrument into a river. 😜

I have one of these to take a bass and a guitar to jam sessions. Works a treat. 

Good luck with the sale.

Nope, I'd be reporting the incident to the staff (if possible), reporting to the police and never going back. 

Originals band and the guitarist could commit to gigs due to his work schedule being unpredictable (fair enough). I tried to bring up the idea of finding a dep for the gigs he couldn't make but that didn't go down well. Broke up shortly after.

I saw Ash play recently at Rock City in Nottingham. It had been a good few years since I'd seen them last but it was a really great night. Great sounds. Great vibes.

Great work.