SteveXFR

That's it then. If it's good enough for the man who in my opinion is the greatest ever punk bassist and also just one of the greatest bassists full stop then it's good enough for me.

Stupid Girl by Garbage for a bit more 90's indie rock. Rock & Roll Queen by Subways would work well with a female singer.

How about Cannonball by Breeders? A 90's classic often ignored by party bands.

We're punk band back then playing real Fenders?

So no to the BC Rich for the smooth jazz audition then

I have seen an Industrial metal band with an electric upright. Bow plus heavy distortion plus some very low tuning sounded like the apocalypse.

Thanks. That explains it all pretty well and makes sense. The photo also helps my understanding quite a lot. Will I have trouble playing it with a less impressive cleavage?

I know there's a few pop punk bassists using stingray's but for some reason they seem rare in more traditional British & US punk, hardcore and thrash/punk crossovers.

I completely forgot Flea was in Fear. I just associate him with Alanis Morissette and RHCP. Without doubt he's one of the greatest bassists but I've come to associate him with music I find rather dull. I need to listen to some Fear and early RHCP again.

The standard basses for punk rock (not pop punk) have always been the P bass and Rickenbacker. There's been the occasional Jazz bass or Thunderbird but I can't think of any punk bassists who use a Stingray. Is there something about it that makes it a poor choice? It seems to have the punch and plenty of mids and treble. Is there something I'm not seeing?

I quite like the idea of a pair of guitarists similar to Idles. Not really lead and rhythm, nothing fancy but interesting.

I went for a beer with the vocalist yesterday, really nice bloke. I checked out some videos and recordings from his last band and the dude can sing in a punk style and has stage presence and his lyrics are good, the make some sense and the lyrical content suits me. Political but without in a way that's different. I've sent a message to a local drummer who's band recently split, he's the ideal drummer but I'm not too hopeful although if you don't ask, you don't know.

Is that the same everyone and their mum who's packing heat around here? Farmers and farmers mums?

I've found a singer with PA and lots of experience in some relatively well known punk bands. I've contacted a few drummers who I know are good. Guitarists shouldn't be too hard to find. Maybe we'll be the next Idles but even older.

I'll try playing the double bass once I've mastered the single bass

Epiphone started in the late 1800's so I guess it makes sense they'd have made a double bass

Can someone rename this the political beaching thread? Discussion about the benefits of two brands of bass guitar are just a distant memory.

I'm already in that group. Not a lot going on. I'll try Joinmyband. I don't have a PA. I didn't realise I'd need one to start a band.

Here's my little corner of doom. If I'm completely honest, the 4x10 cab is just hiding a hole in the wall left by the plumbers. I'm actually just using the Orange 2x12 cab with the Trace head

I'll just go with the flow and try to meet their standards. I'm not the sort of person who will throw a tantrum because they've simplified a cover version or quit because the guitarist thinks the Earth is flat (so I'd be fine in Deftones!). I mostly just want to have some fun playing loud music and hopefully play it well and maybe one day play to a pub full of people who are annoyed because we're blocking the dart board.

A couple weeks ago the band I was in split. I was really enjoying the original stoner metal/grunge crossover sound and got on well with everyone so it was a big disappointment. Now I'm keen to move on and join another band so I joined bandmix and started searching and found nothing within 50 miles. I'm open to both styles of music, punk and metal and prepared to travel. Am I being impatient or should I try starting a new band? Does it usually take a while to find something? Is there somewhere better to search? When I found the last band it took me literally five minutes on bandmix and that was it.

There's a band I've seen a few times who have the solution. The singer is also the drummer and always asks for just vocals and drums in his monitor "foook the guitar and bass, they're following me anyway"

This discussion about Gibson/Epiphone has gone all wrong and its all Mel Gibsons fault.

That's true, they were all at it. Difference is most other countries who did it have changed their name since.

Mel Gibsons hatred of the English comes from his father who is a very right wing conservative Catholic. Let's be honest though, most of the world (including most of the British) hate the English. They just refuse to let all that colonising and stealing of historical artifacts go.