TimR

According to legend NASA spend billions of dollars developing it. The Russians just used 3 in 1.

@Happy Jack that's brilliant.

Oh yes. I've used Servisol for years - which I believe is now rebranded as Kontakt? Which means searching for Servisol won't get you the results you might be after. 🤣The problem is finding it in the shops. I have 3 cans of it - with no straws. 🤣 The thread I saw had a few people suggesting using WD-40 with others saying NEVER use WD-40.

There was a recent zombie thread where someone was looking for straws... Which prompted me to search to try and fix my crackly pots.

So WD now do electrical contact, switch, potentiometer cleaner, whatever you want to call it. Available at Amazon, Halfords, Screwfix etc. Not sure if I'm late to the party. Just cleaned my amp and bass pots. Maybe there's a more suitable forum to put this in but probably crosses a few of them. https://www.wd40.com/products/contact-cleaner/

Don't encourage them. It'd be like one of those pub bands who come back on for an encore when the audience was actually just clapping politely.

So did NikyNaker buy a WikyWaker?

Shopping is one thing. It's when you go to complain to the manager. That's when things get interesting.

I was done. Not sure now as my main bass needs a new volume pot, which is circuit board mounted so I'm having trouble sourcing one. So have been looking for a replacement while I put this one to backup or get it fixed...

Sure. I had a break from bands between about 1992 and 1996. I was still doing gigs but just not in a permanant band. That worked really well. But I did come back and have been in 6 or 7 bands over the last 25 years.

Had a singer for years. Would turn up 10minutes before we were due to start. Park as close to the pub as possible, if he blocked someone in - no care. Give me his music stand to put up and mic to plug in. Go to the bar while I put them up and signal checked his mic. Then at the end, leave as soon as he had his money.

Yes. General. But my dad is 84, still playing, but not the later night gigs a 20 year old plays, the all day function gigs a 40 year old plays or even the moderate pub gigs a 65 year old plays. My Uncle in his 70s is playing guitar with musical mates he has known for years. I'd find it surprising if a lifetime musician gave up playing just because the band they're gigging in, folds. You just find different people and places to play.

Usually they bring their own groupies...

I think it's more about building contacts for the future than actually playing with them full time, and realising that while you may well be happy in the band you're in, it only takes one member to decide they're moving to the Isle of Wight and all that work you've all done is on the edge.

It's still likely to be a morning or a day for the whole band.

Surely it shows more respect if you say you're going to leave the control room so that X can concentrate on their part without the rest of the band (critising) distracting them? But I agree, either be involved or go outside into the breakout area. Don't be semi-engaged. After all. Everyone has already agreed and practiced their parts and overdubs so when you hear the final mix there shouldn't be anything unexpectedly added while you were away. 😆

Usually get this with recording. Hence my reluctance to spend loads of money on recordings. There's no financial sense in getting photographs done now if you're not gigging next year or getting a dep in for the majority of the gigs. Unless the dep is in the photographs and your singer steps aside while he sorts his personal life out. If he's preventing everyone gigging at the level they want to then everyone else either has to make a difficult decision, or find alternate outlets.

Was that a Heaven 17 album?

What's more scary is there may only be 300 bass players in the UK...

Talkbass seems to have around 330,000 members. The States with a population of 334 million would bear out the same 1 in 1000 people playing bass. 😆 Disclaimer, its just for fun and a fag packet sum, please don't expect me to do full analysis on the demographics of each site...

It doesn't. I was being facetious for comedic effect. It's a .co.uk based site, you have to make certain assumptions.

I don't know how the database is indexed but think it would probably break the threads if you started deleting members. Maybe mark them as inactive in some way, but don't see what is usefully gained.

More of a concern is members that are no longer posting are still in the top 50. 😆 https://www.basschat.co.uk/topmembers/?filter=forums_Topic_Post

I was allowing for 615 overseas members.

There can't be 50,000 basplayers in the UK! That's nearly 1 in 1000 people playing bass.