TimR

Yes. It's a bit random. And I think if the guitarist busks the chords it probably doesn't work. Seems like some weird jazz chords in it.

Slade's - Merry Christmas Everybody goes down a storm whenever I've played it in bands. Is a great sing along and it's got an intermediate level bass line to keep it interesting. We're currently 'learning' it for our next gig next week.

I do it as a bass solo because the rest of the band won't play it.

My bass was £400, amp £500 and each speaker £250. So £1400 for me. Pay can be variable but £80 is handy. No one has £500 cars anymore. A tank of petrol and set of tyres would double its value.

Sounds like a very modern relationship. I've always found it best to keep my wife away from any of my other partners.

Ha. I had assumed it was the reason for the thread resurrection. As you were, nothing to see here...

Be interested to see how much the Fender Rhodes goes for

So better to spend a lot on an older one than go new?

Who else doesn't have a Fender but thinks maybe they should have one? What would you have? I keep looking at pictures of the Jaguar Player c£800. C neck with PJ pickups. But can't find a colour without maybe going custom for £2k. All the Fenders I've picked up weigh an absolute ton. I've not even physically played a Jaguar Player. But I don't really want or need one do I...?

Definitely. If you have an MD with charts, you practice, and maybe rehearse, but otherwise you turn up to the gig and play the charts and follow his directions. If you're at that level of musicianship you know what you're doing. If you're in a dodgy hobby band you can spend months just practicing and getting an arrangement started, that's before you're in a position to rehearse them. Sure you need to put on a good performance, but you need to be realistic as to what level your band need to rehearse depending on the skills and experience of the members of that band and where you're playing.

Yep. If you're rehearsing for something I totally agree. As I've said I don't like endless rehearsals for no reason. Guess it depends on what you're playing. We play simple 4 chord pop covers. There's only so many times you can play vcvcvc before falling asleep. You don't need to rehearse them week in week out if you're also gigging them.

Typically you've been playing the same song for a long time and someone makes a silly one off error that has never been made before, and will never be made again. Someone else decides to stop the song and have a great long disection of who played what, when and why. When everyone else knows, one person has made a silly one off error. No one actully knows what went wrong, it just did. Sometimes even playing live things go wrong. That's the nature of live music. So you start again and play the whole thing perfectly. That is wasting peoples time. Develop the ability to continue playing and recognise silly errors as opposed to actual structural issues with arrangements.

@Kiwi woke up in a bad mood?

No idea. I sent them an apologetic email. The drummer also sang so we were left looking for a drummer and a singer, I'd lost interest and was playing in 3 bands at the time anyway.

They're professionals and I doubt very much they rehearse week in week out for one gig a month or less. From the professional dancers I know, they'll be called in the morning for a show that evening. They'll block through the dances in a few hours, rehearse and get on stage. It's what they do for a living, they're professionals and they get on with it. If I was in a band that met a couple of weeks before a tour, spent a week or so in the studio and then hit the stage, that would be great. I suspect once the tour is going, there are no more rehearsals unless a change happens. My brothers band is full of professionals. They don't rehearse between gigs. There's no money for it and they know what they're doing. I find going through the motions at rehearsals just introduces silly errors that then get disected to find out who played what wrong. Waste of time.

It goes quiet for a few weeks then picks up again. I can't remember what I've contributed. One band I was in it seemed that the lead guitarist had no intention of ever gigging. Unless it was very local and to his friends. Which meant we spent a lot of time rehearsing between the 4 gigs a year we did. He then played really badly due to lack of stage experience and what I think was stage fright. Really he was just someone who owned some very expensive guitars. When the drummer left, I took the opportunity to give them the chance to find a new bass player.

I hate rehearsing. Playing tunes over and over again. Pointless. A gig is worth 1000 rehearsals. If it's rough round the edges you'll learn what you don't know when in front of an audience. You can't replicate that in a practice room. Practice new tunes in the practice room, get the tunes right then gig. Over rehearsing makes everything stale.

Who is doing that? Practically every post I've seen has been from people saying why they do/don't enjoy gigging?

I'd put active pickups in it and 3 tone plus a volume control. 3 blanking plugs.

It really depends on the fault. Fuses will protect against short circuit and high current. A high resistance fault will burn the windings over a long period of time and not blow any fuses. If the amp tests as OK and then fails after a few hours of constant use this is most probably what is happening. Theoretically.

The problem is there's a high inrush current on those transformers when you switch them on. So the fuse needs to be specified carefully.

Superb. I had a dry joint on a resistor once. Amp would run for hours and then suddenly start distorting. Once it had cooled down it operated fine again.

I'd expect the primary side just to be connected to a 230/115v switch somehow for EU/US. The S1 250v 40mA will be the other preamp supply.

Yes. But if you took it to a transformer builder they could disassemble it, count the windings and build a new one. They're not mystical objects. It doesn't look like a very big transformer. What's the amp rated at?

It's a Noratel transformer. Maybe they have some records. https://www.noratel.com/market-segments/audio/