Beedster

I've been using a piezo blended with the Ear Trumpet into a Grace Felix, sounds sublime soloed, gives lots of options, and i imagine will be amazing recorded or in a 'intimate' Jazz Club. But down the Dog & Stoat on a Saturday night it ain't a winning combination, almost considered using electric bass, it's got that bad......

I'm doing an upcoming gig with a Krivo mag PUP for the first time in several years because while I much prefer playing guts into an Ear Trumpet mic, I'm just fed up with not being able to either hear myself and/or not being heard by the audience. We're an occasional 3-piece bluegrass combo and tend to play small venues (no joke, the next venue is about the same size as my kitchen), so it's not really worth getting a soundguy in, but I am just fed up with being essentially a visual component of the band

Must admit I was expecting far worse given the title and build up. Did none of these people live through the 80’s for God sake 😆

There’s nothing gonna turn me into Jaco, but there’s plenty that’ll improve my ability to play what bits if Jaco I can already manage

Guess the title of this thread should be 'Do recreational drugs make you a better player' in which case the answer is mostly no, or at least not in the doses people tend to take them to constitute recreation (whilst very low doses might). Performance enhancing drugs on the other hand..........

Looks nice and not nice in equal measure 🙂

Caffeine can be very helpful especially if you don’t use it otherwise 👍

When you start getting irritable at gigs

Good post 👍

But bloody hell, in those early days Di'Anno was a force of nature on stage 👍

I remember how angry the fans were when Bruce Dickinson took over from Paul Di'Anno

I agree, part of the magic of LP - certainly early LP - was the way the two voices sat together, and the single suggest that rule hasn't been broken, almost feels/sounds like she was always the singer

Which is one reason why I think hiring a female singer is a good thing in principle 👍

I love the Jay-Z album 👍

I didn’t hear that 👍

Love the bass tone 👍

Always felt CT were better live than in the studio 👍

Why?

I love woolly bass 👍

Totally agree 👍

But……. He’d have been constantly compared to Chester and found wanting?