Downunderwonder

I got a knock on the door only once. I was testing just how loud my amp would go and got a bit carried away. My bad. The neighbour's ADHD kid made fairly regular bumps and screams that carried so I guess we were even with my practice amp carrying now and then.

Get ye to BC classifieds. With paying gigs some here would even let you pay it off.

I played for almost a year solely through house rigs , if I was lucky, or the PA at open mics, when I only had a practice amp of my own. So I got a little bit of experience and out of the blue I get offered a gig that was paying some real money! So I had to make a decision on what I was going to spend my hard earned on, with a view to carrying on as a well paid bassist. Enter Messrs Trace and Elliot. They beat out Mr Marshall by virtue of a dealer driving to me. I was living way out in the sticks on contract. He demo'd the Trace and I was sold. < I only learned about Trace and Elliot being fictional characters that rolled well off the tongue many years later when the internet happened >

I think something could be lost in translation here. Reading directly "they didn't need you<r awesome chops>". Perhaps the singer thought he was doing you a favour by releasing you to find a better band?

Ime the line isn't fine at all. A bassline that is a bit different is nothing like the odd festival of unmemorable it has been my misfortune to witness.

There's an echo in here. Job done. No need for any more gear.

Without the white noise they could ask proper money for it. With the white noise it's a non starter for me. There's no excuse for a brand new amp that sits there hissing at you with nothing plugged in.

Bears repeating actually.

Absolutelism fail.

I read he went around threatening the people who were badmouthing him for being a scamming so and so. So I will be quite happy to read of him getting the bash one day.

Get off your high horse and acknowledge the rest of the world that often has no stage as such just a corner of the pub to set up in and play some tunes. You assumed a stage with FOH and monitors. Why does every hotshot assume everyone has monitors?

You assume far too much. Way far too much. My amp fills the room just fine when it has to. Nobody has to bring anything to hear bass or make bass heard aside from me. I still cook on a fire when I feel like it too. Damn it tastes good. I made no assumption that IEM is only for big shows. It's just a fact of life that most small shows don't have them. That's because most of the small shows are played by people who might play a proper big stage twice a year or twice a decade. The best compliment I ever got was playing to a 200 seat theater. Soundman came up to me to tell me it was the best bass sound he ever heard. Do you seriously believe we should kit everyone with IEM when only bass, piano and singer is amplified? That's what you're saying!

Actually you have to drive so you can stop in the clear distance you can see, within the speed limit and traction limits of the surface, with regard for intersections and other hazards. Any faster and you better have a much better reason than I like driving fast.

You must never had heard the story of young Jimmy. His parents got him a bass and amp for his 16th birthday along with some lessons. After his first after school lesson his Mum asked 'what did you learn'. "I learned a quarter note riff on E" comes back Jimmy. Next week it's the riff on A. Following week Jimmy doesn't get home until midnight. Mum is beside herself. 'What the hell Jimmy where the f have you been?'. "We did the riff on B and a turnaround and I had a gig at the Dog'n'Duck".

Your choice would leave you gigless in my backwater same as OP.

I did in fact play through pedals direct to my PA on a very good very small gig with no guitars or vocals. Effectively I was playing through a backline amp with no monitors, not really applicable to the OP.

Because otherwise without all your gear they would find a bassist with an amp and carry on. Not rocket science.

It's common for the original artists to play it a bit differently every time too. I don't hear much in the way of overplaying as I understand the word. To me overplaying is stomping all over the arrangement and over someone else's twiddly bit. If you think you are overplaying maybe you are. Sometimes a little extra empty space is mighty effective too. An open mic host referred to an overplaying bassist as playing like an American. The kid could play alright. Bippity bobbitty all over the place. Meh.

It's not ethics. A complete beginner may have the wherewithal to buy nice gear if they choose. No seal pups were clubbed to death. A somewhat lousy player may decide his lousy gear is wholly or partly to blame and invest in nicer gear. He could be wholly wrong, or only partly wrong if his gear was all that hard to get nice noises from. Either way NSPWCTD. An old pro could be still playing with the first ge ever bought or getting a shiny new one every couple of years. Again, NSC... No ethics at all.

I am over 50 and I get better every year. I think I would be ok staying the same but if I deteriorated I would have a hard time of it. I am still pretty mediocre though so it's no miracle of anti aging or anything like that. My main areas of improvement have been in my ability to hold time while drummers and others take diabolical liberties, even throw in my own diabolical liberties, and my abilty to draw expressive tone with fingers. I get way more compliments now than I did 20 years ago. I reckons the bigger part of those improvements would have come since age 50.

That's only because you have all the gear and you have buy in from the band. You wouldn't get any work in my backwater unless you carted monitors for everyone and then you would have to mix them as well. Why not just admit it's horses for courses?

I am reading all this to mean the neck is held on by fancy schmancy woodwork with no glue? Was the heel flush with the bottom of the guitar body before? If it isn't now and it was before, that would be a very good indication of drift of the joint.

I dunno, it would make the join that much more robust when you use it to bash your drummer over the head.

Agreed. It may very well handle 1000w thermal, but probably can't take more than half that mechanical Exhibit B.

Afaik no mainstream manufacturer uses 10" woofers with the kind of excursion capacity required to make good use of 250w each. They all do the thing of quoting thermal power handling per BFM's post. If Hartke were the exception they would be selling like hotcakes and BF wouldn't get a look in.