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As far as I know the grey colour used on that bass was just grey primer. I saw OMD on one of their first tours, they were astonishingly loud.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1450999546' post='2937831'] I beg your pardon, I have drunk rather a lot of red wine. [/quote] Good man.

That would easily have passed Fenders quality control team in the late 70s.

Ideally neither but at a push, Thrash. Apart from The Sweet who I liked.

I hate both.

I thought he was using Laney amps back then. He also used a Dan Armstrong Plexiglass bass &, I think, a Gibson EB bass of some description. I thought he used Picato roundwounds too.

The lyrics tend to suggest the title in my experience, but then I have no problem with titles sounding unoriginal. Obviously if you're trying to come across as deliberately whacky or eccentric, or your material has no lyrics, then finding a title becomes more difficult.

I've owned an old one (with the plastic scratchplate) & played quite a few as the music shop I used to work in sold them. When I spent an afternoon at the Bass Centre in the late 80s I tried, among many other basses, a few Wals but ended up leaving with a Levinson Blade B4 which at the time was the same price as a Wal. They are nicely made basses but I think they are vastly overpriced these days.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1450779888' post='2935728'] I'm sure there must be really good keys players out there, but in forty years I've not had the good fortune ever to meet one of them. [/quote] I've left the last two bands I was involved in because the keyboard players were arseholes. The last one a few years ago was the final straw - no more bands/gigs for me.

[quote name='omikin' timestamp='1450785320' post='2935807'] Is there a way round this which is low hassle for the sound guy? [/quote] f*** the sound guy, he's there to do a job. If you want your cab mic'd then tell him to do it. If you're happy to use the Streamliner then fair enough (it's certainly easier than lugging a Bassman head around) But don't be fobbed off with a DI you don't want just because the sound guy is to lazy/inexperienced/crap to bung a mic in front of a cab.

If you want to be serious about playing jazz then you need to make sure you know your music theory stuff very well.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1450774134' post='2935618'] I would never join a band with a mission statement. [/quote] Same here, unless it was The Mission, who I guess should be allowed to have a mission statement. Having said that I very much doubt if The Mission have a mission statement.

They look like they're nickel plated to me.

Bargain! If it wasn't such a bloody horrible finish I'd have already bought it.

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1450576317' post='2934060'] I don't want to divert the thread too much, but how do people compare festival gigs to bar gigs? What are your thoughts? I might have a couple of festival gigs lined up in the new year Taran [/quote] Depends what you mean by "Festival". These days it seems 20 people & a crappy PA on a small patch of grass is classed as a festival. There are lots of these little local outdoor gigs where people don't get paid at all.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1450616143' post='2934291'] BUT, why put something like this on You Tube? [/quote] You could say this about 90% of the stuff on YouTube.

They are very good amps for the money. Designed by Soldano who make expensive boutique valve amps.

Had one of these covers with the secondhand guitar amp I bought the other day. The cat likes it.

It has to be at least 20 years since I played along to a record. I used to do it when I first started playing, it's how I taught myself to play. Once my playing got to a certain level though I lost interest in doing it, I've never had any interest in learning all those bass parts that are regarded as essential learning. These days the bass doesn't even come out of it's case unless someone contacts me & asks me to put some bass on something they're working on.

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1450397732' post='2932500'] Reasonable questions: (1) They are pretty desperate to get a 2nd guitar player and felt that they might be able to train him up - they were trying for quite a long time to find someone and got to the point where they were willing to give anyone a shot so long as it meant they could get going. [/quote] If he's as bad as you say he is then "training him up" could take years. The band is never going to "get going" if you're spending all your time trying to get this guy up to a suitable standard.

I really wanted to play synthesisers but they were much too expensive in the late 70s. Bass was cheaper.

[quote name='grumpyguts' timestamp='1450359643' post='2932009'] Guitarists it seems can get away with a bit of slop. Bass players can't, timing and note length are critical to getting a tight sound - if that is what you are after. So that makes Bass a more exact science than flapping around playing chords. Am I wrong? [/quote] Yes you are. If you flap around playing chords you'll just sound like a sloppy guitarist.

[quote name='jbn4001' timestamp='1450293264' post='2931475'] I think a Yamaha Synclavier [/quote] The Synclavier was made by New England Digital, not Yamaha.

[quote name='ratman' timestamp='1450350022' post='2931849'] Actually, he's got quite a reputation for being a grumpy f****er. [/quote] That's the first time I've ever heard that. I've met him a few times & a nicer person you couldn't wish to meet. Plenty of others have said the same thing too.

[quote name='Philly' timestamp='1450302252' post='2931592'] Do you get dud strings straight out the packet? [/quote] You sure do.