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Anyone know how to pronounce "Lykke Li"? Any help would be much appreciated. Fanx.

They're all pretty small down here on the Isle of Wight - The Old Comical in Sandown, The Railway in Ryde, the stage in The Anchor in Cowes has a staircase which starts at the back of it, we recently played a gig at Rookley Country Park where we were asked to play the main bar instead of the entertainment room. The stage was not deep enough to get the drumkit on so we stuck drummerboy on the end in the corner facing the "crowd" at a 45 degree angle. Can't think of any grotty venues - just the towns they're located in are grotty.

Guy Pratt played on some of his stuff too.

Thanks for all the advice people, much to take away from this. I'll try the stretches on Friday, new strap ordered soon. Fanx again. x

I try to stand properly most of the time, but I always sub-consciously end up with most of my weight on my right foot. Most gigs don't last for more than two and a half hours. Those Mono straps look good - might invest.

Hi all, I've started to get a pain right at the top of my back, in between my shoulder blades where my neck ends and my back starts if you like. No pain while I'm playing generally, but certainly when I get out of bed in the morning after a gig and for (usually) a couple or three days after. I play an Ibanez ATK and these weigh about 4.5kg but feels like more! I use a 3in strap (nylon weave) which is pretty comfy but ultimately is not preventing discomfort. Anyone else had similar experiences? Cheers.

The Smiths, Best Of.

New Ibanez ATK200 brown burst, tort guard. Lush.

Surely if the buyer was an oceanographer he'd be after a [i]Galleon[/i] Krueger...

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1391818488' post='2361787'] John Deacon, Pat Badger, Cliff Williams and Phil Chen underrated? [/quote] Ok, so maybe not Mr Deacon (not amongst bassists anyway), but Pat Badger seems to elicit little recognition generally. His groove with a pick is unstoppable. Can I also add Phil Spalding? Fanx.

Oh, where to start! Gary Beers (INXS), Nick Seymour (Crowded House), Ben Kenney (Incubus), John Deacon (Queen), Dan Roberts (Crash Test Dummies), Jeremy Toback (Brad). Loads more. All tasteful players, but never play the obvious. +1 for Pat Badger - his tone on Saudades De Rock is monstrous (monsterous?) Whatever...

[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1391557871' post='2358684'] we talking wifes or bikes? [/quote]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1391179023' post='2354213'] [/quote] Nice ride but it's making my back ache just looking at it.

Another precision. But last week it was for a jazz. The week before that it was a Thunderbird. I've been looking at fretless basses too recently. And 5-strings.

[quote name='Samashton12' timestamp='1391105383' post='2353367'] Any of Jared Followill's Thunderbird's: [/quote] That's lovely. He's a really great player too, has a certain amount of funk in him.

Bobby Vega "The Shark" jazz bass.

I had a 2002 Mex jazz bass and it was fab. I sold it and I miss it.

If they do a Fiesta Red jazz with a tort pickguard I'm having one.

I've seen these on Ebay and wondered how good they would be for £119, sounds like you got a decent bass for not a lot of money. I'd put a white pearl pickguard on there though...

The one bassist who made me want to pick up a fretless. I have been spending the weekend in our dining room varnishing woodwork and have had various albums playing while working. Today has been a "bass masters" day - Jaco, Mark King, Marcus Miller and Mick Karn's "Titles" album. Just amazing. A true artist - inventive beyond belief and fearless in execution. Greatly missed and I'm sure there will never be another like him. I will be buying another fretless this year I think.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1389477070' post='2334682'] I play in a band where the singer and the guitarist are married. They never row at home, but as soon as they get on stage and it's time to pick a song to play.......they're off! A couple of years ago, at an open air gig in front of 1,000 people, Dana (the singer), saw that her husband (the guitarist) had bummed a fag off somebody and lit up on stage. She strode over and slapped the thing out of his mouth. And then went on to harague him in front of the crowd. The punters loved it and thought it was part of the act. I've played a couple of gigs where they've rowed about a guitar solo going on too long and she's called a taxi and effed off in the middle of the set. Leaving the rest of the band, and her long suffering hubbie, to struggle on without her. Since then, if she gets into a strop on stage, I just shout 'Taxi for Dana!'. They love each other really.......!? [/quote] I really have nothing to complain about then, do I?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1389137837' post='2330658'] The bass player should just lean back slightly, rest his hands on his bass, smile confidently and wait for normal service to resume. [/quote]I've done this. And I will continue to do it... Just to add something else that I've remembered, there has been a couple of occasions where sing/guit has turned to his left to tell the other two which song is next but hasn't turned to his right (where I stand) to tell me, and I've had to tap him on the shoulder to ask him. To be honest, it's only now, while I've been typing all this for this thread that I realise how utterly ridiculous the situation is.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1389134648' post='2330602'] I don't understand it! I've [i]never [/i]in 35 years been in a band that don't use a set list. In fact, our rehearsals before gigs involve cutting the dead time between numbers to an [i]absolute minimum[/i]. I've never even considered the remote possibility of not using a set list and have never encountered or even imagined such a thing before reading this thread! Surely not using a set list and publicly debating which number to do next at a gig can only lead to a total fecking omnishambles?? I don't even like so-called 'banter' between numbers and if I'm watching a band and there is any sort of delay whatsoever, I'm usually the first to shout, 'GET ON WITH IT!' [size=4]So, if at your next gig you hear that from the back of the room - it was me. [/size] [/quote]Omnishambles. Isn't that Pete Docherty's band? Bet even he has a set list...

Good stuff eh? It all started off so promisingly too...