Low End Bee

First gig on my own (my mum had taken me to, among others the Pink Fairies, Heavy Metal Kids and Hawkwind) was the Rich Kids at The Nashville in Jan 1978. Got plastered on Double Diamond. School was bad next day.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='668304' date='Nov 28 2009, 02:29 PM']I know this may be a little sexist but it's from experience but I realised last night that every female sound engineer I have have worked with has been brilliant, they always seem to care about your sound instead of just getting the job done. The lady last night was called in last minute, she hadn't been to the venue in a year and was in bed with a fever when she got the call but still did a fantastic job and I can't help but feel that if it was a man that wouldn't have happened.[/quote] She was lovely :wub: and very good at her job too. I'm noticing that the better ones are normally the younger ones these days. The people in their 20s who've done our sound have been top notch.

Me. Great bass player. Always played for the song. Met him a couple of times on the London bike scene too. Obscenely quick rider on an old Triumph Bonneville.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='666356' date='Nov 26 2009, 03:42 PM']Want me to bring my Stingray tomorrow so you can have a fiddle?[/quote] That would be great.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='666317' date='Nov 26 2009, 03:17 PM']...actually I have never played an 8 string and that's one I'd love to try[/quote] Forgot that one. Definitely on my list.

[b]A Rickenbacker 4001/3[/b] I'm in the 'they look cool' camp. Some of my favourite players have used one. They seem to be ridiculously expenxsive at the moment though. [b]A 5 or more string[/b] Even though the last three bands I've seen where the bassist has had one they've never touched the B string. Still I'd like to re enforce or overcome my prejudice. [b]A Hofner[/b] To see if it really is more than a shoe box with elastic bands. [b]An active[/b] Yep. I really haven't. Maybe a Stingray is up my street? [b]An Upright[/b] Looks like fun. I've tried most of the other stuff I wanted to.

Rotten. Truly rotten. Played there 3 times this year and I love it. Best sound around, nice people and decent money too,

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='666074' date='Nov 26 2009, 11:43 AM']15 - school hall. Played drums so hard, got blisters. Didn't cop off. Decided not to be a drummer anymore! [/quote] And you got more luck as a bass player?

1979! when I was 15 the seminal punk band Deadbeat we played at my school in West London (St Clement Danes which became Burlington Danes) with another band called Burnin Blockade I think who were in the year above. We asked them if they wanted to share equipment and they turned us down out of hand. They were playing Colombus copies through WEM practice amps. The guitarist and I were working at Maurice Plaquets music shop in Shepherds Bush at the time and when we told the manager he supplied us with a full Marshall stack, a real Les Paul Custom, Ampeg SVT with an 8x10 and a 68 Precision (which I eventually bought) It was a sweet moment when they saw our gear He turned up to watch us but the police wouldn't let him in as nearly all of Holland Park school had turned up to try to 'take us'. Kids. If you think London is unsafe now I can assure you it was proper naughty ( © Danny Dyer) in the 70s! In fact I think the first four or five proper gigs I did all had the old bill turn up for one reason or another.

I would say yes generally on standard issue Fenders. as long as you're prepared for minimal sanding or shimming. I've got a Precision with a Jazz neck. Fitted fine.

My error. it was a BTC control pot and not system on the jazz I had.

As per the 50 basslines thread... Neat Neat Neat - Captain Sensible (on a Hofner Violin IIRC)

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='662582' date='Nov 23 2009, 12:50 PM']Come along to the Coach & Horses on Thursday and I'll bring my 1964 Violin bass with me.[/quote] I bet you say that to all the boys

I had one in a passive jazz.

DOD FX64. I got one on fleebay for £22. Really very good.

I've owned 1978-1984 Avon SG/EB0 bass - yuk Shaftesbury Rickenfaker semi - dull thud Ned Callan thingy - Very 70s Shergold Marathon - :wub: 1968 Fender Precision - bought for £250 in 1979 1984-2003 retired 2003 on 70s Ibanez Silver Series P/J - Nice but very, very heavy MIM Jazz bass - Nice but bland Jazz necked Precision mongrel - assembled myself from bits* Starfire 80s bass - Really horrible. May be destroyed in a video or something* Ibanez AGB200 - On a whim. Fun but not my style Shergold Marathon basket case - Just about saveable. Going to be a long term project* 2007 S-1 Precision with a wizard thumper and no S-1 now - I'd say better than my old 68. Love it.* * = still owned

Our last ever gig as [b]Magic Ship [/b]before the name change. Also on the bill Waynepunkdude's band [b]the Plan[/b] as organised on Basschat. We had our best rehearsal in three years last night so I'm well up for this. Apparently head room is limited on the stage so it might be worth coming along just to see our 6'9" guitarist knock himself sparko on the ceiling.

I should get one of these. The old boy who sits behind me at Griffin Park always goes misty eyed at the mention of him. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Brooks"]Johnny Brooks[/url]

I'm such an eco warrior that my first thought when opening the link was "that forearm guard thingy really looks poo on that ES295"

It's very visually busy on the body. It looks a bit of a mess.

I've got a P Bass with a maple Mighty Might body and an early 90s maple Fender Jazz neck. It weighs about the same as a Mondeo estate. Beware Might Mite maple bodies...

[quote name='howieee' post='662700' date='Nov 23 2009, 02:28 PM']whats wrong with the clean sound?[/quote] I didn't put it very well. If you're looking for a very hi-fi sound you'll not get a good one. All the thump comes with some degree of warm overdrive in the sound. Which is exactly what the thing sets out to do. If you want an old school Motown valve type sound it can do that rather well.

Should fit your needs well. I've got the same one as Darren/Darwin. Brilliant bit of kit. Used it without any amp at all on a few gigs and it sounded excellent. Great for recording too. You've got to like a bit of grit to your sound though. Doesn't do clean very well.

Sanity Clause - the Damned? Not very bluesy though.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='662229' date='Nov 22 2009, 11:02 PM']First up, that's not a "proper" Hofner, like McCartney used to play. It's a Hofner Contemporary (CT) which is a licensed copy made in China. It has a central "sustain" block running through the body, which translates as [i][color="#8B0000"]it's way cheaper to build it this way but it doesn't sound the same and the balance is quite different. [/color] [/i] Second, if you try to play this like a Fender or a Warwick then it will feel horrible, sound horrible, and generally be no fun at all. The feel of the neck will be weird, the string spacing far too narrow, the scale too short. On the other hand, if you play it like a Hofner then it's a light-weight barrel of laughs, and capable of sounding really great and really cool. The neck is unbelievably easy to get around, it plays really well with either a pick or just your index finger, the controls are so bizarre that you'll smile every time you fiddle with them, and flatwounds sound superb.[/quote] So how exactly do you "play it like a Hofner"? I struggled during my recent flirtation with a (non Hofner admittedly. An Ibby AGB200) short scale semi with flats on. I think the lack of sustain foxed me. I Like the whole flatwounds, narrow neck, lightweight idea a lot if it could work for me. I did like Captain Sensible's one with the silver sprayed top too.