AndyTravis

Seasons.(waiting on you) by Future Islands. first time I ever heard it was when this performance was sent to me. Absolutely love this band and their lead singer is just very charismatic; looks like he should be a geography teacher. But the passion in the performance, no arrogance - just performance.

I like that jazz

Pretty much

The telly

It’s properly lovely. Makes me giddy. Rehearsal was cancelled on Monday so got to wait until this coming Monday to hear it in a band setting. but I’m smitten.

Phwoar. Love that tune

Nice that. i know my old one is coming up for sale. Can’t afford either 🙄

Flubbin eck...

When you’ve said you snagged it for £90... er...😂

Again. Another example of so ugly it’s cool. And £90 seems good?

If I hadn’t just bought a modulus, I’d be having it back

They need to do this. In the same colours they’ve just done the new Sires in. LPB, Sherwood green, Burgundy mist...etc

Is it the Sunburst 1100s? thats a very special bass

Finally got some tidgy little Allen keys... I could trap a single post it under the strings 😂 Plays like KY Jelly.

‘Popular’ and ‘sells and buys lots of bass gear’ are not one and the same thing @bassfan 😂😂😂

Paul and I have been joking (not joking) for some time about his blue sparkle Modulus Flea. I’ve been after one since 1999 and the opportunity always missed me. Anyhow, eventually we got there in a switcheroo part-trade master plan. Absolutely lovely bloke, we’ve ended up gabbing lots via WhatsApp - not only share taste in basses but also in sense of humour. Thanks mate!

I always come back better if I don’t play for a week, just time away usually gives my head and repetitive patterns/phrases or ideas a rest and I change approach. In terms of sound/tone... I’m not going to lie, I really don’t give it huge amounts of thought/effort. If it sounds bad I don’t get upset, I just jiggle some control knobs and make it passable. The last rehearsal was with the Godlyke I’ve just part traded for a modulus flea. And I know the stingray type sound really works for our stuff. But a P/J and Jazz work too - I did all our studio stuff with Yamaha p/j basses and it all sounds ace, last gig was my jazz - sounded phenomenal (because it’s a bloody lovely bass) and then the MM setup just seems to be the best fit overall. I could be wrong. I’m sure someone with more time could tell me my eq is all wrong and I need to do something different. But after all this time, I’m just satisfied with a nice combo and the basses I have cover anything I need. So I just need to play regularly to justify the flashy gear.

There are some times we rehearse in a dampened live room and I never ever like the in room sound. The little zoom recorder always says otherwise though the next day. I’ve chopped and changed basses a few times this year and the only time I really didn’t have much confidence in the sound was when I had an EMG p/j set in an Attitude bass. Needed a preamp I suppose, sounded beautiful in isolation but didn’t seem to push for the band. Some days, even after 22 years I feel like my hands are on wrong and I need to practice more - and others I feel like the second coming of Bobby Vega. Oh well.