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2 x 2m for us is fine and works well in all the venues we play so far. We thought about 3m wide but wisely decided not to.

I bought a Squire P Bass from Andy. It was well packaged and dispatched quickly after payment. Good comms throughout. Great seller. Thanks.

Never the Twain shall meet!

Her bass player is Derek Frank, who also plays for Gwen Stefani. Maybe his visa wasn't approved!

All very strange. Is this the setup for all her gigs? Never seen any live footage of her until today.

Is the bass a backing track? If so why? Running out of options. Unless the bass player is hidden beneath the huge riser.

Shania Twain. I can hear bass but can't see anyone playing it. Doesn't look like the keys player is playing the bass line.

Well Glastonbury 24 has started. Currently enjoying Paul Heaton, with Norman Cook guesting on bass for Happy Hour.

A few weeks ago our drummer (#4) gave his notice and then was unable to play last night's gig. Luckily our son ,drummer #3, who used to play with us decided to rejoin the band and was able to do last night's gig. We had to tweak the set list to suit him, which is fine as he had depped for us few times. It was good to have him back as he is our favorite drummer out of the 4 we have had. We played well and sounded great. A couple of songs in and our singer tells he can't hear my BV's, so I check my mic and hadn't turned it on! Next song for me is much later. I didn't realise as I can't hear myself in the monitors anyway because of earplugs. We are looking forward to our next gig in a months time and our son will learn a couple of new songs for him.

As others have said, if you are tribute band then go the extra Mile as most people, particularly fans such as the OP will appreciate it. Years ago I was In a Stereophonics tribute. Luckily our 'Kelly' was Welsh so sounded authentic between songs. He was a Strat guy but bought a Gibson SG specifically. I left my pointy Charvel at home and bought a P bass. I researched plenty of photos of Richard Jones and in the end got a long sleeve T shirt with a dragon printed that closely matched one of his. We played the songs as the recordings and even had backing / click tracks for some keyboards and extra bits of guitar. As musicians we will be more critical of bands than your average punter, I know I am!

How are you listening to the playback?

I want to live forever was a response to the doom laden lyrics by Nirvana.

We rehearse just before each gig. We do our own practicing in-between. If we are learning new songs then we get another rehearsal in.

Hi and welcome Basschat.

We have active 15" tops and the drummer owns and transports a sub. We use it at almost every pub gig, some of which are fairly small. With a pole it supports a top, so good for space. I place my monitor on it, so again a win for floor space. It is used to reinforce the bass drum as the tops don't diver that punch you need. I am usually through the PA too so the sub helps with the bottom end. In smaller pubs I take myself out of the tops and just put a bit through the sub for some low end reinforcement. Works fine for us, a 4 piece with vocals, guitar, bass and drums.

I had a very positive experience of music and lessons at secondary school. Straight from the off I started learning trumpet and joined the school band. I don't remember much about the early lessons. I took music as an option. We spent quite a bit of time studying and listening to pieces, one of which included Dark Side of the Moon, which was an eye and ear opener! This was around 1980. The music department used to hire instruments. I had been toying with learning electric guitar, but when I saw a bass for hire I had my light bulb moment and it came home with that day. I soon joined a few other bands as there were hardly any bass players at school. The music department had some good sound proofed rooms and we would regularly be in there during breaks to jam. One of the teachers would join us on mouth organ for some 12 bar. The teachers were very supportive of our music and we got to play at assemblies, Christmas concerts and some out of school events. I soon got the hang of bass and for my music practical exam played Money on bass and another piece on trumpet. Some good memories. I'm still in touch with the guitarist and keyboard player from my 1st school band as seen below.

We played it but based ours on the version by Prosac+ Another gor me is the Frankie Goes To Holywood version of Born To Fun over the Springsteen version.

Ashdown RM 500-Evo II?

Nice one Dave. I've taken the ferry to / from Dunoon a couple if times on my bike during my Scotish tours. Good to hear it's name again. You guys get around. Keep it up.

Had an odd one last night. We agreed to look at bringing back Angel's, which we used to do years ago with a previous drummer. It's a great sing a long song for the audiance too. However, our singer used to change the lyrics ' a lot of love and affection' to a BJ reference (I'm sure you get the idea). This time round I told him he should drop it and gave him my reasoning. Our guitarist backed me up. Our singer didn't seem to understand our concerns and was keen to carry on and 'use his judgment' as when to leave it out. The discussion went on and was not resolved when I left. I got a message from our guitarist when I got home. He and the singer carried on the discussion and the upshot was that if he can't change the lyrics he won't sing the song. It's all a bit pathetically really and it's his loss that we won't play the song. We are all a bunch of mid to late 50 year olds just trying to have a good time gigging, not a load of sniggering teenagers.

A return to the Apple and Parrott in Torquay last night. Our drummer couldn't make it as he had tickets for Mr Big, so we drafted in our previous drummer, my son, who still deps for us. It was party central and plenty of people up for dancing and a good time. In house PA and engineer always gives a great FOH sounds, although the stage sound can be a bit odd, but was sorted for set 2. It's a great vibe there which we can feed off. Lots of great compliments from people afterwards, including one guy who admired my playing and my Stingray. It was a late finish, but at least no PA to breakdown. Looking forward to the next one. My usual set up, Stingray 2eq, Ashdown RM 500-Evo II, BF 210 on gramma pad due to raised stage.

At least it's not one of MDP's Telebasses!