gjones

The Rumble 500 is great but a few years ago I bought one of these and I'm glad I did.

There's one guy on Basschat, who I will not name, that makes a career out of flipping basses. He doesn't even play bass, just lurks in the shadows on forums like this waiting for his prey. He's flipped two basses of mine, one on Basschat and one on Facebook. He impersonated someone else to buy my bass on Facebook.... because I'd blocked him.

Gigs are the only revenue bands have these days. In the good old days tours would make a loss but the fans would buy the new album, which is where the money was made. The good thing is that bands tour continuously, to pay the gas bill. So we can see them more often.

Very funny

Buy a ticket for your Bass and take it along.

Double post

I once played a duo gig in a bar with just one drunk customer. He started howling like a dog over the music and I couldn't take it any more. So I went over to him, picked him up (he was only little) and threw him into the street. He, did eventually, crawl back in to his seat at the bar. ...we weren't asked to come back 🤣

I received my preloved G&L L2000 today. It came with flats, which I really am not keen on, but they sounded fine. I fitted it with a used set of rounds, which is my preferred type of string and it's still sounding excellent. The action was a bit high but after a bit of trussrod tweaking managed to get a ridiculously low action on it and it's playing great.

That's sad to hear. I notice that GuitarGuitar have started selling them again. I'm a big fan of G&L, I bought a used L2000 Tribute off Reverb yesterday.

I once bought a Jackson because I saw a guy playing it onstage and it sounded excellent. It was for sale, so I bought it. It played really nicely and had a great neck. But I just couldn't get on with that pointy headstock and it had to go. ....I'm so shallow.

If you really lose the plot, just turn your volume down and dance about. Nobody will notice they can't hear you. I've done it a few times 😄

I rarely talk about politics with my bandmates. I certainly don't bring up the topic of politics with them. I've had sneaking suspicions about some ex bandmates world views but never investigated further - because I didn't want their political views to have an effect on the musical relationship I had with them. If I did find out they had views that were VERY extreme, I might think twice about playing in a band with them.

The idea of starting your own band sounds like a good one.

I used to have a Fender V3 100 combo and it was great. Extremely light and small, decent EQ, capable of competing with a quiet drummer live and unobtrusive for home practice. I then bought a Markbass CMD121P and it can do all of the above, as well as the Fender, but it has a better EQ and can really pump out the volume and compete with a loud drummer when playing live. I would recommend the Fender, because it's cheaper than a Markbass combo (if you're buying second hand or new) and you don't require an amp to pump out the volume, in a biker bar.

I checked with Google AI and it said that copyright generally lasts for the life of the last surviving author plus 70 years. Up until 2013 it was protected for 50 years. Then Paul McCartney said......'Hold on a minute!' and Keith Richards said 'Oi mate!'.