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Beaten to it ^ Definitely join a band. If you're in a band with people in the same boat as you wanting to get better then you'll improve as you play. alternatively try and get into a band with a bunch of sh*t hot musicians and the difference in how good you are now and how good there are will either make you sh*t yourself or give you the encouragement you need to get better

He who hesitates ends up quoting someone else. Confucius said that. Either him or Harry Hill.

[quote name='tauzero' post='1254248' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:48 PM']I predict £3275[/quote] I predict a riot

Daphne Blue nitro. Something I've been going to do to a bass for years

[quote name='MatthewKeys' post='1254201' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:26 PM']The laney 810 looks perfect! But they seem fairly uncommon, and I doubt I will find one secondhand for £300.....[/quote] Exactamundo - I've been on the look out for a second hand 1x15" Nexus cab to come up for ages. I believe that out of the thousands of members on the forum there's one other member that has one so the chances of someone having an 8x10" is remote.

The Celestion equipped Laney 8x10" is a very reasonable 45kg and would be my first choice if I was playing venues that warranted having one. Coming in at a relatively low price of £643 from [url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_amps_detail.asp?stock=07110213190929"]Guitar Guitar[/url]

They are rediculously heavy and hence why most of the ones you see are either used by famous names with roadies or in rehearsal rooms. Its hard to comprehend 70kg until you try to lift it. They're £566 from Digital Village so £300 would appear to be a good deal but there's one that's failed to sell twice on Ebay for £320. The problem is the weight. Very few people are willing to buy heavy gear these days and even I've succumed to buying a lightweight cab and the people that are gnereally willing to buy the heavy stuff are wanting it cheap because of the weight cos chances are it'll end up in a rehearsal room If you can live with that then the sheer power of the 8x10" cab will knock you sideways.

Its the marks on the body that look like pubic hairs that are putting me off. That and I don't have £51, never mind the £2551 that it is at already C'mon lottery, papa needs a new pair of Fender Bass Vs

Entered a talent competition at primary school when I was in year 7 miming to Bruce Springstein of all people. A friend of mine at the time gave me a loan of an acoustic to use as a prop and ended up buying it off him for a fiver. Ended up playing along to the basslines on Queen records. When it came to choosing which present I wanted from the Littlewoods catalogue, everyone wanted me to get a guitar but I went with the bass. 24 years later and 70 basses later I'm still doing it and loving it. I really cut my teeth playing in a Big Band when I was 17 which brought the average age of the band down from 70 by quite a bit I taught myself to read music for that gig. Played in an offshoot of that band which was a dixiland jazz band with only chords written so that gave me lot of freedom to improvise. Moved onto a couple of other things before getting into the wedding/function band scene. I have learned so much in the time I've been doing that kind of stuff that i can confidently play a song I have never heard before as long as I can hear what the keys are playing. I've tried having a go at guitar but the strings feel far too light and insignificant for me to get anything satisfying from them. Tried my hand at drums a couple of years ago but I've lost interest in learning any other instrument now but am always trying to push myself with the bass.

Depending on what you had on their before you'll have to adjust the neck to some degree I remember being in a sticky situation having only a cheap bass with no strings and a set of these a couple of hours before I was due to gig. I put the strings on, tuned them up and off to the gig I went. By the time I got there the neck was like a banana. By sheer luck more than anything else, I was able to adjust the truss rod enough to straighten it out in that short space of time without the truss rod trying escape the inside of the neck

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looks like something you could make yourself with a couple of small pieces of wood and chop up a cheap stand

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