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Maybe if he pulled the cloth off it has "a name" painted onto the body. He might also be a U2 fan where the "bass has no name"

Nothing worse than having your a$$ clisse pierced

Could you have the start of trigger finger? I do and I find that if I grip anything small like a pencil that my hand can clamp up. The neck on my Sterling, being similar to a jazz is borderline, as in if it progresses any further then I could end up having to go for something with a bigger neck

The only 4 ohm ones I can think of off the top of my head have been the 1524 and 1084 but they did produce a lot of one-off and odd stuff over the years including a 1x18" 1x15" and 4x10" in the same cabinet. Ashdown brought out a couple of 4ohm 4x10" like the 414T and another that escapes me

Years ago I was the stereotypical bass player with spares for my spares. I had a huge holdall absolutely stuffed with spare cables, strings, straps etc and I left it in the car park of a social club we had played at that night. I went back an hour later when I realised that I had left it and luckily enough it was still there right in the middle of the car park. Every night since then I look at the contents of my boot and do a stock take to make sure that everything is there before I close it and drive home. Conversely I lifted what I thought was the keyboard player's laptop from a gig in Aberdeen (about 2.5 hours drive from home) and put it carefully in the van. Turns out it belonged to the event organiser for the hotel but extremely luckily we were there the following weekend so returned it and had a few embarrassed laughs

For me it would be the point that it stopped annoying me that I had damaged my bass in the first place and accepted that it now looked like cr@p There's a huge difference between natural wear and tear like finish checking and just being a clumsy oaf (or having oaf like friends if they caused the damage)

I think it was Mo Foster on the Minder theme

I am making a small modification to my one and changing to a black scratchplate, pretty much because I have a sheet of black scratchplate material. Traditionally the TRC is the same colour as the scratchplate so I am planning on making myself one in black as well

Perhaps the second cable was a red herring designed to generate interest on a well known UK bass forum and get the band/bass player more exposure

1 is especially important to me but partly due to the fact that I hate the mess that cables can cause so getting them to the back of the stage is a priority for me, plus it gets them out of the way from punters. If you use velcro wraps to keep your cables tidy then you can also use them to keep all of the cables together when you route them to the back of the stage. We have 3 monitors - the first one sits on top of the sub pointing towards the singer, the second one is beside the drummer and the third is my one which is positioned behind the sub so all out of the road. The only trip hazard we have really is the guitarist's pedalboard. The lights are also positioned behind us

And Tony Hadley on bass

I'm going to be the voice of reason and say that unless you've been called to a gig specifically to play a fretless or a particular bass then you need whatever bass you have at the time. Very few people in the audience will be able to tell or actually give a monkey's toss what you have unless you are either really bad or it sounds dreadful. Over the past 20 years I have played the following in wedding/function bands: Yamaha TRB6 II fretless Epiphone Thunderbirds Many Stingrays More Rickenbackers Various Precisions Jazz Basses, fretted and fretless Modulus Flea Warwick Thumb NT5 Various pieces of sh!t Loads of Bass Collections Trace T-Bass 5 string Assorted 4, 5, 6 & even an 8 string (I used a 12ver with a rock band) Well, you get the idea. my current 2 do everything I need and the Rick can get surprisingly funky. I take whatever bass I fancy using to the gig

I knew her brother, Franken

We had that one night at a pub gig a few years ago - turns out that their friend was Michelle McManus who was out for the night. I detest these talent shows on telly with a passion so I was even more determined not to let her sing. Plus considering that we were a rock band bordering on punk I couldn't really imagine her singing Blitzkreig Bop

Pants pedal eh? Does that attach to the waistband to allow you to make changes on the fly? Sorry wrong thread

I'm not so sure about the 70s and 80s as being the predominant decades for bass. Remember in the 90s we had the Chilis, Primus, Faith No More, Jamiroquai, Blur, Supergrass, Fugazi and many others which featured a lot of up front bass

This is exactly what I feel about the music that I play in my band. There's not a single song that I'd actively listen to but I enjoy playing them with the clear exception of Valerie which I'd happily never play again but they still want us to play it so it's only a couple of minutes out of what is usually a great gig

I've been using the 7250M strings which are the 45-105 gauge and they are for all intents and purposes D'addario EXL165s. They may or may not be exactly the same but are made by D'addario and have coloured (albeit different colours) ball ends.

If we were auditioning a new member and they told us that they hadn't learned the songs that we'd asked for then that would be the end of the audition. If it's a covers band then you will need to learn covers unless I am misunderstanding what you have said?

I'm a fan of Abe Sr but I thought that the melody sounded out of tune a lot of the time and I had to stop listening. Shame because it's a really nice sounding bass

You could plug your bass into the input of the LS-2 and the output to the QSC. Preamp 1 would be in loop 1 and preamp 2 would be in loop 2. Set the mode to A<->B and you can go between the two. Alternatively go bass - preamp1 - preamp2 - QSC and switch them on and off as necessary. This may give you a completely different sound running them one after the other rather than 1 or the other despite one being off and the other being on

I have an EQ pedal so that I can both bring the level of the Sterling down to that of the Rickenbacker and be able to adjust the EQ keeping my main preamp pedal set on the one setting. I think that it would only be if I needed mild overdrive etc that I would need more than this but the EQ pedal does what I need and keeps it simple

Clarky bought my GK 500MB & Barefaced One10. Couldn't have been more straight forward. Nice easy transaction and money changed hands in return for goods 😀

I did replace them. I didn't have a round file the correct size so I used a drill bit wrapped in sandpaper to carefully enlarge the holes (by hand, not actually using a drill as that would have ended in tears). The nut that screws into the tuner on the D string does get very close to the truss rod cover but there is plenty of room to tighten it. The other thing is that the Rick headstock is on the absolute limit of thickness for actually being able to tighten the big top nut onto the tuner. In the end I screwed the tuner onto the headstock before I tightened the nut to make sure that the tuner was as tight against the back of the headstock as it could get. Weight wise it was only something like 93g of a difference but it did help to balance the neck out. I used the Y head tuners rather than the clover leaf ones as they were lighter. They're fitted to the 4004 models so I knew that they'd look ok. I used this seller and they arrived pretty quickly. The tuners are more satin than shiny chrome. Still contemplating getting a d-tuner