Delberthot

I started listening to the Floyd when I was at school about 1991 and everyone else was listening to 808 State & The Prodigy. Comfortably Numb is still in my top 10 all time favourite songs. An interesting fact is that Dave wanted the bass notes to sustain and Roger wanted them to stop after every note. They couldn't agree on it so they recorded it twice, once Dave's way and once Roger's way and spliced it together. If you watch Echoes Part I from Live at Pompeii, when it gets to the point where camera comes around in front of the PA, I'm convinced that it gets louder but I think it's in the mind. I have the vinyl copy of the Wall and at the time when I was dabbling in LSD, Mushrooms and so on I had a turntable that you could stop but the needle would still pick up the sound. I turned it backwards at the track "What Shall we Do Now" and heard the secret message. Probably the most scared I'd ever been in my life to hear a proper backwards recording. The best gig I have ever been to to this day is still seeing the Floyd at Earls Court on 23rd October 1993. It cost me and my best mate £65 each to get a bus from Glasgow down to the gig. I stayed up for 54 hours that weekend and it is something I will never forget. The band were amazing. Dave Gilmour has one of my favourite sounds. It's never shrill or unbearable like some. It's like velvet and just glides across the ears. I agree that he might not be "the best" which doesn't really mean anything but his sound and his choice of notes is incredible. I like some Syd stuff - Bike was always my favourite, I like some of Saucerful but from Meddle onwards is where it is for me

I'm always looking for Cheap Trick to come back but I fear that the first time I saw them a few years ago may be the last

The ones I remember are the Seinberger stick and the most famous for me are the precision fretless ones - one red and one natural if I remember rightly

My next one is Roachford now that Living Colour have ditched Glenn Hughes for Alter Bridge forcing Glenn to cancel. Bah Ah well, still 3 concerts this year - Roachford, Chilis & Status Quo minus Rick Parfitt

I absolutely detest any kind of dings or marks and it's not the first time I've been looking at a bass on here or Ebay and spotted a ding and walked away There have been times when I've looked at the damage on some basses and wondered how they managed to get so badly looked after. It is a tool to do a job but you don't go out of your way to dent your car or break a window of your house so that it looks well used

I was thinking about stand mounting the cab already but was offered the top hat mount so that was perfect for what I wanted. It's a standard top hat mount and a gorilla speaker pole. Everything is held together with 10mm wide velcro. I bought a 10m roll of it from Ebay and it goes round everything front and back so I can put the whole thing in the bag as one. There are velcro loops all the way down the stand so that I can keep the cables tidy as I hate messy cables and a surge protected 6-way power supply zipped tied to one of the legs. Means I can set up and strip down in less than 5 minutes each way

It means that I can have the speaker at ear level so it is loud enough for me to use as a monitor while being quiet on stage

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I had an LH1000 and gigged it with Laney 4x10" & 1x15" cabs. I liked the fact that on that one it had a balance so I could direct more to the 4x10" which I sat underneath the 15" as it produced more bottom end. Anyway I was able to get the valve to overdrive on that with my Precision with EMGs. It sounded incredible but the amp on it's own weighed more than my current entire setup, including my bass. I was going to hold off and buy the TX600 but going by this review I'm glad I went with the MB500 instead

I had one of these and although 35kgs is about the same as a 4x10" from the same era it's awkward to carry more than anything else.

That's to give you extra honk from the neverties position pickup

If it's a one piece graphite bass then that will make it a Stealth? I nearly ordered a 6 string headless and fretless Stealth a few years ago

Yeah unless it's a super hot bass and badly distorting then passive is fine. My Sterling is hot enough for me to need to activate the pad switch/button on both MB200 & MB500 amps but there's plenty of volume in both amps, even with the pad selected.

I had a caramel BB1025 and it was much much better in the flesh than the awful reddy colour it looks like on every website. Fantastic basses with super hot output and the best precision bass I've ever owned bar none

After having had only ZZ Top in June I'm now going to see Living Colour & Glenn Hughes in November in one of the oddest double gigs I'll have been to followed by Roachford on 4th December then the Chilis on 8th December and Status Quo on 20th December. After losing Lemmy last year I'm trying to see as many bands as I can that I know are either retiring or are likely to soon.

The one thing wedding venues very rarely disclose but are meant to from day 1 is if they have a noise limiter. A band turning up on the night to be met by a hotel manager telling them that there is a noise limiter and anything over xdB will trip it is far too late IMO and have every right to refuse to play. Few will but the threat of this is enough to make most venues more accommodating. We've all spent a lot of money on our gear and we'd like to have the opportunity to say no if we're asked to play a venue with a limiter. Valve amps really don't like being switched off before they've had the chance to cool down and regardless of damage or not I like to decide when I switch my amp off. There is a venue near us and I only found out it had one when I read about it in the local paper. It was set at 85db which is close to the level of a domestic dishwasher. We played our quietest set ever and the audience loved us as we managed to get through the entire night without tripping it. A band who played there the week after us who I had depped with in the past ripped the microphone out of the ceiling and cut the wires to the traffic lights. They won't be playing any venues in my area any time soon and I'm glad I wasn't playing with them at the time. We're fortunate enough that we're busy so we can politely refuse the ones with sound limiters most of the time. It's not about playing as loudly as you can, it's about being able to play at a volume to suit the venue, not a neighbour 2 miles away.

Not so much don't like but currently of no use to me are Chris Squier and Geddy's sounds. Somehow I don't think they'd fit in with a wedding/function band.