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I think we can probably agree that fans of Kiss are unlikely to like the bands you mention and vice versa. Is not beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Damn, beat me to it Mr Smalls

Nice one, good luck to you. I play in a covers band that earns a few £s and have an originals band too which is intellectually much more satisfying. We will record some stuff may try and do a few gigs but they seem much harder to get.

Jack's Instrument Services in Manchester do stuff for me. Normal set-up is £45 and full set up and fret dress is £75. http://www.jacksinstrumentservices.com/prices.html

Excellent, I was wondering about this very thing myself. Sadly I'm not a big Jazz afficionado but feel I should know more about the genre. I have a couple of CDs but not a real collection to choose from so stayed away from that part of the question Are we allowing 'Best of...' albums, surely a cop out Some of my fav CDs are live albums but I've omitted them for the same reason in that they often/mostly cover a range of the band's output. A truly great album should have no weak tracks which a best of or live album can easily side-step. YMMV of course.

Love Rush and have to practice hard to nail any of it. The one that is still defeating me is Starship Trooper by Yes. In fact just writing this makes me want to put my toys back in the pram and have another go!

Welcome indeed. Plenty of very knowledgeable people on here, and it's a friendly place.

Got to be a candidate for a top three spot surely.

My tastes do jump around a bit. Currently I'd say: Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Genesis - Selling England By The Pound Paul Simon - Graceland

Takes me back to see The Tubes when they were touring in the late 70s. Thanks!

Assuming a massive shift in my personal talent deficit for me it would have to be Led Zep.

I did my good deed for the decade a few years ago when I was play a venue with a couple of other bands. The headline act were on and the bass player broke an E string. Realising he hadn't a spare I lent him my bass and used one of my spares to re-string his so no real gap in procedings. He was most grateful and a top bloke as it turned out.

I liked the De La Soul stuff plus Soul To Soul, but not sure if that's quite in the same genre. The current crop I find very hard to understand, and if I can't discern the lyrics then it's a big turn off in any genre for me.

Interested to know why. I find that the room dynamics dictate what the front of house needs whereas what I require is just to hear what I am playing and keeping the noise levels on stage pretty low. I often just use my Barefaced Midget as a monitor which sounds radically different to the full PA.

I use a Radial passive DI box with a splitter most gigs, but occasionally DI out of the back of my amp (pre EQ) so the front of house sound can be set differently to what I need to hear on stage. If you use a splitter just think carefully about how/where you tune (if you do this between songs for example) as you may not want the audience to hear you dropping down to D or whatever you do.

Hope it goes well. Please keep us posted.

One other possibility is the pot values. Active EMG pickups normally have 25k ohm pots in the volume/tone department. Passive pickups normally use much higher values normally 250k ohm in their harnesses. You said the J bass has a battery so you might consider getting a harness with these lower value pots.

Quite obscure Rolling Stones factoid. My best mate's Mum refused to lend Mick Jagger her car to get the band to a gig because they 'looked too scruffy'. They lived in the same road as the Jaggers.

Or indeed RMS or Peak Watts?

Excellent result. I'll pluck up the courage to re-look at mine now I think.

As TrevorR said, I use one of these as I'm often using an active and a passive bass during an evening. Not the cheapest thing but very solid and great quality. http://www.radialeng.com/bigshotio.php

There is indeed a BT sig bass: http://www.basscentre.com/british-bass-masters/bruce-thomas-profile.html Not seen one in the flesh though. I'm sure there was one on here for sale not too long ago.

Good knowledge, thanks for that. Mine is very much a working bass.

Thanks, I think the 3TSB is particularly nice. A couple more pics for you.