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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.

My '66 P has a bit of warlinp/lifting on the little pointy bit on the top bout. I hadn't thought about much... .until now

I think the Ringo thing has reached unprecedentled levels of urban myth. Entirely fit for purpose for the Beatles; might have struggled in Rush though.

If I remember my economics studies then I think one of the main ways to support developing nations is the removal of tariffs. Won't happen of course so much self-interest in the richer 1st world nations. My only experience of instruments made by a top luthier is ACGs and I have always thought they represent outstanding value for money. I clearly need to declare an interest at this point :-)

Do you know which pickups are fitted to yours? I think I read somewhere that Fender had done a set to match the original '72 bass GL had, but of course I may well be talking bollocks.

Very nicely put across too. So do you sell happiness Mr C?

Thanks, I'm well chuffed with it.

I had a Seafoam MIJ 62RI Jazz, cracking bass, no idea why I sold it. Probably chuffin' GAS.

I head SOTW from this gig on the radio and I thought it sounded pretty lame so have avoided this in case of disappointment. I say the "classic" line up a few times in the dim and distant past and remember those gigs very fondly.

Forgot to add that I picked the 32ohm version in case the preamp died when I was was out and about and I could then plug the 'phones straight into the source without presenting too a big a load for a portablbe music player.

Per above really. I use them when I have to, or it makes sense to do so. A couple of my basses have zero frets but in all honesty I can't hear a great deal of difference. None at all in a live band situation.