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The thing about West side is although it is tricky, there’s not much in it that is stupid, because it’s arranged so beautifully. The Rumble certainly has some ‘corners’ (we never managed it the same every night!) but it’s clever. Let’s Have Lunch from Sunset is 10+ pages of bass concerto practically, key and time signatures changing constantly, all over the neck and just incessant. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOMR6ecEPXI

Spamalot is a laugh, I’m on that this week. Legally Blonde is a good one, Sunset Boulevard is a beast but WSS remains the best in class for many reasons.

You beat me to it! My ASAT has the loudest pickups so the gain on my LM tube is barely on. I still prefer to do that than back the bass’ volume off and raise the gain. However, my LB100 has a much lower output, the gain is much higher and I think this does more to bring the amp’s tone out.

Last few orders from them have come from UPS.

WoT will be along in 5, 4, 3, 2......😉

Damn straight, would love to see them on there, the perfect band.

Learn to coil cables and teach your band mates to do it too! Helpful but inept brass sections in particular!

This primitive form of gambling requires a chequered floor to a coop with each square numbered. One then feeds a suitably animated poultry bird of ones choice with seed, places it said coop and the participants in the venture place bets of which number the animal drops it’s digested load on first. It is hiliarious in a very nice immature way!

Great band, and I shamelessly ripped one of her basslines on a recent session. Nicely sparse and melodic.

Great tips above but the biggest advance I made with nerves was when my teacher said ‘Be nervous’. Seriously, being nervous is actually your body’s way of doing better, and I’ve been that person incapacitated with tremors, the chronic self doubt and memory loss (and I’m tee total!) It takes a bit of getting used to, but the advice was if you’re nervous you’re about to create some seriously good memories. Peace out, hippies!!!!

Turn it down!

We don’t have this issue. We play to a more considerate clientele who weigh our subs down with alcohol based ballast, or clothing, or flowers, or candle wax or a first for tonight, bubble machine fluid. Still, the tops don’t go over.

My rig on duty at Rockfield over the next few days. I have snuck in the lick from Think in tribute to Aretha.

Big plus one for Happy Jack’s thread, he beat me to the link by a matter of seconds! I’ve found the advice very useful and has definitely helped me with similar issues. A good strategy for me personally has been to run through some walking basslines with iReal pro. Kills lots of birds with one stone and is enjoyable, as formulaic scales/ based warm ups can be dull after a while.

The general consensus is the tube in the LMT500 doesn’t make a huge difference. I use mine set to 100% tube and there is a certain warmth but you’re not going to get any grit out of it unless you use silly levels of gain, and that doesn’t sound amazing. Indeed the tube in it is minuscule. However, through two decent 112 cabs I’ve never wanted for volume and that’s included some decent festival size stages. It’s been totally reliable, I’ve needed to hoover the inside once (I think it’s from doing lots of pit work where the conditions and smoke/ haze create lots of particles) the fan is quiet and the DI is decent. Heard the Casa in the hands of Micheal League- sounded pretty dam decent but what else would you expect?!

No Encores yet? If you started in the late 80s/90s it felt like they were compulsory. Mine was a black PJ my Dad bought me. It served me pretty well, but I sold it the car park of the local sun valley factory to buy stuff for Uni.

Well played sir. Bit of a guess on my behalf and I preferred the second. Just hoping you haven’t bluffed us all with the same bass twice!

Up to 11!

Whilst it gets sorted out, two bass legends for the price of one.

We were playing a fundraiser the other day with our acoustic trio at the local hospice. Halfway through our Ace of Spades I realised the lyric ‘That’s the way I like it baby, I don’t want to live forever’ was coming up, but the vocalist was committed and she belted it out anyway. We skipped the next number, Locked Out of Heaven.

2 I own and 2 on ‘permanent loan’

In the thread about the Scott’s Bass Lessons giveaway Trickfish’s power ratings came up. In a recent thread I was asking about a posh Di and one thing I did consider was getting a very good amp head and using its DI, Trickfish consequently crossed my radar. So I decided to PM them about the RMS and got this reply- ‘We really prefer not to get into those discussions because there are no set standards for how companies come to their RMS ratings and the number Itself doesn’t really mean much on its own. We use the ICE 700 power module in the BH.5 and the Pascal SPro2 in the Bullhead 1K and they both have detailed specs online. I wish I had a more satisfactory answer for you as I know the RMS value is a popular number to use to compare amplifiers. But unless the number is achieved using identical testing procedure the number really confuses more than helps.’ I thought I’d share seeing the debate going on a few days ago. Harry

Strawberry

Don’t broadcast it, I want to increase my chances of winning!