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Scott's video had me running to my new P making sure everything would meet his requirements!

[quote name='Tee' timestamp='1490892710' post='3268903'] It's a shame they can't make the L1000 again, with the pickup in the correct position. [/quote] Excuse my ignorance, why not?

It's one of life's greatest pleasures, meeting a muso at a band call, probably not even being introduced, conductor starts, bang, there's a piece of music you know is going to be played to x amount of people that evening/ next day. Reading does that for you and I for one love it.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490821357' post='3268394'] £1500!!! No thanks, I'll wait for the Tribute model. [/quote] Fit and finish on an American job is quite remarkable, loads of options on necks and colours and they feel worth totally worth it. However, I have heard that G&L are moving their American distribution at the moment, so getting one may be an issue.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1490688998' post='3266975'] I have found, over the years, that we always start at a decent enough volume, but as the night goes on, I feel as if I'm listening to a wall of noise. The desire to turn up to be heard is almost unbearable. I have asked the others have they turned up and they are adamant that they haven't. I've since found out that our ears, when faced with prolonged loud noise, will try to protect themselves by blocking out certain frequencies. This makes for a weird sensation of mud in your hearing, which is hard to play through. I have concluded that A, we are too loud to start with and 2 , monitors are a must! [/quote] This is called temporary threshold shift.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1490634113' post='3266658'] Celebration - Kool & The Gang. I could play the G in the verses forever. [/quote] Depends if the rest of the band are playing it in the original key I suppose!

Superstition Psycho Killer

My wife comes to about 50% of my gigs, as she's one of the singers. She comes to some other gigs, but is normally devastatingly accurate in her assessment so I don't mind too much if she doesn't!

Thread hijack- and really dumb question, could somebody post an image of the ti flats packaging please! I'm after some for my p but am not convinced my searching via google is pointing me in the right direction- having proper brain fade! Thank you!

We've worked hard on being a good wedding band and do the outfits, first dance, disco, lights etc etc. Not at the any song out of a hat stage yet, but we're working on it. Where we are though, if you go over a grand people want the earth. Also having 8 people in the band seems to go over punters heads, they struggle to understand why that would be more expensive.

One of the things that gets me when these greats go is it isn't the degree of complexity that they produce it's how eloquent they are. Who comes up with 'It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well'? What an insight in one line. The other is just how fertile their influence is, when they inspire other people. Prince/ Bowie/ Chuck can spawn whole sub genres where rafts of intelligent people create all sorts of incredible music, in chuck's case off pretty much one kind of song. I think it's that ability to have clarity, and be so articulate to say so much with so little, both musically and lyrically I admire the most.

Being able to have a band groove without a drummer/ percussionist is a mark of class, particularly for us bassists.

Don't know about the strings but it's probably Willie Weeks you're thinking of!

If I could, I would.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1489495362' post='3257375'] Also, this year might be a good time to sell, as it's someone's Y.O.B. 40th birthday bass Obviously, in 2027, it should be worth more - as that's a 50th birthday YOB for someone [/quote] Went for a G&L LB100! High values for a 70s fender seem a bit bizarre, I don't think you could buy a guitar magazine in the 90s that didn't say somewhere they were poor. Totally get why that's not always true, a mate has a great 70s strat, but it's also nowhere near as good as his 60s job.

What kind of playing are you doing now? I ask because it's very difficult to go into that market completely cold.

If you're going to do a Chuck cover justice, you need a bloody good piano player!

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1489277331' post='3255753'] Jarrit Reddick and David Gates for the first course (Bowling for Soup, Bread), Lou Rhodes and Marvin Lee Aday for the mains (Lamb, Meatloaf), Will I.Am (Black Eyed Peas),Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumkins),Paddy MCAloon (Prefab Sprout), Martha Johnson (Martha and the Muffins), Eric Clapton (Cream) or Vanilla Ice, finishing off with Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate) [/quote] I applauded before replying.

The recordings sound great, had to learn Raining in my Heart for a dep the other day and was blown away by the quality of the arrangement, mix and performance.

Two married couples in our band! Sax and guitar, singer and bass. No arguments, we all know bass runs the show.

Two amps, a lmt500 which does the job and a hartke 1400 series head. Looks like a cheese board with knobs on. Then a pair of Aggie db112s and a hartke 410xl, original American job. Still sounds great after an unbelievable amount of abuse.

[quote name='artisan' timestamp='1488974363' post='3253355'] Very nice indeed. That exact bass was on my shopping list from GBBL but I have to sell my DB before I can buy anything. Congratulations on a lovely bass [/quote] Thank you If you don't mind I'll use this as the proof I needed as to why I needed to buy it immediately! Apparently it was the last new one in the country. I'll try and do it justice. SB2 was tempting but I wanted to go hardcore, one pickup only.

[URL=http://s284.photobucket.com/user/Thinfingers/media/IMG_2636_zpseuxs5sxl.jpg.html][IMG]http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll12/Thinfingers/IMG_2636_zpseuxs5sxl.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll12/Thinfingers/IMG_2622_zpsstgvdc54.jpg[/IMG] After 17 years of bass monogamy, and significant birthday passed, Edna has doubled the herd. I always thought my ASAT (Edith) did a suitable P bass sound if necessary but after years of membership here and seemingly each new bass player I discover being a major precision user, I gave in. She arrived, fresh from the Great British Bass Lounge yesterday (great to deal with) and was straight off to our weekly rehearsal. Set the gain up on the amp and started playing, flat eq, a little bit of VPF to tame the volume for the small room and everybody's happy. Now I know what the fuss is about, it felt like coming home for a bassist. Usual fantastic G&L build quality, action and neck feel amazing although ever so slightly different to what I'm used to. The tone pot is surprisingly effective, never touched them before. I'll never be a real fender fan, im always disappointed when I see them in the flesh, so I've been hanging on since these were reintroduced and it's been worth the wait.