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[quote name='martin8708' timestamp='1398241908' post='2431893'] A Markbass amp through a good non Markbass cab ( Berg / Vanderkley / EA ) seems the best combination for me . [/quote] This!

https://theconvent.netgig.co.uk/event/george-montague-uk-tour/ Played the Convent, just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire, for George Montague. Amazing venue, top notch gear including provided in ear monitors (jury's still out) but they provided us with a two course dinner from the private members club, had the wagyu beef. Don't get to gig with these guys often enough, George is a great singer songwriter and Dan Foster on sax and Tom Hooper on drums are properly guilt edged players, so I really have to scrub up! All in all, the once in a blue moon gig where everything goes just so. Happy days.

Tried listening to them 2 years ago and didn't get it. Then someone on here posted Lingus on here and the scales lifted from my ears, got to love this place!

Really got gigging blood, love turning up at empty venues, being backstage, debating over where to set the band up, finding somewhere to eat, lugging gear, the comradeship, and actually playing. It's by no means perfect and it can be tiring and repetitive, but every gig is an adventure. Earlier this year I was playing at a car rally and 5 1920s Bugattis rocked up and parked right by where I was set up, surreal. Musos are normally great, stimulating company, you get to share what you love with a crowd, gigging's an honour.

Laptop bag- anything small needed every gig in front pocket like pedal leads and ear plugs. Next pocket- stuff for repairs and batteries- main compartment, onstage leads and strap in front, speaker leads and iec lead in back- last compartment, amp and pedals. I realised the pedals were going to scratch my head so they live in old socks. Grey one for the tuner, it's boring, and a Lewis Hamilton sock for octave, it's more exciting. The rest of my life is chaos!

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[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1410002856' post='2545290'] I use spit (preferably mine), a J cloth and my thumb nail to de-gunk, then lemon oil. [/quote] Might have just given people a decent excuse for a discount should you sell on this forum!

Very nice!

I arrange the songs, which I then I try to teach it to the other 7 in between acres of bad taste jokes and gallows humour courtesy of the medical professionals and traffic policeman drummer. Have to be hard of hearing and strong of stomach to be in our band!

With or without you - U2 Not just root note quavers, but the second most uninspired chord change (after a 12 bar of course) all the way through. I actually don't mind it either!

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1409688111' post='2542312'] I don't think you need to be thinking about having the enough volume to overpower the drums.You need enough to be balanced with the band as a whole, not to overpower anyone. Also, if you do get to play big concerts you shouldnt have to reevaluate your rig, because in those situations you'll always have PA support. I've played some pretty big gigs with my Ashdown MiBass rig which is either a 550 or 240 watt head and one or two 1x12 cabs.Its got plenty of volume to be able to play smaller venues with no support, and has tone for days. I know you're against Ashdown, but I can honestly say that it blows away my old Hartke rig (HA3500, HA4000, 4x10, 2x10) in every way. Personally, I'd be more concerned about you saying that you won't be ready to gig for 6 months. [/quote] A hearty thumbs up to this. One guy I play for has a tidy knack of booking pretty sweet gigs and I just stick with the same 500w amp and two 112s. When the pa has bass cabs taller than you are having a 810 etc doesn't really come into it. Interestingly we did a festival last year (lechlade) and I had to use an ampeg 610, couldn't hear myself anywhere I went onstage whilst it was the only time the rest if the band moaned about me being too loud. Apart from the saxophonist, any bass player would too loud for him if they weren't tickling a brontosaurus violin un amplified!

Have it! Forget locking in with the drummer, he is drummer!!

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1409586710' post='2541204'] Ah you mean the gooch! [/quote]

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1409586710' post='2541204'] Ah you mean the gooch! [/quote] Or boffer's bridge.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1408730224' post='2533065'] I really don't understand the logic of this pay to play culture, so they want you to bring your own crowd to an otherwise empty London Pub......what exposure is that giving the band...it's already your crowd they've seen you before (without paying for a ticket and travel to London) so who else are you playing to? We played the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town many years back, we brought about 20 People, the band that played before us brought about 20 people who all left as soon as their mates finished, our crowd all got back on the minibuses as soon as we finished leaving the headline band playing to the 20 people they brought along....not a lot of exposure really for a long day out traveling to London to play some grotty empty dive! [/quote] You must have been supported by the same band as us, exactly the same thing happened! My old band used to do the whole London thing a lot (before social media)How a promoter expected you to build your audience when the bill would be one band from Manchester, one from Norfolk and one from the West Country, I have no idea.

Good music and good times are exactly that. Keep playing if that's what you feel.

Planning a bitsa bass project sometime soon, and have been a while. So I've been laying the ground work over the past few years since i upgraded my amp with," I can't believe how much more work I'm getting since I got my amp", "getting paid much better for these gigs since I bought my amp, it must have paid for itself many times over" type comments for ages now. Might work....!

It's funny it's ok to video a concert but by my reckoning most would frown upon videoing a theatre performance of a musical or play. Despite the obvious copyright issues etc. PF is fine in my book to have a say in the quality of product he produces that the public has access to. People who video gigs just to put on YouTube fit in the same bracket as those who by m sport badges to put on any old BMW......

The only example of her work I know is the rather un festive Merry Christmas but I think I'll give this one a miss this year, but Tracy Wormworth from the waitresses rinses the bass part. Definitely a bonus at that rather fallow musical season.

A producer I manage to blag the occasional session with has worked for Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash and John Martyn amongst many others. Pretty intimidating but lots of great anecdotes. I also did a festival the other day and the engineer was very kind and helpful, paid the band some compliments, I gave it the old 'Well you can't make chicken soup out if chicken shi* can you?' To which he looked mildly bemused. Turns out he did the sound for the Olympic opening ceremony- doesn't need small fry making wise cracks then!

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1406203344' post='2509264'] I recently bought a G&L M-2000 (Tribute) and its fantastic. Really versatile. [/quote] This or any l 2000/2500 bass. Tributes are great, the American basses are killer. Why G&L aren't more common than stingrays is beyond me!

Understand Duck Dunn was a genius. And wear a hat onstage if your wife who has small hands and sings in the band says so.