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That looked awesome!

If I drank at gigs I'd be all over the place, much too old for that now! However, the singer really reacts well with the audience after he's had a few. He engages with them more than any other frontman I've been in a band with and gets them on our side so to speak.

A good Precision is calling me...

It's a TM4. What I was finding was that when playing certain areas of the fingerboard above the 7th fret the sound dies, just no guts to it. The bass is set up well with no dead spots, choking or buzzing. But I'm finding it thin sounding. Amp was set with the low mids boosted and the VLE/VPF set at around 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock and if I'd have turned up it would have been overpowering everything else. It's a pretty gutsy little combo to be fair but it seems that the bass is lacking somehow.

Last nights gig was delayed due to a game of football so we didn't start until 9:45. We sat in an empty room until the match finished where about a dozen or so came in from the bar area. The few that were there enjoyed it, pretty drunk by then I'd guess, singer dose not drive to gigs so he was well oiled too. But he dose a great job engaging with them and will take himself and his radio mic over to them and get them involved. He was loving it, I hated every moment. I struggled with the drummer who was all over the place and a guitarist who I'm sure was at another gig. I made plenty of mistakes too it must be said but it's hard not to under the circumstances. I used a 1x12 Markbass combo on its own and it preformed brilliantly with plenty of power but I was unhappy with my Sandberg as I just couldn't get the right sound out of it, great in some areas and completely lost in others so need to do some work with that. So a successful gig according to the singer and the venue who have rebooked us but from my point of view, effin' awful! But both myself and the guitarist agree that a lot of work needs doing and this shambles has to improve.

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That was one gig to forget and move on! A regular venue where we've had some really good gigs in the past. Always a good crowd and decent sound, but not tonight. They have made a stage area which dose look smart but it's buggered up the sound good 'n proper. Bass sounded horrible just boom and more boom. Spent the gig fiddling with EQs and repositioning the cab but it made little difference. I used the Sandberg in the second set which sounded better but still not brilliant. Not so many in tonight which added to the pain. Some were enjoying it but it seemed a long hard slog with plenty of mistakes thrown in as well. It's only the second time we've played with our new (and old) guitarist. He left the band earlier in the year but agreed to come back when his replacement has other music commitments. It's all a long and complicated story! So mistakes were to be expected as the set has changed quite a lot since his departure. So overall a pretty crap gig but we know what songs to practice and focus on the next gig in a couple of weeks time. Here's a pic of two basses, an amp and a cab.

My run of bad luck with basses continues. My recently acquired Sandberg California wasn't going to play ball. It was fine a week or so ago when I gave it a good testing at home upon arrival, very happy indeed. Put it back in its gig bag until tonights practice. I was really looking forward to properly using this bass with the band and planing to use it at Saturdays gig but it was not to be. The input socket was not going to accept any lead I tried so something is obviously broken and a new socket is probably needed. So I had to drive back home and get a replacement bass, my old Gibson Ripper. Rehearsal going well until I had sudden overwhelming pain in my knackered right foot which left me hopping about and swearing like a drunken trooper! I can only imagine how funny this is going to look should these pain spasms return whilst gigging this coming Saturday!