Live performances are not common among this group, as a matter of fact. It would be nice to see more, but the fact remains, they’re a rarity.
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the covid era doesn’t help, I guess
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american music festival in Shin Koiwa Park Tokyo…we were down the lead guitar but called up a mandolin player, rearranged some songs, were able to pull off a nice set.
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Thank you, we were minus a guitarist so I had to play more than the root and root/fifth that seemed to be on the recording trying to fill it up. It was great just being there at all. First bass gig over and done.
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Nice!
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Thanks Brian, we had a blast. Carried nothing to the show but the bass, a tuner and a cord. Good weather, fantastic eats, and a 30 min set of music. Kind of felt like old times but the strings were a lot bigger…LOL
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Sire M2, the amp they supplied was a 600 watt TC Electronic which is the big brother to what I have. I’m pretty sure the cabinet was a guitar cabinet but it more than did the job and I definitely wasn’t working it hard.
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Great cover, @terb - I enjoyed that a lot.
Funny story - for a couple years, my kid went to the same school as Ian MacKaye’s kid. I would sometimes see him around the playground, wearing his red beanie. 
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Nice cover ! Really clean notes. You know, this is the first video that’s made me think of buying a Fender.
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I bring you the chugtastic Big Fat Mama by Status Quo, off their classic 1972 album Piledriver. This total chugathon is a serious workout for the right hand, mixing some tricky sections with some full on chugging. It’s really a gem from the old Quo - before they started playing old folks’ homes.
OK I’m no Alan Lancaster but I’m pretty happy with the result 
. I recorded it using the Zoom B1X four with the Bassman emulator. I also did a little production - added compression (4:1 ratio; -12dB) and used the graphic eq in Audacity to reduce the 100 hz band (my bass was quite boomy).
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Thanks man 
70’s Quo was definitely not the Quo of the 90s and beyond …
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Saw them live many times in the 80s but Margarita Time was certainly a turn in the wrong direction
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Oh that must have been a night out! They had such a solid song list at that time …
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Thanks @Ed ,
The black P-bass is a 79 i purchased in New Orleans in 1994.
It has EB slinky flats on it.
It did have a slight bow in the neck a few years ago, i had it redressed and now its a little thinner ín the neck and a lot brighter in tone than my other P-basses
I have probably done more covers with it than any of my other basses, its just a really nice bass to play.
Cheers Brian
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It certainly was a good night out and they definitely put on a show and a half.
The sound of Rick Parfitt cranking out the opening bars of Sweet Caroline at about 1 1/2 times the speed of the record version is forever etched in my brain
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