I’m not going to be at my regular church this morning but playing and preaching at St Theo’s. However, I decided I would still head over for the band rehearsal this evening to support the team (and also because we were planning on looking at a couple of new songs). Someone else will be playing bass on Sunday; I was going to take my electric guitar but since they couldn’t make it, decided to take my four string bass rather than the six string bass I normally use there.

The downside was that, until I got to the church and started unpacking, I forgot that the amp head I normally bring to pair with the speaker I keep there was in the front pocket of that other bass. D’oh!

Fortunately Sunday’s bassist is our regular lead guitarist and without that extra instrument in the mix, it was quiet enough for me (and others) to hear what was needed just through the main sound system. It isn’t that he plays massively loudly but it is a whole extra layer of often quite dense sound. Kind of quiet is fine, as long as there isn’t too much other sound to mask it out.