15w don't cut it in my band...

[Jipes***]

Just my two cents on that subject, I play since almost ten years in a Soul Rythm'n Blues Band with a big horn section and we are covering mainly Stax records and some more modern artists( Angie Stone, Joss Stone, Sharon Jones etc...) I played two amps during that period one Fender Concert Amp, very nice clean sound with the great and deep tremolo and a Laney LC15 very British amp being quite loud and bright. The amp which does the better job to "cut trough" the mix win a Ten piece band (5 horns + keyboard,drums & Bass) was the Laney.

The Concert sounds really good but with the bass frequencies it usually mix too much with the Organ sounds of our keyboard player and get on the feet of the Baritone sax. The Laney is more harsh sounding but with my Telecaster it sounds just great for the rythmn' thing

[NWBasser]

Just my two cents on that subject, I play since almost ten years in a Soul Rythm'n Blues Band with a big horn section and we are covering mainly Stax records and some more modern artists( Angie Stone, Joss Stone, Sharon Jones etc...) I played two amps during that period one Fender Concert Amp, very nice clean sound with the great and deep tremolo and a Laney LC15 very British amp being quite loud and bright. The amp which does the better job to "cut trough" the mix win a Ten piece band (5 horns + keyboard,drums & Bass) was the Laney.

The Concert sounds really good but with the bass frequencies it usually mix too much with the Organ sounds of our keyboard player and get on the feet of the Baritone sax. The Laney is more harsh sounding but with my Telecaster it sounds just great for the rythmn' thing

All too true. Often, a super bright tone works well in a band context, but sounds awful on its own. When you play with a band, there is a bass guitar to cover the lower frequencies and so you don't really need much bottom-end.

As a bass player, I like to play with guys using bright tele's and strats.

As a guitar player, I really like a deep crunching Les Paul. But, I don't play guitar in a band context either.