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Ooh "May Contain Blondie" that could be a band name

My new project is a covers band that only play female led songs. I got so bored playing Sex On Fire and Mr Brightside when there were just so many other songs equally iconic which almost nobody was doing. Why have a female singer if all you play is 70's male fronted rock plus a couple of 25 year old bangers to show you aren't really 70 years old? Anywaty after the first couple of gigs together we discovered that our drummers idol was Clem Burke and one thing led to another and we decided to look at including a Tribute to Blondie into our set. The boot was suddenly on the other foot. I'd been pressuring (gently I hope) the new guitarist and drummer to learn our existing set but now I had to learn a dozen Blondie songs. I'm struggling with a couple but I'm absolutely loving it. I'm thinking tributes might be a thing for me. Looking at a set of songs with the same bassist you find they re-use certain tricks and play in a certain way. It's a real education. These Blondie songs have such tighly written bass lines, there's usually a trademark key change but the fills aren't just fills they usually take you somewhere and it's all thought out or at least worked out. Whether that's Harrison or Chapman I don't know but for me its a real discipline learning a song from start to finish note for note. Picture This is a little bass gem four verses all start the same with some interesting bits of timing but then there are four different 'turnarounds' each with different chords and with a varying number of bars. I hadn't realised this project would be so much fun. I'm just hoping the audiences respond. We aren't planning on going the whole tribute band route just offering a Blondie and Friends set alongside our Female Anthems set but I'm loving being made to learn songs properly. Respect For Nigel Harrison too.

Don't go beyond 12 0'clock, there be dragons...

Expression pedal, whether analogue or rotary encoder, suggests that rotary controls are possible.

Any users of the Orange OBC112 cab can vouch for their sound quality I’ve read they suffer from vibration at loud volumes ?

Fender, (when it was Fender), researched into this many years ago and concluded that if you want to eliminate the dead spot, eliminated the headstock. Then change to a composite neck.

Not sure what you mean. You can do long presses, short presses, double presses and double switch presses and other stuff. The time needed for a double press is use configurable as are a lot of things that I have zero idea about. Everything appears to be adjustable in the web interface. There are so many options I kinda got lost in the interface. I haven't even tried to actually connect it to anything yet as I ran out of time last night. It seems to support Midi over USB, WiFi, apples network midi, Bluetooth BLE and other stuff. It seems to support expression pedals as well. You might have guessed by now I am no expert. I have some more foot switches coming and an expression pedal so will build a second one.

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I am impressed, as it is "just" foot switches, I assume there is no way of adjusting values by MIDI?

My session (four days ago), was good. It was nice to just be creating after a period of not really playing so much because of health/hand related issues. Hopefully back in on Wednesday.

Bugger just had a gig come in for the 20th.Happy to weigh in with the promised fee to support proceedings . What timing are you thinking ?

Please don't do that, it might increase the value to $100K, I'm still saving up to get to the $50K he wants.

In my home studio putting the finishing touches to the drum programming for another new song. We now have 5 new songs to work on for when we are next back in the rehearsal room.

Doh! I do apologise! Ive got this thread confused with the Birmingham bass show! I can’t make this as mentioned above, I’ll get my coat now! Enjoy everyone 👍

light my fire - The Doors