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I wonder whether the “professional karaoke” singers are now doing the same to pub bands. Play in clubs and pubs where bands, trios and above, are featured once a month with the other 3/4 Saturdays being “solo singers”. it may also add to the death of good singers in bands these days. Why work with a bunch of musicians who steal your fee? Backing tracks don’t need weeks to learn a new song, don’t fall out and do not want a say in the set list. They charge £125-150 and we, as a four piece, struggle to get £300 between us. However that £150 difference is a lot of wet stock to sell for the landlord.

I mean I genuinely don't understand this sort of a thing... why are you here then, a topic dedicated to this? 😁 To give you an example, I don't care about metal bass or the genre... to me personally it sounds and feels like nothing, so... I don't read metal bass topics, or comment on them, saying I have no interest in this and to me it all sounds like metallic farts. You don't care about the fake outrage... again, why are you here, just to position yourself above other people with some holier than thou opinion? It's not like we open a new topic every time a half-entertaining Sapko video comes up. 😁 "Creating instead of spending time outraging" is hardly a convincing opinion when one then drops a "I don't care but I'm still here commenting" line... or can that be considered part of the creative process? Will all this be in the lyrics of their new catchy song? 😁 Also, what outrage? It's a 5 min video people don't even watch till the end, it's not like the outrage is stopping generations of content and music being dropped, this is something I'd watch on the loo 😁 I just found it funny someone is actually trying to sell guitar courses with a million-view cameltoe spread. I think shit like this should be called out indeed, there should be evidence videos of it indeed, we should have a laugh at these videos and the fools if they entertain us, then we should move on. We should not "outrage" or tell other people what they should be spending their free time on. If not interested in a specific topic: there are many many many other topics and forums where you can be the contrarian just as easily 😂. Welcome to the internet. Absolutely no hard feelings, but I honestly don't understand when someone comes to a topic that's ACTUALLY about a topic and just shits on the ongoing stuff. Well good on ya. I am here because these silly videos entertain me.

If you're at all familiar with Milehouse Studios on You Tube, he uses Frtlzr (aka Fret-a-lizer). While the system is now a sponsored supporter within the videos, he was using the stuff for quite a while before they came on board. https://www.frtlzr.com

That’s just two reasons why wedding bands get paid more money than pub bands though? I spent around 15 years in a pro function band and played probably thousands of weddings in that time. My band would usually play 4 sets throughout the day, starting with a walkabout jazz set when guests arrived, then some cool stuff during the wedding breakfast, followed by two evening sets to get them all dancing. This would mean we’d often have to arrive around noon / early afternoon and finish maybe 12 hours later. All this after maybe a 2 or 3 hour drive to the venue. Factor in hotel managers who saw the band as an annoyance / wedding planners who had no idea how long it took for an 8 piece band to set up / learning first dance tunes for the bride and groom / drunk guests etc etc, then it made the difference between us and pub bands very apparent. In the mid / late 90’s we would get £250 /£300 each, often more for longer sets / far away gigs etc. We certainly earned it , and could see why pub bands wanted to get in on the action. They would seem financially more attractive, undercutting us by a large margin etc. and we did lose some of the lower end of our business to them. However by then our reputation had grown so the bulk of our work remained intact. Scroll on a few years though as finances got squeezed everywhere , pub bands benefitted from this and pure function bands started to suffer. Our band’s work got hit quite badly, so I eventually jumped ship into the rising tribute / theatre band world, and never regretted it. 2 x 1 hour sets, my own dressing room, no lugging gear into damp marquees, start playing 7.30pm and done by 10pm, pro sound engineers / PA, what’s not to like….😁

Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp

...whoever posts and reads the topic purely dedicated to this sort of thing? 😁 NOT you obviously 😁

Fralins etc are reassuringly expensive but despite being almost alarmingly the opposite, the Toneriders are very decent PUPs

Or she's been telling it to someone else 😂😂😜 Dave

I returned the Yamaha to Mike last week after using it for a couple of months - absolutely can't think him enough. I was pleased to upgrade the loom for him with a KigOn loom as a thank you - Mike, I hope you enjoy the VBT layout a bit more than the previous setup. Cheers!!!

That was down to the venue. Band name did appear every now and again and was showing before we started. I do like a screen backdrop. Dave

I’ve been on a search myself over the last year for a compact, sturdy stand for when I fly with my bass. The best I have found, that doesn’t wobble is the Hercules Travelite. It folds flat & I can fit it in the front pocket of my Gator Pro gig bag, I’ve used it at a couple of festivals & it impressed me that much that it now lives in the bottom of my Pelicase as a spare emergency stand on most of my regular gigs or if I’m travelling light.. It even supports Jazz bass bodies as there is enough back/body support, if you move the bass ‘off centre’?

Not sure about the Jazzes but the Precision ones are very much like the Fender Custom Shop 62s, maybe the Jazzes follow suit?

I only bought one thing this year (see above) and unwittingly assisted lee650 by doing so. (. 👍) Having bought exactly nothing in 15 years I feel pretty good about my mean abstinence rate when factored in over a lifetime. That one purchase was therefore a statistical blip and not significant in statistical terms. I therefore feel a prince Andrew style entitlement to reinstatement (despite the actual facts) - strange parallel there 🧐

You’re fitting in very well 👍

I buy mine from here, excellent quality https://blackcountryboxes.co.uk/products/bass-guitar-shipping-box

This ^ And the outrage - and therefore this thread - is all part of the marketing, the only thing worse than being talked about ……

The Pain Will Be Exquisite - Aborted

Hi, If you have a look at the thread I started a few weeks back there's some great suggestions. I've had quite a lot of stands and the best one was my Ultimate which was nicked from a gig. The floor ones I don't trust as I had a bouzouki fall off on stage. Like a bass it has a long neck. I find the Hercules too bulky as with all of those with a grabber neck. The Ultimate was the best compromise between safety and folding compact. This one: https://amzn.eu/d/buVLt2S It shows the stand folded up