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Body finished with Cosmoslac rattle cans, never used it before so was a bit of an experiment - so far so good

The drummer in the covers band I play in does the between-song banter. Over the years it's become an integral part of the show because he's genuinely funny and the audience responds well to it. Sometimes it's so funny I have to really focus on the intro to the song rather than his chat. None of it is scripted, it's always different, it works. I'm not a fan of the chat between songs generally, I like a bare minimum, head down, play songs, thankyouverymuchgoodnight but in this band with that specific guy, it's magic. When I'm editing the live show recordings, I trim out the chat where I can but it always makes me laugh out loud when I'm editing it especially if I catch something I missed on the night. So, to answer the OP question. It depends. Sorry.

Mohini is the real deal. Absolute monster player, and she can do a lot more than just flashy Youtube-oriented onanism. She's in Willow Smith's band and they do some very interesting stuff - Willow has obviously moved on significantly from "Whip My Hair". And her other band, DarWin, are pretty bloody good as well, if you like melodic prog rock.

Ellen is great. I subscribe to her YouTube channel. I also subscribe to the SBL channel and have seen the Mohini Dey video and was seriously blown away by her.

Thanks for all the replies. I’ve solved it now with a very technical process known as ‘pushing it in all the way’ 🙄. In my defence the jack input on the new guitar seems a bit more snug. Also, I am a moron.

Nope, it's for 4 strings Musicman basses, not regular fivers. 😉

Given the topic title I thought this belonged here as well as it is what I thought when I watched this - some people are just born to play!

That was excellent 😁

Our singer/guitarist handles the announcements but we all chip in, off mic, when we are inspired. Usually for the purposes of urine extraction.

What a legend, RIP

So once you have made a set of tones you want to use with this amp, do you need bluetooth or a footswitch to access them? Can you access a range of presets without those things, or does it have (I assume it doesn't) midi in any way to switch?

Sounds like the sort of thing all kids should be exposed to!

Well spotted... ...or not!

The guitarist/singer in a former band got very sweary in his intersong patter. Not sure whether the drummer was intending to leave anyway, but he did, and the band broke up - story in the acrimonious band break-ups thread. In another former band, the singer (only a teenager) was very poor at stage patter so we wrote scripts for her. She didn't exactly deliver them fluently, but it was something. I saw another band of teenagers who also had a script. At one point, the singer said "Oh. Our guitarist has broken a string" at which point the guitarist put his still perfectly strung guitar on a stand and picked up his other guitar. Yet another former band had a Scottish guitarist/singer who would do intersong patter in an impenetrable mumble, from which the drummer and I had to try and work out what the next song was ("Hurble wurble wurble hoo hay, ha ha ha"), before the guitarist started and we joined in (no drummer count ins). At least the set list was mostly constant although songs occasionally got omitted.

I seem to have inherited the duties yet again for my most recent band (and for the previous band I set up and ran for 15 years). This was because none of the front persons felt comfortable doing it (ones a teacher so no problem speaking to large groups!) As @lowregisterhead says having some sort of interaction with the audience is part of the show however I tend to keep my waffle to a minimum because: 1) Very few people can hear what most between song chat is about. I find most people mumble into the mic as well. 2) Very few people care what most between song chat is about unless its "the buffet is open" or "last orders". 3) We are more of a party band than introverted singer songwriter that tells what has inspired them....also see 1 and 2 above 🤣 4) I try and keep any comments to be about the music / event / venue and away from politics, religion, football or any controvesy for obvious reasons. This usually reduces the chance of a dispute over things said. Our setlist is grouped into 4 or 5 songs which we play close together. A very short break between groupings is then used for changing guitars / settings etc whilst I introduce the band / thank people for coming / social media stuff / random fact about a song / thank dancers & staff etc. I have notes on my setlist for these sort of comments & the venue name etc. All very regular stuff which if you think about it and write yourself appropriate notes beforehand makes the job easier. The more you do it the more you can come off script and ad-lib / interact with the audience.

I just received the regular newsletter email from rguitars.co.uk. I think it's safe to say that Richard is slightly optimistic with this... He's promoting G&L being back in stock. Hmmm.

I’ve played that venue. It was rather good IIRC.