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So as recently married person i've been struggling a bit to adjust to playing with my wedding ring on ... in fairness it's a pretty chunky affair stylistically ( no fancy gemstones ) just Big ole silver with engraving. Most of my bandmates are married too , The answer from both girls was ... move the ring to your pick hand .... which i've been doing , but for gigs i'd be terrified it would fling off , my solution so far has been an eggcup on my desk I'd lose my head if it wasnt attached So asking the wider community ... who plays with rings ... left right , wedding fashion ... should i just try to adjust ? Am i being foolish ?

I hope that's not serious, Richard. I'll be coming from Nottingham, so 10.30's more like it for me.

I know. Right up the dusty end... Because it's a 5er I often anchor myself from the C on fret 8 of the 4th string up to the C on the 10th fret of the 2nd string, especially as I'm learning to sight read at the moment and it's a key position to work at.

Defibrilator.

Decided against the Battalion in favour of the trusty zoom B3 for the looper, drum machine, headphones out etc Train goes Tuner- Noise Gate - Comp - OD - Drop - Zoom B3

Just took a look at this on YouTube, much more complex than I would have thought given the pop-factor of the band. Think this will be added to my list of songs to do.

Just put an album on that I've had since it came out when I was 16 - 9 Below Zero Live at The Marquee. Blimey, they had some energy!

He’s playing up at the 10th fret! Burn the witch! 🤣

We added a verse to give it a more cohesive feel. I always found the shortened 1st octave section out of the solo tricky to feel (IIRC it was a 6 count as opposed to an 8).

Yep look dead to me lol CPR ?

Their engineers are superb as well, bands usually sound at their best on KEXP. The Mannequin Pussy set sounds incredible, better than the studio albums.

Oh man I am loving this.

That was the guy from Row of Ashes. He was running a Stingray through it.

I was listening to this (with headphones), a fb friend posted this. And here it is again. KEXP plays some eclectic stuff.

ChatGPT -> can you put this in English for the hard of understanding please?

Turn up with the lot and we'll do a Doors jam with the organ. LA Woman is great Hows your leg by the way? Rob

I have tried to put together a rig that helps a good sound engineer get the bass done in the soundcheck as quickly as possible. I also try to make it as idiot proof as possible, to make it difficult for a not very good engineer to f*** things up! Bear in mind that most venues aren't so bad that you have to do more than minor tweaks, assuming that you have realistic EQ settings to start with. I also use a gramma pad when feasible (i.e. 95% of gigs) and I have a HPF at the front of my signal chain. I rarely get any problems these day and any tweaks needed for the room tend to be pretty minor ones.

My 80s band had a go at Atomic and I found those runs harder than the bass solo. ISRT it was slightly easier on the five-string but it was still a toughie. We ditched it after we couldn't agree on the structure. The 7" version seemed a bit short, the full-length one just went on and on and on, and we couldn't find a happy medium.