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Soggy Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Reg Dwight

Odd - also on a macbook pro with safari, when I select next page it scrolls up to the paging bar, so below the header and above all the posts

Yeah the XPND only thing I don’t love about it is not a lot of space underneath.

… I think so bud. Great idea tbh.

Saturday was a surprise 50th birthday party, in the upstairs function room at Starr Sports, Canvey Island. The birthday boy’s wife booked us months ago after seeing us severaral times, including another party in the same venue. Apparently he is a huge back to the future fan, so they had an “enchantment under the sea” theme, including decorations, and we offered to include a couple of songs from the film in out set, as well as a couple more when Liam, one of our co-lead singers was also going to man the DJ booth. I say ‘was’, because we got a message Saturday morning on our band group chat to say that his ME was playing up quite badly which took him out of action. This meant revising the set list for Jenny, the other lead singer to do the gig on her own - something she hasn’t done for a some time, particularly this sort of gig - as there are a few songs she simply can’t pull off. There was also a few in the set that she doesn’t usually sing or hasn’t sung lead on them before, but was confident she could. I realised this also meant I was going to need to up my backing vocals game, and sing some parts I don’t usually sing… which is fun! This also meant the DJ service was said we would provide before, between and after sets wasn’t going to happen either. Luckily, I have some party playlists already set up in the Music app on my iPad (aka iTunes) that would get us out of trouble. I just had to find a couple of extra songs from the BTTF soundtrack to play at certain predefined points during the evening. I needn’t have worried though. The evening went without a hitch. Jenny did an amazing job on her own. I feel she sometimes relies on Liam’s confidence to interacti with the audience, but it seems to have rubbed off on her. This venue also has a lovely big stage area and she made the most of it (as did I), confidently moving around and interacting with everyone. My curated playlists worked fine (thank goodness for Bluetooth on our mixer), although I realised that I can't switch to BandHelper whilst playing music. That's a mistake I won't make again! I also realised during our first set that I hadhn't synced BandHelper before I left home. So I connected it to my iPhone whilst it was playing music towards the end our break so that it would sync when I switched back to BandHelper, not realising that a FB messenger notification would pop up... loudly, through the PA system. Another mistake I won't make again! Ooh, one last thing, as this stage is so wide, last time we played there I noticed the speakers being so far apart, meant the drums didn't quite gel. So I asked one of the guitarists to being their DXR10 speaker to use as a centre fill. Sat it on top of the sub, plugged it into an aux out of the mixer, with the same mix as the main, and set to post fader. Dead easy, and sounded great. Definitely made a positive difference. So all in all, a good night after, despite the anxiety of being a man down.

Baggy trousers. The nutty boys

There was a similar hoax recently about Black Sabbath reforming to do yet another farewell concert (supposedly this time they really meant it...allegedly), at Villa Park in July. I knew it couldn't be true because they already said their definitive goodbyes (again) in 2017 and sold tickets on that basis. Also, Ozzy probably can't get to the toilet unaided nowadays, let alone make it through a gig. Even if it was true I'm sure Age Concern would alert social services to such flagrant elder-abuse and it wouldn't be allowed to go ahead.

Maybe this is by design, but ive just noticed that when I get to the bottom of a page, and click on next page button, the new page needs a bit of scrolling up to see the first few threads. Im on a MacBook Pro using Safari.

Maybe the last time (I no longer have a Soundcloud account...), so make the most of it... Andy's offering...

Great shout Dan. I called the bass gallery this week but they stated they don’t work with barefaced anymore nor do they have any in stock atm. Didn’t have any compact cabs during the time.

Not guilty your honour 😄

The d’adarrio one?

First time y'all haven't done it for ages!

Would bring a whole new meaning to the term "tone wood".

Recently ive been making use of Logic Pro's stem splitter (other programs/apps can also do this). My first point of call is usually Youtube to get and idea of how it goes. I get the track in to Logic, and then I separate the bass line from the rest of the track, and can then Solo it or mute it so I can play along with the track using my bass line.

Looks like you bgot a real bargain there. It doesn't look like it's a bolt neck from the pics, so it could possibly be a US built one.