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Monet Monet Monet - ABBA

hope the NW is good mate I feel the 2EQ as boost boost

Thats not just what would happen in relatively poor northern towns. Here in this middle class south West town the same would happen except little Jemima and Sebastian will be expecting Percy Pigs instead of Haribo.

£360 ish for the V1 and £520 for the Jensen DI V2 plus a bit of duty. It’s an epic pedal, I think the circuit comes from C2C Electronics and they build a full pedal too about $450 plus duty if I remember. The Rev adds a little spin to stuff and it’s spectacular. If you’re close to me you’re welcome to come and try.

René And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War - Paul Simon

It was the 90s man. I quite fancied one at the time ☺️

https://www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp-2/sansamp-programmable-bass-driver-elite/

Looks good and nearer to the original I think I paid £40 for the Gotoh

Not sure I'd be that worried about the orientation but what's with the old style badging? Not that it isn't a cool logo, mind... EDIT: I've read the full article now. Didn't know they offered that service. I wonder if 'd be up for sending me a new logo. I've got one of each and wouldn't mind an matching...

Turn turn Turner - Byrds

I plan on going into it super positive and staying there. I just hope we're a match for the room. Daryl

Why's that then? Because you want to pretend that situation didn't happen and people like that don't exist? It did, they do, and there's lots of them. I make no apologies for noticing. Don't take it out on me just because it doesn't fit with what you like to think certain people are like, or your patronising ideas of how they should be portrayed. You should bin your own self-righteous indignation and virtue signalling.

No worries there for the drummer, listen through once, maybe twice, and it's down 'pat'. Easy peasy.

Dirty Roses: Summer of 69. Not an intentional structure change, it's just that despite us having done it for several years, the drummer still can't sort out a fill for the end of the middle 8. TBH, we really ought to drop it. Tainted Love. Just an ending that works for us. Twist and Shout/La Bamba. We just do it as a medley at the end of the night, it's generally fairly random where we switch from one to the other and where the lead breaks come. Paranoid. No structure change, it's just that I think I only play about 90% of the notes because my fingers don't work fast enough. I'd love to drop it. I think that's it. Bonnevilles: Born on the Bayou. Not sure if we've done a structure change or not, haven't listened to the original since we rehearsed it earlier and worked out what we would do. Off the top of my head, that's it. It's not just cover bands who change structures, if you have a listen to the original "Don't you forget about me" off Glittering Prize and compare it to the live version on Live in the City of Light, there's quite a major restructure. And then try and find a Youtube video where Simple Minds play it the same as they do on that live album, rather than yet another way. And I really don't know why it happens. I know the guitarist in the Bonnevilles has commented on how I play Sweet Child O' Mine because I play it as per record with the correct hold of two bars on the A at the end of the Em C B A bit, as does everyone else I've played it with, but another band that he plays with does it some different length (stuff that, I'm playing it the right length!). So once a mistake has established itself, it's often difficult to extract it.

My current covers band and previous covers band made changes to songs that I don't really understand and I don't know the origins of. I'm not talking key changes or replacing a sax solo with a guitar part, I'm talking about structural changes. These changes include chord sequence changes, complete rewrites of sections, changing the way a song ends, changing the intro, etc Now, these aren't avant guarde bands, or artists doing reinterpretations. They're pub/club/function/festival covers bands. Some of it is so subtle it hardly seems worth it, some of it is just plain wrong, some of it seems like someone was just trying to be creative and add their own twist. I'm yet to come across one that is either an improvement or that is easier to reproduce than what is on the original. This must be a more common occurrence than I previously thought. I can't really remember dealing with it in the past. What's your experience of this sort of thing? A few I've experienced recently to get the ball rolling: 1. Mr Blue Sky (reprise at the end). Instead of 12 bars of Db then C then B etc there's a completely different ending that uses G A Bb with a riff. 2. Long Train Running. It goes G///|G///|Eb///|Eb/D/| at the end of the verses instead of G///|G///|Eb///|D///| I have to concentrate to not play it like the Doobies. 3. Message in a Bottle. Has a different ending that you'd never guess. 4. Other songs: the chord sequence for the guitar solo is simplified. I see some logic but knowing the skills of the guitarists, I just can't see why they needed it simplifying.

Bonnevilles rehearsal, went over two new songs - Confidence Man (Jeff Healey Band) and Born on the Bayou (Creedence). Unfortunately the drummer was a bit behind as he'd been listening to Born on the Bayou and some other Creedence track because he hadn't spotted who Confidence Man was by and had found a CCR track that had a name vaguely similar to Confidence Man. Still, we managed to go through both songs a few times and work out how we were going to play them (I might have a listen back to the originals to see how close we are). Plus I've suggested another couple of old ones, Shaking all over and Summertime blues, although I would like to do them like The Who did them rather than the more pedestrian originals.

Bendricks Rock tonight. After yesterday's excellent gig we focused on four new tunes. Another Girl Another Planet London Calling Alive Kelly's Heroes That last one wasn't very familiar for me, but is great to play - some subtleties and a wee bass solo. Overall four banging tunes, we're just angsting over what to drop.

British Legion/Ex-servicemens clubs are a mainstay of local music these days, many are open to all.