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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.

Hexs in the bath in case Pure Cremation pop round with a flamethrower .

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Only if the would-be purchaser doesn't then buy a different instrument, and the factory only makes that component for a USA manufacturer and can't change to making another (or the same) component for another manufacturer.

Excellent, haven't seen Robin since my last Midlands bash - pre-covid!

you'll find that speakers sound very different up on poles. any hard reflective surface will reinforce the bass frequencies in particular and you'll get an extra 6db for each reflective surface. Spacing something away from a surface creates two paths to the ear and you'll get a time delay between the reflected sound and th direct sound from the speaker. That creates points in the frequency response where you get cancellation. I use the same speakers up on poles as PA and on the ground as floor monitors with one of my bands and DI the same bass signal into both. I don't use backline. I have to cut the bass to the monitors by at least 6db or the bass frequencies just drown out everything else on stage, the same signal is crystal clear out in front of the stage. Whether that bass reinforcement is good depends upon what you want to achieve/like. The 8" cab you've built gained a lot of love sitting on the floor but you can experiment with it on a pole. The best stand of course might be your other 8. maybe a stack of four would sound good I've used my 6" cab for open mics. It doesn't have the bass of the 8" cab so I tend to find a corner or a rear wall for it so I can use the bass reinforcement. It's good to experiment and you can learn to use the reinforcement as an extra tool.it's free bass boost if you need boost. A real nuisance if you don't.

When a man is tired of buying basses, he is tired of life.

Last Wednesday was my first rehearsal with the covers band I joined recently. They've been busy gigging for over 15 years and are keen to get me integrated. We went to Firebird Studios in Bristol, which I think is top notch. It's very well appointed. We got through 20 songs and other than a couple of bits where they deviate from the original recordings, I felt that we were pretty much giggable. A great bunch that have really welcomed me and gave me free reign to run the rehearsal as I wanted. They feel that as I'm new to the band but definitely not new to bands, that the best way was for me to drive the bus. I started us off with some easier songs to get warmed up then did what I considered to be the ones that might have needed some detailed attention and then went on to some of the more fun ones to play so that we would end on a high. Other than having to restart one song because I inadvertently trod on my FX power supply and disconnected it, everything went smoothly. We're back in this week doing the rest of the set and running through a few that are new to them too, so I'm really looking forward to us all being in the same boat from that respect rather than me playing catch up. Recording the rehearsal seemed to be a new concept and got a few questions. I explained that I intended to build a library of play-along tracks for home practise that will be better than using the original artist recordings. I also mentioned that it's just good practice for any band to record and listen back to gigs and rehearsals as QA/QC. I use a Zoom H2n and then slice up the file in Logic and use the generic mastering. It's pretty good and more than fit for purpose. Edit: The "deviations"? 1. Mr Blue Sky (reprise at the end). Instead of 12 bars of Db then C then B 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. I don't know why or what the origins of these are, I'm just playing 'em "wrong" so it fits in. There were a lot more of these anomalies in my previous band and didn't understand any of them. It's almost like they've been put in there to trip up deps/newbies 😃 It's probably worth a thread of its own...

The guitarist just messaged with another gig for the book. He didn't really fancy it so slapped an extra 50% on what we normally charge, and they went for it without hesitation - sweet! A fat wedge always helps the night pass quicker 😂

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Acoustic gig Friday night. Guys, I'm not good with Legion Halls. I haven't played one in awhile. In the past they've always reminded me of an Assistant Living Facility or what we use to call Old Folks Home. OMG, and it's a 7-9 show. Daryl

Die, Die My Dali - Metallica

Yes, that's it. I played in a band with a chap that owned one and he had a Fender Strat sprayed to match. He'd play the first set with the Fender and then switch to the Bender later on. I think as many as 10 audience members noticed the switch over the years.

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They don't want to make him soggy, he'll take an age to burn.