stingrayPete1977

My last three bands have had a female front man

If there's a skills shortage in one area EVERYONE should be encouraged to have a look to see if they fancy it, if not I don't see why it matters.

That's my point, as long as she's allowed to why does it matter?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487325163' post='3238911'] That's because they are all fur coat and no knickers. [/quote] Badum tish!

If one is a factory making welded metal products and the other is a telesales business they are unlikely to have staff from similar groups, as long as a middle class girl isn't turned away from applying to be a welder and a hairy arsed bloke is allowed to work in the office I don't have a problem with it, as Skank says making a young girl be a welder just to massage the figures would be wrong.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1487284186' post='3238722'] With you on that, my ancestors were Breton. Birmingham has less than 60% white middle class population, I guess if we want to get to the statistical norm we need to kick out a lot of people to comply with the required 3%. I wonder if thats why more than 3% of the Great Birmingham run are from ethnic minorities? beats me. [/quote] At the same time my wife grew up near Chetham Hill in Manchester, the cast of a film set there would be a massive mixture with white British Christian possibly not featured certainly not add a main character. A bloke in the Spice Girls wouldn't have worked would it?

I live in a typically growing village, I suppose it has ........ Hang on I have googled this to see if I can find out before making my point, where I live we have hardly any ethnic minorities, if you set a play where I live you would need to have an all white cast. [url="https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-westmidlands.php?cityid=E34001879"]https://www.citypopu...ityid=E34001879[/url] How is that for an ageing white christian middle class place to live? EDIT to say I am not middle class, Christian and we are not sure about the white bit beyond one generation.

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1487252876' post='3238388'] I inadvertently wore a fitbit for the first set once. I got bollocked for it from the band at the break so took it off and put it on my music stand next to my clip on tuner. [/quote] Quite right too, imagine doing that gig for free only to find out after that all the exposure you'd gained was wasted after someone spouted out on face book that the bass player was wearing a watch or something resembling a watch at least! Crazy.

It's like having a face lift but asking the surgeon to try and get you looking as close Keith Richards as possible.

Where do we stand on FitBits?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgruts.com%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F2013%2F01%2Fjools-clock.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgruts.com%2F20130102%2F&docid=jveSSIxrBwaW0M&tbnid=y8Je-unCJjVbzM%3A&vet=1&w=500&h=300&client=ms-android-samsung&bih=454&biw=320&q=jools%20holland%20clock%20man&ved=0ahUKEwj0qeebvpTSAhVmBMAKHclTD0wQMwgdKAEwAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8

I'll let you off then, yes it's too hot sometimes isn't it.

Would it be allowed to wear a watch whilst playing all along the watch tower?

I don't think I'd go as far as saying I'd quit playing but I wouldn't go looking for it right now if it does go down the pan.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487164793' post='3237677'] Now that is an interesting one. Maybe you should phone in advance. I'm sure that they will take you entirely serious and thank you for being so thorough when coming to the audition process. [/quote] They'd have a f***ing shock when I then turned up in my fur coat and frilly panties but no watch wouldn't they?! I think we should see how many gigs anyone has lost because of wearing a watch compared to wearing no trousers in a pub, lol.

Should I wear a watch for an audition but explain that I won't wear it live or play it safe and just not wear it at all? What if I'm then late for the audition?

http://youtu.be/5G4O5AMSevc

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1487156847' post='3237549'] I'd say! [/quote] Has the pendulum swung?

Come on dazza, where's ya hat?!

How many over forty year olds are in a pop band that started BEFORE they were forty? I don't want to be prancing around trying to make it any more and I don't want to be the guy holding back a group of twenty somethings either. There are people here in original bands that are getting on a bit but how many of them built those followings up when they were younger and have just kept the same audience who are now mostly older too? There's nothing wrong with that, it's no easy task but they're unlikely to need to worry about a bunch of teenagers poaching the 50 year old bass player playing songs that sound old even of they are not.

I've probably got too many hobbies as it is to be fair and I wouldn't sell my kit.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487082892' post='3236862'] Which means that his attire has done the job. You've remembered who we are and what we look like. On the other hand I know nothing about your band. [/quote] Not really, looks and sounds the same as other psycho billy sort of stuff to me, I'm not saying that's bad, it's just not my thing, most people would say all heavy metal bands look and sound the same if they don't like metal. I'm only aware of your band from you having it in your signature for years, I did too when playing original stuff.

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1487082255' post='3236852'] People taking the piss out of clip on tuners perhaps? �� [/quote] There's nothing wrong with a clip on tuner, I've got one, at home

I think I'd be more concerned about the front man wearing nothing but a fur coat and frilly panties for what looks like a fairly regular tickled trout pub gig than whether the bassist is wearing a watch or not!