stingrayPete1977

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1469644255' post='3100029'] That's what most people do , but if you played obscure or unliked music , you'd still be a covers band [/quote] Ah you have seen my band then! damn

I am liking all these Stingrays he keeps pulling out , how many has he got?!

I unplug any bass on stage between sets, saves big hoofed drummers hooking the cable and dragging basses off their stands!

Once a year I do strings, battery and general check over on each bass.

I did one of these a few years ago,they want you there as they set the tent up before they use it for the main meal at lunchtime, then for background music until around 6,mics for speeches as and when etc etc etc with the band appearing by magic at 9pm all for £100 a person.

It sounds like a great plan to me, I might do the same at some point.

I just don't see the 'released' part as relevant?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1469571610' post='3099542'] He let Mott do it before he'd released any recorded versions of it himself. [/quote] Where are you drawing the line between making a demo in the studio and a global number one hit? He must have made some form of recording of it that Mott used as a reference?

You know what when posting about my Classic I'd forgotten about the two pre EB versions I'd gigged regularly before, I didn't notice the slabs on them either,my '79 weighed about 13 lbs but man it sounded awesome!

It got from there to production with the normal electronics in only a few months.

My wife's mini Mayfair has the original tape deck, I've cleaned the heads but I've only got a Pulp album and a green day one, I went on eBay to buy some red hot chili peppers ones for her,Jeez they fetch a lot!

The Beatles- Chains was written by Carole king, in fact she has written so many songs maybe it would be easier to just define bands into two categories, ones that do or ones don't play songs written by Carole king!

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1469434373' post='3098159'] And when it all comes down to uit, prices quoted on stuff for sale are generally the sellers most optimistic take on what he hopes someone will pay. Anything being sold is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Sadly an awful lot of sellers think that just because THEY want a certain price, a seller HAS to pay it. (heh:) [/quote] Well in truth if the seller sticks to that price and the buyer really wants it then the buyer will have to pay for it.

I own a few of both, don't notice it during a gig tbh.

So no overtime at the biscuit factory then!

I agree that it was the fake speakons rather than wire size but even with proper quality ones the thin wires dont get a very good connection as the terminals are designed for much bigger cables ime.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1469451224' post='3098357'] Often, in the old days, the composer would have written out the dots above the lyricist's words. No recording, unless we are going to call the dots a recording method which, of course, it was. [/quote] If you make some method of returning to something it's a record, the black circular thing came much later than the word didn't it?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1469450072' post='3098348'] How about Wigan? Ever play there? [/quote] Nah It's too near Karlfer who doesn't like me

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1469449793' post='3098345'] So we have to add in a caveat - for a very small number of cases where the songwriter didn't make the original recording but then later went on to re-record it themselves. In which case the first one is an original, the second one is a cover of the first one as the material is no longer original, even if the artist originally wrote it. The artist still get the credit for originally writing it, but not for making the original recording. It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things as there are thousands of recording artists who release original material that has be written by others. That's just a part of the process you give up when you write for someone who you think will do a better job than you will and make your song more popular than you could (at that point in time). [/quote] The person who wrote it must have made some kind of recording to be able to have it covered, even Tab would be sufficient as a 'record' of the song's existence?

I've never been in an originals band that hauled sound and lights and I've never been in a covers band that didn't. Non of said bands performed in Milwaukee.

My 1.5mm melted in the speakon connector supplied by bass direct at the first gig, 600w genz head into a 4 ohm load,finished the gig with a 20 metre cable from the PA spares box and ordered an OBBM one, never had a problem since, that was around 2009.

I'm in two covers bands, we certainly don't sound like the original records, lol Anyone who has got this far in life without watching any Postmodern Jukebox clips on YouTube you should head over there now!

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[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1469386161' post='3097917'] Which produces such oddities as David Bowie's cover of "All the Young Dudes" and Bruce Springsteen's cover of "Because the night". I don't think Prince did a cover of "Nothing compares 2U". [/quote] But there will be a version originally recorded by the writer somewhere we just haven't heard it, I doubt Bowie described the song over the phone to them?