Dad3353

1 hour ago, mikebass456 said:

Bought this a while ago with no thought as to what to use it for, other than it was a massive peg (😲🤭).

However, if your need is greater than mine.........

Have you named it 'Dave'..? 

3 hours ago, Terry M. said:

I think Ginger was under-rated. He had incredible (to me) jazz chops.

Indeed, but poor taste (in my view...).

(To be fair, I doubt that he'd appreciate my style much either. ...)

1 minute ago, snorkie635 said:

I reckon @Dad3353 should be in the list of unrecognised drumming genius. So there.

Yup, right up there at the top. 

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(I would pronounce myself as 'Perfect', were it not for this terrible curse of modesty with which I am plagued. ...)

2 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

He's a decent drummer, to be sure... But the ones I mentioned are probably at least as good as Mr. C, probably a lot better in some cases, and completely unknown outside of serious muso circles. So they're the ones who are the most under-rated in the history of history!

Ratings are soooooo over-rated, though. 

5 minutes ago, Rich said:

Better known, yes... but he's not generally credited with the level of talent he has.

I agree. It's not a pissing contest; PC had many talents, and his drumming prowess has not, in general, the recognition it merited. Yes, there are other fine drummers; his talent removes nothing from the others. 

1 hour ago, Staggering on said:

... at 79 I am 70 years older than the young bassist! ...

 

My my,  you're looking sprightly, bowing away in that photo..! 

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1 hour ago, musicbassman said:

... After 57 years in bands I think I deserve a long service medal...

 

 

38 minutes ago, warriorbass05 said:

...Any thoughts??

Do you have a technical rider, listing your needs (backline, FOH, mics, lighting, colour of Smarties etc...)..? It would help to know what you require. How many musicians, for instance..? Where in the UK will you be based, and for how long..? Hope this helps... 

A return flight UK-USA can be £300-500. Could that be made to work..? 

Unlike punctuation. 

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Some of us are talented; others less so...

Envelope follower..? 

38 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Here's something I don't understand.  When a sound guy is checking the monitor volume on stage. They check it from the house. Of course I can hear my vocals and bass when nobody else is playing.

 

Why wouldn't they check monitor volume when the band is playing on stage. That would be the real test for me.

 

Daryl

Most that I've worked with pop up onto the stage whilst the band is playing a 'test' number, to check exactly that. It's more or less routine, towards the end of the sound check. 

I can see both of the 'dl=1' images, not the other two. Hope this helps. 

44 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

... Out came a particularly off-beat fill (I'm sure any drummers would appreciate it...

Yes, I'm prone to doing this, too; luckily our singer (and the rest of the band...) know how to keep the 'beat' in their heads, and don't rely on the drums to bring themselves in. I could fold up inanimate, they'd all come back in on time..! 

34 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

The trouble is they know nothing about PA’s but insist in being in charge of the sound. If the level of the guitars remained a constant then the gain could but each gig the guitar levels are up and down, something I don’t think there’s any need for with in ears. They even turn their amps up sometimes if they need some more guitar in their monitor 😂

There should be no feedback but the singer/guitarist has his guitar way too loud onstage and won’t turn down (or does the pretend to turn the dial). It makes no difference to him as he’s playing rhythm and is on IEM’s anyway. Take just that into account and everything becomes too loud onstage, hence the feedback. Too loud on stage and the PA isn’t doing enough work I think. 

Best, then, to quit and join a decent band. They won't be getting return gigs anyway, if that's how they go about things. Some folk never learn, as they think they already know it all. 

There's a £45 Squier Affinity bass on Gumtree, Edinburgh at the moment. Is that inexpensive enough..?

Gumtree, Edinburgh : Squier bass ...

21 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

Far too late 😂 They use an XR18. I’ve been using one for 10 years and when I mentioned we should be using the gains, the reaction was that we should get an engineer in to set it all up. Now I’m very capable of doing that but I think they believe it only needs doing once and then it can be left like that forever. Maybe they’ve misunderstood using ‘scenes’? I’ve even took mine into rehearsals and set it all up, sorted all the in ears etc but they won’t use that desk because they know their desk gets a good sound? It’s a very odd situation. Voodoo almost 😂

I'm used to the traditional analogue desks, so an XR18 may do things differently, but, for me, once the gain has been set for any particular input (usually a mic...), it won't need touching, as long as the same input is used each time. I don't see how you're getting feedback if everyone is using IEM; if it's from the FOH, can the XR18 output not be reduced, instead of touching the active cabs..? There's something rotten in the state of Denmark not quite right, somewhere. 

If the levels for the vocals have been set first, with the guitars, and there's no feedback, it would appear to be the addition of the drums that set it off. If that's the case, can't the drums then be backed off a little..? Are the drums leaking into the vocal mics, fully exposed if there's no singer in front of 'em..? Which individual mic(s...) are feeding back..? They are what needs addressing, not the FOH cabs. Do any of the group know what 'ringing out' is, and how to do it..? Inviting a decent sound person along for a gig or two to sort it all out would be beneficial, I'd suggest, and/or a course in PA set-up. 

1 minute ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I guess you use a different method than me then, I just typed 'what is gaslighting' in google, the AI thing at the top described it, the top link was wikipedia that covered both lighting with  gas and the gaslighting in question, the second was the national domestic violence hotline, the third another medical thing and the following 10 links were about gaslighting as an abuse. Maybe time to update your search method?

 

I suppose we all have different levels of curiosity, but I do find it odd that someone would find a term they didn't understand and then not look it up using the vast and almost instantaneous access to information that no previous generation has had such easy access to.

Maybe I should have typed 'gaslighting', and not 'Gas Lighting'..? 

12 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Well, I do as if I find a term that I don't understand I use the internet to find out what it means. 

I tried that, but got flooded with quotes for outdoor lampposts ...

6 minutes ago, Dood said:

...## Origins of the Term ...

Thanks, especially for this^^, which brings sense to the use of the term. 

Do all that use the term know and understand from where it derives..? 

I've read attempts at explanations, with examples, so it must be me, but I still don't really understand what 'gaslighting' is. One of the (many...) words and phrases in modern parlance that I look up, but fail to assimilate (others would be, for example 'woke', 'ghosting' or 'cheugy'; there are others...). English seems to be becoming a foreign language; maybe I should change my reading material. 

Is white paint not an option..? 

Rather odd that there is no mention of the salary that such a position justifies. One may 'call the shots' when one is signing large cheques.