OldGit

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='464299' date='Apr 16 2009, 07:11 PM']I think it will probably happen, but will be a long process! I'm confident we could put together a decent set, get gigs, and have fun. My biggest concerns are the investment in a PA and finding time. I will keep this thread updated as and when. I feel that we will probably take it slightly less seriously than some of you and make little or no money. But I'm happy with that.[/quote] Cool You could rent a PA if you can get enough to cover the costs.

[quote name='4000' post='464314' date='Apr 16 2009, 07:32 PM']No worries mate. Just a word of advice; if you're over 18, don't move to Blackpool unless you're happy playing covers and/or shows or are prepared to travel! [/quote] How far would you have to go to find a venue that regularly puts on originals gigs? Can't you tap the market and put your own on regularly?

So BBC, what did you decide after all the advice?

[quote name='crez5150' post='464216' date='Apr 16 2009, 05:52 PM']Not sure on the next one..... hopefully around end of August if we get time......[/quote] Hummmmm On hols then .. Oh well

[quote name='4000' post='464224' date='Apr 16 2009, 05:58 PM']Er, I think I'm already aware of this (been playing 29 years, gigging the same). Have you seen the scene in the Blackpool area? Covers, cabaret, covers. I have never been interested in playing covers, and unless you're currently in school/college and bring your mates (we're all in our 40s so are well outside whatever "scene" there might be) you've got next to no chance of filling a venue, although the main problem is that most venues who did originals nights aren't doing them anymore, so you don't even get a foot in the door. We have played elsewhere and have gone down great, but round here; crickets.[/quote] Sorry mate, I don't mean to preach to the choir. So I guess you know what the problem is ....

[quote name='spike' post='464113' date='Apr 16 2009, 04:43 PM']"It's been a long time since Baroque and Roll"[/quote] Not long enough in some cases

[quote name='crez5150' post='463949' date='Apr 16 2009, 02:11 PM']Rich I meant to ask you if any of those photo's came out at the gig in Nailsea?? If so any chance you could let me have some cheers[/quote] Gig report please! Whens the next one there, Jay? Be good to get it into the diary. OT: OP Got a link?

[quote name='Twigman' post='464133' date='Apr 16 2009, 04:55 PM']If you don't want to use your real name, come up with something memorable, something that instantly conveys something visual or emotional or both, like, er, Dead Mouse.[/quote] [url="http://www.garageband.com/song?%7Cpe1%7CS8LTM0LdsaSgYlG3Zm0"]Too late ...[/url] Some good points though .. You forgot the smell of specific vynil albums and their covers

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='463832' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:20 PM']Well, those bands do exist in large enough numbers for me (someone who doesn't listen to any metal at all) to be aware of them, so there must be enough truth to it. While we're here discussing how shallow the music biz has got, can anyone name a successful band with an ugly singer from any other era? Off the top of my head I've got Thom Yorke, Ian Brown and Tom Hingley. And I'm not sure that the Carpets can be classed as successful anyway. Oh Ian Anderson, we'll have him too. Now let's hear the list of the bands with good-looking singers...[/quote] Mr Loaf may qualify here

Ah I remember now .. It really was like a scene from Hi Fidelity We used to go into the local Music Shop (they weren't "Stores" then) and ask the Record Shop Bloke (they weren't "Guys" then either") what he had in that was new that was like a band we liked. He'd say "if you like them you may like these" and send us off to the listening booth with some record or other. Re-live those days this Saturday, 18th April, [b]Record Store Day[/b] [url="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home"]http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home[/url] Find what's left of the local record shops from the list here: [url="http://www.recordstoreday.com/UnitedKingdom"]http://www.recordstoreday.com/UnitedKingdom[/url] I'll be buying Easy Star All Stars new album: Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band from [url="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venue/5277"]Spillers in Cardiff,[/url] the oldest record shop in the world.

[quote name='4000' post='463647' date='Apr 16 2009, 08:45 AM']What I find depressing is the complete lack of availability of gigs for originals bands, certainly in our area. We're averaging about a gig a year these days, which is pathetic.[/quote] Been down this one before (regularly) - fill the venues with drinking punters and your orginal band will get as many gigs as you want. Alternatively put on yoru own gigs.

[quote name='ARGH' post='463633' date='Apr 16 2009, 08:28 AM']Words spoken from someone that knows f***all about Metal there.[/quote] Yeah I know very little about metal too. Learning though... Whatever brand of metal it is they pay at my gym to help the body builders get angry enough to lift 16 tons , I get to hear about 3 hours of it a week. The English language ones are all about kill kill kill, fighting battles in the Dungeons and Dragons way, my sword is bigger than yours and we will kick your head in. You will know us by the trail of the dead, etc.... The rest I assume to be in Swedish or German. The musical prowess is clear (especially the drummers amazing bass drum playing) but the music is largely interchangeable between tracks. When a melody breaks out it's quickly squashed. Mind you it's better than the misogynistic rap that gets played in between ...

[quote name='ARGH' post='463578' date='Apr 16 2009, 01:06 AM']Im sorry to say,Seth Lakeman is coffee table folk...He looks good in a Polo neck all sweaty..and yeah He can belt a tune out..but its not dangerous....its summat for Radio 2 evenings and Sunday mornings.[/quote] Oh sorry, mea culpa. I didn't realise the "music scene" had to be dangerous. Yeah Seth looks good as do the other "young" folksters getting radio play. In case you are wondering this is what he does The way they looks is undoubtedly a key factor in their success (as it ever was). However he also recorded his first album in his kitchen and "released" it himself and he's tearing up Uni crowds with a violin and tenor acoustic guitar... I'm no great ambassador of folk but this shows that it isn't all factory pop/pap that's being successful. Incidentally isn't there a huge metal scene where great riffs on bass and guitar still survive? Trivium for example?

[quote name='Geek99' post='463609' date='Apr 16 2009, 07:36 AM']Fortunately mine came correctly set - Do you mean the tuners wobble perpendicular to the headstock (in their sockets) or that hey move along the line of the headxstock? If the former, OldGit mentioned a fix with slices of coke can? Btw - I put copper shielding tape in mine and its very quiet[/quote] Hi Geek, I practiced the neck crank technique on your one The slivers of coke can thing is to stabilise the string posts in the holes in the headstock if the holes are too big. I think the OP is talking about about the winder key shafts feeling loose. A bass that goes out of tune all the time is really anoying so I'd bite the bullet and change the whole lot. Bass Guitar Parts Direct sells period correct gunuine Fender reverse tuners for £65 a set Ebay item 250370374767

[quote name='leschirons' post='463533' date='Apr 15 2009, 11:40 PM']I think the court is still out on whether he actually wrote this folk song. The style of the composition is apparently later than Henry V111's reign.[/quote] And there you go .. So AM1 what is the "music scene" of which you speak? I guess you are talking about rock of some sort? Folk music is full of new talent that plays well. Seth Lakeman for example. Every kind of music you want is there for the finding. There are forums and specialist websites and a million ways to get stuff. In the olden days radio one defined the listening taste of the nation's yoof. Now they have loads of other options. Sure the stuff that gets broadcast on mainstream radio is mainstream - that's what it's for, and Radio two is screaming out for a specialist rock programme alongside its cutting edge folk, blues, Mark Lamar and organist entertains programmes but it is out there. I do laff though when people say they hear no new music but only listen to talk and sport radio. Where do you expect to hear unknown cutting edge stuff? We used to have to trawl the record shops and hope someone had made album or cassette. now it's just there at the other end of google. No proper young players? I went to a blues jam session in my in laws town recently and the 16 and 17 year old guitarists playing were fantastically talented ... No one I knew at school could play like those guys, and they almost certainly could read music and had done their grades, played piano as well etc etc .. My lad's school is a music haven on Fridays with violins, woodwind and guitars galore, all studying properly and doing their grades. And then there are the schools of contemporary music like Brighton and Bristol. We never had those in teh days of Yes and Genesis, punk or the one finger synth bands... It's out there and so are the talented youngsters who are learning properly.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='463422' date='Apr 15 2009, 09:42 PM']Also did the 62 Jazz require you to take the neck off to adjust the action..It a real pain to have to do this!!![/quote] Yup. It's not so bad. Either get a luthier to do it or try it the fast(ish) way: Slacken your strings off but leave them on the tuners; undo the neck plate screws so they disengage with the neck (but stay in the body); "crank" the neck out of the pocket so the truss rod adjuster is accessible, tweak and then uncrank it and tighten the neck plate screws and the strings .. Repeat 'til teh truss rod adjustment is correct. Takes about 5 minutes per tweak ...

I think this has been posted regularly since Henry the VIIIth wrote Greensleeves ... It's much, much, better for the vast majority - ie the marginal bands and performers as they can get airplay (unsigned bands on national BBC Radio 2 programmes shock!) and release home made CD's for piddlin' amounts of investment. Commercial will always be commercial and tickets for big names concerts will always be stupidly expensive ... but you can still buy a CD at a non mainstream band's gig for less than a gallon of petrol ... . There's myspace to get yoru music out there and places like CDNOW where "unsigned" bands can sell their stuff to the world.... Can't see the problem myself ...

Ah .. I need a couple of neutricks and my local Maplins only had these in .. How do you tell the old ones from the new better ones?

i subscribed to the PDF version but it drives me mad with it's poor usability and legibility so I don't tend to bother ...

[quote name='Zoe_BillySheehan' post='462624' date='Apr 15 2009, 12:52 AM']I suppose some people are just lucky when it comes to being able to afford equipment.[/quote] Luck? no, it's about life choices. All my gear has paid for itself - and I mean in simple pecunairy terms - thousands of times over.

[quote name='Josh' post='462358' date='Apr 14 2009, 06:25 PM']The modesty on here is getting silly. To be fair, if you ask most pro's if they feel they deserve their instrument, I'm pretty sure you'll get a similar answer to one in this thread. Probably not Jeff Berlin though. Still, I see expensive basses as an incentive to up my game and luckily I have and am having fun doing so and will continue to do so.[/quote] I'm guessing Jeff doesn't pay for his gear - well not directly anyway ...

Yup for sure .. Even my jam stuff is better than me Still, I don't really care