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[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1494632274' post='3297545'] 10 cc were superb. Reminded me how good they were back in the 70s and a major touring band. It's quite bizarre how some music like this nearly disappears off the radar in terms of radio airplay - this happened to ELO also until the revival in recent years. For those of us reminiscing with rose tinted spectacles about the OGWT, I recall that rather like Later, it had its ups and downs and sometimes it was a pile of poo whereas others it was great - once again, as with any music programme of that type, it depends on your taste as to how much you like or dislike. The Tube is another - some phenomenal stuff on there - along with some not so good. [/quote]I think you summed it up perfectly, horses for courses and all that. Have to agree that 10cc were superb, obviously with the help of the backing tracks, and yes, it was dated, but quality musicianship none the less.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1494356061' post='3295326'] Both. It's terribly modern to be offended by every little thing but there is something to be said for having a certain degree of robustness, to the point where one doesn't need to feel the need to try and censor what others say so that they can feel better. 'Guitard' may seem mildly offensive to some since it's obviously a derivation of 'retard', but I wouldn't break too much of a sweat about it, we're all grown men here. [/quote]Tut Tut!!! "[i]we're all grown men here[/i]"? that surely is offensive to our female BC'ers isn't it? Only Joking!!!

Me? 1951, the same year as the birth of the Precision! If only I had about £50,000 to spare.

99% of my bass collection!!!

I've now quit the band, I've had a few pleas to reconsider, but as much as I love them all, I don't think anything will change, and I respect the fact that we all have different views on what makes a band work, so I will move on. I've wished them all the best, and hope that they find a replacement bass player soon so they can move on.

I have to admit that I never clean strings, I use D'addario nickel strings and they last me at least six months because I prefer them once have they lost that zingyness, and I usually buy three sets at a time so it works out about £18 for six months use, which is not bad imo.

[size=4][quote name='TimR' timestamp='1492672122' post='3282095'] Ok. How often do you practice and what is the objective of each practice? How long have you agreed that it will take to be gig ready? If it's a start up learning 33 songs you need a solid workable plan and you also need to be very flexible on how the other members commit tunes to memory. As I said before, learning tunes to recordings is one thing, but it's when you play them in a band situation that they get cemented in. You have 16 songs, you can't run through them all in one night and go through new ones as well. You need to work out which tunes are 'passable' and put them to one side, play them once every couple of weeks. You need to pick the tunes that need work and play them a couple of times each week until everyone is up to speed. You need to pick two tunes to learn for next week. These are examples of the way I would approach it, I don't know the ability of the guys you are playing with, but you need to have some kind of plan. Go away and learn 33 song is not a workable plan for a start up. [/quote][/size][color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]After our drummer from our old band through his toys out of the pram, myself, the guitarist, and the singer had a meeting on 30th November 2016 and decided to take a different route, we came up with a setlist there and then, and we agreed to get stuck into them and hopefully be up to gigging speed by the end of May 2017 (six months).[/size][/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]We found a new drummer and we’ve rehearsed once a week since then, and last night was the 20th week that we have been working on them, and we only have about a dozen songs that are ready, that’s just over half a song a week, which in my opinion is a poor return for the time we’ve put in, and money we’ve paid out on the rehearsal space.[/size][/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]I’m a believer of learning the songs away from rehearsals and then piecing them together, of course some songs don’t work too well and need a little bit of extra work done, or we might decide to drop them altogether, but as I said before, everyone should at least know the structure of the songs, obviously those with faded endings, we will have to work out the endings, which is no problem for me at all.[/size][/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]Even if we had agreed to learn just two songs a week, our set should have been complete about a month ago, and we should now be polishing them all off and getting them ready to gig.[/size][/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]The songs in our set are pretty much straightforward, and a good example of my frustration is that we have now run through such a simple song like “Tush” five weeks on the trot, we agreed to play it as per the original version with a double solo in the middle, and finish it with same stop as per the original, but the singer still came back in over the second part of the middle solo, and the drummer carried on playing at the end even though the rest of us stopped where we agreed to, surely we shouldn’t be messing up on such a basic song that we have played many times before.[/size][/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica][size=2] [size=4]Our first gig is on 3rd June 2017, at this rate there is no way we will have the songs ready, they might be happy to go out and put on a mediocre show, but I won’t.[/size][/size][/font][/color]