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I don't see the point in judging anything by it's price tag. I've gigged a £20 bass and a £700 bass. I regularly take £1000 of cymbals to gigs, but the drum kit I use cost me £150.

We opened the main stage at Off The Tracks festival on Friday night, and then played the 2nd stage on Saturday night. The atmosphere was great, loads of people singing and dancing along, loved my new snare drum, enjoyed a few ales, brilliant!

I'm just listening on headphones at work. I'm sure I just heard some more slightly dodgy drum fills towards the end of "Descending". It's so weird compared to the perfection of 10,000 days. I wonder if he had a bee in his bonnet about doing it all live in one take without edits or something like that, which would make sense if you could watch footage of that take. I really don't like the drum sound either, so much artificial clicking going on Anyway, other than that I like the album so far

I played in a heavy band for a bit and did this. Thankfully the venues were all big enough to have big monitors. Two big 12 or 15" monitors blasting up at you is way better than an amp at the back at the stage

As I said earlier in the thread I do put Radio 1 on now and again and I've never heard two songs in a row that sound the same When I was growing up it was Boyzone, Westlife, Back Street Boys, Spice Girls etc. I'm pretty sure they all sounded the same. These days there's all sorts in the charts

It's probably a majority, but not a large majority, just over half, so "a small majority" seemed to make sense? I am indeed from Stoke and it's actually quite a nice place most of the time

A small majority of Stokies just hate everyone outside their postcode, which would explain the results of a certain referendum Thankfully everyone on the music scene is really friendly and supportive. I think Pale Waves have given a lot of control to management/PR or whatever, and I certainly don't blame them, it's going really well for them! I think they've got some good pop songs too, catchy hooks

Pale Waves are from Stoke, although they do say Manchester in all the press

We have LOADS of T-shirts but the only time I've ever worn one is when I'm covered in sweat after a gig and forgot to bring a spare t-shirt.

cool headstock!

I'm right handed. I naturally put guitars on my right leg, but I know it's easier for me to play when it's on my left leg. I often find myself switching to the left leg if I'm in the studio and struggling to nail something

IMO it's a really musical solo, very melodic, moving with the chords, enough repetition to make it sound "lyrical" but plenty of variation to keep it interesting. Much better than the standard blues licks and fret-wombling you get from a guitar solo in the rock genre

ace!

There's a drummer I went to school with, not a "name" or anything but in my eyes a world class player. I would never miss an opportunity to play with him. I'm most proud of the fact that he actually wants to jam with me on bass! We had 4 hours yesterday and after the first hour he really started to let loose. I was grinning so hard my face hurt

I had a few minutes to myself in the studio the other day. I liked the drums so I played some bass on top. Not my best work but I love the sound of the drums from just one stereo condenser mic

awesome!!!

Yeh he's a great player but I really didn't like it. I had to stop it half way through Also if you're going to title your video "DESTROYS" it might be an idea to do another take after you fluff the first few bars

I guess they can read as well as bassists. Some not at all, some very easily

Every time I put Radio 3 on it's something interesting. I'm told 6 music is generally good but I've never tried it

When I was 10-14 I used to listen to a lot of gangster rap, and religiously listen to the Radio One Rap Show every week. In my later teens I listened to Muse, Incubus and RATM, pretty much exclusively. When I went to uni I listened to The Mars Volta, Deftones and Tool. Then I went through a pretentious phase of listening to nothing but my own music. These days I listen to something new every day. I really enjoy a lot of the jazz/hip-hop fusion stuff going on at the moment, but there's loads of other good stuff around. Every so often I switch the radio in my car to Radio One to see what's "happening". Yesterday I caught the end of a terrible electronic pop tune, but then they played something brand new picked up through BBC Introducing that I quite liked. Then there was a Miley Cyrus track which was just good old "paint by numbers" pop music - not my thing, but it's basically the same sort of tune you play at weddings to get people dancing. I get young kids coming through my studio all the time, playing instruments, and writing their own songs. A lot of it's terrible, but there are some real gems Given that music is subjective, how could it possibly be getting worse?

We played there ^ on Friday night and it was ace! Proper professional sound crew, I got to use my own drums, and Bob from Terminal Rage helped me out with my gear afterwards. Brilliant night! The drive home was a bit of a nightmare - got to bed around 3, up again at 7 as I had a rock 'n' roll band recording in my studio all weekend.

I've listened to the single a few times. I really don't like the drum sound and I'm sure I hear a couple of slightly dodgy fills and an awkward tempo drop. After the (IMO) perfection of 10,000 days I'm a bit confused

I've played a few supports recently and the headliners have demanded that the support bands supply all the gear. I don't mind it to be honest, my drum kit sounds way better than most I play on if using headliner's kit. Sometimes it's the total opposite - the headliners take up the entire stage with their kit, won't let you use any of it, and won't let you move it.

It's interesting, I'd like to know more. Like I said wearing ear defenders can really affect me badly if there are lots of low frequencies in the room, where as the disposable foam ones never give me that feeling. I guess the moulded plugs would be a step up again. I wonder if there are certain kinds of ear defenders that are better than others? Mine are just the cheap 3M ones

@Billy Apple did he happen to mention if the different kinds of ear plugs were any better or worse?