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[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1484998683' post='3220250'] I agree with nearly all of this except.... "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Posters are a pointless waste of time"[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]All of our (mostly pub) venues demand and expect them. Some, not all, use them on their Facebook and Website, as do we. All of them use them on the walls to at least give the impression that there are always things going on at the venue. Whether that persuades people to come and see you in particular is an open question, but every little helps. Personally, if we play somewhere and there's a poster up for a band I fancy seeing I'll go if I'm not gigging. Would I be trawling through the listings and pick them out? Probably not. A case in point: was in a local pub last night and spotted a poster for a couple of guys I know doing a Sunday afternoon acoustic in a couple of weeks - I'll be there.[/font][/color] [/quote] this and depends how captivating the poster is too

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[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1483290461' post='3205961'] What about Chaka Khan? The outfit - it certainly 'gained your attention' if you know what I mean! [/quote] brings to mind the old catchphrase.... every stitch doing it's job

we played an established local 'rock' pub last night they thought our singer was joking when she asked if anybody had ever played Girls Aloud there

come along , laugh and point, etc etc

quite a few - i have that sort of tape recorder memory thing for music - which is quite nice

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1483328417' post='3206249'] That comes from listening. and listening and listening. To all genres. But i think you can really bed down into one and be really good at it. Not many can be a master of all genres. They call them session musicians, but its a bit like calling them a Lakland 55-02. They can get there but they don't really get there. [/quote] no no no its from knowing where the stops and pauses are ... all the notes in between are just filler

fancy... having your hootenanny shortened

nope finally gone lightweight with two hydrive 112's to take over from my hydrive 410 - my back/age decided for me saying that i will probably keep the 410 for posterity (and scaring guitarists)

two nice lightweight hartke hydrive 112's very good january sale bargain price and IMMACULATE condiiton buy/trade with confidence

[quote name='ians' timestamp='1482096910' post='3197656'] Over produced, over compressed and bland as hell. After all these years, the money and all those albums they should have got together on a portch somewhere in the deep south of the USA with birds and neighbours clattering in the background and done a live outdoor acoustic/recording with slide....boy it would have been so refreshing, would have been amazing..imagine it. [/quote] theyll do as theyre told - you dont get be 'Sir Mick' without consequences

quite nice innit

[quote name='Burrito' timestamp='1482055580' post='3197177'] I think flats lend themselves particularly well to both Precision basses and especially fretless basses. Any jazzy or dub or early rock n roll tone and you are virtually 90% there. I appreciate they have their haters but try them for yourself, I say. I use rounds on my Gibson because they don't suit every situation but they do have a place in modern music. [/quote] not hating on flats - they have a certain timbre which lends itself perfectly to certain situations BUT those situations are often very limited - so for the sake of versatility unless you have the luxury of having two fretless basses then rounds or halfs are probably the more versatile option

also depends on what type of bass the fretless is? if its a high end high value type of thing you might want to keep it as pristine as possible so flats or halfs would be the sensible choice to minimise damage to the board - however if tis something at the lower end then try with rounds and see what you think - personally my fretless is only a squire vmJ so not too bothered about the board wear to be honest - i have sanded it down once but there is 'minimal' string marking from the rounds on there now after about a years worth of occasional playing and even that is so slight as to be not noticable from more than three feet away and certainly doesnt affect the sound - if you do get some marks and you want to get rid of them you can always attack it with some light grade papers on a radius sanding block once you get drummed in to your head to NEVER BEND THE STRING and only use the sideways vibrato technique you shouldnt have too many issues hope this helps

i tried some of those black nylon coated flats once ... dull as ditch water bring on the rounds i say and growl away

why are you not in Kent??? grrrrr

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[quote name='lowlandtrees' timestamp='1481147173' post='3190123'] Forgot to say that I started wearing ear protection a few months ago. It seems that it is almost universal that rehearsal rooms have ludicrously massive equipment. Not only rediculously loud for the room but a waste of space.... I do think that it is a lead guitarist thing in general. [/quote] yes and yes whyTAF do you need a 100w head and 4x12 cab in a rehearsal studio??? also from experience of a previous guitarer in our band i always suspected that he wasnt intentionally turning up all the turning but possibly more likely that his hearing was compromised in that mid range and the fact he was persistently turning up all the time was more to do with the fact that he was having trouble hearing it in the mix due to his own hearing response

you cant try and equate the two environments and expect to achieve same results - just treat each one on its own merits and adjust accordingly i find the biggest issue to be with effects and the more extreme the effect the more extreme the difference - i find that if you set up a nice effect whilst practising at home the blasted thing rarely if ever works just like you want it to in live/gigging environment

'quoting' is fine

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quite often have two - will only have just the one if is either totally passive or active/passive switchable