steve-bbb

Rumblefish at the Dog & Gun

try search on facebook for Kent Music groups - there are plenty of gig noticeboards and agents and promoters lurking around only a very short drive from the ferry terminals

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1446842481' post='2902918'] I was mesmerised by the optical illusion making his drumsticks look bendy. [/quote] i was more mesmerised by wondering if he was ever going to get to grips with that hihat

[url="http://www.thestinger.org.uk/article/532c544e80a367948bda9ac6#.Vj3Z615oaqI"]small venue with a big heart[/url] ... apparently

sounds like the venue owner is some douchebag aleister crowley fan boy

i note the LMB3 appears to get a general thumbs up on the ovnilab site [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/bosslmb3.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/bosslmb3.shtml[/url]

im currently scanning reviews from the forum and interwebs n stuff but would appreciate the combined wisdom of the basschat collective on the pros and cons of rackmount versus stompbox i currently use for gigging an LH500 head with the limiter button on (there is no adjustment) - i also use permanently on a boss LMB3 but use it mainly for the tone enhancement and have the compression set very minimal on this and allow the LH500 to do its thing (whatever that is) im toying with the idea if it suits my desires to maybe go for a nice rackmount compressor to sit alongside a korg pitchblack and my lh500 head and then have stompboxes for any other effects (as much as i love the whistles and bells of digital modelling units i really do prefer the idot proof simplicity of the stomp boxes) (i reg use a DD3, Boss bass Chorus and occasionally AW3 but not much more) your inputs are muchly appreciated in advancement

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1446383017' post='2898901'] We are a bunch of amateur, weekend warriors who really only need a website for people to find out where our next gig is, or to contact us if they want to book us [/quote] we have been running as a covers band now for just over three years and we havent yet had a single enquiry for a private booking via our website or facebook group - all our private booking without exception have come from people seeing us at our gigs and enquiring in person [quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1446383017' post='2898901'] I doubt that we'll ever be selling anything from it or anything like that. [/quote] exactly - only top end function bands chasing big corporate gigs need venture into the super slick website area - its probably one of the very few areas where bands will get potentially hired or considered on the basis of their online presentation

i need to be in a band playing this sort of thing

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1446302729' post='2898473'] Auto play media is never ok as far as I'm concerned. Guaranteed to put me off a website, regardless of its purpose. [/quote] +1 definitely this - if i browse to an autoplay page the first thing i look for is the stop/pause button bear in mind that many potential viewers may possibly have spotify or music app or similar playing in the background! personally i would make a soundcloud profile a priority and would recommend investing a couple of hundred squid to record a few live tracks at a local studio - naff phone quality vids can be mixed and tarted up with effects to produce a 'quirky' looking video, the main emphasis being the sound quality and the fact it is recorded 'live' in studio so any listeners will get a fairly reasonable idea of what you sound like as a live band a downloadable pdf generic A3/A4 poster for venues might be an idea (with blank spaces appropriately to fill in venue/date unless youre playing at well known/established venues in local areas then links to venues is usually a good idea for people to click through if you get booked for private parties remember to add them to your gig list (but keep them anonymous) - a band that has a gig list with plenty of private party bookings is indicative of a band that pleases the crowds edit - on a technical note i would personally recommend Wordpress but stick with Wix if youre not tech savvy and it is working for you)

oops - i just landed at the top of the thread and proceeded to click through all the entries and have a listen and then voted.... and then realised there wass more to scroll down at least i voted for the winner

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1445815818' post='2894499'] http://youtu.be/USTEYpJzugI [/quote] Black & Blue and 2am Paradise Cafe are great

i once had a cliff richard live album f***s sake

[size=5][b][url="http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/the-neuroscience-of-bass-new-study-explains-why-bass-instruments-are-fundamental-to-music.html"]http://www.opencultu...l-to-music.html[/url][/b][/size] [url="http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/how-drums-bass-make-the-song-isolated-tracks.html"]http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/how-drums-bass-make-the-song-isolated-tracks.html[/url]

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1445706627' post='2893640'] This. Definitely this. +1 [/quote] and definitely put it up on the youtubes

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george in ashford started quiet ish but got busier - reasonable size crowd and very enthusiastic for the last saturday before pay day

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1356690015' post='1912360'] Robert Hurst (Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harry Connick Jr., Geri Allen, Russell Malone, Steve Coleman and The Tonight Show band) said that a bass player shoud 'get off on making other people sound good'. I could not do Cliff WIlliams' job in 1,000 years; I lack the discipline (although I am getting better as I get older). And shocking as it may sound, not every bass player is just a bass player; sometimes they write songs, do b. vocs, add glamour at some level or another, multi-task (Geddy Lee is not half as good a bass player as he is made out to be (same with Peart's drumming)) etc etc. Being the bass player in a lot of rock 'n'n roll/pop/metal bands is rarely about being a great musician. Often 'good enough' is good eonough. [/quote] +1

has he got damaged/compromised hearing in the 'guitar range' ?

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1445284668' post='2890312'] And we got a good round of applause. A Coltrane number! [/quote] maybe try thewm next time with some jazz arrangements of some classic Cardiacs tunes

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1445442927' post='2891534'] +2. We've come a long way with bass gear for it to sound that bad. It sounded a bit better when he switched to finger style. [/quote] bass sounds dreadful - i am nearby he could have borrowed my squire J and a trace boxer practice amp would have sounded much better than whatever it is he is playing through sounds like theyve mixed in ambient studio sound too much for that big echoey concrete shoebox effect edit - just been skipping through the episode - just how turgid is that slow duran song!!!

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1445679223' post='2893284'] Mmm.... not sure about that, Steve - she's quite savvy. As I currently leave the house with my Compact in one hand and my LM3 tucked under my arm, the sight of me sweating (swearing?) my way out of the house with and SVT would not go unnoticed! She really wouldn't mind if I bought one, but although she doesn't mind at all about having bass guitars or even my DB (which I haven't even really started with yet) or my spare Ampeg B200r dottted around the house but I think the fridge stuck in the sitting room might be a bridge too far. The previously mentioned Cortina estate however........now there's an idea! [/quote] disguise the cabs as a coffee table with cunning use of smoked glass and fancy trinkets edit - and perhaps leave a suitably distracting coffee table book on the aforementioned cunningly disguised coffee table