steve-bbb

i say give it all away to charity and find a new hobby

[quote name='morsefull' timestamp='1403554604' post='2483914'] One of the bands I play in was booked for a wedding last Sat. The groom used to live with our guitarist and consequently we were booked "as a favour" for the incredible price of £65 each (5 piece + ipod disco). It was local and we thought hey, we're not out that night so we may as well do it. 2 hrs before setting off we find that the venue has magically moved from 2 miles away to 15 miles... We arrive at a village hall at 6.30 pm as arranged to set up for the evening.The guests look like they've been regulars on the Jeremy Kyle show and I'm starting to get apprehensive. "Oh well" we say "it might be fine", so a quick sound check and we go outside to relax. The groom is throwing up in the car park. The bride has finished projectile vomiting across the dance floor and is being consoled by her mother. We go outside to find the best man, but he's gone home. At 7.30 pm there are 35 ish people left and some are asking "when are the band on". No-one knows where the bride and groom are so I say sod it lets go on . We start playing and the brides mother appears from nowhere screaming JUST F***K OFF HOME !! THEY'RE NOT HERE!! By this time 2 people are dancing like nothings happened and we tell her politely "we're booked to play and we're playing! Her husband appears and turns all the lights on and the few remaining family members start clearing up, so we play 4 songs and finish. We couldn't find anyone to pay us so we didn't get paid! but then again nor did the hog roast supplier or the venue !! The latest is the newly weds have no money whatsoever........ Tossers. The moral of this story...........NEVER TRUST YOUR GUITARIST TO BOOK A GIG FOR HIS "MATE" [/quote]

arrange the words 'head' and 'meat' into a suitable well known term

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1403296327' post='2481685'] I always have visions of starting with a bang but our bloody guitarist, who has OCD insists on tuning up, even though this was done earlier, then playing through most of the parts of the song that we intend to do, before taking a sip of his drink and then looks at the rest of us and says ok, are yous ready? AAAAARGH! [/quote] swap his 13 amp fuse for a 3 amp fuse

Thursday night we was here - actually managed to get a sizeable chunk of the crowd away from the bar and on the dancefloor! [url="http://www.astro.co.uk/comms-business-awards-2014/"][/url] [size=3](pic gratuitously stolen from Astro Communications)[/size] Saturday night was a nice relaxed private birthday party gig in a lovely garden overlooking a very nice area of the north downs

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1403384644' post='2482333'] In the interest of fairness, we have now received a full apology from the management. It seems that the staff member that contacted us was not doing so following the instructions of the manager. We consider the matter closed, and won't be playing there again [/quote] Ah! The old 'blame member of staff not not understanding/following instructions' ploy Maybe dog ate his homework too Maybe pubs like should be treated with ... Yes you can book us for a gig but we require 50% deposit (non-refundable in the event of cancellation)

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1403272064' post='2481389'] Most of the adverts seem to be in the region of "Professional producer (middle aged guy with a keyboard) looking to put together an all girl band (between the ages of 18 and 22), own rehearsal space (his living room) and industry contacts (wrote down the number for xfactor applications) experience and talent not required, please send full length photo, clothing optional....." [/quote] maybe its geographically infulenced? here in kent it seems to be predominantly death metal and teenage screamers

The only equation mark I would add is why post this on joinmyband? The poster maybe hasn't checked out the 'average demographic' of JMB perhaps ? Couldn't see a problem with this at all if the songs are all standards

http://www.notreble.com/apps/

like this !

very similar sound to Byron Miller playing a P... [url="http://youtu.be/oVE_KJV-5MA"]http://youtu.be/oVE_KJV-5MA[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/kzk8v0dmqog"]http://youtu.be/kzk8v0dmqog[/url]

number 4 they can f*ck right off - do i look like a f*cking people person and reel big fish? who they?

try one of these they turn up on the effects for sale forum fairly regular

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1402857603' post='2477338'] Wow! Someone knows about Hildegunn Gjedrem! She was on TV here some time ago, but no-one knows of her. I seem to remember she lives in America but is Norwegian. The voice control and rhythm sense somehow reminded me of Cassandra Wilson, though she resembles Des'ree more in style, by the first look of it. Good call! [/quote] i found the link on snarky puppy faceache feed - seems like the snarks are her backing band too as she is on the ground up label

i just discovered this make sure you're sitting down [url="http://youtu.be/ixj8Hp61P2w"]http://youtu.be/ixj8Hp61P2w[/url]

and what about mine 3 weeks ago ?

[url="http://youtu.be/wyG08QMKt8o"]http://youtu.be/wyG08QMKt8o[/url]

+1 for the helicon - our singist oriignally used to use the big red boss pedal but changed to the helicon - the helicon seems to be the better of the two imho mcton ect

bob plant and tom jones seem to have done ok but they would appear to be the exception

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1402558660' post='2474696'] What sort of numbers might we get? [/quote] six days out of seven says it will be raining

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1402499125' post='2474165'] It's not playing music that's the main issue, it's my relationship with it. Everything I do, I put music first. If I go to church I think about how the music/sound could be improved, when I go to bed I put music on, when I get spare time I play an instrument. This is put before anything else that should be on my list. [/quote] so learn to prioritise and then learn to accept that it is not any sort of failure or underachievment that quite often many things whilst not perfect, are fine 'just as they are' imperfections and peculiarities are sometimes the best descriptive tools for capturing the nuances and subtleties of a given situation this is after all 'the human condition'

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1402531564' post='2474590'] That was fun but: It shows how insignificant the later Jamiroquai bass lines are. And he gets the Super Freak bass line wrong and labels it 'U Can't Touch This'. Which is unforgivable. I haven't listened beyond that point. Edit: I listened a bit further and realised he's learned a lot of these tunes from tab and not actually listened to the originals at all. Pretty poor. I wouldn't go as far as to chop his fingers off but if he put his fingers in front of me and begged me to do it I probably would. And he probably should. [/quote] yes and did you notice the trill at the end of the 'Are you gonna be my girl' was slightly overcooked