KevB

Still not rehearsed with my current employer but then I didn't audition either, just turned up and gigged. They talk about getting together to work up new material but it never seems to happen even though I've made myself available for every suggested rehearsal session. I've now worked with 3 different drummers in the 'bands' last 6 gigs...

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Good post Earbrass. Although for me it wouldn't really matter how interesting the visuals were, if I didn't like what a band was playing I'd probably be out of there in 10 minutes. Much more inclined to put up with a band with poor looks but played superbly as a unit. As you say it is all a matter of balance.

Just to get really anal about it, Deep Purple covered their own cover by rerecording it in the 80's (Gillan and Glover weren't on the original DP version). Can't remember if the rerecording is in the same key as the original or not though.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1367412326' post='2065281'] Before Jamerson came along, the bass generally played a supportive role in music. [/quote] I think for most of the music listening public it still does despite how much we, as bassists, try to convince ourselves otherwise.

It does make sense tough, if they have transposed down a semi tone and if they are referring to the 'nan na na' bit as the 'intro' then indeed the verse would start on a B and the 'intro' to the chorus would start on a G as they told you. I guess they might not include the song intro as DP did it, Neither Joe South's original or Kula Shaker's cover have that 4 chord intro for instance.

Maybe it's just the power crazed moderators that drove him away...

A long time since I played it but maybe they are mixing up 'intro' and 'chorus'. They seem to think that they are the same start chord but I don't think this is true. If they have dropped it a semi tone from original then the intro notes for bass would be A-G-E-F# then when it starts 'chugging' you'll be on B going into the verse. The 'na na' part of the chorus starts on G but the 'hush , hush' part of the chorus will be B. basically this looks correct for original, you just need to drop everything by a semi tone; [url="http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/d/deep_purple/hush_btab.htm"]http://tabs.ultimate...e/hush_btab.htm[/url] edit - bert beat me to it, pretty much as that. What you could do is retune your bass half a step up, play the fingering for the detuned version you will do with the band but this way it will sound in the right key to let you jam along with the original recorded version.

Yes, I recall him saying he was getting a bit bored with it last time BC came up in conversation at a jam session.

Unless I missed it I didn't spot any indication of the type/genre of music you are expecting to do. One of the first things I look for in potential projects is what kind of stuff would I be expected to play. If nothing else it helps me weed out the ones that are doing music I have no interest in.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1367283829' post='2063766'] Thought Blue Oyster Cult was what you meant, they haven't made a decent album since Cultosaurus Erectus. [/quote] You're joking, I'd have Fire Of Unknown Origin over CE any day, superb album.

Sent and received music gear using parcelforce with no problems at all so far. Not quite true that they don't insure instruments but they have a limit of £200 value (or did the last time I checked, been a while) which is obviously too low for a lot of basses. I've always tried to meet people in person for handovers if only to avoid all the tiresome packing.

Last time I depped I was sent a set of over 40 songs and slogged through as many as I could in the time available and at least it was with someone I'd jammed with before. On the night we played about 5 of them, rest were just thrown at me out of the blue (2x1hr sets). Most of the time I had a spotlight in my face so difficult to look over at the guitarist to actually see what he was playing.

He used to be in a house band doing jam sessions I go to but he quit in January. He was fine then and always seemed to have plenty of work on so I doubt there's anything to worry about with Richard.

I did hear his most recent album. Seemed pleasant enough 'background music' type stuff. However I'm probably the last person on earth to be making a sensible critique of jazz albums.

Yep, if nothing else it is more audition experience. After a few you get a bit of a sixth sense as to what might have mileage and what will be too much like hard work to make it worthwhile. I recall being invited to one a few years back. Supposed 'functions band' featuring two vocalists. One of them didn't turn up, the room they were supposed to book for the audition hadn't been sorted so we ended up doing it in a band members front room. They decided to audition a drummer at the same time as me and it seemed, after only being given a short time to learn the material, that I still knew it better then the 'seasoned' band memebers. I texted them back as soon as I got home to rule me out and wished them well finding a bass player.

It's not the number of bands but the number of gigs/recording sessions you can commit to. You could be in 3 bands and not gig as often as someone who has one very busy band. Once it gets to a point where you are conciously compromising one in favour of another then it's probably getting 1 too many. I'm currently just in 1, could probably take on a bit more work but I try to avoid gigging every single weekend.

Re the Orange. I hadn't noticed either when looking at them before. Both power toggle switch and position of input/headphone sockets very odd logic to me. I guess you get used to anything after a while but you'd think these would have been sorted out way before production started.

Nice to see Harry Shearer rocking out again though...

I don't know how complex the keys parts are for the tracks the OP wants to cover but if they are relatively simple then the other alternative would be midi pedals and a decent sound module to emulate the synth or brass sounds. No click track required and all played live, albeit with feet. Some of the older sound modules are fairly chaep s/h these days and a set of Roland PK5's can probably be picked up for £100 or so on eBay. Of course it is more work to learn to use them but then so was learning bass in the first place.

All that work and you end up in a house band playing other people's stuff... Seriously, sounds like you've got some great gigs lined up so enjoy!

At least it reminded me that I need to catch up on a few episodes of The Walking Dead...

Rarely in a music shop long enough these days to hear anyone actually play anything recognisable

[quote name='thunderbird13' timestamp='1366801591' post='2057486'] Yeah its the timiing on Aqualung which gets me - when it goes from 8ths to 16ths - might give Acres Wild a try at some stage [/quote] There's always some smartass... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw9cgPHru4c"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw9cgPHru4c[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1366800961' post='2057462'] Yes. [/quote] Indeed. Probably some unwritten law that if you have a multi-female lineup you should put the roughest looking one on bass or drums. Worked for Girlschool, maybe not so much for The Runaways.