KevB

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1443271831' post='2873533'] You're right, Kev. My comment actually looks a bit silly now. But the song still sucks. As a marker of talent - Sam Smith wrote this in twenty minutes, which is five minutes longer than it took Chris Cornell to write Black Hole Sun. It should be like with actors - Chris Cornell should get a five film deal to do the theme songs etc. Is Shirley the only artist to do more than one theme song? I have no idea why we're getting so upset and protective about this issue, but.....we are, rather, aren't we? [/quote] It wasn't a dig, its just that the Bond films have always tried to pick artists that were fairly high on people's radar at the time the films came out or were at least shot. Off the top of my head I think SB is the only 'multi themer' as a singer. I think that 'Moonraker' was a bit unintentional in that someone else was slated to do it, studio time booked but then fell ill and SB was drafted in as an emergency. I wonder if she ever regretted it as, particularly compared with Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever, the Moonraker theme is a bitof a forgettable turkey. Edit - just wiki'd it, Johnny Mathis was supposed to do it but didn't finish it (no illness mentioned) so SB brought in a matter of weeks before film premiere. Apparently Kate Bush was considered at one point! but remember this was 1979 when KB was a newish regular charting performer.

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1443215340' post='2873239'] This is what you get when you let some flavour of the month do the Bond theme. [/quote] This isn't a new thing though, it might sound a bit strange but in the era in which they were made the likes of Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Louis Armstrong etc then later Sheena Easton, Duran Duran, Aha were very much popular artists in the 'now'.

Another one to chuck on the 'not better but [i]different[/i]' pile... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_CQkPavyc

It's a better mix for the P than this was (assuming the audio is really from the same gig as the video?) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxiw7kfp9Tw[/media] How things have changed in the intervening 40 years!

Glad to know The Wanch is still there, I had a t-shirt from there in 1989. The place was always changing so rapidly I was cautious about posting anything as I assumed none of the places I remembered would still be there. The parents of an old mate lived in HK for 8 years so I went out with him to see them a couple of times, by the time I went they lived in Causeway Bay so we'd often get down to Wanchai for a beer in the evening.

I got as far as when he went all silly falsetto and had to leave the room but in truth I think I was already bored of it before then. Intro was alright up until the vocals kick in.

You're breathing, it's misleading - I'm sure you've been dead since you got in my bed.

Only heard it once the other day, kind of washed over me but with someone like DG that's pretty much as I'd expect these days. Will need a few more listens.

If Ned Kelly's still exists on Kowloon side there was usually music most nights, often big band/ jazz type but I was last there in 1991 so it's all very different these days I imagine. I think Mad Dogs used to put bands on as well, again it may not be there any more.

Muse. Just stop it with the Queen/Dr Who theme mash-ups.

Still listen, usually on the bike commute to and from work. A lot of my route is on a canal towpath so I don't have to be watching out for traffic so much. I have more music on in the car than I listen to the radio. Recently I have been doing some work in another place where I am subjected to radio 1 in the background all day. Absolute torture, and can be quite distracting at times.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1442847040' post='2869948'] Here's the thing Everything works perfectly................don't fix it Something is wrong...........................fix it [/quote] That was pretty much my reasoning in this case. My idleness is vindicated - huzzah!

It's one of my gear embarassments that I still haven't had my Trace combo serviced since I got it (secondhand) about 12 years ago. Between gigs it gets stored in a cupboard under the stairs so maybe it's actually all being held together with spiderwebs inside these days. I don't carry a back up amp either, in a real emergency I could probably DI through our PA at a pinch.

Funnily enough I had the '[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Unauthorised-Biography-Steve-Hackett/dp/B00002642B"]Unauthorised Biography[/url]' on in the car this weekend. I picked it up years ago on the cheap. It probably gets played a couple of times a year but I always enjoy it even though I was never that big a Genesis fan.

Sat night rather than last night and wasn't going to bother reporting as it was one of those 'get through it and get home' gigs where no matter what you do the (small) audience just seem indifferent. Until you tell them its the last song and then of curse they don't want you to leave! They want us back at some point so it wasn't a totally wasted trip but I'm not sure it's ever going to be 'our' sort of place. One odd thing during the gig, part way through first set there was an ominous smell of burning. It didn't smell particularly electrical and we use all LED lights so it was hard to figure what we had that could have got so hot it was burning something else. It crept slowly toward me and as I had the desk and PA on my side I couldn't see that it could be the source. Now the guitarist is really looking panicky on other side of stage area. I got to a point in a song where I could hold a long single note and quickly checked our stack of PA gear, not even warm. Eventually transpired that some guy was smoking something outside the front door and somehow the air currents were channeling it all in the pub and straight into our area, like DIY smoke machine except smellier. It wasn't even dope, just smelled like a paper/cardboard bonfire. Couldn't believe it was just a cigarette, he must have actually set fire to something to produce that amount of smoke, could see the haze in front of the floor lights.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1442772475' post='2869360'] Well, by your logic most P and J basses must be firewood! [/quote] They've seen the 'Fenders are rubbish' post and have panicked

Neil Young's used harmonium on some of his stuff through the years too.

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1442696586' post='2868889'] On the other hand, that same name on the head stock will mean they retain value well so its not as clear cut as it seems at first. [/quote] Will be interesting to see if the early Sandbergs, Lakland's etc are commanding the sort of money as collectors items that early Fenders do now when they are 40+ year old instruments.

Pretty sure James Brown toured with 2 bass players toward the end in much the same vein as casapete's recollection of Little Richard. As for the OP, tricky situation. I've not done church bands but I guess they can get quite political. Not the done thing to just turn up and play unannounced without asking, you wouldn't even do that at a jam session. Maybe there is some scope for sorting out a set list where some tunes are better suited to DB that he can do and others that need more drive that an electric is better at so he sits those out? He's made a bit of a faux pas up front though so mayb enot recoverable?.

Yes D Baker was on Friday, a bit pissed. I like the comedy and the theme, best tune Squeeze have done for ages (though they haven't formally released an album under that name for ages anyway )

Handy collection came out in 2011 'Retrospektive 1969-1980' worth having.

The truth is there are bands that won't play for less than a certain amount and won't touch venues that don't come up with it. It is equally true that there are those venues that won't touch some bands with a barge pole because they have a budget and those bands ask far beyond what they can or will pay no matter how much the band thinks they are 'worth it'. That's how there is a playing field out there that can accommodate all sorts of approaches. We all have our limits and level of compromise between the social and financial side of being in a band. Being in a band you love and getting very well paid is best but there are many shades of grey from then on down. This thread seems to be moving more toward one that's been repeated many times on this forum so I probably won't contribute any further.

I think we are also paying approx 2 - 3 times as much for petrol (gas) as you do, for the more distant gigs it really starts to figure into your thinking, even though prices have come down recently.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1442596789' post='2868152'] by having established acts on it boosts viewing figures achieving 2 things, it keeps the programme from being cancelled and the up and coming acts get more exposure [/quote] Fair enough. Now get thee hence to the Greyhound and get sound checking Good to meet up mate.

The Stereophonics are on next week, got to give these up and comers a helping hand...