KevB

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1435236771' post='2806827'] I think the point is, if it isn't possible to avoid these charges why the f*** are they listed separately? [/quote] I've posted similar threads to this before and had the argument over the till at various venues. Invariably to no real resolution. You get charged even turning up to venues and paying in cash over the counter. Ther 'face value' is a nonsense, the product can never be bought at that price any more so why advertise it? The last I heard was 'PRS made us do it' (counter staff at Rock City, Nottingham). The other flimsy excuse is that the system used by many venues now cover more than one venue and the final price at different venues will be different (95% of cases I bet it's not). Or in other words they just can't be arsed to calculate what the [i]real[/i] minimum ticket cost is at each individual venue.

Are they the 'heavy metal band booked by mistake' this year then?

Cheers Chris, that Crown power amp performing very nicely ta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGFoIpdv8wg

Mine's played by a lard-arse.

Wyman had detachable legs. Little known fact. Explains lack of onstage movement.

I was once in a band that insisted on Eb tuning (dodgy singer) and found 45-105's were fine, still playable. Probably would have handled a whole tone down but we didn't go that far. Used to do 'Slither' in another band in drop-D and the 105 gauge was just about OK for that (on a jazz).

Well there will always be some fanboy putting pen to paper...

Actually I think it was the singer who came up with it!

It's always struck me how much Ian Anderson looked like Chris Martin round about that '76 Minstrel phase.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1434828295' post='2803187'] So I really applaud BD for recording their new stock. And I'd recommend anyone serious about high-end bass visit their store in Warwick... Here's their channel: [url="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-wL-AW8fNJ1T46TZkHoikQ"]https://www.youtube....fNJ1T46TZkHoikQ[/url] BUT is it me or do their videos make every bass (almost) sound the same? Notable exceptions being some burpy Warwicks and the odd Alembic. Discuss? [/quote] They are playing them all through the same rig though, yes? There you go...

After leaving the magic roundabout and going her own way she's done alright for herself. You never even hear of any of the others...

I think if you are a name act and you have plenty of roadcrew and the replacements are offstage that's fair enough, it's not cluttering the performing area. Last time I saw Quo I think Parfitt changed his guitar for [i]every[/i] song, it's almost become a trademark. But the changes are quick and effortless because his gtr tech is on the ball. They still mostly sound the same though...

I don't recall any of us changing an instrument at a gig in the 2 years I was with the last band. The main guitarist brought a 2nd gtr in case of string breakages but I don't recall him swapping over at any gigs. I took a 2nd bass once on a whim because i knew it was a big enough playing area to accommodate it but didn't expect to use it and didn't. New band's 1st gig last Friday the only change was when our singer/2nd gtr did an initial warm up set on acoustic solo then swapped to his electric for the full band's 2 sets. None of us changed instruments during either set. Thankfully no string breaks, not sure if gtrs had brought back up gtrs even thoigh they both own quite a few. I wince a bit when I see a band's set up before they go on and it looks like a music shop clearance sale.

One of the band members was having a grumble that 'they couldn't hear us very well at the other end of the pub' from what one punter told him after our gig on Fri. It was a big L shape room with us at the end of the short arm of the 'L' ! To have had us at sufficient vol at the big end of the L (through the bar as well) we'd have been so loud the folks in front of us would have been forced outside probably. There was room for them to have come a bit closer where the sound was fine if they were that bothered.

In my instance I'm not sure what was and wasn't mic'd up but I know Chris's bass combo wasn't and it sounded fine. Then there were 2 further bands on and each was at punishingly high vol. If they weren't mic'd then the sound man was just pandering to them trying to squeeze as much from the PA for the vocal mics as he could just to 'keep up' with the amps. He should have just told them to turn the f*ck down then balanced the vocals from there. The vocals were part drowned out for band 3 (think they were actually weak singers anyway to be fair) then so loud for last band to keep up with backline it was physically hurting my ear drums. I had to make my apologies and leave. I wanted to stay to see who won. I made it all the way through a Motorhead gig in the 80's as well, probably just getting old.

I don't think I'd volunteer my opinion unless it was people who I knew and who I knew would value that opinion. I actually walked out of a venue on Saturday night (4 bands in battle of the bands type scenario, went to show support for our own Chris Sharman) halfway through the last act as the levels were getting stupidly loud. The mix was OKish (except it was getting so loud they were actually drowning out the drummers which takes some doing) but the master output was physically hurting my ears even stood at the back of the room. Headache by the time I got home, raging tinnitus all day Sunday.

New project for me, still in it's infancy. The next 2 gigs will only be the 2nd and 3rd ever proper gigs after a few rehearsals and knocking a working PA together. Hence likely to still be a bit rough round the edges but if you fancy a few well known foot tappers from 60's to 2000's feel free to pop along: [b]Sat 27th June - Beeston Marina, Nottinghamshire[/b] [s]Sat 4th July - The Crown, Heanor, Derbyshire[/s] Cancelled - sorry guys got dicked around by landlord twice over this gig! Both will be 9:00-9:30pm starts even if facebook page states otherwise. Just click on the link in my sig below and there will be links on facebook page to map references for the venues (hopefully, facebook page still a bit 'under construction').

Well of course we all should because we all now know 'it's all in the fingers'

Showing right now on TCM. Masterclass from occasional BC'er Jerry Scheff. Yes it includes [i]that[/i] performance of Suspicious Minds

People who stick their capo's on the end of the headstock are just as guilty, looks like the guitar has some unseemly growth sprouting from it.

Glascock and Barlow when at the top of their game were a hell of a rhythm section in their genre.

I keep a rottweiler chained to my rig and mic'd up at every gig just in case.

Nothing quite so dispiriting as turning up at a venue, seeing the band name on the chalkboard outside and it's not your band. There's that little ray of hope when it's a Sat that they've had a band on Fri as well and just forgotten to update it. Then you walk in and see a load of unfamiliar flightcases strewn around and the truth unfolds. Only happened a few times to me but it's a bummer. Especially when you know you're not getting paid off and the promise of 'we'll see you right at your next gig here' never materialises. I'm sorry, this is all getting a bit 'creme brulee' now

If I hadn't been playing I'd probably have been down the T&T Paul, maybe next time! There's still a crowd there these days but you should have seen it in the 90's when the rock nights at nearby rock city was really pulling them in, T&T was packed every weekend. Good to hear the staff do alright by the bands, ironically when it was in its heyday it was run by a miserable old bag.