KevB

Nice to see you welcoming the drummer to the band with the traditional bassist's greeting there Dave

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[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1422463511' post='2673025'] You don't do covers exactly like the originals do you? If you did, you might as well have a DJ playing a CD. [/quote] But would you go up to an originals act after a gig and ask them why they bothered turning up if they played the songs as they were on their original CD that they were promoting? they could have just sent a DJ out and played it over the PA instead.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1422463662' post='2673028'] I feel a separate "post a pic of your first ever bass" thread coming on!! Who's with me? Should I start one? [/quote] Oddly enough I found a couple of old pics of me playing my first ever bass the other day so if you do...they are from about 30 years ago though

Pallas still going, currently on their third singer. First saw them in a tiny club in Nottingham in the mid 80's. Graeme Murray let me have a quick go on his Rickenbacker (before the punters showed up though).

As has been said it's all about opinions. Personally if I was trying to generate a reasonably definitive playlist for my ipod now I'd use the Nothing Has Changed 3 CD set but then bolster it by including the songs that appear on the older Singles 2-CD set which don't appear on 'Changed'.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1422448861' post='2672751'] [list] [*]been beating men back with sticks [/list] [/quote] Confirmed. Seen the bruises. Seriously though this is more than I did in my first 10 years or more. But it was pre internet....feeling old now.

Having heard both albums I decided to buy 'Disobey' in the end so thanks for the heads up. There is also another CD of collected old material and demos knocking about in cyberspace too.

OK, didn't know any writing credits for this era. It just looked like Darren Wharton had the keys side pretty much sorted for live work. I'm sure Phil was exactly the sort of bloke who wouldn't want a collaborator and mate left out so if it meant 2 sets of keys then so be it!

Slightly off topic but does anyone else think it a bit odd that the recent 3 disk 'best of' compilation doesn't include either Suffragette City or John, I'm Only Dancing? I know we all have our faves and it's not listed as a 'greatest hits' but if I didn't have any Bowie on CD and was looking for a fairly definitive collection then this one would fail for me just by those omissions. Unless I've misread the track list, only just glanced over it I admit.

I think I'm quite conservative. I've been running the same rig for about 10-12 years now with the only significant addition being a BassAttack pedal in the chain up front. I dropped the TE 4x10 for an SWR 2x10 5 or 6 years ago to save on space but still link it to the same 1x15 TE combo with 7 band EQ. They work fine for what I do. As long as I can physically carry them around or they die I'l stick with them. I've played through all sorts at jam sessions and in rehearsal rooms including Ampeg and Mesa kit but still have no great desire to swap over from what I have.

I hadn't seen that clip of the soul band before. Still can't quite work out what Jimmy Bain was doing there on the second set of keyboards.

It's not strictly a 'walking' bassline in the sense that a jazzer would think of it but it has bits that are in that style and it's certainly busier than the live version. I'm not sure how accurate the vs I used to play with the house band at jams but I doubt I could sing it as well (gtr used to sing it and I'd do bv on the choruses).

Generalising here rather being specific about Peart but there is also the aspect that however passionate they may seem in interviews etc these guys are doing it as a job. Personally I wouldn't want people come up to me and talking about my day to day work if I was out socially. I suspect that a lot of these guys would be more amenable to chat about stuff they are interested in away from work, eg you'd probably get more mileage out of Daltry talking about trout fishing than going into some deep discussion about a Who album.

Here's the set list of the band that Roland Rock used to be in; [url="http://www.rebelrebelband.co.uk/Set%20List%20&%20Tracks.htm"]http://www.rebelrebelband.co.uk/Set%20List%20&%20Tracks.htm[/url] And since it came up on google here's the list from a USA based tribute of the same name!; [url="http://www.rebelrebeltribute.com/set-list.php"]http://www.rebelrebeltribute.com/set-list.php[/url] Might give you some idea of what's doable and is accepted by the public in a working band.

Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable just rooting out something that has a distinctive bassline. I don't get anywhere near 'note perfect' on covers that I do but I try to get somewhere fairly close. You never know who's in the audience (I don't mean fellow critical muso's, I don't really bother about them) and it might just be that a certain part of the bassline is what really 'makes' the song for them even if they don't actually realise it is the bassline that is doing it. So you are selling them short by fudging 'their' special moment.

The Shure SM58 was often quoted as the 'industry standard' gigging mic and though other variants have come to the fore in recent years it's still probably the one you'd be most likely to come across in most live venues, rehearsal rooms etc.

[quote name='25 quid' timestamp='1422250055' post='2670264'] My band's playing at an open night on Thursday near Nottingham.[/quote] Doghouse in Carlton by any chance? I sometimes pop in to this. Not been for a while so might drop in this Thurs if you're playing.

Pioneers of a genre. Just listening to a bit of TD now in remembrance. The 2 Virgin compilations covering 1974-1983 in total are worth having though I have a few original albums as well.

Missed the Bolin gig, already seen the classic album prog from BBC but I watched all the Melbourne gig from Perfect Strangers tour, pretty good although even here Gillan seems to be struggling with a bug. Still better than the bootleg video that was knocking about of a Paris show from same tour, he's really suffering on that one. Still miss Jon Lord, great player.

I can't say I've ever noticed any real problems playing along to things with PK-5's direct to a sound module via a MIDI cable, as long as the patch I've created is meant to come in 'instantly' it sounds like it does to my ears, doesn't sound delayed. It can't be absolutley instantaneous obviously but it never sounded 'behind' the rest of the band when I was doing it live.

It's the sort of thing that would be good to do at a basschat meet if someone had a 12 step/midi expander and another had a set of pedals you could A/B them with the same sound module to check latency and other performance differences. I've not seen anyone in a live band using a 12-step yet to get feedback from though. I probably ought to chat with Billy Sheehan!

The only main downside with the 12-step is that if you have more oldschool sound modules then you need the extra box in addition to the 12-step as it only exports info via a USB (I think, its a while since I checked the spec) so you need another box to go between the 12-step and a conventional MIDI sound module. McMillen sell the box, think it's about £70-£80 so doesn't break the bank but it's another box that needs to be set up and powered. I'd hav epreferred there to be a conventional MIDI out on the 12-step as well as a USB but it's all moving toward laptop driven sound sources so can see why they designed it that way.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1422003537' post='2667539'] What's the benefit of McMillen over a PK-5? [/quote] Smaller and lighter mainly from what I've read. I have some PK5's but not using them in current band. If I were to get back into providing synth backing in a band I'd probably have a serious look at the 12-step.

I have to admit it took me a little while to get into them. Having said that the first thing I think I heard from them was a school mate playing me Hemispheres when it came out. Side 1 of that probably isn't the most 'user friendly' introduction to the band