Raymondo

Yes...definitely YES!

Remember the song "How Long" by Ace? Part of the lyrics went "how long has this been going on?" The answer was at least an hour and 30 minutes; At least it was when my ex-wife and I went for a meal at a local pub/restaurant around twenty years ago. The song was playing when we walked in and it was only after we had chatted for a while, received our drinks, and was tucking into our food, that I suddenly realised that the playback was stuck in a loop...it kept replaying the line "how long has this been going on" with exactly the right amount of music fill to start again with the line how long etc I called the waitress over and pointed this out to her and she said that she blanked out the background music and hadn't noticed. She said she that she would get someone to "sort it." My wife and I finished our meal, including a sweet ( I had talked to the waitress whilst we were on our main course), had more drinks all the while giggling away at how the line just kept repeating and repeating. When we left it was still playing!

Now now...there's a time and place for that sort of thing young man...DOI any one?

Fine and indeed a dandy ta.

Now THAT brings back fond memories! PS. aye up you owde weirdo...how's it 'angin'?

^^^ What they said!^^^

I finally gave up playing for a living (that sounds like I had done it for ages...what I mean is, when I lived in Tenerife I played for a living!), in Tenerife, because this kept happening. It was 2008 when things were a bit tough but some of the places we played we had been working for three years ...getting our fee regardless of the amount of people in the venue but somehow we were expected to turn up,set up...play to see if enough people came in and then pack up and go home with a very reduced fee,or sometimes nothing at all, if they didn't! I have never experienced it in this country...I have been paid more because we had a great crowd, sold lots of beer over here ( my local is brilliant for that) which is nice. Glad to see you got the money in the end.

I wasn't looking...so that's ok then. 😁

Is "content I posted in" on your phone? I have never noticed anything like that but I mostly use a pc.

It's easy to "Unfollow" a thread though ...as you just found out! 😉

As my esteemed colleague Mr Blank has just so eloquently answered the questions @BigRedX has, could I just point out... The "in jokes" are only in jokes because those of us whom contributed in the beginning, had broadly the same sense of humour. They are not meant to exclude anyone and if , as a newcomer, somebody wants them explaining we are more than happy to do so.. My alter ego of Dr Mondeaux for example (the one where I am probably responsible for hurting your brain... because of my ridiculous phonetic spelling ,meant to imitate Parker of Thunderbirds fame, using a Nottingham accent...sorry about that), came about because I was meeting @Teebs in real life to go to a gig in his area, and I jokingly said "don't worry I'm not going to be harvesting your organs." I happily ignore just about everything else on Basschat because I got the information I was after shortly after joining, and I have no interest in the minute details of, ownership, playing, or the recording of bass, or any other instrument. The DOI kept me sane during lockdown...I live alone ,have health issues and was getting more and more depressed...so I am grateful that @ped allows it to flourish. I hope we don't bother the mainstream members too much!

Why would I want to isolate myself when on stage? I am probably not as "Pro" as the OP but .. .I have had a few years where I paid all my bills by only playing bass, and... If playing to 2000 is a measure ... I have played Rock City a few times....which leads me to my point. The onstage monitoring and overall stage sound at Rock City was phenomenal. The noise of the packed crowd singing every word was so moving and inspirational. I'm not sure that it would have been so enjoyable with my ears blocked by IEMs.

Actually it was us,Australia, NewZealand India, and France. We had a "pact with Poland that said we would fight to defend them if their country was invaded.

I have a simple answer to the original question.... Do an arrangement of "Man in the Mirror." You then have MJ writing about changing the world by changing oneself. That shouldn't offend anyone shirley?