Mickeyboro

Don’t knock all holiday camps - you can see decent music at some of them! I would rather see the Temptations done well by a tribute than be worried about an original member. And I’m lucky enough to have seen the ‘original’ Supremes and Four Tops.

Another perfect transaction - thank you Yousef!

As a blues band I prefer repeat gigs in venues that like us. We are niche and won’t go down well everywhere…

We have averaged 18 a year in the last three years - which for a bunch of retired people who take long holidays I think is reasonable.

We use it for audience participation purposes when appropriate. If we deploy it, then the evening has been a good one. Certain people don’t approve, but you can’t please everyone!

Have a good one - great band name!

Greg Douglass plays Steve Miller in Emsworth, Hants. Featuring @Steve Browning, and in the company of @Chimike.

No answers, just waffle. As someone who more or less made a living from sleevenoting reissue CDs in the 80s, I have to approve of ‘creative repackaging’ on principle. Kept my mortgage paid, anyway. It does seem as we are in the death throes of physical media that everything possible is bring wheeled out to make a last buck, just as superannuated rock stars are writing their autobiographies while they still draw breath/have an audience. To address the question … I don’t think bands like Lizzy had time to think, and all unreleased recordings tend to stay in record company vaults until rediscovered. Often forgotten about, sometimes even misfiled/labelled. The 70s rock audience now has disposable (pension?) income to revisit their carefree youth. So my answer would be (if I have one) the music biz are looking harder for ways to make money now streaming has taken away much of their sales base. Whether we buy what they come up with and the prices they charge are another matter! Finally, I got the Lizzy Live and Dangerous multi-disc set, but sold it as I am too used to the definitive version and anything else just sounds wrong!

Make him wear a Swans shirt…

And then there was Mandolin Wind… Mind you, there’s tablets you can get for that these days😂

Have a feeling that was Ronnie Wood noodling away!

Does seem optimistically priced at £3.5k! No original case either…

It is, @Thor, but struggling to make ends meet with town centre costs. We played a Tuesday night blues club which is an attempt to add to the weekend offering. Not as lucrative as a Sunday afternoon but we are now a minor ‘name’ and drew a good midweek crowd. So a win on all counts.

Always take a gig! Our new singer was on holiday so a friend from a band I depped in stepped up, as did a harmonica player. We just jammed it, great fun! Otis Jay Blues Band, Flea Jazz into an Elf/Barefaced One10 combination.

Get prancing, pal - but mind your back! 👍

Thanks for all the replies! I think I have decided to try and be cool and not make it an issue… always good to have the benefit of your opinions! 🙏

A Bass Collection?😂

Love my candy apple red VM4 - a bass for all occasions. Sold to me by @Skinnyman

Funnily enough I don’t use pedals and have an Xvive wireless system. So for once I can say not guilty!😈

But if the singer’s out front, so is the stand… Re the use of iPads/tablets, I didn’t use mine last week but had to squint at a written setlist. Would have made more sense to have had this on the clamped iPad, but I didn’t want to look as if I needed the words. What an idiot! (And yes, I know glasses would help)

Excellent stuff, keep it coming! One reason I hate music stands is they seem to make it to the foreground of every stage photo. If I see that in another band my eyebrows go up… Mind you, I dont like seeing people play bass with clip-on tuners still attached. Small minded, me?😁