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you are the Guru. It has changed my life

Obviously names can be registered. Check out the whole Bucks Fizz / Original Bucks Fizz / The Fizz story. Only 1 original member in Bucks Fizz and 3 in The Fizz (although it will be 2 soon as Mike is retiring) I have been in 2 bands that registered their names and one band that was around for 30 years, which at one brief time had no original members in it till the original singer rejoined. People knew what the band were about and the evolving line up didnt detract from it. I don't think anybody in the UK is using the name now, but someone is in the States (original guitarist actually)

lol, maybe I will!!

I hve too many guitars and basses. totalling 30. My wife has another 10!! QSC pa and subs and 3 different A&H desks, 3 bass amps, 3 different cabs, bass preamp pedals and FX pedals 5 different valve guitar amps, several 4x12s too drums, electric and acoustic A bass combo in my office and an AC30 too I just can't be bothered to sell the stuff I dont use

The la bellas on my hofner are 12 years old now. But have only done a handful of gigs. They're staying put!!

having read all this, I've forgotten what the original post was!! I've been in and run bands since 1986. In that time I've played with mad people, quiet people, good players and bad. As already said, it's not the best players you need but the players that help themselves. I now play with a select few people that are organised, well equipped and easy going. My last band was around for 30 years. The BL was the bass player and ran the diary really well, he had all sorts of deps at the ready etc. He had cancer and continued to gig up until the end. I took over running this band and playing the bass (I was at the time, the singer). Drummer coudnt run a diary and missed plenty of gigs, so I told him to clear off, then the 2nd guitarist became all about himself. He started playing with a cleaner sound and got louder and louder. It was awful, so I took the decision to finish it. If it's too stressful, just stop doing it, IMO it's not even worth talking it over with your bandmates. It'll just revert to type in the end

do you play with a pick, your fingers or your post-it notes?

This is the bass that Phil Lynott used, much later in his career. Although he painted it black and put a mirror guard on it

I do a gig, with the same band on August Bank holiday on the Seafront in Deal. I've been doing it for 12 years now. We would often have special guests turn up and play and our mate Chris (RIP) would play his 12 String acoustic on Wish you were here. Every year he turned up with a guitar lead that didn't reach the desk (which was only a few feet away) I always had a spare. Last year it was his Son that came and played the 12 string on the same song (it was quite emotional) I can't remember if he had a long enough lead but I had the spare just in case. I always have spare mic leads, vocal mics, bits and pieces, gaffa tape etc

I'd come to it (as long as not gigging etc) I'll even bring my beat up '73 P bass

I have an old hofner violin bass. I've used heavier tea bags than this thing, worth a look if you don't mind the shape and the short scale

so I have an update on the MI Pro 58 system. I was making a showreel on wednesday and was using the MIPro system and my wireless sennheiser mic. The videographer/ soundchap had my tracks playing thru a monitoring system, with my vocals. The very very slight latency in the system made my voice sound like it had 'chorus' on it (which is a delay based effect IIRC) This isn't a problem live as the PA is normally in front of me and I will continue to use them. I'm about to 'rack' the sender and the Sennheiser receiver to make my setup/teardown easier the headsup here being, if you have onstage monitoring as well as IEM, you may hear the effect too

superb, I remember it like it was yesterday

didnt know Alan Knight was still working. Nice job there

can I see a Nile Rodges hitmaker there

yes agreed, am looking now

probably but I dont have a lot of time. I have found a couple of studios locally, that seem to offer this. Am chasing them up right now I want to put in a professional looking thing

Hi there I need to put together a showreel, of my singing and performing, for a job I want to audition for I have no idea where to start any ideas please

I've used ACS for 20 years now. In my bands it's all In ear monitoring but if I dep on bass, out come the ACS I take em to normal gigs as a punter too, just in case it's a bit loud

I do like a PRS. 20 or so years ago I bought this on Ebay. It's a long story but the guy bought it to replace a PRS that got lost/stolen while he was touring. The lost guitar he actually bought from my brother in 1991/92. There'a book called the ultimate guitar and there's a double page spread picture of a vintage yellow PRS signature guitar. This was my brother's guitar. He was telling me his guitar had been lost and was in a book called the ultimate guitar book I said, that was my brother's guitar, he said is your brother called Clive? Yes

how did I miss that!!

So he learned by flipping a righty over. Same as Mr Lee Pomeroy, Eddie Wheeler from Vanity Fair too

Again, sorry for your loss. This is something I was going to do a few years ago. I even started analysing my left (fretting hand) position whilst playing and tring to copy it with my right. I just flipped my bass over and tried to do simple things. I was going to buy a left handed shortscale, to see how it went I didn't bother in the end but it is worth doing and I often think about trying it again. Imagine how cool it would be to flip to LH when playing a beatles song or two I did actually meet someone, a few years ago, who was learning to play left handed because after a badly undiagnosed broken wrist (his dad was a Dr. and said it wasn't broken) he couldnt move his wrist properly after it had healed, so he chose to start to learn LH Give it a go for sure

last night, 9 o'clock start, town centre in Deal Kent. All we needed was a dog!! (we had the 'one man') luckily 2 or 3 songs in it got busier and I managed to do the whole gig standing up, this was a little win for me. 2 x 1 hour sets of banging 80s choons