peteb

I have not been particularly impressed when I have played thru a TH500, yet I have heard other guys sound great using them. When I tried out the D800 it seemed good, but I will have to play one a bit more and give it a good audition before I spend the money on it.

I would be interested to know as well, especially as I am seriously considering buying a D800 in the next few weeks.

I ordered through the website and got them to ship it over. Arrived pretty quickly with little fuss. It was a bit more than I wanted to pay, but in the end I thought what the hell - it was paid back very quickly by gig money and it's well designed and makes life easier.

I think that you might be thinking of this? http://lugville.com/shop/lugville-musicians-gear-bag/ I got one a few months ago - works pretty well and easier to find things in a hurry,but could do with being slightly bigger.

I don't suppose that you know where can you get TKS cabs in this country these days?? @wateroftyne

I doubt that - there is always a bit of give and take needed of course but there is always single gals out there who have already had their families and just looking for a bit of decent company and someone who is fun to be around. However, you do have to be a bit realistic and start looking at women in their forties rather than their twenties! Having said that, in the band I am in both the drummer (50) and the singer (57) have both recently had kids by women much younger than they are - in the singer's case, more than 30 years younger...!

It was OK - a bit strange to be honest. We had a decent crowd for the first set but we were hoping that there would be a few more in to be honest. We played fine and every song was met with a great reaction. Unfortunately when were talking to people at the break it became obvious that a lot of folks were going to leave early to get taxis home to beat the rush near midnight. Sure enough the audience started to thin out a bit in the second set, which is a bit disappointing. Most of the punters left at the end seemed to live near the city centre, but at least they all seemed to enjoy themselves. All in all, we git a decent response from a variable crowd and we got paid double our normal fee so I can't really complain...

Not so sure that I will still be up to gigging in 2918…! However, if in 2018 a new band or opportunities to gig further afield present themselves then that would be great. Failing that the main rock covers band should be putting in a few rehearsals to re-jig the set to suit the new singer (we have been too busy since he joined, so for the last few months he has been singing 3/4 of a set that was built around a guy with a different type of voice). It would also be nice if the side project blues band with a few of my best mates comes together, but a lot of that will depend on whether the singer has really still got the confidence to do it properly having had some serious problems with his voice a couple of years ago. I have also got to learn a set for a scratch band backing a guitar player from the south of England for a blues festival in the summer. Gear wise, I am looking to buy and sell a few things over the next few months to put together a nice lightweight ‘B’ rig. Beyond that I will be trying to stay married and maybe see a few places I haven’t been before in the next year or so…

More to the point, it is just as difficult for punters! Someone is less likely to go for a big night out watching a Saturday gig if they know they have to be up for work at seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. It makes it much harder for a band to pack out gigs, generate income and develop a following these days.

Duck n'Drake in central Leeds, playing the usual hard rock covers to a (hopefully) packed pub. It looks like it will be a more sober affair than originally anticipated as we are all going separately in cars, rather than all together in the van. It's a shame as part of the fee offered was free beer for the band!

No it's not, it might be how certain other people may see him but it's not how he sees himself, ie. his identity. Until 10 years or so ago, I would have said that the job I did was completely irrelevant to my identity. I have been lucky to fall into a day job that I actually give a f*** about in the last few years, but my identity ie. how I see myself and how most people who know me has always been as a musician.

Irony is an alien concept to so many Americans, even when it's laid on with a trowel like Steel Panther...

I would like to see that - do you have the link for that YouTube clip? Apparently Garibaldi returned to the TOP line up in October 2017 (according to Wikipedia)

More likely the fall in value of the pound

I wouldn't have thought that lack of punch will be a problem with a SVT 3

I must admot - I might have been tempted to go all black

Rudy has always been considered to be one of the good guys. I suppose that, unlike yourself, I have always been involved in that world albeit in a very small way compared those featured in the film. I suppose that another thing to consider is that Sklar, Gadd and co are primarily studio session guys, although I know that LS does like to be out on the road. Most of the players featured are primarily known for being a sideman in live touring bands (rather than for recording). I understand that these are two different worlds, more so than you might think.

I would have thought that Rudy Sarzo would have been prolific enough for you - he must have played with every American rock band still touring. I'm guessing that Jason Hook didn't have Lee Sklar or Steve Gadd's numbers but did have Rudy & Kenny Aranoff in his mobile. Would like to see this, but I don't have Netflix so it could be a while before I get a chance. I saw an interesting YouTube clip with Jason Hook (guitar player who part financed and produced the film) being interviewed by Nikki Sixx, talking about how it was made and some of the stories behind the production.

Two gigs with the rock covers band over the weekend (in Manchester and Rotherham), both 50th birthday parties in good venues with a stage, in-house PA, etc. Manchester was notable for me doing a Dave Grohl and falling off the stage during the soundcheck. Fortunately not too badly hurt and able to do the show but definitely not a good idea! Rotherham was a three band affair with a shared drum kit (I even ended up using the headliners bass rig in the end to save time) – could have been a disaster but ended up being a good night. A couple of photos from Rotherham below

The trouble with this conversation is that there are many different talented people around and their talent takes many forms, so you are often left comparing apples with oranges! So how do you compare a prodigy like Mozart with a highly schooled, incredibly gifted, all-encompassing journeyman like Bach – yet alone individuals from the modern age / popular music?? For me, I reckon that John Lennon was a zeitgeist of an extraordinary era with a talent that could have come out in many ways, just that it happened to be in popular music. Whereas McCartney merely happened to be a decent songwriter who came to notice working with him. A similar thing to Lennon could arguably be said about Bowie a few years later. But again, you have guitar players like Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose playing left a lasting impression on everyone who saw them long before they were famous (SRV’s drummer, Chris Layton, once said that no one ever damned him with faint praise and said that he was a ‘good’ guitar player – everyone who saw him thought that he was extraordinary). There are also guys like Prince who can do just about everything incredibly well. We are only look at people who are relatively famous and I have just mentioned a few guys who operated in genres that I am familiar with (I’m not even going to start looking at jazz or modern classical music). There have always been lots of incredibly talented people with very different types of talent, but I don’t think that you can begin to compare them unless they pretty similar in the first place, and even then…

But doesn't that frequently happen in real life??