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I agree with not playing places too often, a minimum of 3 months between gigs at a venue seems about right.

12 out of 15, I too had problems with the funky clefs

Two good gigs this weekend. first one on Friday night was at a bar/nightclub in Dunstable, we've played there before and it never really gets going until 11pm. We started at 10.30 and the place was almost empty until after midnight when people started streaming in and the place was rammed. We carried on playing until quarter to two. Highlight of the evening was when half the office staff of one of my clients from my day job came in on a works night out, they were quite astounded to see their computer support guy rocking away on stage.

Saturday's gig was a 21st birthday party at a pub in Luton. Big enthusiastic crowd and the dancefloor was full for both our sets, slightly spoiled by the nutter dancer who looked as if he was going to crash into the PA speakers at any moment but luckily never did. After we finished a very lovely lady came up and told me what an incredible bass player I am, so that's my ego sorted out for a while!

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Do you alter the EQ depending on the song?
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I do, I find the J-Retro is quite versatile although I have two favourite settings which equate to ' smooth and warm ' and ' disco ' which cover most of the songs in our set. Same as JTUK above, I don't use pedals and I try not to fiddle with my amp settings once I have soundchecked.

Jazz bass with a J-Retro does it for me

My band gigs in the Beds/Herts area ( not far from where you're looking to live ) and we mainly play pubs for around £250-£300 a gig plus weddings and parties every now and then which pay better.
We're getting all the gigs we want and will probably do around 50 this year.

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Love Slip Upon Ya is a killer tune from that LP too....
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That is just sooooo funky!

Played last Saturday at a pub in Harpenden where we'd played New Years Eve. Must have done alright because the landlady booked us for next New Years Eve.

When I started a function band with a drummer friend we booked a few pub gigs and invited some local agents to come and see us. We got some good gigs from doing that but most of our work came from our website and word of mouth. What Truckstop says about parties is dead right, we did a few for relatives and friends and the word spread.

I like all of that, especially reasons 8,6,3 and 2

Once at a rehearsal the guitarist stopped the song to ask me why I wasn't playing

He can't be any good, he's using a music stand on stage

I'm quite partial to a nice D, otherwise I don't mind.

Best rig I've ever had is the one I've got now. US Fender Jazz with J-Retro, Little Mark III amp and 2x Aguilar GS112 cabs. I play a mix of soul/funk/pop covers and a bit of jazz and this rig does everything I need.

The Flag

46 gigs with my covers band this year which is the most I've ever done in a year, so I'm very pleased with that. Already got 30 gigs for next year, all repeat bookings.

That's my Friday evening taken care of. Thanks for the heads up.

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In my opinion and practice, both at my day job and with bands, if I agree to audition X people for a job, I will go through X auditions before I make a decision. I will try to give everybody a fair chance, by giving the same task to everybody, and assessing their work.

Naturally, I will begin to form my opinion, but the answer for everybody is that we need to finish the auditions before we can make a decision, and that's what I do. If I find someone suitable in one round of auditions, I will close the job and politely refuse anyone else.

A little dry perhaps, yet my experience says it's the right thing to do.
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That's the way I've always done it too. The only time I've offered someone a place on the spot was with a singer who was the last of several to audition. I could have offered it to one of the others who was good enough and missed out on the best one.

the way I look at it, I go out and have a good time on a Saturday night and end up with more money than I started with.

Chuck Berry decided on his stage name during a trip to France when he noticed people throwing their headgear around

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Desmond Dekker has an identical twin brother who works as a bus driver.
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And his other brother owns a large power tool company in partnership with the drummer from The Stranglers

As long as you don't dismiss something as inferior just because you don't like it, then not liking something doesn't make you a snob.

If you are in the south of the country then signing up to Lemonrock is a good idea. You can put up a band profile with pics and MP3s, you can see which pubs are worth targeting, you can see what other bands are doing. If you're starting out you still have to put in the leg work ( I reckon a visit is better than a phonecall ) but after a while you'll build up a track record that you can show to venues. After three years we now have landlords phoning us for bookings, some of them said they look on Lemonrock to find the busy bands.

If someone else had a technical mishap I'd have no problem letting them use my bass. In fact I'd probably offer before they asked.

If you google aerodyne fsr all the music shop ads say it's made in Japan. The pictures look like it's the Japanese non-export version.