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I'll ave a go, get the files up it should be a laugh

[quote name='dabootsy' post='215999' date='Jun 10 2008, 11:02 AM']does anyone know the size i would need if i was to take my abm 500 combo amp out of the combo and use it as a seperate head cheers all[/quote] That would be 2 units I would presume, although you would be better going for 4 or 6 since they are all the same price which would enable you to add a tuner, and fx etc

[quote name='aceuggy' post='215922' date='Jun 10 2008, 09:13 AM']Please excuse my ignorance, but what's a rockbag? Is it a gig bag kind of thing?[/quote] Its a 19 inch rack insde a gig bag This one didn't have a buy it now price either, I emailed him and he offered it to me for £10.50, has to go down as my bargain of the year I think

I just bought a 4 unit one off ebay for £10.50 brand new in the box. This is the link iuf anyone wants to grab one of these while they can [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150255186385"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=150255186385[/url] not sure what they usually go for but I thought a tenner was ridiculous

Bass playing never interested me until I heard you fool no one and mistreated from the Burn album. His bass lines were superbly crafted and his voice complimented Coverdale to perfection. I wish they had made a lot more albums with that line up, 2 wasn't enough

top bloke, highly reccomended *****

Cakewalk sonar 6 or 7 and just use the TSS standard softsynth in it to edit midi files then just stick em either on minidisc or convert them to MP3 or wavs a play back on a laptop We sometimes use midifiles for the keyboard parts and the drummer plays with a click, if we work when the drummer isnt available we just bang the same files but with the drums enabled onto a minidisc and bobs your uncle

I'm drooling over that, I wish I had some spare cash at the moment, I would have that. Bet it makes US Fenders seem feel like planks of wood. Thos IMHO were some of the best instruments ever made

[quote name='jacko' post='213548' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:54 PM']the combned purchase price of my 3 alembics was over £11000, the MK costing around 6. The custom I have in mind for my 50th birthday would cost around £15 but that needs senior management approval[/quote] 15 quid??? I'll have 10 please ;-)

I use a trace elliott combo and DI it through FOH, I wouldn't fancy putting it through the foldback. Hoever I have been thinking recently of buying a Bass Pod XT and trying that through FOH and foldback without any backline. I would be really interested to know if anyone has tried this and what the results were. Our guitarist uses Variax's and a Pod XTL straight through the PA, no backline at all and he gets a great sound but not sure it would work as well for the bass. Plus I would think I would need a much better quality monitor for this

Depends on what type of integrity you mean? I mean playing Brown girl in the ring three nights a week when you can't stand it and turning in a good professional performance each time despite that, well wouldn't that be professional integrity? besides, how many modern bands have artistic integrity. For example Oasis blatantly copying other peoples tunes and changing the words, is that done with integrity? Thats just one so called original band, how many more are our there copying other artists material and calling it original. I think its all down to personal taste and obviously personal opinion. There is no black and white except in the eye of the beholder.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='213014' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:18 AM']Yup, thass bubblegum! A good arrangement of these kinds of tunes is generally polishing turds. Nice and shiny but still fundamentally stools! Seriously, tho', I am not as much of a nazi as I appear. I can see why people like this stuff. Its low input, undemanding stuff. There is a shallow sense of satisfaction in seeing a room full of punters dancing to the stuff. But I fear that, if all anyone ever get is bubblegum or nostalgia, they will cease to expect anything more. Whilst there is a place for fast food, it would be a shame to see every decent restaraunt close and the only thing you could get to eat would be KFC.[/quote] Superstition, play that funky music and a classic beatles rock n roll song bubblegum ??? I think not! that just smacks of musical snobbery. I have noticed most musical snobbery comes from Classical musicians and jazz musicians. Just because people would rather listen to well written pop songs rather than listen to the boring self indulgent noodlings of jazz musicians doesn't make it all bubblegum pop!

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='212583' date='Jun 4 2008, 04:15 PM']Errr.... that's my point. If its all covers, the whole thing dies, pop, classical, jazz, country, zydeco, reggae, folk.... all dead. There IS a lot of creative music out there, even some people playing out of tune nonsense and calling it avant-garde, but it rarely gets an outing because of all these covers bands clogging up the gigs! Let me make a point. I do a regular jazz gig in Bury St Edmunds, been doing it for 4 years. We do covers under the guise of jazz standards and, due to the generally conservative tastes of the bandleader, most of what we do is not particularly challenging. Our audience are not really listening; they look over in our direction once in a while and occasionally clap politely but it is what many call 'background music'. The standards we play are mostly the obvious Top 100 (the jazzers out there will know what I mean) but this audience demographic wouldn't know All The Things You Are if it walked in and bit them. Anyway, occasionally, someone pulls out a composition of their own and, because they have done a bit of work, written out a decent chart and have something resembling an arrangement, these compositions stand out and people notice them and comment positively. The great thing is, the farther 'out' we go, the more the audience responds. These people are mostly 20-30. What is apparent is that they respond to the ENERGY not to the notes. When we play something original, there is something less tired and stale about it. I just think if people stopped accepting covers bands, people would realise that their audience is more accommodating than we think and have more brains than we give then credit for. If the material is strong, they will get it. Remember, every song they ever hear they had to hear for the first time![/quote] Where is the creative music? I haven't heard anything I would call creative since the 1970s. The cover bands are clogging up the gigs because the original bands are playing tunes that no one wants to listen to. You say the jazz covers you do are not particularly challenging, do they have to be challenging? you said in a previous post that it was the complete song that mattered and not the individual musicianship. to me, most of the Jazz I have listened to is merely self indulgent noodling, or fret w***ing to give it its proper term. I as a punter don't want to listen to that. Its like everything else in life, if people want a burger they go to macdonalds rather than buy a homade one from a small bistro, The world unfortunately whether we like it or not thrives on convenience. when people go out to enjoy themselves they like a drink and a dance and maybe a singalong, Its much more convenient if the band is playing something they know. Its the way of the world Besides why would it mean the death of music? it hasn't done the DJ's any harm playing other peoples tunes down the years. Many of them are now stars

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='212484' date='Jun 4 2008, 01:57 PM']I would class the Kaiser Chiefs & the Zutons etc as another form of shallow nonsense but that's not my point (most rock music is as corporately sponsored as most other bubblegum music; the fans hate to acknowledge it because they like to think their artists have integrity but the 'brand' that is Marilyn Manson is as much a 'product' as the Kaiser Chiefs). My criticism is of OTHER PEOPLE playing the Kaiser Chiefs material. Steve Morse in Deep Purple is still Deep Purple doing Deep Purple material and their decisions regarding arrangements are their own so I won't criticise them for it. But if Steve Morse left and started a band called 'Smokey and the Waters' doing a DP tribute, he would go down in my estimation![/quote] So where does that leave us then? we have all pop and rock music which is shallow nonsense, Classical music which is mostly people playing covers, and Jazz music which is mostly people playing covers and a few people playing out of tune nonsense and calling it aventgarde. So whats left that actually has any integrity at all?

Bubblegum? but then again thats down to personal taste isn't it? As I said one mans cheese is another mans masterpiece. Personally I can't stand any of the new rock music thats about (Artic Monkeys, Zutons, Kaisers etc ect) to me it all sounds like rehashed punk done badly but to other people it obviously has its merits. Original bands are great and there should be more of them. Like I said, not everyone wants to write and perform original music and to me that doesn't mean their artistry is superfluous. Their art comes in the way they translate thier own view of a particular line. A prime example of this is when well known bands recruit a new musician eg: Steve Morse with Deep Purple. Would you say that his versions of the old material are artisticly superfluous? Its all relative to any one individuals point of view