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There's a guy like that at McCooley's which is a massive Irish bar in Concert Square, Liverpool. You have to use the house PA which isn't great but even worse most of their cables are knackered and they won't let you use your own. Rather than throw them away he just puts them back in a storage cupboard rammed full of other knackered cables so you've no idea which ones you've already tried and have to go through the same laborious process of elimination every time you play there. When you tell him the sound is terrible he just shrugs his shoulders as if to say, "what's it got to do with me?"...!!

I should've mentioned in my OP... guitarists who change guitars every 2-3 songs

Same at our gig on Saturday... 'I Saw Her Standing There' followed by an impromptu rendition of 'Brown Sugar'...!

Pole dancers?!

So last night we played a gig in our female singer's sister's pub in Manchester. It was a great gig, the pub was packed and lots of people were up singing and dancing. A lot of them were her friends and family. However she got absolutely blathered on white wine again and murdered a few songs. We debuted 'Hanging on the Telephone' by Blondie which we'd practiced for months and played perfectly over and over at rehearsals this week but it was an absolute car crash last night from the opening "I'm in the phone booth..." line which she sang completely flat, forgetting her words throughout and basically making us all look pretty stupid. Luckily after the Manchester derby 90% of the pub were more wellied than she was...

See my previous reply mate, we have a laugh and the pubs we play seem to like us. I can put up with the odd little peccadillo now and then!

Most of mine were tongue in cheek to be honest!

It's Rob Chapman's own brand isn't it? Look pretty decent from the YouTube videos I've watched. I think his band mate Dave Hollingworth from Dorje has his own signature models.

To be fair we're at Vauxhall Conference level compared to you guys! We play local pubs mainly for fun as gig fees for a band are usually £250 up here. As there's six of us we get £40 each with a tenner in the band kitty so it's a paid hobby for most of us. However we're all decent musicians and our singer is a great frontman so we enjoy ourselves which communicates to the audience meaning we always get people up singing and dancing!

...about your band. Apologies if this has been covered in other topics but I searched and couldn't find anything. I'll start things off with a few... Our male singer never turns up for rehearsals (it's his band and he books most of the gigs...) The band spend hours practicing a new song at the rehearsal the singer never turned up for to play at a gig the following weekend then the singer decides he doesn't want to sing it because he hasn't rehearsed it... During every gig our drummer always asks "what's the next song?" despite everybody having a printed set list (which is more or less the same every time) and he's supposed to start most of the songs... Our lead guitarist always plays a bit of the next song before we start it - he says it's so he can remember the key - which means every gig is like "name that tune"... Our female singer sits drinking a bottle of white wine playing sudoku before each gig whilst we're setting all the gear up... She sometimes drinks too much white wine and forgets where she is in songs and sings the chorus during verses and vice versa (not helped by being as blind as a bat but refusing to wear her glasses so she can't read her songbook...) Our rhythm guitarist has the most expensive gear in the world (Taylor acoustic, AER amp, PRS custom electric) but still needs to read the chords off his iPad despite playing 75% of the same songs from when he started the band nine years ago... The bass player (me) strolls in 5 minutes before soundcheck and tries to sneak away as soon as the gig finishes to avoid helping with the PA and lights...!

Me too, he's also just down the road from me!

Just ordered that, thanks @josie!

Funnily enough my PB-551 was in a very similar condition when I bought it off eBay years ago. In fact it still is and I added some stickers myself but I love it's mojo!

That looks like an ultra rare MIJ Fender PB-551 on the wall far right!

Bought a Barefaced Big Baby 2 recently off @keeponehandloose (Andy) - great guy, really helpful and accommodating and I love the cab. Pleasure to do business with!

Bought a fabulous Limelight Precision recently off @foxyFuze (Al) - great communication, well packaged and quick delivery despite the courier's best attempt to lose it! Also a pleasure to do business with.

Bought a fabulous Limelight Precision recently off @foxyFuze (Al) - great communication, well packaged and quick delivery despite the courier's best attempt to lose it! Also a pleasure to do business with. (sorry just found an existing topic for feedback for Al so mods please feel free to delete this!)

Bought a Barefaced Big Baby 2 recently off @keeponehandloose (Andy) - great guy, really helpful and accommodating and I love the cab. Pleasure to do business with! (sorry just found an existing topic for feedback for Andy so mods please feel free to delete this!)

Lovely family @AndyTravis. I'm just down the road from you in Sale and play in a Stockport based band if you ever need any help or to chat bass mate.

I used to have to wear a fingerless glove on my right hand when I started playing bass 40 years ago as I used a pick back then and I'm allergic to metal so I got a rash from resting my hand on the strings and bridge.

He's normally barefoot @Thunderpaws but then again it is bloomin' cold in Glasgee in the Spring!

I read an interview with the Kiszka brothers in which they said their dad was a great blues harmonica player so his album collection no doubt influenced his sons. The lead guitarist brother Jake said this: All four of us listened to blues growing up. All the old bluesmen: Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Lightnin’ Hopkins. I was also into the British Invasion and those bands’ interpretation of the blues, like The Who and The Yardbirds. I guess you could say that our music reinterprets the reinterpretations. That’s what inspires our sound. There’s this thing I say a lot: “You know when someone’s lying to you or when something is manufactured.” You can hear the truth. You can’t manufacture emotions. In the blues, you hear the truth. You can’t take that honesty away from the blues, even when you combine it with rock.

I'm sure it's not necessarily true for all but it certainly sounded terrible on the launch night of a large new Irish pub in the Printworks in Manchester!

Just ordered the Smoothhound system this morning. Hopefully it'll arrive in time for tomorrow night's gig in deepest darkest east Manchester.

Listened to quite a bit of these guys recently and they are definitely the classic rock sound of Led Zep crossed with the teenybop appeal of Hanson!