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    How was your gig last night?

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    2 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

    There are two sound guys and the other one is fine. This one is just really hard work. Our singer has a vocal effects pedal. He's a loud singer so I keep the input gain right down on it. The soundman cranked up the input gain on the pedal to the point of distortion, so I shouted "that's distorting, I'll turn it down" and did. He came back to the stage and rather angrily told us to stop messing with his settings, and put the gain back up. I was on drums and it was time to get the set going so I couldn't do anything else. Our frontman kept begging him to put more vocals in the monitor but either he realised that he'd got so much distortion that it would just feed back, or more likely just decided that we were an annoying band, either way he just sat there on his phone ignoring us

    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?"...!! :crazy:

    How was your gig last night?

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    3 hours ago, Graham said:

    I actual thought of you during Saturday's gig, as we did a Beatles song immediately followed by a Rolling Stones one 😁

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

    How was your gig last night?

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    2 hours ago, BrunoBass said:

    We had the same at a pub gig in Northampton. A bunch of Poles (I assume, they were definitely Eastern European but could’ve been from any amount of countries) came in and livened up what had been a fairly reserved crowd up until then, they danced and sang and never sat down. A pity they can’t come to every gig.

    Pole dancers?! :hi:

    Things that annoy you...

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    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... :crazy:

    Things that annoy you...

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    38 minutes ago, steantval said:

    Annoying, it’s sounds like an absolute nightmare.

    So many of them in one band, life is too short to waste with these people.

    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!

    Things that annoy you...

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    55 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

    I think I must be really lucky, yes there are little quirks about the other guys in the band, and I`m sure I have mine, but none that I find annoyin g to the point of even trying to recall them. In the past I`ve been in bands with literally all of the annoyancies mentioned, but currently, well to quote Dean Friedman, I`ll count my lucky stars.

    Most of mine were tongue in cheek to be honest! xD

    Chapman

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    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.

    Things that annoy you...

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    3 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    If you’re keeping your head in that environment, you’re doing a hell of a lot better than I would. 

    The only time we’ve ever rehearsed without our singer is when the guitars get together to work out how songs fit together before we have a proper rehearsal.

    3 & 4 are inexcusable. We do have iPads on stage, but that’s because we’re using the Presonus App allowing adjustments to our in-ear mixes. I very rarely have to do nothing to mine, but it’s nice to have there just in case.

    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!

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    Things that annoy you...

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    ...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...

    1. Our male singer never turns up for rehearsals (it's his band and he books most of the gigs...)
    2. 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...
    3. 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...
    4. 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"...
    5. Our female singer sits drinking a bottle of white wine playing sudoku before each gig whilst we're setting all the gear up...
    6. 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...)
    7. 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...
    8. 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...!

    :biggrin:

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    Hi from Sale

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    On 12 September 2014 at 11:37, stuckinthepod said:

    Thanks Bareface. I've used Steve's tech services too, he's just down the road from me.

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

    I'm learning to read bass clef, recommend a book to me

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    On 4 January 2018 at 19:43, josie said:

    Stuart Clayton, The Bass Guitarist's Guide to Reading Music - very clear with well-graded exercises and good explanations. This is the Beginner, there's also Intermediate and Advanced. I found it excellent to work through systematically.

    https://www.basslinepublishing.com/bass-essentials/the-bass-guitarist-s-guide-to-reading-music-beginner-level.html

    Josquin des Pres, Simplified Sight-Reading for Bass - covers much more material but throws it all in, in a dense format, just exercises with no text. Probably better as reference / reminder than to learn from to start with.

    https://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.action?itemid=695085&lid=0&keywords=sight-reading&searchcategory=00&subsiteid=7&

    Both come with audio to download.

    Just ordered that, thanks @josie!

    Wall or floor rack

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    31 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

    It's cool I wasn't offended :)

     

    Close - it's a PJ 555, but is a JDM model. 

     

    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!

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    Feedback for foxyFuze

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    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!)

    Greta Van Fleet

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    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.

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