Breakfast

It's certainly a factor with acoustic instruments, which sort of grow into themselves over time- hence the finest classical instruments mostly being antiques. Whether electric instruments do the same or they just get a bit rusty and the electrics go skronky is a slightly different question I guess.

Best general promotion trick I ever encountered for getting a decent number of people in was at The Cavern- on their originals nights they decided the order on the evening based on the number of people each band had through the door by 8:30. It was a really good way of making sure that most of the people stayed there most of the time...

In Reading, which is the only place near here that has a scene of any kind, the bands are mostly pretty cool, but there is a local scene messageboard (to be found at [url="http://www.berkshirelive.co.uk"]http://www.berkshirelive.co.uk[/url]) which is the most ridiculous cliquey bitchfest you can imagine. By and large bands in person are a lot more affable...

My Eggle is much louder than my Spector, I have to remember to turn the amp right up when I switch them over.

I did once leap into the air whilst standing on my lead and unplug myself...

First gig with the band. First note of the slamming bassline. Bass still turned right down. That's not really image, though. We recently switched (I say "we" - last night was my last gig as an official member of the band) to a kind of scuffed-suits type look on stage, which works quite well but since then all the gigs have been stupidly hot and no-one's been able to keep their jackets on past the first couple of songs...

Just a general enquiry really for those of you who do recording type things- what microphones do you use for different things? Do you have a preferred mics for vocals, instruments or recording amplifiers and whathaveyou? What ones do you favour? Any particular recommendations for good value mics for vocals?

It's me!

We're bassists, obviously every solution there will consist of "play the root, then the fifth, then the root..." [i]80% of guitarists believe this to be true![/i]

So like any good soap opera I figured that the new site might need a bit of history from the posts that might not have been transferred, but we're too apathetic to copy over- something to set the scene maybe, like this: Breakfast, having played bass for [url="http://www.myspace.com/sequoiatheband"]Sequoia[/url] for the last three and a half years- recording an excellent album and playing many gigs including one at the Clothes Show Live and one in Toronto for Canadian Music Week, has decided to quit the band and have some free time again, choosing the moment that international fame and fortune finally started to beckon to do it. Numpty. He has a lot of experience of playing bass over many years (without actually becoming discernably good) is influenced by players such as Rick Kemp (of Steeleye Span), Nick Seymour and Mowf (of the little known Eden Burning) and his favourite album is [i]The Decline Of British Sea Power[/i]. Often seen playing a Patrick Eggle New York IV, A korean thru-neck Spector and trying to sell a rather delightful Semi-acoustic Lakland Skyline in sparkly red.