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Agree with that, the bands that draw tend to be a bit out of the box, the bands that play sex on fire and boys are back in town for the 30th time that year tend to be the ones that struggle. Punters like bands to be a bite more specific these days.

I think you should learn to read in context and stop trying to be offended. Nobody called you a mug, been a northerner you should know what these sayings mean. If I have offended inadvertently I offer an apology, which from someone with my reputation is rare. .

The event is part of The Media Company Publications group Hmm, they want £800-£1200 for an advert in one of their many magazine titles . They also are behind hundreds of similar magazine based events, all of which will be to attract advertising. They recently advertised for a PR events co-ordinator, one role listed was contacting artists to arrange entertainment for events. I think a few bands will be getting a zero budget it might lead to other work call from them. How desperate are you again to play for free....

What "exposure" are you hoping to get, a reputation as a free band. There will be two lots of people working for free, the photographer and the musicians. There will be no doubt a till ringing in the bar, ticket sales, stall holders paying a fee and mugs playing for nothing. The best exposure you can get is to start as you mean to go on and request to be paid what you are worth, if you value yourself as worth nothing, it might be an idea to look for another band. The cheeky beggars that organise these things are out to exploit people, sorry but they are. Let some other mugs provide free entertainment for the clients whilst they spend their money. A reputation as a free band will not do your brand any good. When people "play for free" you are actually harming the industry you want to break in to and reducing your chances of getting paid work, make no mistake, they will drop you like hot sh*t the second you ask to be paid. They are mugging you off, have more pride in yourself. You would not concrete someone's drive in the hope they pay you next time it needs doing. Work out a fee, give them the fee and let them find another bunch of mugs if they do not want to pay it.

He uses a new re-issue precision, personally, I think it is to clean for the Jam stuff, he really should dig out one of his Ricks again for a few tracks like eton rifles and going underground . As a player, well, he really knows his stuff and executes it very well, we have to remember, he wrote some of the most recognised basslines in history. Ashdown now sponser him with amps, which given the reliability issues of Marshall bass amps IMO, that can only be a good thing. I would put him as one of the most underated bass players of the last 35 years, he does not over egg the cake, try a few of his later lines to work out just how clever he was on some things, any fool can play notes per second, it takes a genius like Foxton to work out which ones not to play.

Most of it is made in the far east, I doubt it ever gets to Europe.

With any band, they are plenty of great musicians out there that have one very common problem. laziness. They just can not be bothered to sit down at home and learn new material. You need to learn to avoid these poeple as on any band you will only ever move at the pace of the slowest musco. If that is an idle begger then your band is stuffed.

When you see one of the chains that owns pubs disguised as "local pubs" filed £116.4 million in profit I have to ask if working a 9-5 job 5 days a week to provide equipment, fuel and time to "help out" your local helped fill the coffers just a bit more. Who knows perhaps as the owners sit on the yatch sipping wine they will think of thoses hours you slogged away for nothing and toast to your health.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1396771934' post='2417076'] Nor mine. 30 years of local gov. service , and the cruelly double edged and painful sword of inheritance have furnished me with all the doh ray me I'll ever want or need. If it was I'd be playing music I don't care for in the Northern clubs for 3 times what pubs pay me.. Money is , however , the driving force behind pubs and small venues employing bands. They want to make money. End of. I consider it right , proper , and fair to take my share as their employee. I don't mind what anyone else does - certainly not what you do - so if you thought my use of the word 'YOU' was directed at you alone , it wasn't. I was addressing everyone as to my opinion. It's the only way to make a businessman - which landlords and promoters are - to see that there's actually some value in what musicians do. If a musician doesn't want money - maybe he or she might consider taking it anyway for all the reasons I've listed and giving it discreetly to a favoured charity , or maybe sponsoring a young player to have lessons or buy decent kit. [/quote] +1 great post

The latest one is "charity " nights, pick a charity, any charity, find some musicains to work for bugger all by guilt tripping them and stuff the bar till with cash.

Never give up the punt for the pole. Use the spare time to find another working unit to get on board with.

What I do know is the Bc500 2x10 Combo which is the same head as the amp and the same cab as the 2x10 can be bought second hand for less money than just one of the seperates. Makes no sense !

Top of the pops was pre-recorded recreated tracks in studio and then mimed or just the vocals live. Some where re-mixed from master tapes. Adam Ant got booted for refusing to do this and demanding to play live to stand and deliver and his video had to be shown instead. Odd facts...

I can tell a covers bands proffesionalism within the first 6 seconds of the start. If I hear only 4 clicks and bang off they go and up go the lights , you know it will be a good band. Hear people get on stage and start plucking strings, bumping bass notes, or wait for someone to tune the guitar whilst the rest play random song parts and I know, it will only get worse.

See if they will allow a smoke machine, works wonders at damping the air.

I would settle for some working plug sockets actually on the stage.

If he attempts to protect his branding, will he get the same stick on here as others that do ?

Are these speakon ? if so check they use the same pins as standard, they were a bit quirky. I had some of the cabs and they were 1+3 not 1-2

Been pulled ? mind you they did have a some other "high value" guitars for sale as well.

[quote name='Iheartreverb' timestamp='1390736923' post='2348743'] Useless comments aside. I'm not a tone chaser in the regard I need/want it to nail the tone 100%. I just need it to be useable and at present the pickups aren't [/quote] Thats copies, but how much you willing to spend to make it "playable" the copies can fetch £500, then £200 for pickups. You could pick up a second hand 4003 for around a grand, that will still be worth a grand when you want to flog it. Copies are ok, but once you start spending you have to look where you are going with it. The Brand matters not, but there is a term of throwing good money after bad.

Indeed another thread, who would rely on one of these to gig ? Down the pub with a few mates, might be OK, but a proffesional gig, would you trust it, or would you take a spare amp ? The previous quality levels of this equipment has left many with blown amps. I suppose it depends at what level of relibility your require. They may have got thier act together, but would you want to be the test pilot.

[url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10562256/Day-in-the-life-of-a-Chinese-labour-camp-inmate.html"]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10562256/Day-in-the-life-of-a-Chinese-labour-camp-inmate.html[/url] This China ? Excessive margins of the" free world" are often becuase they have to pay people a wage who make the stuff, instead of sticking a gun in thier back. The selfish "i just want my cheap sh*t" attidude is OK, if that suits everyone. Heck I have bought enough. But just spare a thought before marching back in the shop to throw a hissy fit when the cheap junk breaks, if the poor soul that made it has too many come back, they might be taken out and shot, or they may decide thier kidneys are worth more than the slave. Everything has a price.

On quality control, if makers are manufacturing in North Korea as most do now in the slave labour camps, how much pride would you have in your work if you had just been given 25 years hard labour for failing to name 20 current party officials when questioned. Not a Fking lot would be mine.

If you are after the real sound, you need a real bass.