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Did a weird gig last night (standing in on bass duties for an originals band i was in about ten years ago). The gig was based on the Later with Jools Holland format. Venue a large nightclub's pretty much circular main room... 4 seperate stages set up around the room, each with own PA/lights etc, then each band played 2 or 3 songs before it moved on to the next band. Each band did about 3 ten minute sets each throughout the evening interspersed with various solo acoustic acts before the 'main' band finished the night with a half hour set. Quite odd arrangement and probably a huge pain to organise but was really good, and very busy too! Seemed like a long night though as was a lot of hanging around between sets but was a new one on me! peace c

am liking the new colour a lot! not so keen on the price tag or the output jack surround. Although to be honest both my Yamaha Attitudes have taken a back seat lately anyway! c

you can add a 'my band' tab via reverbnation which will then have audio/videos/gig dates etc whatever you put on it... having said that, mine did mysteriously disappear from my profile recently. Was ok when it was there and working though. c

very nice yep!

incidentally... what the hell have myspace done recently?! my page was nicely laid out with some decent subtle graphics, header image, colour scheme etc but now since myspace's latest 'improvements' its turned into a bog standard profile page which doesn't seem to be very customisable, and even more of a nightmare to navigate and add stuff than it used to be... i know most people have turned their back on myspace now anyway but it was always handy for easily posting music, videos, gigs etc but now they've completely screwed it up!!! peace c

nice

I got some done last year as was playing a few decent venues with decent bands so thought may as well.... got them from vistaprint and free apart from the postage.. so 200 cards for about a fiver.. [attachment=68545:chjBusiness_Card.jpg] (incidentally - ignore the fact the my website is pointing to a myspace page... a temporary measure!!) peace c

haha... that Highway to Hell is just soooooo bad!!!

they have a jazz club here in Lowestoft every month so not far from you, and the next one may be of interest as its a Charles Mingus evening: [url="http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk/"]http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk/[/url] peace c

a good read indeed!

cheers for the replies.... normally i will drop everything to do gigs as band has always come first and i have put myself out for it in the past on several occasions but at the moment i'm so busy i really do need to keep working and not take a few hours out of my day to do this. and yes, i imagine there will be lots of unneccesary hanging around once there too. i cant see that it'll be good exposure or anything for us either - its not been done through our manager. the charity is not particularly close to the guitarist or anything, i think its more the fact that his friend is organising it - originally he was going to go along by himself and just jam with said friends band on a few songs - not sure why this changed to wanting the whole band there - all seems to be a bit of an afterthough and just squeezing us in the bill for the sake of it. ah well.... see what happens i guess!... i know the guitarist has tried getting a dep in but had no luck so far - should have asked on here maybe!! cheers c

Had a text from guitarist/band leader the other day saying we've got a short notice gig this coming Thursday am i free?.. so, yep, i'm free no prob...whats the gig? says I... Turns out though that apparently its a charity do with lots of bands on..but.. its an hour and a half drive away and they only want us to play 3 songs! Originally the guitarist said that he himself wasn't bothered about doing it - what do the rest of the band think?...so I spoke to the keyboard player and he agreed with me that it seemed a bit of a waste of time and money (i'm snowed under with work at the mo and could really use the time more constructively staying here doing some work!) plus i don't think it'd really be doing the band any favours. I replied saying that I would do it if push came to shove but would really prefer not to... but now it seems that its a big deal and the guitarist seems to have got the hump big time! grrrr. i don't think i'm being unreasonable... what do you think? seems alot of effort for 3 songs!!! peace C

which all goes to show that one gig is worth a hundred rehearsals!

[quote name='wombatboter' post='1009756' date='Nov 2 2010, 04:30 PM']Fooled around a bit with my Emma discumbobulator pedal and tried to play the Superstition-theme... not without mistakes but it gives an idea (it made the cat run away).. [/quote] likes this

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1002866' date='Oct 27 2010, 06:00 PM']All the Bass Stock is from Promenade Music. I assume thats the 'alliance with a large stockist' they mention on the homepage.[/quote] ah yes.. same price on promenade website too and they're definitely a legit store from what i can tell..... hmmmmm cheers c

[url="http://www.music4worship.co.uk"]http://www.music4worship.co.uk[/url] - also seem to be trading as: [url="http://www.bigdiscountwarehouse.co.uk"]http://www.bigdiscountwarehouse.co.uk[/url] i'm after one of the Ashdown Classic 210 cabs and on the above sites they're a good coupla hundred quid cheaper than anywhere else on the net - i dunno... maybe its me being paranoid but if somethings seems too good to be true....... any experiences shopping with them? peace c

get three fingers going on the right hand and you'll have no problem! aside from that its practice!