danthevan

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1367241939' post='2063004'] . Or worse still with no setlist ! [/quote] Thats how to tell a complete n00b outfit. When they're all on stage arguing over what to do next

Will usually be your bigger venues who have a health and safety policy to stick by. Usually cost you around £50-£75 for up to 50 items, which should cover everything you own. Other way to do it is to buy the stickers from RS and just slap them on stuff

It's all down to what you want out of it. Doesn't matter a toss if the rest of the band are earning £1k each, you say you want £x , do your job and walk away with £x. If your £x is more than they want to pay, then don't do it.

could try a decent screened lead i suppose

Is it covers you're doing? If so, half learn them off the original, then get together and work on the finer points. Too many times I've been asked to stand in, given a list of songs to learn, and when you get to rehearsal you find the guitarist hasn't actually learnt the song, but scrounged the tabs off the net and they're playing what the bloke who wrote the tab 'thinks' it should be, which is usually completely different from the original!

^^^^ what he said! 0-12 is the important bit, although it should still be pretty close above that

Could well be a shyte power supply. Have you tried running off a different socket / ring main? Edit: just re-read................. Could be the transformers for LED's

I reckon most of us have had moments (maybe not whole sets!) like that. Important thing is you know what you done wrong by not rehearsing enough, and changing band members, so put it down to experience and get on with it! Dont beat yourself up over it, just make sure you're better next time round

Try a cheapo one like this http://0.tqn.com/d/guitar/1/0/Z/w/dunlop-curved-capo.jpg

I have a 'bass boost' knob on mine (small knob on my pic) so just a guess that's what it is

Ibanez 'bass boost' circuit?

Have you paid your £20?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1367048916' post='2060589'] Robert Plant, wiping the tear from his eye, is sitting between Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones [/quote] And for an extra bit of Led Zep, thats john bonhams son on the drums. Great cover though!

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1367014343' post='2060405'] Even brings a tear to one man's eyes. [/quote] You know who that is, right?

Maybe he canbuy a keyboardthat has a working spacebar with theprofits.

Ive got a shure PG (something or other) which has always been spot on. Would have gone for the line 6 if I hadn't already bought the shure before i signed up here!

On second thoughts, maybe that aint the smiley I thought it was lol

[quote name='Kinder' timestamp='1366984584' post='2059901'] I might regret this, but if anyone's got any questions or it's causing them sleepless nights, drop me a pm and I'll help if I can. Andy [/quote] You will! Be in contact soon..........

RSI would be my guess. All going to be down to posture etc

Got a BXL3000 which has been good to me. Other than last week when i turned up at rehearsal and it was dead. Pulled the speaker out and one of the multiplugs had popped off the circuit board, so no biggy. (probably from my spirited driving over speed humps)

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1366967316' post='2059502'] Why not get one of the guitarists to play the keys part on the iPad, maybe even using one of these... [/quote] Main reason is the guitarist has been playing guitar for 30 year and still cant play it

Could get a decent pole dancer for your next gig?

By the time I'd taken expenses out, there wouldn't be any profit in it! Earnt £31 on the last gig. By the time you have purely fuel to get to rehearsals let alone the gig thats been gobbled up

[quote name='tonybassplayer' timestamp='1366930825' post='2059285'] If I remember correctly you can only depreciate things like guitars etc over a period of years so for example buying a guitar for £1000 would be depreciated over say five years therefore giving you £200 per year to set against tax. [/quote] What if part of your stage act is to smash the £1000 guitar over the £3000 PA system?! There is no way of 'avoiding' the tax (other than hoping you dont get caught), but there are loads of things you can offset against, or expenses you can put down. There is nothing from stopping you using all your profit to buy new equipment. If you end up with £10k in the pot at the end of the year and you want to buy a van, so be it, but the van will be classed as a business asset, and if you're the one named as the sole trader, it's technically yours. How much of the equipment you already have has already been put through the books as an expense? If you were to tot up everything you have to run your business (as a band) how much would you have spent out? I guess the way to do it (and our resident accountant will confirm / dismiss this but seems right in my head!) is one of you 'runs' the business and does all the financial side of things. Take the money, pay each of your subbies (band members) when they give you an invoice etc. At the end of the year, if there is £10k in the pot, then you need to divvy this up between the band members. £2k each (including yourself). Now each member has to pay tax on whatever they have earnt from the gigs (whatever you have been invoiced from them) + tax on the £2k end of year payout. If you all decide that you want a new PA / van / something else, then they put in say £1k each, and you send them an invoice for this. They have a legitimate £1k invoice to put through their books, you all have an equal share in the equipment (otherwise the business (you) will own the entire piece of kit). It's up to each of the band members to sort out their own accounts / declare their earnings etc. But also they can claim their own expenses.......... equipment that isn't owned by the band, travel, clothing, etc. As long as you get a bit of paper from them saying you paid them £x for their services, if they dont decide to declare it and get a tug from HMRC, you've done your bit. I suppose what I'm getting at is try and see it as 5 different 'businesses' working together to provide the end product, otherwise whoever is in charge of the business will be liable for all the tax, and also have a lot of equipment on their books! The only real problem I can see from doing it this way is if one of the band members decides to leave after putting in £x to buy new equipment, you'd have to buy out their share. Makes sense in my head............ i think!

Thanks for all the feedback! At the moment it's 1, possibly 2 songs out of a 30 set list, so will go with the ipad and see what the response is like from them!