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markbunney

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  1. I keep advertising for dep opportunities on Facebook and join my band, but limited success so far. I got offered a couple that were subsequently cancelled, and then one on a date that I couldn’t do. I am going to start going to some local jam nights to see if that leads to anything. These are well out of my comfort zone as I like to be prepared and rehearsed before playing, and am not at all comfortable with jamming and improvising, but will give it a go and see what happens.
  2. I tried to put my KZ ZS10s into an old ACS custom molded pair of ear plugs. They just about fit sat at my desk, but I think if I was moving around playing they would fall out, unless I taped them to my ear, which I don’t really want to have to do. Am now looking at getting some ACS molded IEMs, but I also need some new molded ear plugs as my current ones are 5 years old and don’t quite seal properly. Need to decide which ones to prioritise as can’t really justify getting both at the minute
  3. He sings and plays guitar, so would be quite hard to get a dep for. It’s a frustrating situation but am trying to be proactive about it.
  4. We played Club Foot on NYE and I have to go into 100% concentration mode for the solo. To my amazement, people were singing along to the bass solo, something I’ve never experienced before! This meant I had to concentrate even harder, to try and zone out the drunks!
  5. The brain works in funny ways. I was struggling with Long Train Runnin by The Doobie Brothers before Christmas. I had a look again yesterday after a few weeks break and got it no problem. This year I am trying to work on songs that are outside of my normal rock/indie genre to try and widen & improve my playing.
  6. Thats great to have so many gigs booked for 2024 already. We've got 11 booked so far, but one of members doesn't want to commit to anymore, which is frustrating so I am busily trying to find dep opportunities or a second band
  7. You get used to it. Mine clanks on the fretboard every now and again and has taken a bit of laquer off the underside of the neck but nothing visible whilst playing. I have to turn my bass upside down to even see it
  8. one of the cameras that we set up to record our NYE gig got accidentally set to time lapse mode, so we ended up with a three hour gig condensed into 1 minute https://www.facebook.com/reel/7045610022162924/?app=fbl
  9. lol - its non alcoholic beer as well as am always driving
  10. We generally push it most at the end of the gig, with something like "we'll play another song if you buy us a beer" kind of thing. The tip jar is labelled as "beer money" as well. The way I see it is that if people are having a good time and want to buy a beer/chuck in a couple of quid then that's great, but if not that's also great, as long as they are having a good time
  11. We started doing doing it as we played our first few gigs for free, just to get going. so we took the tip jar (a £1 bucket from B&Q with a flyer stuck on it) to try and make a little bit of cash and have just taken it ever since. The most we have got is £90 and the least was £0
  12. We got 10p in our tip jar last night 😂 we think the problem was that it was a very young audience (20s/early 30s) and everyone was paying at the bar using Apple Pay and no longer using cash
  13. They were ones that we were going to cut if we were running out of time to get to midnight. As it turned out we had plenty of time so played everything. ps you are not being thick as I also had to ask what they meant 😂
  14. Back home from our NYE eve gig at The Oak in Sevenoaks. We had our first gig as a band here earlier in the year and so it was nice to be back. gig went well, the pub was very busy but it took a while for the dance floor to fill up, but when it did it was chaos. Drinks being spilled everywhere, mic stand & iPad knocked over, people walking across the band area and tripping over our cable etc, I am amazed that nothing got broken. the very drunk crowd did spoil the enjoyment of the gig due to constantly having to keep an eye on the equipment. I had to move my couple of pedals to the back of the stage by my amp due to spilled drinks. we ended up moving some of the songs around to try and be more adaptive and reactive to the crowd. We initially dropped Club Foot but then ended up playing it just before midnight. The crowd were singing the bass solo, which was a very bizarre experience as no one has ever sung along to a bass solo at a gig before! overall it was good fun and only half an hour from home. The main downside of today was getting some of the band lights out of the garage and discovering a leak
  15. I don’t have a tab to hand, but when I used to play this in an old band I used to jam around the three (I think) chords F, G#, A#
  16. Thanks, I’ll take a look
  17. I did give it another try, but overall it wasn’t me so has gone back to the shop.
  18. The YouTube bass videos are great, and I always appreciate the people who take time to post them with the tabs. I wish that was available when I started learning 30 odd years ago. me and the guitarist were talking the other day about what it was like buying a tab book and trying to follow along
  19. I am noticing more and more that when I listen back now to songs I learnt a long time ago and have been playing ever since, that what I thought was the bass line was nothing like what was actually recorded! I think this is a mix between me now having better audio equipment and headphones, and general improvement as a player.
  20. Normally after a gig we would play a playlist of some sort through our PA whilst we pack up etc. For NYE's gig I have said that we need shouldn't do that as it adds to the packing up time, as we can't breakdown the PA & mixer etc and we are all keen to get out of there ASAP. On a side note, I saw today a quote generator for a wedding band, and on their list of options was an after gig playlist put through their PA, and they were charging nearly £200 for that as an extra add on to the main gig fee.
  21. I played this song at least once a month for 20 years and never realised those open A’s were there 👀
  22. I keep looking at the new Mexican Duff Mckagen signature but it is also £1400 and I worry about the quality. I have the original issue Duff signature which I love, but am starting to think that the neck is starting to develop some issues. It’s 7 years old but I am constantly noticing buzzing and dead spots despite a recent pro set up. The American Performer range is around £1,250 and I am tempted to get one of those instead. I have always wanted an American made fender
  23. My best purchases have been: Darkglass AO500 head Lekato XLR set to turn my IEM setup wireless Worst Orange Little Bass Thing head, I just didn't get on with it
  24. I tried to play my Ibanez RG guitar through my Darkglass AO head (with headphones). It was bearable for a noodle, but nothing compared to a proper guitar amp
  25. I only take one bass to gig, but I only currently have one bass. I am always paranoid that I will have an issue and so hope to get a spare of some sort in 2024. I am not sure if that will be a cheap spare, or one that is equal to my main bass. In 25 years of gigging I have only had problems twice, albeit with the same bass. I had bought a second hand Spector bass and the internal wiring came loose, I got through the gig by keeping completely still so the contact maintained. I took it back to the shop who soldered the problem, only they didn’t fix it properly and I had the same problem the next time i gigged with it, and it cut out completely. Luckily the guitarist at the time lived close to the venue and owned a bass so I was able to use that. The shop fixed it again, but I never trusted that bass again so moved it on.
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