Woodinblack

In the middle of a 3 gig weekend. 1st gig, surprise birthday party. Set up was miles from the car so lots of carrying, then setup for 7:30 and hang around to start at 9. Sound was not too bad, noone was interested for the first 30 minutes, then a couple of little girls (children, not small women)started dancing and then dragged their families up, so that was good. And another guy was joining in. After the break the girls and the guy came back, so that wasn't too bad, and people were at least clapping by that point. Then, as is inevitable, for our last 5 songs or so, pretty well everyone got up (the ska gets them every time). Paid well, not bad. Got nice messages from them this morning. Gig 2, just got home. Local pub we haven't played in a while, the last time we played there it wasnt really busy or good but there are new tenants who are apparently trying to make it a goto venue for music. Guessing they haven't succeeded yet then. No response for the first half an hour, then a bit more, then some people who visit us at one of the other pubs came in, and danced and sung, so that was good, then at the start of the second half, that was good too, but they left at about 11, then it was pretty well dead until we finished at 11:30. A bit of a why do you bother sort of ending. But packed up quick, and got paid. Hope tomorrow is good, hate 3 gig weekends and this isn't changing my feelings on that!

THat neck is really something isn't it

There is no non-selfish reason to play music to people really, whatever your motivation it is about your enjoyment, so what you want is as valid as what anyone else wants

That would be odd! See this ric balancing is a nifty trick..

I saw Steve Hacket in bath the day before yesterday. Fantastic show, very tight and very well done. Their bass player is excelent (I looked up his name, but forgot, swedish chap). Bass player balanced a rickenbacker upright on his head from the headstock. Quite impressive that! But you can tell when you are at a prog gig, the queue at half time for the gents went round the corner!

Agreed - that is one I won't do. Actually a group, I won't do any oasis. And you wouldn't know just how many people have got very arsey about it.

No, I played them a lot over the last few days, haven't had any issues.

If I had a pound for every time.. oh I don't.. I spent it all!

Well, it doesn't do seem to do that, or interfere with the guitarists wireless. Certainly good enough for practice when you consider it is cheaper than some guitar cables I have.

My main group played mustang sally, and this is the first time that I have played it. We normally open with it. We removed it once as we were sort of fed up with it but got complaints and brought it back. I don't actually mind it. Superstition I played in the last group and in my alternate group, along with funky music in both. We are suposed to be learning brightside but it sounds bad (not just the song, the way we do it). However, what is wrong with brown eyed girl - we do it (like this) and everyone loves it!

Au contraire - I have perfected the art with our singer, and he has the bruises to prove it I bought a cheap wireless two plug system (£25), so I will give that a test to see how it works.

I am happy with my smooth hound for gigging, its receiver is on the pedalboard. However, when I am practicing I don't always bring that and certainly in the house I don't. So I had looked at the boss unit but no-one seems to know if it would work with a Ibanez SR bass, so not really an option at that price. A friend mentioned getting a cheap wireless on amazon for £35, as as a non amazon user, I looked on ebay and found something that looked the same for £24.95. Worth a try I thought: Turned up today, just these and a double headed USB cable (for charging both at the same time). They weigh approximately nothing at all, certainly a lot lighter than the smooth hound, which is because they weight less than the batteries in it. The joint is just plastic friction, which works fine as there is no weight and they don't flap around for the same reason. They are a little bigger than the looked in the advertising (that green thing has centimetres on the bottom (but strangely, half inches on the squares) on it so you can see the size. Trying them in my music room they work fine, better than fine in fact. I know this isn't a challenging environment and the only reason I would use wireless in my room is that there leads everywhere and when my wife wants to sing as well, it gets a little crowded. These are certainly good enough for practice though, and TBH, I don't see why they wouldn't also be ok for a gig. but I will leave that until I have had a practice evening with them, just to see what the battery lifespan is - the battery power must be small with the weight. Anyway, main take away, £25, they work.

What are you protecting them from? They are very different screens from a smartphone (which is glass and carried around), these are bendy plastic and not touch sensitive and largely protected by the buttons in front of them.

Thats frustrating. On the plus side, if it helps, its a really good pedal. That helps doesn't it? No??

why would you want to reduce damage to a violin player?? 😯

Yeh, we have a whole use orchestra round here. Not for me, the appeal is very thin and doesn't last a whole song!

For me on the Strat it was the slight yellowing of the pick guard and pickups

I almost bought a sherwood green classic vibe strat, it was pretty tempting, I also have never been a fan of the colour before but it looked right

He is listed as the bass player on their facebook page, there was a video of him in june saying they were gigging that week, he is in all their publicity photos and there isn't anything that says he has left. So it would seem he is still there.

I am jealous that that is the smallest area you have played in! I would love that, so much better than screaming something at you mid song! and on a second thought - A mid 20s woman wanted a BBKing song?? 😮

That would be stupid, that is the couriers job! That seems the immediate obvious thing. There have been loads of basses I would have bought if they were closer or offered courier, and if I could be bothered to post, a lot of things I still have I wouldn't by now!

Not a problem for me, I have an amp so don't really feel the need to have a sim..

I like the artcore basses, I wanted one of the hollow weathered 5 string ones, but they are not very common and don't seem to be many around. I think they are all short scale, 30.3"

Yes, its an Ibanez ARTB100 arcore bass. In Cream