Woodinblack

Well done for getting £30 out of a scammer!

Although I need a car due to carrying the PA, if there were places in town that had their own PA and equipment, then I could walk to a lot of our gigs (although not as many as there used to be locally).

I don't know how palm springs is based on the desert scene or where that comes from, or how it relates to QotSA (who formed in Seatle), although it is fair to say that whatever the size of palm springs is (as above), it is a long strip with a desert either side, so you can pretty well get to some bit of the desert in a few minutes from pretty well anywhere.

Oh yay!

Money for nothing for the sax and guitar, brick in the wall for keys.

Depends obviously how many years - before some nameless large political event in the middle of the last decade things didn't need to clear customs, so it was a lot easier and smoother.

Sadly I carry on staring moodily at the audience and I am in a covers band!

Of course its obvious, I said the same thing in the previous post. But I still think they have to be positive as they own the video rights!

Pretty well all of the BBCs reporting is how great it all was and how nothing was wrong at all. I guess they have recording rights to sell to other countries!

I think there is a big difference between seeing a group when you are there and watching it on the telly. I saw some of it yesterday. Saw blondie, watched the first half of the first song and thought, no, won't watch that - she was hitting the notes though, but everything else was wrong. Saw sparks - they did do some of the hits and I thought they did pretty well, not that much different to what they always were - crowd seemed to like them. GnR, well, they were always bad - impressed they made it on stage, so techincally better than they used to be. Generation Sex, well, we actually watched a few songs as we were laughing so much, so no arguments there!

Honestly I think there is a reason for that. There are some basses I would be happy to sell at the right price, but I don't need the money from selling them or the space they take. So if I advertised them I would advertise them at a price that I was happy to sell them for - if that was too much for some people then there would be little interest, but maybe at some point there would be someone interested. If it takes a few months - a year whatever to sell, whats the problem, there is no additional charge to list once it is up, might as well leave it there and if someone is interested they are, and if they aren't, no loss.

I enjoyed the QOTSA set even if they look like a disparate bunch of criminals

SRF700 - two extra knobs, piezo bridge volume and tone

When I think of a stingray, I think of Bernard Edwards long before I think of flea. And I have a lot more of fleas music than Beranrd Edwards. I guess some images just stick.

There is? Oh how did I miss that - was that near the food??

Looking good - it has already almost killed the plant in front of it!

Maybe it was the way it was demanded, or the time? I would be impressed if a signature deal ever really affected any bottom line in any way.

Sadly not entirely!

Pff - what I think of as recent (obviously the 80s), their parents weren't born!

Highway to hell I just walk around a bit, get a chance to drink, check the mix is fine. Its like Alright now, it is nice to get a bit of a break now and again!

I watched a bit of the GnR gig - I mean his voice was certainly not great but who is this mythical Axl Rose that people are talking about who could sing live? I have seen them twice in the 90s, I never heard it.

I use wireless pretty well everywhere, practicing at home, outside, at gigs, wherever, can't be doing with cables. The wireless I use depends on where I am, around the house I use my cheap ammoon 2.4g dongles, and they are just fine, good batttery life etc. Live I tend to use the 5GHz dongles, no interference with anything and just trust them more. I have just got a bongo in exchange and love it, however, I have noticed if I use the 2.4g dongles or the Boss Waza Air I get a high pitched interference - its a bit better with the dongles as they can be moved around a bit to where it is reduced a lot (but still present), but the waza airs obviously don't move - its kind of hard using those. If I use the 5GHz dongles, no interference at all however I move them round, so not a gigging issue. I have 10 or so other basses, mostly active from cheap to expensive, and a chapman stick and upright bass, and none of them suffer from any wireless interference with any of those things. Has anyone experienced this? I presume the bongo is unshielded as are probably most of the other basses, and maybe there is something in its circuit that is prone to 2.4GHz noise, but it is irritating that I can't use it with the waza air, unless I put an extension lead on it.

Well, that is fine, its not like anyone has any need to be playing up there!

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Also wedding - local, arrived early to setup the PA so they could do their first dance to it, so setup was easy (apart from all the children helping), rest of the band turned up later, we started earlier than we though, but then they gave us a lot more money than we thought! Long gig, but apparently we sounded fine, it was the first gig with the old guitarist as the new one decided it wasn't for him and the old guitarist decided it was for him. Played my new bongo, it sounded great and was good to play. Finished at 11, packed up, home and put away by 12.