Diablo

I often get a comment or two that the bass is too loud in the mix during an interval etc. I ignore it. Stood beside my amp I set the vol so I can hear it clearly, but also so I can still hear the guitards and vox. I'm not in the business of turning it down so far I cannot even hear myself!

The first time Bono rode a bicycle without stabilisers he ended up falling off


http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30122767

He promises to only ride tricycles from now on, and he has completely given up on his dream of riding a unicycle one day. Money can't buy everything it seems....

....forwarded......

The lead singer of dog eat dog is a Cynophobic

Liam O'Maonlai lead singer of the hothouse flowers suffers from chronic hayfever and features piriteze as a personal sponsor.

I watched the first half hour but it was deathly boring... delete. One not to watch again.

I don't know about peaches but the Jam never followed a celebrity chef recipe in their creation of the "going underground" but the they seemed to have fun with the ancients of mumu. I think the white room was one of my first albums I bought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Room

Cheers,
Rich

Is it wrong to play to Foo's with a J...? I've never played Jazz with mine!

[quote]Get a Yamaha with a P and J set up.[/quote]

Or most of a P and half J as a PJ actually is..... Best of both worlds or some of each? I dunno, makes a good debate though.

The Killers got their name from where they met, all working on the assembly line of the "Zappo" electric insect zapper company based between Grimsby and Hull.

I run the all-in-one Boss 50B pedal set, and having searched for the tone I wanted for ages I found it a few weeks ago, the holy grail of bass sound I wanted. I turned everything off on the pedals and the amp EQ/compression. I still use pedals, but just for the tuner function. I did manage to play the first half our opening song "Too Hard To Handle" at a gig last week one octave up though. I knew it sounded wrong, but it took me a minute or so staring at the pedals while putting myself off to work out which setting I'd knocked, turned out to be the octave setting. Turned it off, played the set, got moaned at in the interval by the landlord for the bass being too loud, ignored him, and pulled of a great second half. Every time I've played there he says the bass it too loud so I just ignore him now or suggest he turns the PA up more!

Too many pedals = far too much opportunity to mess up!

Cheers,
Rich

Wow, anti gravity cabs, nice feature there.

Nice gear that TKS stuff

Buy one of each and play whichever suits your mood, that was my personal answer to this conundrum. The sound is quite different between them but the two volumes for the pups on the Jazz maybe allows a little more variation in the sound compared to the P. Sometimes I like the P sound more, sometimes the J sound, depends on my mood. A J with standard pups will buzz a little though.

Cheers,
Rich

Because he thinks he is Roger Taylor/John Bonham/ Keith Moon/Tommy Lee and therefore more is better and louder. It is a bit like me turning up with a 7 string bass. Totally unnecessary and I'm quite happy with 4 thank you, but to some it looks cooler.

I like the drummer quote:


Not to mention that the drummer jokes write themselves. How do you know the stage is level? The drummer is drooling out of both sides of his mouth. How to find a new drummer? Wait for the pizza delivery guy to show up and ask him if he'll audition.

I just sent that quote to our drummer, he was chuffed at the last rehearsal when he arrived with a huge 4th cymbal. He did not take kindly to me suggesting he played the other 3 well first, instead of just louder!

OT I know, but I did not realise SITD are in Boro. I hope to get to the Magnum gig on 4th Dec at the Empire. Have not been there for 20 years or so when it was closed down for being a complete drugs den.

Basswood is a posh name for chipboard, often made from old kitchen worktops.

Just to correct the post above, Leo Fender got the idea of the bolt on neck as his kitchen only had 600mm wide worktops hence needing a section of worktop plus a length of skirting board to make the prototype.

Tony Iommi holds the Guiness World Record for largest performing flea circus at a staggering 347 performers.

"Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth is not about Alcohol, it in in fact an ode to Dan McCafferty's favourite Glasgow dog grooming salon where his bichon frise was often pampered in the mid 70's.

The Doors did not, as popular anecdotes have incorrectly quoted, get their name from the book by Mr Huxley. Instead it was conjured up by their fuzzy haired guitar Robbie Krieger based on his previous 9-5 as a double glazing salesman and love of white PVC and hinged openings.

The band Jefferson Airplane never gigged abroad as they were afraid of flying

Bachmann Turner Overdrive frequently used a tour bus with manual transmission

What is it with singers? I've had a real rollercoaster with bands the last couple of years. First band the singer could sing, but was always forgetting the words and ended up running off with my Mrs which killed off that project. I stole one of the guitards and set up a new band, the singer for that one was a grumpy fecker who used rehearsals as practice to learn the songs. He was sacked in a few weeks. Singer no3 now and after 3 months he still does not know all the words for the set and at a gig last Friday kept starting in the wrong place on a few songs. He is going out of the door in the next few weeks I expect. All 4 other band members manage to learn our parts and considering most of us know all the words too how hard can it be for a singer to do that?

So I'm looking for a singer, fun/pub gig classic rock covers kind of thing, male or female, must possess the following:

1. Be decent at singing
2. Be able to remember the words
3. Be able to start and finish singing at appropriate/correct times
4. Be available for rehearsals at least once per week

I think I'll start with an ad in the local music shop and go old school before I start with joinmyband.

If anyone knows any singers in the north east......

Cheers,
Rich

My mistake from not knowing anything about those basses. I thought Ernie Ball = Music Man = Stingray. I guess not.

Just watching the Queen thing on ITV - Another One Bites The Dust video, JD playing an Ernie Ball. I'm shocked, first time I've ever seen any footage of him playing anything other than a Fender. Hmmm, GAS for an EB now......

Ronnie Wood has had to use Viagra for the last 10 years

AC/DC's High Voltage has been illegal in the workplace since 1994 due to the EC low voltage directive and health & safety laws. It was also not CE marked meaning the band were fined be the HSE.

The Edge used to be called The Corner but Bono struggled with the introduction of band members who's names featured more than one syllable words

75% of kettle leads have never been near a kettle

91% of Jazz basses have never been played by a goatee wearing turtle neck wearer

It was Simon Cowell inside the Mr Blobby outfit in the 1993 Christmas number 1 video

The Old Grey Whistle Test have never actually tested any whistles back to back in a subjective and objective manner

Good to meet a few people there today. In fact I'd have said too many people were there for the venue which is good I suppose. Nice place Ginger has there too.

GAS for TKS and Bareface now.....

Cheers,
Rich