Happy Jack

In fairness, with those singers standing in front of you, it would be odd if the audience was fixated on you. 😉

Guitarist in my 3-piece covers band is an excellent rhythm guitarist and also plays pretty mean slide, but he's no sort of lead guitarist and it doesn't bother him. Or us.

We play a wide range of pop/rock hits from the 60s/70s/80s and we just leave out the guitar solos.

You'd be amazed how few people notice, even when the missing solo is allegedly 'iconic', e.g. Let's Dance.

2 hours ago, PTB said:

Still some tickets left for Saturday’s gig in Goring nr Reading. If you fancy some Fleetwood Mac, come on down….and make yourself known……always good to meet other BC’ers. 
 

 

Don't forget @Silvia Bluejay & me for 23rd June ...

Surely the Rolling Stones' 100 best drummers are just Charlie Watts written 100 times?

Oh hang on, damn that pesky apostrophe ...

>30 years as a Finance Director here, and I would advise very strongly against going this route unless you genuinely expect to be as successful as Taylor Swift.

Technically speaking, any working band is automatically a Partnership under the 1890 Act but nobody gives a toss and I've never heard of anyone acting (i.e. sueing someone or trying to claim equal shares of band revenues) on that basis. Don't mean it ain't happened, mind.

Open a 'band' bank account, however, and you open a number of doors. Very probably, no bug-eyed monsters will walk through those doors; but if the doors aren't there then there's no risk.

Shared ownership of anything in band is a disaster waiting to happen.

The bands I play in get paid variously through all sorts of channels ... cash, Concur, Opus, etc. Whichever person can be bothered to deal with it collects the money and then distributes it later, usually (but not necessarily) as cash. If you can't trust one of your bandmates to give you your £50 from playing the Dog & Duck last week, then you should probably reconsider who you play with. 🤨

You just left my comfort zone.

Someone who knows what they're talking about will be along in a minute ...

Upper front is PAN, upper rear is VOLUME, lower front/rear are Treble & Bass boost/cut.

There's no parametric / sweepable mids.

2 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

... going out night after night without hearing protection is going to damage your hearing, limit your experience of music and in the end give you a sense of isolation from friends and family and ultimately life as you hearing fades and the tinnitus rises. 

 

Very Biblical. 

Never really 'got' IEMs despite years of trying and silly amounts of money spent. Just too much bloody technology, too much wireless, too many things to go wrong, too much time spent 'tweaking', too many blank faces at sound check ... "it's not working, what's happened?".

A low-volume backline on stage with all the serious volume out front through the PA works fine, and is more-or-less infinitely scaleable from a tiny backstreet boozer up to a big festival stage so the band hears a consistent sound at every gig. It's also completely obvious how to set it up quickly at any gig, all the components are easily swopped in & out when a failure occurs, and even the densest and most arrogant guitarist will eventually see/hear the benefits of not pointing their combo at the backs of their knees.

Just now, neepheid said:

New guts, old pot casing.  Because some people care about that sort of thing, it seems.

Thanks.

So does that fall into the category of rewinding a dead pickup or is it over at the 'blatant fraud' end of things?

12 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Nice way to cheat a potentiometer...

 

Not understanding electrickery, I watched what he did with the pots thinking, "Huh?".

Can you explain what that was all about?

Quite a good watch.

I told you not to tighten the trussrod with molegrips ...

Outstanding piece of work. 

Just stumbled across this (fascinating) thread. I realised that the ash-crete thing was an April Fool but I must admit I did start wondering whether it could be a thing.

But, what all this chiefly reminded me of was:

If I were you, I'd abandon any notions of dismantling it until you've hit it with a decent application of switch cleaner. You may find that's enough on its own to sort out the crackles.

I always felt that Baritone Guitar was a better (and more accurate) description.

Do you need a strap if the bass will be mounted on a freestanding tripod?

3 hours ago, Woody1957 said:

I know nothing about organs so which one did Jon Lord play in DP?

Hammond C3 organ sound

Lord's strict reliance on the Hammond C3 organ sound, as opposed to the synthesizer experimentation of his contemporaries, places him firmly in the jazz-blues category as a band musician and far from the progressive-rock sound of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman.

That Wikipaedia thingy is quite helpful ...

41 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

They're great, but you can get 95% of the sound from something that fits in your pocket.

Please provide links. 😂

10 hours ago, DTB said:

So if you were seeking a bassist would you have one that played competently and was easy going but walked very slowly with a stick and needed help with gear?

If you were going to be the only crock in the band then that's easily enough worked around (with a bit of goodwill). The problem that most of us have on Basschat is that we are - in the main - of the (ahem) more mature persuasion which means that we tend to be either crocked ourselves or in bands that contain other crocks, and even if we aren't then we just need to add "yet" to that sentence.

Many years ago, when it was still topical to describe a pub called The Duchess Of Cambridge as The Topless Kate, my back went big time just before a gig. @MacDaddy will remember that one; and he still had hair in those days. The only thing that made it possible for me to play was that @Silvia Bluejay stepped in and acted as my personal roadie, moving literally every single piece of kit that I would normally have carried - including the PA. 😱

I played almost the entire gig sitting/perched on a Kinsmann guitar stool which is why the only video I kept of that evening was this one, where I stood up. Which is just as well, because I had to do the fastest & slickest input change in history when my wireless failed halfway through the song. Note that the bass is a Mike Lull P5, which I bought after @chris_b introduced me to the wonderful world of lightweight basses.

On 06/04/2024 at 11:40, jazzyvee said:

 

Now there's a man who likes his Mids ...

It's not a problem - it stands on the floor. 😂

I do hope so, but my aluminium 3/4 DB weighs roughly 50% more than a plywood 3/4 DB.

Just saying ...