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Classic example is "Baby Please Don't Go" by Them. It's halfway between E and F, and it is because they sped it up after it was recorded because it sounded better that way. Apparently.

My band website is www.railroadband.co.uk Simple Wordpress site run by me and hosted with Vidahost who were most helpful when I transferred the site to them - I had to do it by cloning the original Wordpress site as although I owned the domain name and ran/maintained the site it was hosted by the guy who originally set it up and he was expensive and extremely unhelpful (especially when we wanted to host it elsewhere). I update it after every gig, and use it in conjunction with a Facebook page run by the harmonica player. Even if we only change the poster for the next gig on the front page, it shows that the site is active and current, which I think is important. Websites with old and out of date information are not attractive - quite the reverse! How much it contributes to the band I don't know, but it seems to be a useful way of keeping band information that complements the "rolling news" nature of Facebook.

If that's the case, then will your current cabs take that power? I'm guessing not, if you want to go to 2 ohms. That means different cabs, that means different sound, that means different EQ, which seems to make the whole thing a bit irrelevant - you will probably need to think about your whole setup again....with all the [s]aggravation [/s] fun that goes with it! Edit: just seen the previous post - great idea!

By the time the OP has bought a power amp, faffed around with cables and then possibly discovered that it doesn't quite work due to the previous post, it seems to me that the simplest and most cost effective route is to do as someone else suggested and buy a TH500 or 700 then flog the TH350. At least that way the OP is guaranteed to get the power he wants and the preamp he likes.

One venue we play at, the new manager asked every band at the end of the evening "...and how much was it you get?" - he knew full well. One band tried to make out it was more than he had in his little black book. It didn't end well for them. We operate on an "honesty is the best policy". We were recently given an extra £50 at one venue, and the girly smiled sweetly and said "I'v been told to give you extra because you're one of the best bands we have and we really enjoy it". Not bad for a blues band in a rowdy Saturday night 20 something party pub, and it does make you feel good. We're back there in the middle of December - should be a monster!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1504912729' post='3368332'] Recording shows and rehearsals never hurts. It can serve a lot of purposes. Suppose your recruiting a new member and he/she has to learn your show. Not many bands can provide a new member a recording of a full current show. Blue [/quote] This. I have recordings of everything we do, and record new stuff both rehearsal and live with my trusty Zoom HN4. Using a dep drummer next Saturday: he has two CD's covering both sets and he's a very happy man. We have a couple of original songs in our set, makes things easy for him (and us).

Yes, just seen his website - doesn't say anything but simply a photo a caption "Feb 20th 1950 - Sept 03 2017" so it seems as if it's true.

I do that constantly.

This subject is going down the tubes......I'm getting a bit testy.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1503654621' post='3359948'] Our female singer didn't like the lyrics to BS so it got binned before it started! [/quote] I don't like them either - it was suggested as an addition to our set for last NYE and was turned down flat by me. Thee are plenty of other better Stones songs.

[quote name='machinehead' timestamp='1503397688' post='3357838'] "And so-called leisure batteries are basically just starter batteries with a different label and a much higher price so best avoided" [/quote] Not so - they are totally different. A standard vehicle ie "starter" battery is not designed to be completely discharged and then recharged on a continuing basis. Yes, it will survive if treated this way on an occasional basis, but doing so regularly will drastically shorten it's life. A leisure battery is designed to withstand this type of treatment.

But the streets are paved with gold.....

We have a very simple setup: a Yamaha EMX512SC powered mixer and a pair of Electrovoice SX 300's which are 12" passive speakers. We normally only put vocals through it and occasionally harmonica. I have put my bass through it via a Sansamp VT bass on a couple of occasions due to amp issues, and it coped perfectly well for that. We don't usually use monitors, but occasionally end up with one or other speaker behind the microphones and provided you tweek the speaker angles don't get any feedback issues. The speakers I bought second hand from a Basschat ad about 18 months ago, the mixer came with a pair of Peavey Hisys 15's and stands and leads for £300 via ebay. The Peaveys proved to be a bit to big for smaller venues hence I bought the EVs but we were in a similar situation to you when we bought them and needed something quickly. That was 3 years ago and the PA is still going strong, (we gig around 25 times a year) and we use the Peaveys if we play outside and want to mike up the kick drum. As it happens, I bought another Yamaha EMX 512sc desk as a spare which is in much better nick than the scuffed one we gig and have never used it.....if it's of any interest pm me!

You don't say who's you are using - as you know, our band is similar to yours, and not a loud band. I use ACS Pros. I started with 17's and found them a bit woolly so changed them for 15's which work much better for me.

Guitarists lovely little Two-Rock started to smell and then emitted a cloud of smoke when a power valve gave up. Said smoke drifted around the drummer who got quite anxious....

Or, use one of these: www.porteranddavies.co.uk/products/bc-gigster/. Specifically designed so the drummer can hear (well feel, to be more accurate) the bass drum when playing quietly. Works for our drummer. He doesn't use it at all gigs, but does on the ones where we have a real noise issue and we really have to rein it in.

And I'm left handed, so they are truly worthless to me!

These are guitars. I'm a bass player. They're worthless to me.

Sorry to be the odd one out......I've got one, an older one, I've had it for a long time so it's a CD based one and I like it. I especially like that I can take any CD form my collection, put it in, change key, change tempo, loop parts etc. easily and with no fuss. I'm sure there is software available to do all this, but it's also portable and quick to set up. It's great for learning songs, but as others have said as a technique or practice aid I'm not so sure. As they have also said, a few lessons with a good teacher would be a better start, and if money is an issue there's lots online for free i.e. Scott's Bass Lessons which cover some really useful stuff.

Or Mike Still in Lancing. Crabtree Lane. Have a look on Facebook under MJStillElectronics.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1496395124' post='3311011'] Must say I always thought it a bit weird that Scheff, who did all those ridiculous fills with precision & speed at the end of the live vs of Suspicious Minds, would struggle with Riders. [/quote] I've played some ridiculous stuff with a Precision and speed..........

Wow. Just wow.

Used to do Gary Moore's "Midnight Blues" with a band a few years ago. The bass riff is a two bar riff and begins the song on it's own with just a hint of hi-hat to keep us all honest, followed by vocals, followed by guitar. Singer would persist in coming in on the second bar of the riff leaving me with nowhere to go: carry on and the whole song is a mess, or drop the second half of the riff and continue from there. Makes you sound like an idiot when you've been laying it down as a groove for the last eight bars.

So did I and I'm ashamed to say it was [u]really[/u] embarrassing as it is such an easy song: "Jesus Left Chicago". Come in on G, stay on G for a while, briefly A, then C. Repeat. Not remotely difficult, but for some reason I had complete brain fade and started playing the riff from something else completely. In C. God knows why. Guitarist looked at me in a strange way, Harp player who normally relies on me for timing, keys etc. because he usually can thought he'd dropped a huge b****ck and got a bit of a puzzled look on, but after a few bars I realised I was playing the wrong song, picked it up on a turnaround and we continued from there. I recorded that gig with my trusty Zoom, and with the power of Audacity chopped out the offending beginning and if you listened now you'd never know.....

You're in good company - Guy Pratt tells a story about playing a gig on a big stage and starting a song a semitone out. He continued that way all the way through the song while other band members looked at him and he looked at them, all trying to get a grip on who was playing it wrong! He admits now that it was him, whether he did at the time....who knows!