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Something like one of these, perhaps......

https://docs.rs-online.com/7ac3/0900766b80ff6d55.pdf

CK1037?

Guy's great, as usual, but the interviewer s a bit irritating, plus her camera/mike are not in synch so it's a pita to watch. Like a band miming badly. Best listened to with the screen off. Well worth a listen.

In the clip they interviewed the lead arranger for the band. When asked about the Shaggs singers musicality she gave understatement of the year "I don't think she hears rhythm".

Isn't that all singers though?😂

3 hours ago, gjones said:

Ahhhh......the under rehearsed middle aged band scenario.

Gave up playing when they were 17 and returned to it aged 40.

What they don't understand is that, what you could get away with at 17, you can't get away with when you're 40.

I have nightmares about being in this band.

I think I auditioned for them on one occasion.......

And didn't get the job!

The position of the machine heads on the back of the head stock looks weird to me - I have two lefite P's, (both USA) and they both have even spacing and they are further away from the edge. This one just looks wrong.....

18 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Only if the broadcasters in question are required to submit full playlists for every programme they broadcast. IME anything smaller than BBC Local Radio does not.

Not sue about that....We submitted an EP to one of the independent blues radio stations, and they specifically asked if we had the codes embedded. Which we did.

16 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

But have we done the 20000ft Drop Test yeah?

You can drop one from any height - they're so light they just float gently to the ground like a feather 😏.

Just don't try and pick it up by the handle.

(BTW full disclosure: Yes, I do own one.....)

11 hours ago, casapete said:

The Proclaimers - caused quite a stir when they first surfaced as few (in pop and rock music anyway) had sung in such broad Scottish accents. After first seeing them on ‘The Tube’ I loved them immediately, instantly recognisable and with great songs too. 

Some music genres seem to suit regional accents more than others - obviously folk being one of them. I can’t imagine Kate Rusby or say The Unthanks using anything other than their own accents. Rock n roll, being thought of as primarily American in origin, means that most people covering it usually adopt a transatlantic style of phrasing. Not sure whether this is really correct, but after many years few question it being done. 

Just had to put "Sunshine On Leith"  - playing as I type this........

1999 Hot Rod Precision to Korg PtichBlack to LM3 to Barefaced Compact and that's it for me. All joined together with RockWire leads that have lasted forever. Small footprint so it fit's in anywhere, set up in minutes. We only play pubs and small clubs, the odd festival gig the LM3 has a very nice XLR out DI for PA support.

3 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Horses for courses. I once went to see Tangerine Dream 'live', I rest my case

I got persuaded to go and see Van Der Graaf Generator by a good friend (?): "Come on, I think you'll like it, they're great live, trust me, I've got a spare ticket (wonder why)" a (good) few years ago at The Barbican . I actually fell asleep at one point.

9 hours ago, Geek99 said:

My zoom fits easily in the gig bag with two cables and it runs on batteries and it has a built-in tuner  ... OR .. you could lug a totally enormous amp and cabs into your car, out of your car, walk around it all night, lug it into your car .... try it my way, no fairies will die, guaranteed

Or I could carry my LM3 and bass in one hand, Barefaced compact in the other, stroll in, set up in 10 mins. and I'm done. Small enough for small venues, big enough for medium venues, and a very nice DI out for PA support where necessary.  No fairies died this way either.

On 30/07/2020 at 12:04, Woodinblack said:

This would entirely depend on the venue, there is some venues I would pay for free for if I believed they needed help, on the proviso that it was while they needed help and would expect it to be a temporary things.

There are some other venues I fully expect to be asking because they are the type that have always tried to pull a fast one in the past, so this would be another excuse. Those I wouldn't.

This. We have some venues that are struggling due to their size, they have given us regular gigs in the past, paid us well and are very nice people to deal with. Playing one or two gigs for free during the early stages of (hopefully) their recovery to try and make sure the venue continues having live music so we can gig their regularly again in the future is simply an investment in their future and therefore ours. YMMV. 

Time for a re-run of that old favourite "Are You A Professional".............😂

20 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

This has been coming for a long time. Neither of their two shops was particularly profitable and the latest round of rent reviews has made it quite uneconomical to stay in business in the West End.

Besides, most of their profit has for ages been coming from http://www.macaris.co.uk/colorsound

Because they were the originals, they can still sell Tone Bender pedals at £439 each ... and guitarists will buy them!

 

And the rest -  a MK1 Tonebender is ..............£899!

10 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

Somebody wins it pretty much every time. That's because "the whole thing is legit and closely monitored by official watchdogs."

As to the odds, I'll just leave this here:

The chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot is 1 in 45,057,474, according to the Lotto website, while there is a 1 in 7,509,579 chance of getting five numbers plus the bonus ball. To win the Euromillions jackpot there is a one in 1 in 139,838,160 of all your numbers being drawn

The question is, "Do I Feel Lucky". Well do ya? do ya?

He did. But I do take your point about the odds, they are astronomical. Although he always said "Well someone's gotta win it, and it could be me....."

" At least when you buy a Lottery ticket (don't, please don't) you know how ridiculously the odds are stacked up against you, and you know the whole thing is legit and closely monitored by official watchdogs."

Don't tell my Dad that. He won a substantial amount of money and so I have no mortgage.......

I enjoyed it. "Drink up, before it goes cold...."😂

Whenever I see someone widdling on a six string bass I think "That's the wrong job for the bass".......😄

"Wipeout" by The Surfaris although it does have one word at the beginning....it's also better by The Ventures: 

Watch that drummer go man!

Blues records with keys?

Mostly Eb..........

I'll get my coat.

I even like "Shades Of......" it's one I still play (on vinyl, natch!) to this day. I have them all,up to and including "Made In Europe" after which my interest waned somewhat. Plus some 12" picture discs (unplayed) of "In Rock", "24 Carat" and "Fireball". Love them all in their own way, saw them a few times: the last time at the Empire Pool Wembley in 1976. The tube journey home was a riot! Packed full with everyone having a great time.

I like Dire Straits, but the guitar tone came from here......and the vocal style is quite close too!

Why stop at backing singers. I believe a certain Mr. Pratt has made a good career playing in other peoples bands as a sideman, or doing the odd track here and there for an established artist or two. i don't think he's bothered. Neither, I suspect, are folks like Waddy Wachtel or the guys who were Frank Zappa's touring musicians. Backing singer, session guitarist/bass player/drummer, touring musician for a solo artist -  what's the difference? It's making a living (and for some a very good one) that I'd be only too pleased to be able to do if I had the talent, which is a slight problem.

22 hours ago, GisserD said:

I dont think that you do tune the same. You need to tune to the BFTS to make it work as intended. (You can buy calibrated BTFS tuners)

But as previously stated, its utterly pointless unless your playing chords.

Is it though? if you are recording and the rhythm guitarist (for example) is tuned using this and you play a third as a single note against the chord he plays (if that makes sense) wold it not sound odd? Or do you need the hearing of a bat to notice the difference?

"As to finishing packing down 45 minutes after you've finished playing, I'm really not sure how you could shave any significant amount of time off that, or in fact why it would bother you. Say you managed to slash a third off that time through utterly frantic work; you now get to load out at 11:30 instead of 11:45. Wow. What a result. "

That was just to pack it all up, before even thinking of carting it outside loading it. We're normally done and dusted in half an hour at the end and ready to drive away or have a beer. And that's without rushing. It's a small, simple and reliable set-up which works well for us.  As said, YMMV. Different strokes and all that. I just get a bit fidgety when folks suggest that unless you've got all the fluffy stuff and state of the art bluetooth this and wireless that and a fully mic'd drum kit and in-ears for everyone (including perhaps all the audience members so they can all control their own mixes too !) to play in a small pub that somehow you're not doing it "properly" and that you are stuck in the stone age. No we don't, yes we are, and no we're not.