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All I can add is good on ya and good luck. I'm sure if you are willing you will find like minded souls who will be happy to jam. As said, social media is great for getting the word out.

It's a fact that certain frequencies can only be heard by younger people, say under eighteen. Some councils have introduced high pitched noise to stop teenagers loitering. Anyone over twenty can't hear it. It's called presbycusis.

Maybe the guy is gay and doesn't like women.

This is it. Everyone wants to be the different type of band that gets really noticed but certainly in our neck of the woods punters go out to a pub before hitting the club and they want to hear stuff they know and can dance/sing along to. If we started playing originals they would leave.

My Mrs is exactly the same. She doesn't hate all women singers but the vast majority. I don't understand it myself but she hasn't changed in all the time I have known her.

Maybe they have a good reason for it. People always find offence in everything. Are they a tribute band? Do they tour on a budget and can't afford different rooms for sleeping? I would find out more before judging.

You haven't lived!

Doesn't that happen regularly in Ibiza?

Hysteria for instance isn't actually that hard to play at the correct speed. All you have to do is play it slowly until you are totally used to it and then speed up. What is difficult is to keep it up. It's the stamina that Chris Wolstenholme excels at.

Personally I think what the pick does is gives more attack. As suggested something not so hard will sound more like fingers. I am predominantly a finger style player and I always want the attack of a pick without having to grip one. I've seen wooden picks which would give less attack.

I remember that. Wasn't it Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox that made a right dogs dinner of it?

Yeah I was reading that too and the Leo Sayer lookalike guy who started the fight was well within his rights to be cheesed off if he had set up the drums and never got to play.

I used to use Songster and quite liked it but I cancelled my subscription when I looked at one tab and what they were telling you to do didn't make sense. It would have been finger gymnastics. that's when I realised that they were just as likely to be wrong as me picking things up by ear.

I agree, it is ALWAYS wrong. Why is this?

"Selling out" is a strange term. You do the best you can to make money. I watched a documentary many years ago about the Campbell brothers from UB40. They were just starting out and their father was a famous folk singer. Thats what the documentary was about. They were being interviewed and they said "we sing about oppression and injustice. If you ever hear us singing love songs then we have sold out." I guess they sold out then.

Yeah, it was a shame he left but Tony was great too. They have another bass player now Gil Allan but I haven't heard him play yet. There's a video on Youtube where you can hear him and he's good too but you don't see him.

Being a predominantly finger style player I am always looking for ways to improve my pic playing. I had forgotten this song from my youth and came across this video of Scott Whitley who was Big Country's bass player until recently. It's a fantastic pic piece and I would love to learn it. Unfortunately I can't find decent tab and I would like to get every note perfect. Great song anyway

I know what you mean to a certain degree. I mean you have to have some form of telling music apart but its the myriad of sub genres that get me irked. I mean it gets ridiculous. https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/news/141030/ Edit-I can find someone out of each of these subgenres that I like. In short I like it all.

I was never a fan of all the different names that music gets given. Especially when arguments occur as to which genre a band belongs to. It's music. Do you like it? Yes? Well that's fine. I can listen to pretty much any kind of music but my heart is always with hard rock. Any music with big guitars gets my attention so if they are considered metal or hair metal or glam metal I don't care. I love old hard rock, I love new metal. In the 80's all that was about for heavy metal fans was Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, etc. etc. That is what we called Heavy Metal. It was during the 80's that other more extreme bands started to develop and the Grunge movement spawned from this.

Motley and Leppard WERE metal at the time. Obviously as more extreme forms of metal came about the older metal was looked on with ridicule and derision. I remember On Through the night coming out and to an impressionable teenager it was excellent heavy metal. Heavy metal was the name at the time. It has changed to metal with the advent of all these other sub genres.

We used to say to the venue that tripping our amps would damage them so would you mind if we don't plug into the limiter? We used to be playing with this light flashing away like hell.

As has been mentioned Steve Harris apparently tickles the strings (the words of Niko McBrain)

As I live 100 miles from the nearest music shop. I would fix it myself.

I like it.

Not quite