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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.

1 hour ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

LOL. Gee, I wonder why? Typical pub and club stuff is there to entertain the punters. They want something they can sing along to and dance to. If you want to be booked, and to get an audience, that's what you've got to do. He's making it clear that he's favouring the creative point of view. Fair enough.

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.

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

She doesn't like the sound of most women singers - a bit odd as she is a singer but that is her preference. She has nothing against groups with women in them, or even backing singers, just female main vocals that she just doesn't like There are no bands with female singers she likes. A few she respects, but none she actually likes. And yes, the last touring groups I saw (apart from Gary Numan) were Wolf Alice and Within Temptation, so she wouldn't go to those.

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.

21 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

I've never seen a woman set fire to her farts on a tour bus. Just saying...

You haven't lived!

On 27/01/2022 at 22:22, Grimalkin said:

Come on, or the machines will take over, and the audience will undoubtedly love them, and that will be us done...

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.

1 minute ago, NikNik said:

Ah, the days before delayed broadcasts.

 

Speaking of live trainwrecks, does anyone remember that Brit Awards gig in the mid '80s when it went Pete Tong due to Autocue and stage-management failure? I watched that through the gaps in my fingers plastered to my face! I think Mick Fleetwood introduced The Four Tops coming in from stage right and, instead, Boy George walked on from stage right. Willing to be corrected. 

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

9 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

it was an open mike thing and the dude having a go at the drummer was another drummer who wanted to play.

 

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.

1 hour ago, NJE said:

If you use the YouTube app you can slow down songs at the same pitch and learn them much easier. I do this all the time, as I hate tab and it’s always wrong.

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.

2 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Just shows how valuable Tony Butler was to the band.

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

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

 Hmm IMO having broader categories does help, esp when you're in HMV etc looking for such n' such but having sub-sub-sub genres like mathcore is getting silly. 

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.

7 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Motley Crue and Def Leopard

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.

On 02/02/2022 at 07:09, scalpy said:

Hi all. My function band is having difficulty with a venue over a decibel meter. I have no problems with such devices as they need to look after their business, and personally I’m not a fan of loud loud bands anyway, especially at weddings.

 

The venue has a limit of 96dB. As we are not on their list of recommended bands they want us to go and sound check at some point before the event on a day of their choosing between office hours.  None of us can do that because of day jobs. They also want the client to sign a disclaimer that if we trip the meter it’s on us. I have issue with this because after 20 years of functions I know this particular band is more than capable of playing below 96dB-  but an enthusiastic punter singing along if even a healthy round of applause will trip the damn things. 
 

What would you say to this venue? We’ve a good reputation but their issues are making us look bad with the client.

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.

37 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

So a Precision? 

Not quite