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I find that 4 or 5 pints of lager brings out the best in my voice. Strangely, if I stay sober, I seem to get hoarse quickly. Its a cross I have had to bear for years now

We play in two different tunings, which means we carry two guitars each to the gig, but I find a simple tweak of the tone knob gives me a close enough tone plus the fingers/pick mix does the rest

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1429983896' post='2756968'] For me it's not so much the voice but the crap lyrics that I can't stand. For a long time I listened almost exclusively to J-Pop/J-Rock, where the lyrics were probably just as awful as those I'd been trying to get away from, but being in a language I mostly didn't understand, I was able to appreciate the singing as just another instrument without the distraction of cringing at the embarrassing words. [/quote] I love J rock, especially Luna sea and Buck Tick. I thought I was the only one who listened to this stuff. The singers in the two bands I mentioned, whilst singing in Japanese, have great voices! Ooh, nearly for got the awesome Dragon Ash!

I dont think Ive ever had someone say that they think Im an awesome bass player, but as Im the singer too, Im not surprised. Ive had people come up and say they think our band is great, or that I have a good voice, which is much more importanter for me than being thought of as being an amazing bass player. I think Im quite good, but think the collective sound is what I want to sound good

Some " bad singers" are among the best ever vocalists! Look at Jimmy Hendrix, Bob Dylan among others. As long as a singer has character to his or her voice, then its ok , certainly by me. In my humble opinion, there is nothing worse than a singer who ruins a song by over doing it, a la Mary J Bilge on that U2 song. Come to think of it, Bonio tends to do a bit of that himself!

You can buy second hand Bose ones on ebay. All you need to do is replace the earpieces in case you dont want someone elses germs in yer ear!

Bose noise cancelling headphones are immense. No pesky noise leakage from those bad boys!

I've got a k5 and find it quite hard to play, but I think that's more down to the incredibly close string spacing rather than the extra string. It's a real problem for a sausage fingered bugger like me!

I think it's quite a good April fool. Is that not the purpose of an April fools joke? To be ridiculous.

In flames are another awesome band !

I'm sorry, I've just given lawnmower deth a listen. Am I missing something? They are sh*t and not even metal, but punk!

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1427481855' post='2731051'] Donkeys years ago, at a pub or workie club in Tamworth, playing with a band of old fogies doing Dave Edmunds and Shadows type rock n roll covers to a disinterested dozen or so people, 2 of who were playing pool in front of what passed for a stage. One of them walked up to me between numbers and asked me to turn my amp down as I was moving the balls on the pool table and it was affecting his game. By the way, I was using an HH IC100 guitar amp and a 4 X 12. [/quote] That happened to us years ago. We played at an ATC dance. Our PA set up was an HH 100 wat amp and one of the organisers , donned a pair of ear defenders and proceeded to walk around measuring noise levels! Later he announced to us in disgust that we were louder than a Typhoon taking off! Anyone who has used an HH 100 watt amp will realise that this is a physical impossibility!

Years ago, we played at a hall in a village on the Isle of Mull. It was packed and turned into a great night. Next day on the ferry, this guy approached us and asked " were you the band that played in the hall last night?" We replied rather confidently, " yeah man" the guy looked us up and down and said " you should be called the loud machine, couldn't hear myself think, and that coat you were wearing" referring to our guitarists long stage wear , " I've got one like that, but I wear it to bed!"

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1427824875' post='2734759'] Maybe she spotted a music stand over on the left. [/quote] Well spotted, I never thought of that.

I think everyone else has covered every thing, but one point I'd like to make is, any bass can be used for slapping. New strings obviously help, but you shouldn't have to buy a particular " slapping" bass . Not wanting to sound condescending

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1427804483' post='2734399'] Not necessarily, since the midrange and high frequency pattern is cone shaped. The picture below shows +/- 30 degree dispersion, which is about average in the upper mids from a bass cab. In the upper frame the cab flat on the floor puts the audience within the dispersion pattern, but not the player. In the lower frame with the cab tilted both the audience and player are within the dispersion pattern. The issue with lifting the cab is that if you lift a small cab high enough off the floor to hear the mids at close range you will lose boundary reinforcement in the midbass. That can be beneficial, if the room is boomy, as that will reduce the output in the boom frequencies. But in a dead room you may not want that reduction in the midbass. If you want to be ready for any contingency have the ability to either tilt or lift the cab to suit the room. [/quote] Thank you for enlightening me. It seems the cone of pleasure is all encompassing! The girl in the diagram however ( or young long haired lout) , doesn't seem so convinced . Her body languge suggests she is quite apathetic about the sound and is ready to leave, no matter what you do !

I agree with the statement that bands need to be good, but I know we are good and I know a couple of the other local bands are good too. Even so, bars are just not entertaining live music round here. It's like they think they will get enough folk in with a sh*tty disco, so why pay more for live music. Long gaps between songs is my hate and I continually battle with a guitarist with OCD., so I suppose we can be guilty of that, but I don't think that is the reason for the lack of gigs.certainly not in this town .

I've just heard that the one regular gig in my home town is no longer doing live music due to going into receivership . They have had a cheesy disco for the last couple of months. A few years ago , there used to be a load of bars in this area that would put bands on. Every band was busy. There was no animosity between bands as there were more than enough gigs to go round. Gradually more and more of the live band bars have closed or simply stopped putting on music. The live scene here is getting really bad. The annoying thing is, this bar that I talk about, when under different management, used to bring bands from all over and had music on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday . Now it's a disco on Friday and Saturday . There's a open mic night on in another pub, but that's not going to satisfy a gigging band. I fear for the future!

We have lots of songs that we love to play and take pride in, but the ones that go down best are wagon wheel and Galway girl. It makes me sick!

Why not raise it instead of tilting it? If it's tilted, the audience are going to be hearing the dull sound you encountered when you were outside its cone of pleasure. I had this problem until I bought a 6x10 which cured all stage sound problems for me. Our guitarists both raise their cabs too.

Seen this mob supporting GUN on Saturday night and thought they were awesome! http://youtu.be/6sEOsXcBFUA

Texas Hippie Coalition, great band !

Have you seen what Blackmore is up to these days? Blackmores night. Definitely not my cup of tea

Where is it?

Now that is a backdrop!