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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

I roll the bridge pick up right off and bring the tone of the neck pick up right up. With new rounds it gives the sound I want perfectly.

Not I!

I had the misfortune years ago to experience a strange episode. We were playing in a local bar which had a stage that was only about eight inches high. Enough to raise you above most punters heads. I had just split up with a girl who worked for this delivery company. The family that owned the delivery company were, well, rough shall we say? We were playing away and this girl from said family stood on the stage with her back to me facing the pub. There was hardly any room and I was playing and singing with this girls head about six inches from my mic. Completely blocking me from the audience. Obviously this was meant to wind me up as it was an aggressive move but I had no clue as to how to deal with this. The bouncer came up and gestured for her to get down. She did and as soon as he left she got back up. If it had been a guy it would have been an easier situation but as it was a girl who was hard as f***k and built like a man my coolness left me and I was powerless to act. I just kept playing and singing to the back of her head. Luckily after a while of this she tired of this game and left. I can't think why I was targeted as my ex had finished with ME and I had not caused any problems. On the bright side I don't think their business is going anymore. 😃

That happened to us years ago when we were a two piece. We were booked to play a wedding in a private guest house that was trying to get itself on the circuit for weddings and such. When we were setting up the woman kept going on at us to watch her polished wooden floor., We assured her that our stands had rubber feet but she still made our lives uncomfortable. We set up in the dining hall which was separate from the bar. Instant recipe for disaster. Sure as Hell, when we started, everyone stayed in the bar. We played the whole gig to four or five kids sliding on the polished floor. We vowed to never play that place again even if we were asked. Come to think of it, we played far more than our fair share of gigs to little kids sliding on polished floors!