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@Dad3353 has a point, but then he is our Dad😃 The only band of the 3 you mention I listen to regularly is The Who. For me, Quadrophenia is one of the best albums ever recorded.

Welcome jacq

I've seen a few ads on FB for Rickenbacker's built by HW. Anyone know who 'HW' is?

We're quite a sad little bunch aren't we 🤣 ?

A lot of performers have the words in some format. Bowie at Glastonbury for example. It's much better to learn the words, but scanning an ipad is better than err, err. I once sang 'Ruby don't take your love to town' in a band and forgot the words of the last verse entirely - its' sung to just a drum beat. Not sure many in the audience noticed although that might have been my crap singing

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Always found Facebook best, particularly the local music groups. Posters to venue's about 4 weeks before also helps. There might be an online gig guide in your area too Post lots of stuff about what the band is up to, profiles of members etc. Get a website up and link your FB page and your YouTube channel Record gigs and put them in FB a d YouTube

Stunning venue

Freind's of mine went to this. Nice looking hall

I've gigged a couple of times in Castleford at The Lion and they've passed the bucket round so we got an extra £70 which was cool.

Funny thing, my least favourite finish on a bass is the natural wood grain one although the darker ones are nice...Ibanez Musician for example

An Alembic, judging by the bridge shape and what I can make out of the logo on the headstock?

So it's stopped doing it now.....must have been a mouse 😂

I did a recording session for a singer/songwriter with an Italian drummer. He was a student so in his early twenties. Man he was good. This is the track

No, played another bass through the same amp and it was fine

I don't think so, but I didn't try that test

I have a Mike Lull passive P bass. It's developed an odd fault in that a couple of minutes after starting playing there is a rattling sound when I play open A (it's a 4-string) and the notes played below that on the E string sound muffled and lower in volume. I've check my leads and played another bass through the same set up as I thought it might be the pre-amp valves in the amp. Is one of the capacitors in the wiring loom giving up?

...from Rolling Stone The music to “The Jean Genie” was inspired by Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man”; Bowie wrote the song’s lyrics in the New York City apartment of model-actress Cyrinda Foxe, then a publicist for his management company and later married to David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. But the actual subject of the song was Iggy Pop, or at least a fictionalized version of him, Bowie said. The lyrics were about somebody who “sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile.” The title of the song was an homage to French novelist/dramatist Jean Genet – Bowie has told different stories over the years whether the reference was unconscious or deliberate – while the line “He’s so simple-minded, he can’t drive his module” would, in turn, inspire the name of the band Simple Minds. as you say, probably written while out of his box on some recreational chemical or other

Played The Water Rats in Kings Cross. Decent crowd in for what is our last gig for a while. Emile the sound guy is fantastic and really knows his stuff. We played really well and the crowd loved it.