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Perhaps this more traditional approach is more relevant? Headphones advisory..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgFFNXahcg

We have a gig on June 2nd with a dep singer. She will have one practice with us on May 28th. Guitarist now tells us he cant do the practice and isn't aware of why this is a problem.

The bloke doing the singing was rather worrying. But the sax n drum chaps were good.

Looking forward to the next one. Seen Robert Cray a few times and have tickets for his Guildford gig in May; his feel and timing is unique Imo.

Crabsody in Blue, vintage Bon Scott.

I dep for a band that does Sex on Fire, people love it and its a giggle watching them wobble around to it and scream along with the chorus. I rather enjoy it.

How does Mark King do all that stuff and sing at the same time?

End of the Road - Boyz 2 Men. Appalling whinging noise, unfortunately it seems to be on the playlist of a local radio station that's on at work. Why?

Maybe it was user error causing the tone issues with Carlsbro stuff. My Cobra 90 had Hi & Lo input plus a gain control. In order to get some decent volume I put the Thunder 1a through the Hi input and turned the gain up. Possibly not the best way to get a tight sound.

For my second gig I borrowed another Carlsbro Cobra combo and plonked it on top of mine. Cos of the green logo it looked (to a young fool) like a TE stack. I was happy.

Westone Thunder 1a straight into a Carlsbro Cobra 90. How very 80's!

ACDC
Tina Turner
Chic

Not sure if its cheese... Taylor Swift Shake It Off.

Cliff Williams. Bash away on a Stingray, walk forward for a bit of bv's, walk back and put your head down.

This, Robert Cray - The One In The Middle.

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Good, so it's not just me hearing things. Bigger brains than mine could no doubt explain why, and perhaps why don't Hartke just stick a better tube in when they make the thing?

Stuff like this just goes to show how great bass playing adds so much to the overall performance.

I replaced the standard tube with a JJ ECC803S just to see what happened. Well.. despite my lack of an expert ear for such things it does seem to have added a bit of extra something perhaps more character, depth not quite sure but it sounds different and better.

So for a small fee and very little work I am happier with my amp - what a result. Give it a go.

If new a Sire Marcus Miller, I have one - it's good.

I think we would all like to see this film of Blue with his invisible friend.

The film review show that Barry Norman used to present.

Hawaii 5o

Police Squad

Our guitar man couldn't do band practice yesterday. So with Bass, Keys, Sax, Drums and vox we sounded lovely - well i thought so. I could actually hear what Mr Keys was doing plus bass sounded great in a bit more space.

Excellent, happy to do more without guitar.

Do I do, For Once In My Life and the intro to Get the Funk Out - that tone.

Followed by sex on dire?

I'm just the dep so I do as I'm told. Should the dep express an opinion?

And.. The whole two set thing doesn't make sense. Get the punters warmed up, disappear for 1/2 hour and start all over again. Why not stick with it for 2 hours?

Done some dep gigs for a band that play Moondance (lets not start an argument about that) as the first song. Seems a bit bland to start off with.

So what's the view, is it better to begin with a bang or ease gently into the set? Or does it depend on setting?