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My band sell CDs, pretty much exclusively at gigs, on rare occasions someone will purchase them over the internet. We used to get the odd download of songs, or full albums, but this has really dropped off in the last couple of years and been replaced by streaming, mainly on Spotify. Though I think a lot of them are people searching for the 21 Pilots track, Stressed Out, as streams of our song of the same name have increased a lot since they released theirs! Personally I don’t download tracks/albums of anyone, whether they are independent or major artists. I sometimes use Spotify on my computer to stream the odd thing I don’t own – I just have the free service for that. But still buy all my music on CD, mainly well known artists, but occasionally local bands if I see and enjoy them at a gig.

Some footage of my bands first gig of 2017, which was a few weeks ago back in February, but I just got round to editing it together at the weekend. Sound is taken from a ZOOM Q2 HD WHITE placed in front of one of the PA speakers, video comes from that, a second zoom, a go-pro and three digital cameras. I’m actually playing guitar in this video, as I did for most of the gig, don’t have footage for the couple of songs at the end where I played the bass. We are currently rehearsing up a covers set where I am going to soley play bass. For our original material, which is what this video contains, I’ll be sticking with the guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW4Y0F8LQSw

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1491514906' post='3273714'] On my must-learn list [/quote] I'd love to learn that bassline, unfortunately a bit beyond my current abilities, but hopefully with practice I'll get there one day in the future.

Don't know much of her stuff but I do love the bass on the track, You're the One that I want, from the Grease soundtrack.

We are just starting to learn a covers set, at the moment I’m enjoying, Bad Reputation by Thin Lizzy and Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest the most in rehearsal, but I assume my favourite may change when we get to playing live. As for when we play originals, favourites to play live are, 24 Hour Breakdown & Gripped by the Throat, we would never play either in rehearsal anymore though.

Not sure I have an absolute favourite bass player, but the one whose playing I think is incredible that hasn’t yet been mention is Dave LaRue who plays with Steve Morse on his solo albums.

Edinburgh seems quite stable at the moment, nothing opened recently, but on the other hand nothing has closed down either.

[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Thanks for the welcome, certainly finding interesting stuff on the forum and gaining little insights into the bass. [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Definitely enjoying playing bass, just need to keep practicing and get better at it.[/color][/size][/font]

[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Moving to bass.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Thought I’d say hello here, though I have done a few posts elsewhere.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Actually play guitar in a band and have done for years, until now been more of a bass owner than a player. But we’ve decided after 10 years of gigging our own songs that we’d try our hands at a cover set for a bit. Normally singer plays the bass, but for the covers I’m going to give the bass a try and let him just handle the vocals and we’ll change to a one guitar band.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Really enjoying playing some of the bass lines, which to be honest can be a lot more interesting than the usual rhythm guitar I’m doing. Obviously some of it is quite challenging, but I am getting stuck in and have been practicing at home a lot more than I have done on guitar in recent years. Hopefully won’t be long until I’m playing regular gigs as a bassist.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Cheers.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font]

[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Iron Maiden Virtual XI[/b] – their second album with Blaze on vocals, universally trashed and a poor seller, but there is only one song on it I dislike (Futureal).[/color][/size][/font] [font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Status Quo - Ain't Complaining[/b] – the Quo go all out AOR with a set of melodic tunes bathed in keyboards. A million miles away from their 70s hard rock output, yet they are accused of always sounding the same on record.[/color][/size][/font] [font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue [/b] – lambasted for Steve Vai widdling all over it, whereas I love the guitar pyrotechnics over some really good hard rocking tunes.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]That is just three off the top of my head, I’m sure there are many more in my collection that belong in this category.[/color][/size][/font]

Nevermind by Nirvana

Did the same thing with another track, Book Bus, which we released digitally last year. Video of bass recording - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGv_SXdXNY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGv_SXdXNY[/url] Added guitar recording session - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynueiokPNIo"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ynueiokPNIo[/url] Added vocal recording - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3neP3tTxS-k[/media] (well okay that is a mime of the recording session).

Many great tracks, but my absolute favourite is, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, huge fan of the guitar playing of Steve Morse.

I Wanna Be A Winner - Brown Sauce - featuring Noel Edmunds, Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin. I got the 7" back in the day and I'm happy to confess that I put it on occasionally and think it is good. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDzsa9EP-a4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDzsa9EP-a4[/url]

The magazines, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock & Prog have been purchased by Future Publishing for £800k. They were of course the publishers that originally sold the mags to TeamRock for £10m, a good bit of business for them I guess. [url="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/08/heir-guitars-rock-and-metal-music-publisher-teamrock-saved"]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/08/heir-guitars-rock-and-metal-music-publisher-teamrock-saved[/url]

My band has decided to do a covers set in order to play some different venues and to different people than we do with our originals. Including a few early Maiden tunes, and I thought I'd try playing with fingers instead of a pick in order to make it a bit more authentic. I can hardly get through half a song without my forearm pretty much giving up. Can't imagine how much practise you'd have to do in order to get the stamina to play a full set like that.

[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Think the magazines were doing okay and returning a profit, the problem was the parent company, their other activities took them down. Teamrock had an advert free radio station on DAB for two years, which must have cost the a fortune. Then they moved that to online and tried getting paid subscriptions for radio and content access to run alongside the print magazines – obviously didn’t work and has resulted in the magazines being taken down as the rest of the business failed.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]You’d think if the magazines do have a readership that someone might come in and purchase the titles and ensure they stay on the shelves.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]There is quite a good article on it here.[/color][/size][/font] [url="https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/team-rock-closure"][font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#0000ff"]https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/team-rock-closure[/color][/size][/font][/url] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]And an interview with an ex editor of Classic Rock[/color][/size][/font] [url="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/the-inside-story-of-team-rocks-sudden-closure-my-boss-phoned-and-said-its-all-fd/"][font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#0000ff"]http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/the-inside-story-of-team-rocks-sudden-closure-my-boss-phoned-and-said-its-all-fd/[/color][/size][/font][/url]

Bit late to the party, but enjoying reading the diary from the beginning.

Scottish hard rock / metal band, Vantage Point, are currently recording their fourth album, Work Work Work. Here is a video of Bassist, Murray Graham, recording the track, @ Attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezokRZgwnk There is also a video with the guitars added, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlMzQUrZsAo but they do get in the way of the bassline somewhat 😉 Vocals yet to be recorded.