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[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1348139381' post='1809791'] To put a positive spin on this, Gav, if your imagination is ahead of your fingers you're alright mate, rejoice! [/quote] lol I rejoice in my mind every day ........lol I can find it a little frustrating at times, but then again the laws of physics does not keep up with my imagination either

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1348138248' post='1809759'] It's mad... we don't play many pubs because of the pay... but we are getting loads of offers at the moment and I'm using them as a showcase gig for our function/wedding clients [/quote] Yes mate but it's something different, and it's something you can dance to. There are too many covers bands all covering the same songs, I don't see a problem with covers, it's just every band sounds like the same band. what's more something that is not a droning metal band either. (By the way I'm an ex metal head myself but there are some gash bands out there) good on yer mate, it's nice to know some rays of sunshine are out there hope it gets better for you as well !

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1348130405' post='1809598'] I was doing a dep gig with a band last week.... Typical 'pub' band..... sex on fire, Dakota, Don't look back in anger, you know the set..... Was speaking with the Landlord of the pub and he's moaning that most of the bands on the circuit (Essex) have a similar repertoire and he and his punters have noticed this..... So I tell him about my band (Disco Genre) which he likes the sound of..... and get booked in October for a try out and then he gives me another 6 dates for 2013. Two days later I get a call from another pub in the chain given me another 5 dates for 2013... and he say he's gonna recommend me to another pub.... [/quote] Ya see mate if my local has booked a disco band I'd be there to see that. Another covers band doing what you list before, I wouldn't come in from the smoke shelter.

The answer to the OP Nige is "No" I cant actually play what I can hear in my mind, I have a reoccurring bass line at the moment in my mind that i cannot work out. it is a nice steady piece but just cant get it right. It's been like this for me all my life since i've been playing bass. Thats why a few months ago I decided to try and learn some theory to try & work out how to do it.

[quote name='keeptrying' timestamp='1348075312' post='1808966'] pm replied, totally agree, Yorkshire needs to go on a boil wash to shrink it to a more manageable size. [/quote] Yeh Gods own country is bloody too big ...what an ego eh ?

I have had one for about a year now & still love mine loads. I can only echo what has been said before, no thrills & simple to use. But most importantly it sounds reet gud !!!

I agree with the landlord. If i hear any of that banned list i leave.....also still got the blues, House of the rising sun & sit down ! I'm gone after the first few bars

D'awww bugger i got all giddy when i saw Yorkshire but too far for me at the mo' Bloody Yorkshire's fault for being too big, just out of interest where exactly are you ? as I'm wondering if I can work something out

[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1347920843' post='1806807'] I am so tempted to email him to ask if he can dress my frets and see what his reply is like. I bet even the simplest tech terms will confuse him. Or better still, make up my own tech terms and see if he understands what I am asking him. [/quote] Tell me what you have said and when & I will send another request asking a similar question......

Pics please

beautiful sounding instrument It always makes me confused how we can lose the skills of our forbears it really is a shame

[quote name='I am not excane' timestamp='1325537773' post='1484220'] If you need more duct tape, let me know! [/quote] hey thats my domain

So in theory could you do this with one guitar & one bass ?

Sorry late feedback I have bought a acoustic bass from Tom & he was patient & very approachable good seller & I am happy with the item. More than happy to deal with again.

Yes teach us

I think the covers band is definitely not something I would not bother with, I was at the local pubs beer festival this year it's always good & a full weekend event, they have this great way of keeping the punters there all weekend, they simply sell bulk sale cheap beer (£5 for three cans of beer) which actually works !!! people can smoke because the event is outside & the stage is also outside, the lads who run it say the bands get so much more attention that everyone wins But I noticed this year that covers bands were really struggling to pull the people up to the stage, A guy played Mustang Sally & cleared the tent in the first few bars, it wasn't him being crap it as just the fact that it was the 12th time that song had been played in two days & the covers bands that played had repeated the same songs too many times. After a while it was mentioned to almost every band who went on "No Mustang sally & no Sex is on fire" ...some chose to ignore the advice & it back fired. If you are playing covers, listen to other bands.......if there set is exactly the same as yours think about being a punter.......it gets old very quickly

I have to echo the reasons above. I'm now on the other side of the stage as a pub going punter (I'm not in a band any more) And the smoking ban has made the pub visit a very different experience. I smoke so when we arrive at the pub we all go inside get a beer & come straight back out. We then stay out there during our time at the pub, we have a wooden structure with heating & lights out there so no need to be indoors. Most of the time you can kind of hear that there is someone playing live but you forget who it is, then because of the price of the beer in the pub we then stay at the pub for a few then wonder back up to either a mates of they come to ours stopping off at the off licence on the way home, to catch the offie you have to leave early anyway.. I used to go out & stay in the pub all night watching the bands & having a great laugh, we would stay out till closing time & then maybe go off to either a club or back to someone's house to continue the night. I only watch live bands now at beer festivals or local music festivals. It's a shame that these changes (Smoking ban & stupidly expensive beer prices) have made people simply not bother either going out or not even enter the pub you are at. I know the smoking ban was a popular move for various pubs & clubs but the back lash is stronger than people expected. I know a few people who don't go to pubs at all now by choice. People who now play in bands are unfortunately casualties of these changes.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1346584790' post='1790766'] Sooo... we need to know who's been funny/weird enough to win this [/quote] I think you should win

Anthrax & Public Enemy @ The Brixton academy about '92 I went on a coach & it was my first time in London......I was terrified of London what an amazing gig though So Joey Belladonna Scott Ian (Who i worshipped as a god) Charlie Benante Frank Bello Dan Spitz Flavour Flav Chuck D Terminator X

see me for velcro & it would be even cheaper

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1346237267' post='1786772'] YAY!! Now make sure that The Black Rat hiding behind that beer mat can't fall in... [/quote] Shhhh we never talk about this

I love my multi effects I have a Boss ME 20b & an old Zoom 506. add to this a big muff & i make some very nice noises.

It does look very cool though Neil, by the way I didn't recognise you in your new avatar. nice

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1345805798' post='1781730'] I interviewed Frank last year for Guitar Interactive Magazine (that I write the bass department for ) prior to a Hartke bass clinic featuring Dave Ellefson from Megadeth too. He's a top chap and we ( G.I Mag & Licklibrary) recorded this performance of Got The Time of Frank playing along to the track. You can see the bass solo in detail. It's actually fairly straight forward when you can see what is going on Copied this link via ipad, but it's on Licklibrary's youtube channel: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=j7LPw4yDA9M"]http://www.youtube.c...1&v=j7LPw4yDA9M[/url] [/quote] That is sheer gold !!! I was a massive fan of Anthrax when I was a young un.....my god the times I used to sit & watch the Oedivnikufecin !! I think actually he would be one of them guys i would be a little star struck with lol. You have now made me think about doing some of their bass lines now

My god guys it's so easy just keep the string taut, never go to the left of the dango pin & always keep the hamster off his unicycle. It's not rocket science but not far from the off licence, the one that used to be Jack Fultons.....on the left just after the chippy !