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22 minutes ago, Cliff Edge said:

I watched the Hollies documentary on Sky Arts last night. Interesting to watch Eric Haydock playing a 6 string Fender bass on most of the early records before moving to Precision shortly before quitting the band. 
Long Cool Woman in a Black dress is pure CCR. 

It's been on before, really enjoyed it, always had a soft spot for the Hollies, it seems to me a lot of bass players seem to finish up playing a precision

while not saying  it isn't a scam, if you get the money in cash, where's the scam?

20 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

 

 

Struck me as a strange choice of cover....  original fairly recent and in the same genre as the Pixies. People normally jump back in time or across genres for covers. They didn't attempt to significantly re-imagine it or anything either, but still worked. 

 

 

 

 

The same could be said of Penetration covering the Buzzcocks 

12 minutes ago, BassmanPaul said:

I have not used the 500 but I did use the 350 2x10. It was the first fender amp that had ever impressed me. It filled a fairly  large bar and handled every thing that my Six String Fretless could throw at it.

that's the 500, it's only 350 watts at 8 ohms, 500 with an extension cab

I had one for a while, while they are light (and loud), they're also bulky with only the one handle on the top so it tends to swing around a lot, as my door frame will testify too

I'm trying to load our album onto the digital aggregator platform Soundrop, at the end of the process I get this error, I've left it about 3 weeks and it's still happening.
The Spotify artist link works ok when logging into the Spotify artists page, I've tried emailing Soundrop, but no reply.
Anybody on here any experience of this problem?

3 hours ago, ubit said:

 

 Drunk punters don't care unless the song falls to bits, which never happened. Under all circumstances the show must go on.

 

some punters actually find the mistakes amusing, as long as it doesn't happen too often, how may of us have completely messed up the start of a song and had to start again to a huge roar from the crowd and than cheering at the end because we got it right?

the Beatles reform for live aid

they'd be getting slagged off for for carrying on way past their best like Macca and Clapton etc, and maybe rightly so, to quote Hendrix (allegedly)  "once you're dead your made for life", how prophetic was that?

41 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

 

@Tubster are you not getting any feedback by having one PA speaker effectively as rear wall facing backline?

feedback while being in front of a small PA is not such a problem in my experience, we use a Yamaha EMX512SC power mixer, our singer spends quite a lot of time running around the crowd with his radio mic without feedback problems

thanks for your help, nearly there, just got to figure out how to add my email address, nothing happens when I click on 'add email address' at the bottom of the notifications page

thanks, but I can't find page settings on the band FB page,

I'll try your messenger suggestion thanks

Since the last FB 'upgrade' I no longer receive notifications when someone leaves a message  in band's inbox on our FB page, which means I have to remember to check regularly to make sure we're not missing out on offers of gigs etc, anyone got any ideas on how to get them working again? Google hasn't been much help

the song selection and the singers made all the difference, the reggae mash up, or whatever it was called wasn't good, why they persevered with it, given the drummers problems as well, I really don't know

32 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said:

Come on, if both the bands had really rocked it tonight, where would the tension be for the last programme at the IOW? Everyone loves a happy ending and that's what we'll be dished up next week, albeit heavily and selectively edited.

yep, I think we can all see where this program is going, contrived TV at it's best/worst

I did have a Stingray, despite it being active I could never get the sound I wanted, I never touch the  controls on my P bass, any adjustments are made via my Zoom B1on pedal or my amp, when I play through a full PA the Zoom gives me control over my EQ before the mixing desk

15 minutes ago, redbandit599 said:

 I was coming on here just to post this, and just because you beat me to it, I can't see any reason not to 😁 Genius...

 

I notice you didn't post the one with a certain DJ introducing it 😄

I (with my other half) do open mics, the most popular song by quite a distance is Jilted John, never seem to hear it on the Radio these days 😄

banter is a tricky one, it's nasty if it's too near the truth and the people it's aimed at are lacking in self confidence, it's a thin dividing line between a bit of a pi55 take and bullying, getting a feel for when people are getting upset is important. Something that is difficult when written down in a post.

I walked in the pub tonight where I'd done open mic on Friday, a couple of the blokes said "hope you've not bought your guitar again" but it was said in such a way that I took it as a compliment, they'd actually enjoyed my little set, if I'd been shite they wouldn't have said it, hopefully I read it right 😂

use different coloured cables or coloured tape on both ends of the cable (different colours for different cables) so it's clear which cables at the PA are connected to which microphones etc

3 minutes ago, sprocketflup said:

Another tip, again age related, print/write your setlist in a typeface big enough to be read with out kneeling down and squinting between the songs

never suffered with foot problems always wear Converse maybe I'm lucky, as well as print the set list big enough to read check out the next song before you've finished the last one so you're ready for those no break in between the songs moments

57 minutes ago, Sparky Mark said:

The lovely thing about the non fan versions is that the internals are dustless and preserved in the state they left the factory 30 years ago.

 

I've got a couple TE's non fan version, and I prefer them, they're quieter and lighter, (possibly because they're lower wattage), and like you say don't get full of sucked in gunk, never had any overheating issues with them

52 minutes ago, Nicko said:

2I think Kirsty MacColl lacked any kind of charisma.  Fairytale of New York excepted she never sounded like she was interested in singing the songs much.

once saw her live, quite lively and she was really enjoying herself when the encored with the Ramones song "I Wanna Be Sedated"

Roy Orbison is another performer who lacked any sort of charisma when playing live, made Bill Wyman look energetic

another invaluable free tool is Audacity, slow the song right down and move it up an octave (or even 2) makes the the most buried in the mix bass line stand out.

I also find the bass lessons on YouTube are more accurate than tabs

There's usually a reasonably accurate tab of what I want to learn, and some rubbish ones, but they do get me in the ball park, I'm rubbish at starting out learning a song by ear but once I've learnt the basic chord structure I can usually sort it out.

There's also a piece of software that attempts to show the chords and the bass line called Digital Music Mentor (never found an alternative that shows the bass line), very old but still available, it's not fool proof by any means but it does get you on the right track