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depends what sort of band you are, IMO it's no good trying to please everybody, people get bored with the stuff they don't like, focusing (more or less) on one genre and you'll attract that sort of crowd, for instance Ska is very popular. I'm in a punk band, but we do stray into heavy rock (whole lotta Rosie) and the novelty songs are popular, Jilted John and Nellie the Elephant, basically people love to sing a long and dance, I'm talking about pub gigs btw

I hadn't heard of them, so thanks for the heads up, but if you're selling a £200 Bass, it's a big chunk to pay out for delivery, and the buyer isn't the one taking the risk, still, it's good to know

I've never come across a courier that will insure instruments that aren't in a hard case if they'll insure them at all. It must be unusual for this type of thing to happen otherwise the online sellers of guitars and basses wouldn't send them in a carboard box, which they do, all the time. I suppose it's up to the individuals attitude to risk as to whether send guitars and basses this way, I've sent a few and got away with it, if I hadn't I'd have taken the hit, I knew it was a possibility

there's a few threads on this subject, here's one

they're better now they've got the original bassist back, bass players do make a difference 🙂, saw them at Stone Valley last year, Jake doesn't look good tbh, and those shirts don't help 😂

if you're an anomaly , I'm at too 😂

that certainly used to be the case, but less and less people even have a CD player these days, in my (very limited) experience, there has been a marked decline in people buying CD's after a gig in the last couple of years. The band were discussing online this morning about writing some new original material, I pointed out (me being the misery guts of the band) that were unlikely to recoup the cost of recording and production because of poor CD sales, everybody went very quiet

yes, we're finding that as well, they keep coming back for T shirts, they got a finite life, not so CD's or other forms of music carriers

I'm reasonably friendly with an originals band, who make a thing out of collectable vinyl, singles in different colours, that sort of thing, they travel all over the place doing gigs and admit they don't really recover costs, they view it as a promo tool

we obtained some download codes via Bandcamp, you get about 100 free(might be more can't remember), NOBODY asked for one with the CD's we sold. But you are right CD sales have fallen through the floor, vinyl is cost prohibitive for smaller runs, and if our experience is anything to go by, popularity is exaggerated, don't get me started on streaming, we get about 500 streams a month for which get about £1.50. All in all it's very difficult to make a case for recording and releasing music, unless you're happy to make a loss on it

I think it's been on before, well worth a look though

one of my fondest memories of Rebellion was the Glitter Band, after about the 3rd encore they turned the PA off, the crowd did I Love You me love with just the drummer 😂

I sort of get what you're saying, later punk did get a bit like that, having said that you've described one of my favourite bands, The Ramones, 4 barre chords and the title of the song sung (not shouted) 4 times, I don't know what made them special, but something indefinable did. I won't be going, I've been a few times and didn't particularly enjoy it, it's just too big, too many bands, dodgy sound. Apart from the odd exception, it just all merges into a mushy mess, for me anyway. Last time I went I spent most of my time in the pub round the corner 😃

yes I've heard that argument as well, but the fact there's so few reserve prices these days seems to suggest it doesn't work, certainly puts me off. Ebay don't charge for listing or relisting, unless you have extras. I've just checked there is an extra fee for a reserve price, so makes even less sense to me

not as far as I know, in fact their could be a charge for having a reserve price, could well be wrong on that one though, ebay never charge me for placing a sale on there, they make the money on selling fees, no sale no fee

we don't really know the price, reserve not met, I really don't understand why people do this, why not just start it at the reserve price point?

me too, I'm a lefty and I've flirted with learning right handed, I soon realised how much work was invovled and gave up

another vote for the Bootleg Beatles, seen them a few times over the years, last time at Stone Valley last year, absolutely superb, felt for the Boomtown Rats who had to follow them on. Total respect for Steve White, he relearnt how to play bass left handed to be like Paul.

I'm heading that way, although I don't deliberately play Beatles songs they occasionally get played on on my mp3 player, which is on shuffle, or on an oldies radio station I sometimes have on, I'm always enjoy them when they do

yep, both my Trace Elliot's are fanless, one is a 200 watt series 5 the other 250 watt SMX, you don't need any more volume than these put out and they only weigh 13Kg

There's plenty I've had GAS for that I've bought and I wish I hadn't, that's what I remind myself of when GAS comes a knocking

same here more or less, but I prefer the B1on, maybe I've just got used to it but the Sansamp clone sounds better to me

went to see a band last week, good bass player and fairly high in the mix, he played with both fingers and a pick, could you tell any difference? no, as my partner said "it's a bass!"

There is a website to do your own hearing test that sort off mimics the NHS one https://hearingtest.online/ You've probably lost some hearing around the 5k Hz range, most people do with age, go to your Doctor and get a referral to the NHS Audiology clinic, their hearing aids are free. I tried some private ones for a month on approval, yes they were better than my out of date NHS ones (I'm due to get some up to date ones in Feb) but not £3k better. They do take some getting used too, it took me a year and they still don't handle noisy environments well, but I would be without them

I'd be looking for a new drummer