PaulWarning

Just watched Green Day at Reading, it's on teletext, not a bad thing to do, play a short 'secret' gig on a smaller stage, did they only do half an hour? but I do wish Billy Jo would cut out that tiresome A O crap

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1345539679' post='1778511'] I have a plywood hondo P like this. it sounds luvverly, but weighs a ton. ply is fine. [/quote] +1 so have I

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1345630029' post='1779605'] But is that down to the band not being able to perform the ballad well or the audience’s natural preference for faster, more groove based songs that they can dance to or sing along to?? [/quote] The later I would say, ballads do tend to show up dodgy singers though

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1345583494' post='1779212'] Dunno why a band that can nail a fast or even a mid-paced track shouldn't be able to pull off a slower song? The main problem seems to me to get an audience to listen and not rush en masseto the loo or bar...! Think you answered your own question there, if the audience rushes to the bar you've not pulled it off [/quote]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1345573400' post='1779048'] I had one for a while, only slight problem was the pre-amp valve became loose, so my mate had a look, put it back in place, and tightened the holder. Never a problem again. Great amps, very loud, and sound good with the matching MB410, awesome with the Marshall VBC412. [/quote] so why did you off load it?

has anybody heard any trouble with the heads,? there's one here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/181750-marshall-mb450h-price-drop-l160-delivered-fsft/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/181750-marshall-mb450h-price-drop-l160-delivered-fsft/page__fromsearch__1[/url] just a thought with all the trouble seeming to come form the cab crossovers

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1345556271' post='1778765'] Most bands can't play a slow song which is the reason why they stay away from them. If you are going to pick one..make sure you do it well [/quote] +1 to that. and try and make it a singalong as well

[quote name='citymariner' timestamp='1345553772' post='1778738'] This has come a couple of times about the democracy of a band - if 4 out of 5 want to play it, what would you say? [/quote] Well I'm in a 4 piece and generally we reach a concensus, but if one person really doesn't want to do it we don't, there's enough other songs out there without causing resentment, having said that we've all got more a less the same musical taste which helps a lot, it's an old cliche 'musical differences' but it can cause a lot of aggro

don't do a song that that somebody in the band doesn't like, resentment builds up and it'll end in tears

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1345476026' post='1777893'] I don't get what you mean. How would a crossover stop it overheating? [/quote] no crossover to go wrong stops it overheating, I got the impression the the faulty crossover, or splitter?, was causing the amp to overload and therefore overheat, mine gets quiet warm but it's never cut out

I'ver got one of these, had trouble with the first one, Marshall replaced it, since then it's been fine, love the sound with a 1x15 extention cab, mind you my ext cab has no tweeter so no crossover to break down which seems to be the main problem here

nope, don't miss it at all, much prefer my MIA P, each to there own I guess

you cam spend a £1000 on ear plugs, but if you forget to put them in, like i did at the last gig they won't do any good at all Incidental I use ER20 and have found them to work very well, when I put them in that is

how about the worst guitar solo ever? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI403cCUSCM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI403cCUSCM[/url] kicks in about 1.20

my girlfriend wonders up halfway through the sound check and will say "that don't sound right" (she's not very good with technical jargon) so we adjust something, eventually she say "that's better" and away we go, then the room fills up, if we're lucky, and the whole thing alters anyway. Sound engineers cost money.

yep I'm a GAS free zone since I got my MIA P

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOLy6Wzf-U"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOLy6Wzf-U[/url]

can't believe nobody's mentioned Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower

this has been done a few times, here's one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/95282-declaring-your-hobby-to-the-taxman/page__st__40"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/95282-declaring-your-hobby-to-the-taxman/page__st__40[/url] best answer I read somewhere was from one guy who got his tax reduced because his expenses where more than what he earned from the band, after claiming against his other earnings for a couple of years the taxman told him it was a hobby and not to declare band earnings, something like that anyway it

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1340218866' post='1701347'] It's horribly common and I run into all over the place and not just with pub bands and not just at festivals (where there might be a partial excuse). I've paid good money to see bands where I've filled in the words from memory (Todd Rundgren, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, The Nice (reunion tour), Johnny Winter to name but a very few). Steve [/quote] [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1340181088' post='1700318'] Exactly - the amount of bands I see where I can hear the singer, but not understand a word they are singing is amazing. I`ve always thought that as soon as you can hear the words, the band sounds much more professional. [/quote] This can be a trap you can fall into quite easliy doing your own sound, because you know the words it's tempting to have the vocals a bit lower than they should be, at the end of the day the melody line (usually the vocal) is the main part of the song

We do it to the volume of the drums. All you need to do is be able to hear everyone in the band on stage and that will transmit outfront with the exception of the Vox..as monitors will be loud and clear. can't really agree with that I'm afraid, sometimes I think my bass is really loud and out front it's fine, sometimes the guitar seems loud but again it's ok out front, depends on room accustics

me the guitard and the singer, with his cordless mic, do it by concensous, if you can't hear the vocals turn your amps down and if the drummer is way to loud buy him some lighter sticks, noisey bastard

thanks everyone, I've figured most of it out, in a fashion, I've listened to a couple of live recordings of it as well and as usual they're all different, as Chris b says it's mostly root/5th/ octave, an added complication is, as Lewk says, it's quite high and I can see us having to lower the key and the song starts on bottom E so it ain't going to be exact anyway

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1339770961' post='1694103'] We play this in the cover band. I don't like it that much so I just twiddle over root/5/octave. The band's happy so it's good enough for me too. [/quote] I've had a quick listen and there does seem to be a lot of root/octive going on

[quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1339767735' post='1694030'] Do the chords not help? [url="http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eddie_and_the_hotrods/anything_you_wanna_do_crd.htm"]http://tabs.ultimate...anna_do_crd.htm[/url] [/quote] cheers Vinny but I can get the chords off the net, that's the route I'll have to go down when I try and figure it out myself, trouble is I'm not very good at it and it could take a while, I was hoping for a short cut