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[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1360590889' post='1972835'] What always struck me about the Beatles was the truly remarkable output of great pop songs by ..mostly.. Lennon and Mcartney..and the mostly drivel that those two put out as solo artists. [/quote] I was watching a programme about the Beatles the other night and a young Macca said "we might not be able to write songs when we're 40" how did he know that! mind you Lennon had a good excuse.

just had a quick listen to Suade on teletext and once again as with the Led Zep reunion gig the bass had no definition due to it being eq'd to deep, (I was listening through my HiFi), why is this? my opinion is digital recording, because it has a wider frequency response than analogue the mixers are trying to get loads of bottom end because it initially sounds better (as with the loudness war) but it soon get wearing, older recordings had the bass with a lot more lower mids which meant that you could actually hear what the bass is doing, Led Zep II springs to mind. Oddly this is completely at odds with the modern fashion for having the bass drum with loads of treble dialed in. Any recording engineers on here to explain this or tell me I'm wrong?

but if you hadn't done all the faffing over the years you wouldn't know it was your nivana would you?

Saw Reg and the Troggs a few times, always entertaining, proof that you don't need to be a great musician to make wonderful pop records, in fact imho it helps if you're not

[quote name='barkin' timestamp='1359976078' post='1962639'] If it didn't take me so b%**#y long to learn and work stuff out, I'd do it all standing up... [/quote] I'm with you on that one

below the waist, looks cool though some may disagree, avoids buckle rash this way, trouble is if I leave my keys in the wrong pocket I get dents in the back (of the bass) instead

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1359726847' post='1959447'] Not true. My mate who was the guitarist in the band had to leave his phone in the safe in the office of his work, because he worked with lathes and mills, it was too much of a risk using it on the shop floor. He frequently forgot to take his phone out of the safe after work and i would often get a text the next morning at about half 7 apologising and then a response to whatever i had sent. [/quote] that's not quite the same thing, it's not that he's too busy its that he can't have his phone with him, if people can't be bothered, they more often than not say they're too busy, if you really want to do something you'll make the time, in my experience anyway

[quote name='BenMartinBass' timestamp='1359721225' post='1959288'] This happens regularly to me. Not necessarily always with band members (though our drummer had, until very recently, a tendency to commit, lose his phone then not show up) but it does bug me. If you're asked a simple question via text that doesn't take too long to answer you seriously cannot be so busy it takes you 10 hours to see it and reply. I get that excuse all the time while all throughout the day the person in question has been getting high scores on Bubble Witch Saga. [/quote] when people use the excuse that they're too busy, whether it's answering texts or practising a new song, what they really mean is they'd rather be doing something else

it's just plain bad manners to ignore text and emails, one of our band members does it, then complains if people ignore his, unbelievable but true.

in defence of Carlsboro, I used a Beasty for quite a while, till the preamp packed in, decent combo, still use it as a 1x15 extension cab and a back up which I can use if I plug my fx pedal straight into the power amp

once bought a drum kit, the most difficult thing I found was dissociating my hi hat hand from my kick drum foot, ie, when playing quarters on my hi hat I couldn't play dum dumdum dum dumdum on the kick drum, got there in the end though, then got fed up and sold the kit, I found it boring playing drums, especially when not in a band

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1359390078' post='1954015'] See previous posts here on pelevincat. Thing is, if he's not actually selling them, where are they going and why keep putting more up for sale? I think the Scheckter is not the same one that was for sale for £161, or whatever, that seems to have been sold to a different person, I hero's one seems like it was one knob short of an eq. Not the only one! [/quote] and if he's not actually selling them, he must still be paying ebay fees, mustn't he?

ebay is a conumdrum, we all know it's a rip off, but you get to the biggest market by selling through them so you will probably get a higher price. I refused to sell my Stingray through them, sold it on here for less but actually got a bit more for it when the fees were taken into consideration, which are nearly £100 on a £700 item

trouble with a full PA is you're relying on the sound man, and anybody that's tried to make out the bass line from a record knows not everybody likes to hear the bass, you can set the amp up as much as you want doesn't effect what's happening foh, really pisses me off, the other week I was watching a band at a venue we play at and asked the soundman if my bass cut through more than this one, he said "Don't you think it's loud enough?" he turned it up in the second half, sounded loads better

this kind of thing is ok for bands starting out, basically you're playing for nothing which I've done in the past just to get support slots to name bands. If you don't want to play for nothing don't do it, simple.

once read Marc Bolan always tuned up to the highest pitched string, so by the end of a recording session he was a long way out, if it's true he can't have done many overdubs

had a stingray, now I've got a MIA standard P, which I'm a lot happier with, I think it cuts through better and I prefer the tone, but it's all about personal preferences at the end of the day

I never knew Fred was cack handed

wonder why it was collect in person, if it was a scam surely it would be better not to meet the person you've scammed, or am I missing something?

he might find out Sack Sabbaths bassist comes on here

so it went for a grand, wonder if the buyer comes on here?

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1357239505' post='1919718'] And yes I want to post a link to this on FBook but I fear he may hunt me down and kill me. Great ranting though. [/quote] already done that, not many likes though

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1357212336' post='1919063'] I haven't met Sacko, but I like him! [/quote] yep, he's serously un PC, he's the guitarist with Sack Sabbath and In for the Kill, you ought to have seen the text we got from him about the manageress who double booked us and In For the Kill the other month lol

just read this months Sacko's sh*t list in the local music/gig guide freebe from my area, made me smile, but I'm not easily offended, don't agree with the Fairytale in New York comment though. [url="http://www.mickmoonshine.co.uk/Issue%2057.pdf"]http://www.mickmoons.../Issue%2057.pdf[/url] scroll down to near the bottom

trouble with asking people on here is we're such a nice bunch of people nobody likes to criticise, nice track but reminds me of something else can't think what though, anybody? and did the guitarist do the mixing?