PaulWarning

I don't think I've ever got through a gig without at least couple of mistakes, it's usually lack of concentration, normally I don't think anybody notices but the last gig we decided to do the Specials Rat Race for the first time in ages, I got completely lost and couldn't get it back until the second chorus, even the drummer said it was messy 🤣

but there's plenty of other old men wanting to relive the best time of their lives, can't see the harm in it myself

So I'm in the pub and someone has left a Daily Star on the table, so I have read, as you do, there's John Lydon giving it some about the Pistols doing gigs without him, oh dear, that hasn't done his ego any good

I've got a laptop, use a Behringer UM2 audio interface, load any song into the audacity app (free) you can slow it down or change key, if required, then play along using headphones

never really considered a 5, guess it depends on the style of music you play, not many punk bassists use a 5 string, I avoid playing anything below a G on the E string anyway, for instance I usually play F or F# on the D string seems to cut through better, to my ears anyway

went to see Black Water County at the Bodega in Nottingham on Saturday, packed small venue with mosh pit, very lively and enjoyable, all of a sudden a drum stick hit me in the face and broke my glasses 😡, which took the shine off the evening somewhat

one of my Trace amps thumps the other doesn't, I always assumed it was some sort of capacitor fault, it's never damaged the speaker

similar thread here, Rumbles are good if a little bulky

We have a similar problem, not the feedback, but being too loud in a small pub gig, I have raised the subject and asked if he could play quieter, but he just says he enjoys bashing hell out of the kit (he regularly trashes his 300 quid cymbals and at the end of gigs it's like a wood yard round his feet), in all other respects he's an ideal band member, decent drummers who don't cause problems within the band don't grow on trees so we just accept it

I've posted this before, always makes me smile

my mistakes I was thinking of Richard Skinner who like you say came a little bit later, anyway Whispering Bob didn't like punk, after all punk was invented as an antidote for the over indulgence of Prog Rock and 20minute guitar and drum solo's

well Sid certainly didn't help, the aborted attack, which was inexcusable but typical Sid, was probably because Bob was resisting having Punk bands on the Old Grey Whistle Test, which is why he got replaced by Richard Williams

but not punk @Lozz196 😂

I remember going to see 'The Vibrators' about 35 years ago with Eddie the only original member, they'd just bought out a new album and played all the songs off it, no original Vibrators songs, with the crowd getting restless the new singer said "Can't you see this is a completely different band?" well yes, but maybe you should have had a completely different name then, call yourselves the Vibrators and we're going to expect well known Vibrators songs

in some ways it's better to see a full tribute, at least they usually a bity younger than the original members like @NancyJohnsonI saw Brian Connelly towards the end, it was rather sad, he was obviously not in a good way

I think most folk are happy to go and hear songs they love, played well, it doesn't really matter how many original members there are

Probably a stupid question but did you join them together to search for a free channel?

on the subject of wireless systems, are they all 'line of sight', as I stated earlier the one problem I've found with my Boss WL 20 is it cuts out if something gets in the way, but are they all like that?

wonder what the Behringer's like? https://www.andertons.co.uk/behringer-airplay-guitar-ulg10-24ghz-guitar-wireless-system/

I've often wonder this, how can you get a stereo output from a mono input? I often wondered about the point stereo in ears as well, maybe I'm missing something

Had various Behringer products, I use a UM2 audio interface to play my bass though my laptop, play along to tracks via Audacity and connect my laptop to my HiFi and headphones, you can use it to record 2 channels at once as well, good solid piece of kit, our singer also uses a MA400 to give him his own monitoring channel for his in ears, our mixer amp only has one monitoring channel, does the job brilliantly. I have had a BDI21 but didn't really use it, prefer my zoom B1on, thought the gain knob was a bit on or off, and an ADI21 which again I don't use because my electro acoustic has it's own EQ, but, again solid bits of kit a ridiculously low price

I've used a Boss WL-20 for a few years now I like the fact that the transmitter plugs straight into the bass, no faffing around with a cable to the transmitter when it is mounted separately, there's a right angled adapter supplied so it doesn't stick out on, say, a P bass. Recharging both units is done with a USB charger, like a phone. The only downside I found is it is line of sight so if something gets in the way it cuts out

opps, silly me, didn't notice it was on the DB forum 😒

just got back from seeing the Long Ryders at the Metronome in Nottingham, lovely venue holds about 400 probably half full, (it was a Monday night), knew every song, it always helps, great sound, although the bass could have done with being a touch louder, I would say that wouldn't I?