PaulWarning

£20 for a no name band T shirt? bloody hell we're under charging, ours are a tenner 😃

it's tough keeping it up, another band I know quite well, Hung Like Hanratty are doing well for themselves, but recently the bass player, drummer and guitarist have left. I suppose the final leap, where you can pack up your day job, is the hardest of all

it is possible to make more money from an originals band, obviously, but it depends how far up the food chain you are, initially, it cost money and a lot of effort, and most originals bands never get past that stage, there's a lot more travelling invovled in an originals band, it needs dedication (and the right job) to travel 300 miles on a Friday to play a 30 minute slot to a handful of people, I think most of us have been there. I know I have.

well there you go, I definitely saw an interview with Feargal where he said "Teenage Kicks is basically about wanking" so I suppose that indicates that was his interpretation of the lyrics. I have no problem playing Teenage Kicks at gigs, us old men are allowed to look back wistfully at times gone by when we lusted after a girl

according to Fergal Sharkey, aren't blokes of a certain age allowed to have a wank anymore?

I've used a Zoom B1on for years, I have 3 settings normal is just a bit of overdrive, a brighter version of the normal one for stuff like the Jam (I doubt anybody else notices) and super distorted for Ace of Spades. I have got a Zoom B1 four but prefer the B1on

I googled it, Mike Rutherford

so, I was in the pub tonight with my partner and two friends, "how many bass players can you name" I asked, John Deacon came the reply from my partner, who is a Queen fan, Phil Lynott was the other reply from my mate who likes his prog rock but couldn't remember the Genesis bass player, bit depressing eh?

I'd never heard of Bootsy Collins 😱 not my style of music, but yes, everybody has more or less heard of the others, but wonder what percentage realise they play bass, possible Macca most because of the 'Beatle Bass' Edit, to be fair Lemmy didn't play bass in the traditional way, he played rhythm guitar on a bass

True, most people don't know the difference between a bass guitar and a normal guitar

if the PA is used purely by the singer then yes he should buy it look after it, but I suspect this is not very often the case, there's backing vocals and in our case the bass drum that also use the PA. We originally bought ours with gig money, when 2 member left me and the singer bought out their share of what we agreed was the second hand value, any repairs come out of the merch money, since then we've had 2 guitarists who don't get invovled in merch money and get paid every gig, but we do charge them a 'Guitarist Tax' of about a fiver a gig for any potential repairs and, for anybody that knows us, buying replacement ducks for those that get nicked every gig. Complicated? yep. Singers do get off light when it comes gear buying. Ours even wanted us to buy him a wireless mic, we did draw the line there, or I did.

unfortunately most people don't share you opinion, they'd rather listen to music that transports them back to more youthful times

a lot people love to relive their youth

not forgetting Paul Weller and a fair proportion of the punk singers, maybe that's why I don't find Liam's vocals so annoying, being into punk, in fact I like them, they've got character, he doesn't sound like he's just won X factor, thankfully.

going totally against the grain here but I enjoyed it, Liam's got a rock n roll swagger, must have been great to be there, and no I haven't got a ticket

as I found out when I used the Elf 1 x 8 combo

just remembered an incident at a festival in the summer, the female singer had a stand that was so high it hid her face from where I was standing, then it fell off the stage and the band had to stop the song while they recovered it and got all her paper back in order, most embarrassing for all concerned 😱😄

being a belt and braces sort of guy, as well as a spare bass I takes a spare amp, which would also do for and emergency PA, and use 2 small cabs (2 x 8 and 1 x 10) I think I've got everything covered 😎

about 2 months ago, a bad connection on the output socket, I always take a spare everything, the band looks really bad if they cant complete the gig. I've seen this twice, once a bassist's string broke and he took about 10 minutes putting another one on while the rest of the band stood around looking really uncomfortable, a multi band bill as well so they'd only got 40 minutes anyway, and he refused to use someone else's bass! 😕 Another time one of the guitarists broke a string and unbelievably for a guitarist, didn't have a spare, again took about 10 minutes to put a new sting on, it looks really really bad

I know a band that's been going for years and the singer/guitarist always used a music stand with a light on it, and because it's there he looks at it all the time, when I started doing open mics I used one but then discovered if it's there I'll look at it so I learnt the words. Unless it's a dep I take a very dim view of a singer that can't be bothered to learn the lyrics, it just makes them look amateurish

not wishing to sound like a smart arse, as some on here seem to take great delight in, do you mean Walk of Life? yes it can get tedious after prolonged exposure

they had keyboards, some long songs and odd arrangements, I can see why people thought they had prog rock influence's, but the lyrics were very punk

I'm into my 70's, I suppose I'll keep going until I don't want to do it anymore or my health won't let me, when I started playing again nearly 20 years ago after a long hiatus if someone had said I'd still be playing 40 two hour gigs a year now I'd have said they were mad, luckily I don't have any health problems, at the moment

we've got a built in compressor on our Yamaha EMX 512, whenever I try and use it I get feedback issues, but then I'm not sure what I'm doing, it is loud enough for vocals and bass drum anyway

I've done that with my Trace Elliot, it's loads louder now 😂