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12 minutes ago, madshadows said:

Put on Elton last expecting his vocals to be a bit ropey after seeing him singing live a while back on a TV show but he was terrific, what a showman and what an amazing set of songs, his band was fantastic and EJ was incredible on the piano, he's a bit dodgy on his pins nowadays but as long as his fingers and voice are working who cares, his band and him killed it performance wise, what a great way to spend a Sunday night !! 😎 

 

John  

yes his voice sounded good but his dictation was as bad as ever, not a massive fan, so not that familiar with the words, without subtitles I wouldn't have had a clue what half of them were

9 hours ago, 3below said:

Stingray 5ers in massive price hike following Glastonbury.....   no need to comment on the EJ mix, superb from the home TV perspective.

It was more to do with the mix than the Stingray, a Precision would have sounded just as good with that mix, once again a lot of performances suffered because of rubbish sound engineers, on TV at any rate

26 minutes ago, acidbass said:

Not bass related, but how many of the singers' voices sound absolutely knackered? Even the younger artists - I expected it from Axl!

Cat Stevens was exactly the same, as he proved when he had footage of him singing when he was young, and he's 74 now.

Just watched Blondie, telephone was dodgy but I'd rather have them there a bit the worse for age than not at all

I'm not convinced that our website is value for money, but the singer loves the perceived kudos of having one and he runs it (the band pays) so it's not worth the aggro of having an argument about it, I don't understand tictok but it seems to have traction, I'll have to investigate

I had to sort out some live tracks for the band I'm in, I just cut and pasted bits from other parts of the song where we hadn't made a mistake, no over dubbing, as such, required

11 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

£1000+ Not sure that it is special enough to warrant that price.

the price will drop when the people with enough cash not to care have bought one

55 minutes ago, leschirons said:

So, not being a techie, if I change my BC password and let my phone generate a new one, will that automatically save that to the Google password thing and also appear on my desktop PC?

Or do I have to physically put it in the PC?

 if you're using Google Chrome to generate a new password yes, if you've got sync turned on, well mine does

I just use google suggestions, seems to work well.

35 minutes ago, TimR said:

How do the hackers obtain your email address. Is it on display somewhere that I'm unaware of? 

we all give our email address out all the time for legitimate reasons, well I do, an email address by itself is no problem (apart from unwanted emails) it's the passwords that go with them

31 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

A bizarre variant on that I've heard of ( not had one myself but know someone who did ) is the.... "we've got video of you "pleasuring yourself " in front of your computer screen and unless you pay 400 bucks.... etc etc

that was the gist of the one I got as well, I knew it wasn't true, I've got a cover over my camera lens 🤣

2 hours ago, JoeEvans said:

Almost all account hacking happens because someone uses the same username and password across numerous websites. Eventually they get lured to sign in to a fake site (phishing) or they sign into a real site with poor back-end security, and their username and password get on a list and sold to other scammers. The end-user scammer hunts around to find the sites that the victim uses, trying their username and password until they get into a useful account like Basschat.

The most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to use a different password on every single website or service. We're told that passwords need to be hugely long and complicated which no doubt helps, but it's vanishingly rare for a scammer to try and guess a password. Even a password that's a couple of letters or digits different to another one that you use will provide hugely improved protection

 

yep, I used to use the same password, not anymore, I got an email from someone which said they'd got access to my account and threatening to expose my activities to all my contacts unless I paid them $400 (it always seems to be dollars), they quoted the password, trouble is, thankfully, I don't use it anymore

I use my MIA precision for gigs and a Vintage V4 for practice, very little difference between them apart from the Fender has newer strings on it and when they start to sound a little dull they go on the Vintage and a new set on the Fender

I've owned a couple of Trace Elliots for a few years now, a GP12 SMX Ah 250 and a GP12 series 6 Ah 200, I use the series 6 as my main amp, it's simpler and,  I think, sounds marginally better, they're both heat sink models so weigh in at 13kg each, I can't see me changing them tbh

Why? Heft 😊

people are conned by very clever misleading ads all the time, usually it's big companies with a huge budget.

I'll bet a few on here have done mods to their basses thinking they know better than the manufacturers that built them then flogged them on trying to say they've improved them when they know they haven't really

His ads are an extreme example but anybody naïve enough to be taken in probably doesn't even know they've been done, as his feedback testifies too

he's one of life's eccentrics, the world would be a duller place without them

50 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Have a look at his other items especially the other "fretless bass"  

Does he ever actually sell these to anyone? 

don't know about fretless basses but it would seem he sells other guitars and still got 100% feedback,  the only people who buy must have no experience and don't know what they've bought

whenever I see a bass player not playing the right bass line in a covers song (unless it's obviously the bands own version) I just think either they're lazy, incompetent, or have an ego problem, if you want to play your own bass lines join an originals band ymmv

happens all the time, The Kinks and Animals were always having fights, must admit I've often thought about whacking our singer on occasions, probably would have done in my younger days

luminous tape of ebay works for me

52 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Not sure about now but my last band (I left 3 years ago) used to sell a lot of CDs. I suppose it can depend on genre and age of the associated fan base. 

a lot has changed in 3 years, bands like Knock Off can probably still sell albums, but I suspect it's less than it used to be

43 minutes ago, ambient said:

Do people still buy CDs?

No, well not many, it's all about streaming these days, we get about 500 streams a month for which we get about £2!!! we're really struggling to get our money back on our last CD and we only had to sell 100.

As @BigRedX says T shirts are far more profitable

44 minutes ago, madshadows said:

I still buy CD's and then via iTunes rip then to MP3 and they then go on a memory card on an old mobile phone that I use for playing music via earbuds or speake. I buy CD's new and sometimes second hand, Music Magpie is fantastic for secondhand CD's, I recently bought a special edition of The Clash's "London Calling" (2CD/1DVD) for under a fiver and it was in perfect as new condition, most of their second hand stuff is in good condition. I'd never subscribe to streaming sites like Spotify as I think they rip off artists !!  

 

John 😎

while your sentiments are to be applauded, the artists gets nothing if you buy second hand

2 hours ago, TheLowDown said:

Streaming only for me. Less clutter the better, plus my main aim is to try out as much new music as possible. 

10 hours ago, cetera said:

CDs. Very little that I listen to is on streaming sites and I like owning product rather a piece of electricity (downloads).

Guess it depends how materialistic you are, I've just sold 4 vinyl albums to our singer, he is, I'm  not

2 minutes ago, velvetkevorkian said:

Are you generating codes to distribute or something? This doesn't sound right to me in the general sense.

no, and it doesn't happen if someone buys the CD or whatever, but it did when someone did a download only, when they pass on an order to you they tell you their charge and say it will be collected from any download only orders.

Incidentally you get 100 download codes for free

I not sure whether I'm right but when you download off Bandcamp the band doesn't necessarily get any money because when the pass on a physical sale they take a fee that gets debited to your account, when you get a download that income is taken off your account, so in the case of the band I'm in we've made no money from, admittedly not many, downloads.

When I do pay for a downloads I search round for a site that doesn't do this.