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6 hours ago, BigRedX said:
In a way it's a depressing situation that punters are prepared to spend at least £10 on a T-shirt that may have cost you less the £5 to produce, whereas they won't buy your CD that probably cost the band £1k+ to record and press, even though you are only selling them for £5...
15 minutes ago, Skybone said:Aint that the truth. Found that in my previous band, the only thing that actually made any money were the T-shirts.
Music seems to be more of a commodity these days...
yes, we're finding that as well, they keep coming back for T shirts, they got a finite life, not so CD's or other forms of music carriers
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23 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:
In a successful 4-piece originals band with a shedload of great songs and a real desire to 'get our music out there', I imagine things look different.
I'm reasonably friendly with an originals band, who make a thing out of collectable vinyl, singles in different colours, that sort of thing, they travel all over the place doing gigs and admit they don't really recover costs, they view it as a promo tool
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13 hours ago, Happy Jack said:
You really REALLY want to enclose a download code with each CD.
we obtained some download codes via Bandcamp, you get about 100 free(might be more can't remember), NOBODY asked for one with the CD's we sold.
But you are right CD sales have fallen through the floor, vinyl is cost prohibitive for smaller runs, and if our experience is anything to go by, popularity is exaggerated, don't get me started on streaming, we get about 500 streams a month for which get about £1.50.
All in all it's very difficult to make a case for recording and releasing music, unless you're happy to make a loss on it
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3 minutes ago, steantval said:
Sky Arts tonight Saturday 11th March @ 7pm
The Hollies - Look Through Any Window
A documentary on the band from when they formed in 1963.
I think it's been on before, well worth a look though
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one of my fondest memories of Rebellion was the Glitter Band, after about the 3rd encore they turned the PA off, the crowd did I Love You me love with just the drummer 😂
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1 hour ago, Lord Summerisle said:
Never too sure about this.
Punk was once about youth and surprising everyone with new ideas. Everything I’ve seen of Rebellion Festival seems to be male pattern balding, beer bellies and 4 barre chord songs where the chorus is just the title of the song shouted 4 times. Pretty much every emotion punk generated in 1976/77 has been lost to a well-worn formulaic approach.I sort of get what you're saying, later punk did get a bit like that, having said that you've described one of my favourite bands, The Ramones, 4 barre chords and the title of the song sung (not shouted) 4 times, I don't know what made them special, but something indefinable did.
I won't be going, I've been a few times and didn't particularly enjoy it, it's just too big, too many bands, dodgy sound.
Apart from the odd exception, it just all merges into a mushy mess, for me anyway.
Last time I went I spent most of my time in the pub round the corner 😃
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55 minutes ago, Oomo said:
From what I remember reading a while back (no idea if true or not of course...) the main purpose was to try and get people involved in bidding in the hope of getting a bargain ("it's worth £1000, but the bidding starts at £10, maybe the reserve is £100, so I'll bid anyway in case I get a bargain"), then hope that once people have placed a bid, they'll get invested/competitive and bid more than originally wanted to.
It also means that the item will appear more often if people sort listings by price, or filter on price etc. (even though the true price is really higher).
The other angle I've heard is that a reserve puts off experienced buyers, which means the seller is more likely to have to re-list, which means more fees for ebay.
yes I've heard that argument as well, but the fact there's so few reserve prices these days seems to suggest it doesn't work, certainly puts me off.
Ebay don't charge for listing or relisting, unless you have extras.
I've just checked there is an extra fee for a reserve price, so makes even less sense to me
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2 hours ago, uk_lefty said:
Probably eBay fees higher if there's a higher start price? If I put a reserve on things I say in the ad "reserve is £250" or whatever just so people don't waste their time and mine.
not as far as I know, in fact their could be a charge for having a reserve price, could well be wrong on that one though, ebay never charge me for placing a sale on there, they make the money on selling fees, no sale no fee
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On 05/03/2023 at 07:17, uk_lefty said:
Someone buy it before I do, please? I don't need it, I've got over years of GAS for one of these... But I've never seen one in such good condition priced so sensibly! No affiliation to the seller, just got five basses already and really don't want or need more!
we don't really know the price, reserve not met, I really don't understand why people do this, why not just start it at the reserve price point?
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3 minutes ago, TrypF said:
I read about this feller Steve White in Guitarist. The notion of learning McCartney basslines the wrong way round, while singing those parts, blows my mind.
me too, I'm a lefty and I've flirted with learning right handed, I soon realised how much work was invovled and gave up
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another vote for the Bootleg Beatles, seen them a few times over the years, last time at Stone Valley last year, absolutely superb, felt for the Boomtown Rats who had to follow them on. Total respect for Steve White, he relearnt how to play bass left handed to be like Paul.
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17 hours ago, nilorius said:
My dad is 72 years old and all the time his #1 band is Beatles, but i am 40 and never heard him listen to them.
12 hours ago, Dad3353 said:I'm now past 72, and never play Beatles stuff much at all. I remember distinctly, though, the effect they had at the time, and often hum, sing or think of their songs (just this morning, for example, singing in my head 'I'm looking through you'...). I don't need to play 'em to get that effect any more; in fact it may well spoil things. Memories and nostalgia are precious gifts, to be preserved. Wishing your Dad a long and healthy life.
I'm heading that way, although I don't deliberately play Beatles songs they occasionally get played on on my mp3 player, which is on shuffle, or on an oldies radio station I sometimes have on, I'm always enjoy them when they do
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On 14/02/2023 at 22:14, Downunderwonder said:
Lots of older Vintage Trace Elliot use heatsinks in lieu of fans.
yep, both my Trace Elliot's are fanless, one is a 200 watt series 5 the other 250 watt SMX, you don't need any more volume than these put out and they only weigh 13Kg
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There's plenty I've had GAS for that I've bought and I wish I hadn't, that's what I remind myself of when GAS comes a knocking
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On 02/02/2023 at 14:47, isteen said:
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These days I just use the tuner and the Sansamp clone
same here more or less, but I prefer the B1on, maybe I've just got used to it but the Sansamp clone sounds better to me
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went to see a band last week, good bass player and fairly high in the mix, he played with both fingers and a pick, could you tell any difference? no, as my partner said "it's a bass!"
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There is a website to do your own hearing test that sort off mimics the NHS one https://hearingtest.online/
You've probably lost some hearing around the 5k Hz range, most people do with age, go to your Doctor and get a referral to the NHS Audiology clinic, their hearing aids are free.
I tried some private ones for a month on approval, yes they were better than my out of date NHS ones (I'm due to get some up to date ones in Feb) but not £3k better.
They do take some getting used too, it took me a year and they still don't handle noisy environments well, but I would be without them
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I'd be looking for a new drummer
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8 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:
People would suggest obscure album tracks that not even the band's mum would know,
being in a band that has their own material as well, I just say "If we want to do obscure songs we may as well do our own" that usually does the trick 😂
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our problem is not what new songs to put in the set, but which ones to take out
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12 minutes ago, MichaelDean said:
I'm all about the black Dunlop nylon 1mm bad boys. Been using them for years, and they seem to last for ages and I've never dropped one live at a crucial moment! Plus a great tone. Not too flexible, not too hard. Perfek.
used to use them, now switched to grey .60mm, less jarring of the (old)thumb joint, I've never dropped one either, they sometimes spin round so I'm playing with the wrong edge, a bit disconcerting but not a disaster
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6 minutes ago, SumOne said:
One possible good thing with streaming :
"UK artists dominate Top 10 singles of 2022 for first time since records began"
"For the first time since year-end charts were introduced more than 50 years ago, British artists have made up the entirety of the year’s 10 most popular songs in the UK."
The UK’s Top 10 most popular singles of 2022
1 Harry Styles – As It Was
2 Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
3 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran – Peru
4 Cat Burns – Go
5 Ed Sheeran – Shivers
6 Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
7 Glass Animals – Heat Waves
8 Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott – Where Are You Now
9 LF System – Afraid to Feel
10 Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Undernot sure what that's got to do with streaming tbh, more to do with the UK's recording industry being in a good place, mind you I've not heard any of them, must make the effort
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1 hour ago, Dad3353 said:
IBTL, I know shocking isn't it? that not all of the UK's many ills are down to Brexit
CD Duplication & Sleeve Printing?
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that certainly used to be the case, but less and less people even have a CD player these days, in my (very limited) experience, there has been a marked decline in people buying CD's after a gig in the last couple of years.
The band were discussing online this morning about writing some new original material, I pointed out (me being the misery guts of the band) that were unlikely to recoup the cost of recording and production because of poor CD sales, everybody went very quiet