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Stub Mandrel

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  1. PRS is only interested in getting venues to pay for 'TheMusicLicence' while bands and venues can submit setlists they (rarely?) request them and AFAICS the money goes into a pot which gets shared out pro rata. If you play your own music the writer (not performer) can submit a setlist to be paid a pittance...
  2. Can't fool me, that's just a rework of Roll Over Beethoven.
  3. Exactly. There's a 'right' sort of cover and the wrong sort some professional musicians like to look down on.
  4. Oh well, that's John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers consigned to the dustbin of history for a start. And God help any folk or jazz bands out there... let alone the orchestras! To be honest I read the original post and assumed it was a troll - let's face it almost everyone on Basschat is in or has been in a covers band. For the vast majority of us it's the only way to be in a gigging band. Back in the 80s/90s I was in bands who had less of a following than the blues band I'm in now, but we would play a whole night of originals in a pub or club and get a response comparable to what a covers band gets these days. But there can be a lot of creativity in playing covers (especially blues where improvisation and random events are de riguer). It need not be cross-stitch, it can be more like needlepoint where you may well be embroidering an established design, but you have all sorts of choices of stitch, colour and texture. Ultimately, people playing and listening to live music is one of the most unifying and positive things human beings can do. From being one of a bunch of drunken students singing Hey Jude on the way back from a pub crawl to gigging 'popular tunes' to improvising a bassline to a song I've never heard before at a jam, it's all good. Music should be rated by what it brings to people's lives; discussing its originality or technical merits can be fun and entertaining, but that doesn't really matter. If people are enjoying, or getting some other benefits like solace or nostalgia, from making or listening to it, music is good. Be grateful for those who add to the sum total of music that's there to perform, but don't diss cover bands for giving people what they want.
  5. 'Gothweed' 😁
  6. GRBass At212s
  7. Played the Terrace in Uplands Swansea depping with Up To Eleven, dep guitarist too. Three long flights of stairs and small stage (so keyboard player was semi-detached to the side!) Basschatter @Franticsmurf came along and made some generous comments about my sound. Here's a piick of my head to prove how low I had my master volume! Was not packed for the first two set (American style gig!) but numbers went up and down and they were noisy and at least some of a very youthful audience danced and sang to most numbers. We played a ragged and rapturously received version of 500 miles, followed by Don't Stop Believing-which we thought we nailed but got no reaction at all! One very drunk girl wanted a Miley Cyrus song and spent ages trying to get the guitarist and singer to agree to doing a song they hadn't heard of. Then spent two songs holding her phone up in front of them, presimably exoecting them to learn the lyrics while playing someting else...1 Third,late set it filled right up and we had a big bunch of very amicable but wrecked lads dancing in front of us. Minor stage invader dealt with by his mates! So an entertaining night even if I didn’t get home until 2am, very stiff... Pics courtesy of @Franticsmurf 👍
  8. http://warmanguitars.co.uk/ I had to slightly open up the hole in the pickguard.
  9. My 40th P has a very deep coloured laquer on the neck. Lovely colour.
  10. 100% agree with this, always seems poor when people can't seem to wait to get out the door. I know a baschatter who may feel a bit sheepish if I mention one band that started their three songs with Dark Star 🤣
  11. Just FYI D'Addario are dark blue wrap.
  12. It is indeed. Give us a shout!
  13. My dep next Saturday. "This Saturday at Uplands #1 venue The Terrace at Whitez we present a newbie the brilliant 'Up To Eleven'...they will be belting out a huge 3 setter " Edit: Just noticed that's my elbow on the right!
  14. The active Hohner Jack basses not only have a switch, but they also allow you to play in passive mode when off, so a dead battery is not gigs terminating.
  15. I was going to suggest this, although I would keep the narrow spacing.
  16. For someone who rarely sings I have a fair mic collection. Although I now have an SM58 (more than adequate for my basic BVs) I still tend to use my ~30 year old Proel copy of one. Have various others, including two cheap but excellent Behringer condenser mikes, a half decent Sanyo SM58 clone, some real old cheapos and some much better cheap but usable ones from Thomann. Also a snare mike and a couple of cheap kick drum mikes (one with a replacement capsule). I also have an old AKG mike meant for general recording that is very nice. In the loft is sn old crystal mike I may fit into a new housing for harmonica (just in case). I have two of those USB condenser mikes you can use with phantom power for passable results. I also have the bits to upgrade one of them with a large diaphragm capsule and a super clean single FET amp. So lots of microphones but not doing too much, although the new band will see four vocals and a miked up kit and guitars...
  17. Not the most technical of videos, but this is the sort of fun we have when playing 🙂
  18. My ambitions were lways modest and stepwise - play bass, jam, be in a band, write a song, play a festival, revord a demo... I probably had a few thoughts of "wouldn't it be cool if..." in my 30s, especially with the second originals band. We had a great songwriter as band leader and boy/girl vocalists wjo were good, although she was posdibly yoo young and not serious enough about it. But I decided to put career first and ended up married and away for over 20 years. Refinding music as the marriage collapsed saved my sanity. Fulfilled lots more ambitions as for some reason my playing is hugely improved. Finding I can learn stuff quickly, lots of styles, jam, dep, improvise. I suppose my two ambitions are to play a really big crowd/festival and it eold be nice to appear on a proper album. Oh... and one day to play a few songs live with my youngest brother.
  19. Had been a bit anxious about numbers last night. We started a bit late as had to wsit for the first half of Tonga vs Ireland to end. Felt a bit empty but rapidly filled up, one of the rugby fans who went into the lounge abandoned the match and came to see us instead. In the end we had a really good turnout. Really enthusiastic crowd with lots of dancing - we aren't really a dance band but did a few up tempo songs. Good feedback, including from the singer of the new band I've started up who hadn't seen us before. What was really nice is we are starting to get people coming from further afield to gigs just to see us instead of just a random audience.
  20. Me too. I can't be 100 definite but willing to put up £13 if needed.
  21. Tonights gig.
  22. Ah yes, in my day Bacchus Wine Bar was always a bit posh (=expensive) so I didn’t go often. Hope it was a good night!
  23. Attitudes to change fascinate me. In terms of their impact on how a bass actually sound and feels both hi-mass bridges and laurel fingerboards make only small (or imperceptible to many people) differences. One is cheaper, the other more expensive than the traditional approach. If laurel was rare I'm sure boutique builders would be singing its praises. Equally, if high mass bridges were cheap, they would be derided as a gimmick.
  24. Tarantism are good... Magnus is a leading light in the current incarnation of Hawkwind.
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