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The name of the company is beige , if that helps .

Thanks gjones 😹 I never thought of that , and I think you may be onto something there. They wanted the proper wave files of other stuff I have ,but I'm not doing that. Bizarrely , I received 2 random emails from other artists sending me their efforts this morning . One was okay , but the other was not my bag . Don't know why they chose me . Maybe it's all connected .

Howdy ! Over the last few months, I've been getting to grips with GarageBand and uploading short tracks onto soundcloud . Far from spectacular , and just a continuation of me enjoying playing with my toys on a regular basis and getting a few likes ,and rare comments also.. Yes, I've had the spam comments from the females who want to hook up with me etc and are removed fairly promptly . However, I got approached from a small label a couple of days ago ( I won't name them just yet ) . They offered to promote my efforts on Spotify ,and Apple Music . They are supposedly a small label who are trying to expand blah blah blah . My initial reaction was to think it's a scam . I asked for more information , and they said I'd get 80% of all tracks etc. so , about 20 cents . Further investigation by myself , reveals they want $50 . . I asked if it is a one off payment and they said that is the case. payment is by PayPal . i forwarded one of my tracks , and they liked it . ( of course. they would if they're scammers and want $50). Has this happened to anybody here ? The company have a few artists on their page , I've ignored the last email, and will Probabky avoid but it would be interesting to see if others have been in this situation. Cheers

Delurking to say , great job ! I'm getting to grips with GarageBand at last , and it has a lot of benefits .

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner , and thanks for your help . I thought it best to give an update . Since lockdown started , I decided to pull my finger out and get on with things I have actually started to record efforts of my bass ideas in my head, combined with various keyboard apps on my iPad and believe it or not , upload to soundcloud 🙀😸yes really . There is a way to go obviously , but I am surprised by likes and reposts of my efforts . I think the way I was apprehensive towards recording , was like when I was starting out to learn songs on the bass when I as frightened of making mistakes and just played the notes and too nervous to fill and elaborate if that makes sense . The good thing which I should have realised earlier , was that if you make a mistake home recording , there are no frowns or pressure and that you can just scrap that file and open another one . Hope that makes sense . I will tackle reason at some stage properly . Same with Ableton live . At the moment, I'll try myself rather than course . I think sometimes you have to be in the mood also . Yesterday for example , I just recorded a few 2 minute efforts , and before that I wouldn't do anything for days. I had to move my equipment into the living room due to neighbour / noise issues so it as staring me in the face . I had no choice , but to get a grip and record something 😹 Anyway, I'll leave it there . Thanks again for your help and input 👍

Legend . 400 children also . RIP 😿

Seems fine . The only thing really , what cost is postage ?

Have you checked their feedback ?

Is this joey jordisons new band? slipknot were never the same once he left . This is really good 😼

Cabin fever specialist , which is a work from home position. The pay is £317.42 from universal credit . This payment may be stopped at any time if you do not stick to the set guidelines . The position is also required to go above and beyond the stated contract at any time . This includes justification by logging into a journal many times a week . My coach changes every so often at random times , often at short / no notice . This happens when you are expecting phone interviews ,which is arranged by them . The first payment is 6 weeks after you join .You must also attend their specialist offices on demand ., If you have a medical condition , then your contract is not automatically terminated , but you have to get fit notes from your doctor to justify your condition . If you have over 30 years working experience in various large companies and you have had less than a few months and years off due to recuperation , it is not taken into account . This position is not a permanent role , but could lead to a suitable part time position if I go to the lcwra group and also attend the interviews mentioned above .

I thought for a moment that I may have been useful, as my playing often resembles les Dawson . I played a couple of my early gigs in the '90s with a keyboard player .The amount of plugs and wires everywhere was a serious breach of health and safety . Like drummers , keyboard players are gold dust . Having said all of that, if my keyboard friend was doing the set lists we had back then , he told me he could do it all on a laptop . The last time I saw Edgar Froese at the Astoria , I noticed the virtual stuff on his Mac laptop back in 2007 .

Thanks for that Steve . Long time ago

Mmm.. flotsam and jetsam blowing megadeth totally off at the hammy o ( Jason was with them then ) . Dave mustaine was mumbling . Megadeth seemed to take a few breaks and mustaine had a couple of costume changes symphony x blowing off dream theatre at Wembley arena in 2007. Never saw or heard of them before , but they rocked and owned the stage . stan Webb blowing off John May all at hammy o sometime in this millennium All I can remember about Mayall was that he looked a bit like jimmy saville in appearance trying to be cool in tracksuit bottoms . Very arrogant ,although mick Taylor played one good song as a special guest iirc . M..OD supporting Suicidal tendencies at the Astoria on a Sunday afternoon . I ended up buying billy Milano a Coca Cola . Glenn Hughes blowing Jack Bruce off at a truly miserable gig at shepherd 's bush in this millennium . It was a gig that Michael shenker was supposed to headline but pulled out , leaving a half empty crowd Frank Marino was pretty good , Glenn Hughes was excellent , and Jack bruce looked like a used car salesman struggling for business. The encore? ..Eleanor Rigby. WTF!?! Anthrax better than iron maiden Wembley arena, persistence of time tour. Wembley arena

I stumbled across this today . An old episode that's probably been discussed here already after it was originally shown a few years back . anyone else see this ? wow !🙀

Wow! So many similarities with my own experiences ( the Hondo/ bass mags / trying the various techniques etc). tho I'm not as good. For me , after finding out that I could actually play a few songs , and was ready to join a band , I wasted a very long time being stupid by trying the slap pop and tap , hammer ons etc . A total waste of time for me . I was working long hours , drinking loads, socialising etc . After leaving my first band , I placed an ad in loot magazine . One guitarist I saw knew that I was neglecting the basics while concentrating on the flashy stuff . " f **k stu Hamm !" Was the turning point for me to see a teacher . I learned a lot in a few months . Time, money and a long trek on the underground meant I couldn't keep it up . Mr. Teacher let me use his fretless wal , and I didn't seem to be too bad on it . I always took my usual bass along , but he just asked me to use the wal now and again . I was a very naive person who played too many notes , because o thought that you had to follow the guitarist as well as drums . ( well I was trying to do everything metal 😹) much older and relaxed I just play what I want , either finger ,thumb or pick but don't try all that flashy stuff anymore . I think playing in a relaxed way helps me a lot .

After 2 mins and 12 seconds I couldn't watch any more . Two annoying Vacuous "men". The guy with the hat loves himself in the style of Jamie Oliver and the guy with the ' man bun'? looks like that food expert from Essex It has the effect of reality tv, where I switch tv off or over straight away. That was painful and annoying .

Thank you 😼

What's a TLRT? 😼

With the power of computers , I still have the history . will eventually get round to printing and framing these..

Speaking of autographs and meeting people ( again ), I met Alice Cooper when he was signing copies of his constrictor album .He was a miserable bar steward . His band were great . Alice didn't look at anyone and just looked at the desk the whole time . It wasn't until years later the penny dropped ( this was all pre internet) At the Wembley arena gig the previous Friday , the noose was too tight on him and he nearly died apparently. i was wandering around hmv in oxford street on a Friday evening I'm the 90s and I was standing behind him . Just then barriers went up and he was doing a signing session. I didn't bother as I expected him to be rude . Shame really . I just caught him on an off day .. Bob Calvert on the other hand was a top bloke 😼👍👍

Great story about Ozzy . Keep the Motorhead stuff though ..especially the excellent space ritual 😼

Can't go wrong with maiden . I had the original soundhouse tapes ep I sent off for back in the day . Back in 2015/ 16 I was on hard times and sold for about £385.00 I didn't realise that there are forgeries of I met the buyer in a cafe Nero in Baker Street . We had the iPhone torches out 😹I met Jim Marshall at the Wembley music fayre back in the 90's . He signed a poster for us . It was damaged over time. Oh well..

I was talking to a friend a couple of times about his concert tickets . I never kept many myself really , but did say he's got a good collection and it may be worth a lot . Seems like I was wrong . I would say though that anything signed by Kurt cobhain or cliff Burton would still be worth a lot tho.

I have a Charlotte and the harlots t shirt which is now my painting top when st hunger came out , I thought that it's time to get rid of some of their rare stuff. So I sold a white label 12" of jump in the fire which I purchased for £1.20 on a stall in Camden market . I queued up in shades in 85 and got the band to sign it, plus the hell on earth tour poster . Lars was puzzled . I sold both of those for about a grand . I scanned before selling so I still have memories . The poster was quite worn . The master of puppets and helloween tour posters are staying tho 😹