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Good topic, we need a bit of positivity sometimes. I dunno about delighted (there's always room for improvement) but pretty damn happy at the moment. Talented and interesting musicians to play with. Get to play music that I've written and people seem to like. Bookings are coming in at a satisfactory rate. Getting some recordings sorted before the end of the year. We don't socialise much because we don't live close to each other which is a shame but we have a good time when we're together. Everyone turns up when they're supposed to and has good input into the music. Fronting the band and doing lead vocals is also pushing me in a good way. Bloody hard work being in charge though, wish the other two would chip in a bit more.

Ok, finally arranged a date for a friend of the drummer to come down to help us do some recording. Quite a relief to finally have it in the diary. Just need to borrow some drum mics from somewhere. Working on some material to play as an acoustic duo with my guitarist as well. The idea is to play an open mic night maybe twice a month, make sure to plug the band's name and see if we can get the name out a bit. Bit of fun with maybe some advantages for the band. More practice for my singing voice too.

Another day when I haven't picked up a bass. I spent most of the weekend promoting out next gig and adapting some full band songs to be performed with my guitarist as an acoustic duo. Its been interesting to take songs we know well and play them in a totally different way. No bass though

good read, good music thanks!

[quote name='Ant' timestamp='1352451803' post='1863129'] dont mind at all! here is the board (not in order) Boss OC-2 Octaver CopilotFX Dubscope Markbass Super Synth Darkglass Electronics microtubes B3k DOD meatbox Line6 M5 Mission Engineering Expression Pedal Boss RC2 phrase looper Cranetortoise by Albit SW-1B Lovepedal Echo baby ISP Decimator noise gate Palmer PDI-09 Junction DI [SFX] Parallel signal Looper/Blender Pearce BC1 Bass Preamp [/quote] cool, thanks.

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1352453024' post='1863153'] This was for a ska musical and as well as playing I had one scene has a security guard in the Jobcentre with one line - "F**K This!" and yes, a fight scene where the whole band pile in on stage - great fun! [/quote] Sounds like a lot of fun

[quote name='Ant' timestamp='1352273953' post='1860880'] heres all my stuff [/quote] Wow, that's a lot of stuff. You mind me asking what pedal & processors are on the board?

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1352217810' post='1860276'] I'm slighty annoyed actually because a simple GK combo isn't really worth posting up on here is it? Ha ha [/quote] Its a rig. It counts. Get it up.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1352300325' post='1861252'] We'll see. [/quote] Best of luck, starting to write was when I really started to feel I was a musician.

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1352026215' post='1857837'] fight scene[/quote] Think I've missed something here. You have fight scenes? Please can we have some more detail? I climbed on stage last night at an open mic night to sing and play guitar by myself for the first time. Despite many gigs and a few fronting a band, this was pretty scary. Went ok, didn't play too badly and the organiser asked if I had enough material for a feature (30 min) slot, sadly I don't but I'll be getting something acoustic sorted with my guitarist sometime very soon.

[quote name='MrTaff' timestamp='1352141894' post='1859312'] it depends on what came before & what comes next. [/quote] this.

Welcome to the forum

yes, it can be incredibly difficult to find suitable musicians for new bands particularly originals bands. I find online adverts can work but I've always found that you've got to wade through masses of shredding guitarists (unless that's what you're looking for of course!) Very tricky if you're not in a big city or want to do something a bit different.

Definitely go for putting together your own thing. Means you get to pick the members and lay out your expectations ahead of time. [quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1352027414' post='1857854'] I'm thinking I might start a blog or something detailing my hunt for new band members and getting it all off the ground. Might be interesting? [/quote] yeah, that would be interesting. [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1351986892' post='1857685'] ALWAYS go for the cake.[/quote] mmmm cake.

Excellent. Love my otb and happy to hear that its backed up by such good customer service

HZ soapbars in my Schecter. Love them.

lovely song and great video. Well done Silddx & Bluejay.

bass playing - zero band admin/promotion/booking - loads My time seems to be edging more and more into that area. hmm I did run through some vocal practice while cooking dinner though.

it'll be fine. If it turns out you need to play in two tunings during 1 set I'd recommend a Hipshot de-tuner.

Ok I have something to add from recent experience. Usually I use the OBT & SP210 as a stage monitor and have PA support. This works wonderfully and I love the sound and portability. This weekend I turned up to a gig (walked from my house with a hand trolley) to find a vocal only P.A. set up. I was a bit worried that we'd struggle to fill the room but I had plenty of volume and got a decent sound for the audience sorted pretty quickly For reference I play in a rock band with 1 guitarist and a medium to loud drummer.

Oxjam gig last night at Manhattan 34 cocktail bar in Leicester. Bit of a worry when we arrived and were told that only vocals would be put through the PA which was a surprise so no support for my mini bass rig. I shouldn't have concerned myself, the set up worked well, wandered out front to check what the audience were hearing and the sound was pretty good. We played ok, the audience seemed to like us, nice comments afterwards. Really getting into the frontman thing and actually starting to enjoy (a little bit) singing and being the focus. Lent my amp and cab to the following bass player (ungrateful toerag that he was) so got to hear it from the audience as well. My little SP210 cabinet did a great job of projecting the bass into the room which I was really pleased with. A really fun night all in all.

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1350663401' post='1842028'] It sometimes seems so and maybe that's why I always feel a bit different on here [/quote] I know what you mean. It seems like a lot of people on here do play in covers bands. I play original music that I write myself with a band I put together. Not really interested in playing covers.

Are you going to have P.A. support?

[quote name='bigjohn' timestamp='1350409577' post='1838478'] Or about actually being auditioned, rather than them collecting the door money and buggering off home. [/quote] This even more so.