SteveXFR
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My daughter and her band mates are working together in the Woodsies crew bar and were asked to play the stage in there so took their instruments with them. With their youthful enthusiasm, they decided to wander around and see if they could blag another gig. Tonight at 10:35 they (Butane Skies) are playing the Avalon Inn and that will be their third gig so far with another possibility tomorrow as well, all fitting in around bar shifts.
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I'm a very indecisive man!
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If you want to make money in music, then become a covers band specialising in weddings. They seem to be fairly profitable.
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The helicopters flying rich Londoners in to the festival are busy. There's one going over about every 5 - 10 minutes today.
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I think venues know they can get ameteur bands for free or very cheap but if they want a name to get people in then they have to pay for it. Amateur bands don't attract in a lot of people so can't really ask for much and those at the bottom of the pile who are the support act for amateur bands offer the venue very little value.
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A lot of amateur, particularly originals bands wouldn't get any gigs if they didn't do some for free. To me, playing music is a hobby, if I get a few quid that's a bonus but I'll do it for free quite happily.
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There's always bands happy to just play whether paid or not. Those who aren't just turn it down, no one is forcing them. Personally I play for fun and don't care whether I get paid as long as it doesn't cost me too much.
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I guess if they pay the bands then there's no money left for the charity so it's no longer a charity gig. A mate of mine puts on a metal bands night once a month and gets all the ticket money to pay bands. If they get £100 each for the three bands then they're lucky. If they set the door price over £5 then people moan and don't turn up. Fortunately, most amateur metal bands seem to be happy just to play.
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Yep, it's my local. Have a good one.
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I think they're past the point of easily being able to change their name. To do that, you either have to be completely unknown or have an enormous following (like Slaves when they changed to Soft Play).
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The artists playing the festival have always been paid little or nothing because it was all about raising money for charity. Most of the stages are independently run, the festival only books bands for the main stages
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None of them are forced to work or perform there. I'm local to the festival an know loads of people who work there every year. Most do it just for the ticket. My daughter is working for a friend and getting really decent pay but performing for free.
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My oldest offspring is working in a back stage bar somewhere at Glastonbury. I haven't been for several years but the lineup looks unusually appealing this year. I'll be at Gary Numan's warmup show of Friday night. Really looking forward to that. We've got a few big warmup shows in town this year.
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No idea. I quite like the stock Peavey pickups
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@Allen they are standard 5 string soapbars, even on the 4 string
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For the audition, I just went straight in to my Ashdown ABM600 Evo and Eden Nemesis 210 cab. A little bit of drive on the amp and a slight boost in the high mids. Normally I use a Revolt preamp in front of the ashdown. Running through the dirty channel it sounds amazing, but not right for this band
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I took my Euro LX along to an audition today. It sounded amazing. The band is fairly chilled our alt rock so I wasn't sure if the Spector might be a bit out of place but it was spot on, it cut through lovely and had a huge bottom end. I swapped to my Fender P bass after a couple hours but after the Spector, it just didn't hit the spot and felt a bit awkward. The band must have liked it, they asked me to come back next week.
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I've found a whole load more motivation recently. I've always wanted a Spector and bought a Euro 4 LX a couple weeks ago. It feels really good to play and sounds amazing. I've got the Mike Starr tone spot on and can't stop playing Alice In Chains songs.
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⁹I have an audition on Sunday with a band who are heavily influenced by Teenage Fanclub so having a good listen. Great bass tones and the bass, while fairly simple really drives things. I also have a bit of Snooze lined up. They've been described as happy Meshuggah. If you don't know Meshuggah, they're an amazing band but will leave you needing therapy.
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She stole my band name for a uni grunge project. I was going to call my next punk band Crooked Snout after our slightly wonky lurcher.
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She's currently at Bath Spa Uni on the commercial music course and absolutely loving it. Loads of playing, recording, production as well as a bit of business and all that stuff. She's in five bands now so loads of gigs.
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I've been playing all evening and absolutely loving the sounds I'm getting from it. Dirty channel on my Revolt preamp pedal, both pickups on full, and it sounds huge.
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It has arrived.
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I've just received a Spector Euro I bought from Thorsten. Lovely bloke to deal with. He made the whole thing nice and easy. The bass is just amazing. I'm very happy
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Bands being accessible to fans (shout out to The Sherlocks)
SteveXFR replied to Steve_nottm's topic in General Discussion
I'm a huge QOTSA fan and never knew Josh was in to bikes. That's another hero point then! I've always wanted a Guzzi as well. Not had one yet but a V100 Mandello could be next. Josh named my youngest daughter, we saw QOTSA in 2011 while my wife was heavily pregnant (we had seats) and the first song they played was Go With The Flow so she's called Flo. The second song was Regular John so we had an option if it had been a boy.
