TimR

It could be being driven by lightweight equipment. I initially bought a lightweight amp and kept my old one as a spare. I've now bought a lightweight 10" cab and would be looking at selling my cabs if I upgraded them, but probably keep the amp.

Regards recording studios. The last few times I've been in them. It's been. Ensemble drums, bass, keys, guitar, vocals - one or maybe two takes. Leave. The singer can sort the vocals out on their own, and if the guitarist wants to do 1,000,000 overdubs, I don't need to be there until midnight listening to them all. If the band can't play the tunes live with no mistakes, they're under-rehearsed and shouldn't be wasting studio time.

Audiences on TV shows clapping along to the music.

Shouldn't this be on the "Guitars with faces" thread?

Or a compelte lack of earth. If a venue has different ring voltages on the earth, that's not good and implies a problem with the ring earth somewhere. The earths in a building should be common.

The shocks I've recieved are where someone has removed an earth to prevent a ground loop hum. Eg. Guitar amp (hand) to Microphone (mouth) where the Pa Earth has been removed to prevent hum from Keys.

ŴThe two reasons seem to be: The singer is inexperienced. The guitarist is difficult to get along with. My view would be to say that you were hoping the band would be gigging by now and thought that following the open night there are a number of things you need to address before you're ready to gig. Maybe have a 'nice' list. From there, you can either judge the mood or suggest they find a bass player who is more aligned with their timeline and experience. I don't know. It's difficult to say that without sounding pompous. 🤣

I've just seen the new Ibanez Prestige range. This thread is keeping me honest. <repeat> I don't need a new bass, I've fixed mine. <until false>

As ever - context is everything. I saw a band on Friday night Papa Shango. Adult rock (Limp Bizkit?) pantomime on steroids is how I'd describe it. Female and male lead singers, 4 backing singers and a lead guitarist wandering around the floor. Rhythm, bass and drums occasionally joining them. Walking round the audience with squirty cream, biscuits, water pistols, it was a full on audience participation. If they're playing local go and watch it, even if the music isn't your cup of brandy. I'm all for that kind of ridiculousness. We have a tendency to take ourselves far too seriously.

That's an interesting take.

Non-black extension leads. When I did theatre work, nothing on stage should be visible if it's not a prop or a performer.

Music stands.

That's definitely not irrational. Add to that the 6 note guitar solo played after every song. The guitarist playing the first 4 chords of the song before the next song.

Singer texted the band on the day of the gig to request we change the key of a song. No one replied, no one said anything, nothing got marked on any sheets. Come the song we managed to have everyone (apart from the drummer) manage to play in a completely different key to everyone else.

There was a massive site update on 22/7/21 to the current version.

We all do. The difference is, people either walk out or clap. I'm guessing the Edinburgh Fringe is kind of like a real life TicTok where you actually see the faces of the people scrolling past. Maybe there will be a point at which someone will put a vertical window in front of themselves so the passing people actually have to stop for a few seconds to look in before passing on to the next performer.

I knew a bassplayer in the 80s who could play the entire back catalogue of Iron Maiden songs. It was very impressive when you first heard him. It got boring very quickly, he was unable to play anything else, nor could he jam with a band, and didn't know any of the fretboard. About the same time I knew a guitarist who had quite an extensive repertoire of Beatles tunes. But again, that was his limit. But that was what made them happy.

The click bait worked then. The problem now is you won't bother looking next time, so in order to get your attention it will have to be 10 Hardest bass lines, then 10 Impossible bass lines... The algorithm already knows you're interested in Bass Lines, you're now on their target list. As I wrote upthread, everyone is searching for something that doesn't exist - and the creators are promising that 'something'. At some point, people have to go outside into the real world. The problem is they take their phones with them.

That didn't work. Have given up and had to replace the whole pre-amp with the Artec SE-3. Hopfully that's allowed.

There's a market for it, otherwise it wouldn't be trending. Although the market is just a prosumer market with no financial worth to the consumer. All the money is in the adverts between the content. If there truly was a market for it, the musicians would all be doing it on subscriber channels. SBL and the like have additional content that you pay for.

They're not getting their hit. If it doesn't hit within 30seconds, they know it's probably not coming and move on to the next video. That's why the videos have to lure people in, and have to be engineered to hold people's attention. It's why people spend hours searching, they're not getting the hit, if they were, they'd not be on the phone for hours. They're all searching for something that isn't there.

They understand how dopamine works. It's not about the constant scrolling, it's about finding something that's better than you expected. In a sea of mediocrity everyone is scrolling, scrolling, searching for something that presses their button and ticks their own personal box. The genie is out of the bottle. Just performing good music, well, no longer gets people's attention. To be honest, it never has, its always been about the next best thing, audiences are fickle and constantly changing and evolving. Beatles vs Stones, not about the music, Mods vs Rockers, Blur vs Oasis, Dem vs Rep, Gen Z vs Gen X, Feminist vs Trans, it's not about music, it's all about being a member of a tribe. And media and politicians know this is how it works. You need to be ahead of the game and finding something new and exciting all the time. The problem is, now we have come so far along the line, there's very little that is new and engaging. Hence, people continue to scroll endlessly in a pointless search, and when they do find something that's new and exciting and fresh, are swiftly disappointed when they find it's not real, all smoke and mirrors, the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.

It gives them a sense of purpose and it does influence a lot of people to take up worthwhile activities. I mean we could moan all we like about people pretending to play an instrument, but if a handful of people are inspired to pick up an instrument, then that's quite worthwhile.

A huge number of followers, likers, and commentors are bots and AI accounts. "Fed up of being taken advantage of? Simply send me a postal order for £5 and I will send you my guide on how to avoid online scams..."

Many years ago (90s?) I went for a meal with a bunch of freinds. There were about 8 of us and we are all musicians. A couple of professionals, all of us gigging, and a few grade 8 players. A band turned up at the restaurant and we thought great, some background music. They proceeded to turn up to 11 and it was impossible to talk. We complained to the manager several times, it wasn't even advertised as a gig! To the point where the singer stopped the band and said "If we knew anything about music, we would know that it had to be loud." If that happened nowadays, we would probably have just left the restaurant without finishing our meal or paying.