TimR

I would get a quote to fix it or find out how much a new speaker will cost and add £20 if you're fitting it yourself. Then contact the venue and get contact details of the band. Get in touch with the band, tell them how much it's going to cost and ask them to foot the bill. Take it from there. Next step would be a solicitor's letter...

Analagies rarely work. As I wrote above; Watts are fairly meaningless.

The power figures are fairly meaningless. The speaker power is just the electrical power the speaker coils can dissipate before they melt. The amplifier power is a measure of the current it can deliver before the transistors release the blue smoke. The danger of having a big amp driving small speakers is you can either overheat the coils or more likely the speakers will move too far (called over excursion) and break mechanically. You will hopefully hear this happening. The danger of having a small amp is the same but the added danger is that the amp could overheat before either of those things happen. You always need to listen carefully for distortion when you use gear and recognise when it's doing damage. However, not all distortion is bad, depends how long and how hard you drive everything.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1385843420' post='2292846'] Depends on the person asking. If they're staggering around drunk and being a PITA, then absolutely not. If they ask nicely and the request is for something we can use elsewhere afterwards then probably yes. [/quote] That's more what I'm thinking. If its a regular who is there everytime we play that pub and they keep asking it's almost embarrassing not to learn it. In my previous band we played a few RBL gigs and they always asked for the Alice song. It's rubbish and I hate it and we never learned it.

Say an audience member at a regular gig persistently asks for a particular tune and you don't know it. Would you learn it for the next time you play there?

He spoke to her. She means too precise. He's not feeling the music.

Like most things in life, it's always more complex than that... Would have ended up binning everything in the set that wasn't rock, which was probably what the band leader (drummer) wanted anyway. He would have struggled getting big paying wedding gigs, which were what he wanted to do. I gave up... You can lead a horse to water.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1385726490' post='2291535'] ... Lessons for me; focus on the drums, don't over-play the bassline, listen to singer's comments about the groove, try not to be put off when guitarist messes up. Thanks to everybody here for their help and encouragement, Steve [/quote] Steve, I played We Are Family for years with a drummer who was a rock drummer first and foremost. He couldn't funk his way out of a paper bag. It knocked my confidence a lot. His bass drum trod over the baseline and made the song unplayable in its original form. His random 4.5 beat fills were also a problem He wouldn't budge or improve, I had to rock it up and simplify the bassline to the point that it was very different to the original. The rest of the band said I wasn't playing it right. I tried to explain... Concentrating on the drums shouldn't be necessary, it should be natural to feel, I left the band on the end and played with proper drummers.

Just seen Annoying Twit's thread where he's proposing using one as a looper. That's an amazing idea. Anyone else doing things like this. Is it simple? How are you getting on?

That's seriously creepy. Especially at this time of night!

The 80s was a never ending parade of slapiness. If you walked into a guitar shop all you could hear was slapping. Horrible. The thing about 50s-90s music is it's been around long enough for the cream to rise and the dross to drop out the bottom. 00s-10s are still fresh in most people's minds. My dad moaned about 80s music, the 60s and 70s were much better he jokes, then points out that a lot of the 60s and 70s music was hated by my grandad. It's what happens...

God! Is that place still standing? I played there in'88. A play to play rip off. We bought about 100-150 fans with us. Apparently only 10 managed to get in...

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1385305003' post='2286603'] It's almost as childish as middle aged men pretending to be pop stars..... [/quote] I thought that last week when they were talking on the radio about men who sail model boats. The pub we played last night didn't put our posters up. Strange. Maybe they think our posters don't look good in their pub. In fact most pubs we play don't. Pubs seem to be closing and the pubs aren't thinking of new ways to compete with Dr Who, Strictly, Jungle and X-Factor. They seem to have a fixed mindset of quiz nights, kareoke and Sky football as the way to get people in. They're missing a trick somewhere.

The problem I find is that you can fall into the trap of learning a song off rote and turn up only to find that the song doesn't work. We tend to go away, learn the structure, chords and general feel of the song. Come back and run through it, only then, if it looks like it's going somewhere, do we go away and learn it properly. But that's just my current band, all bands are different. I've gigged from charts where the only rehearsal for the whole band has been a single run through with the keys player and singer while we looked over the charts.

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1384694005' post='2279505'] My Facebook page always throws up (sic) adverts for that kinda thing.. I think it's because I've not supplied Facebook with much more than the basic minimum information so either a)they're taking a wild guess at what a 50 year old bloke wants from the internet or b)Facebook is trying to bug me into divulging every facet of my life. [/quote] It's looking at cookies in your machine to see what other things you've searched for and what sites you've visited. Allegedly.

Thanks.

When playing a bass solo you should remember that the listener is expecting the bass to occupy a certain rhythmic space. If the guitarist can occupy that space then you get free reign to play a lead solo. If the guitarist drops out and looks at you, then you still have to cover that rhythmic space while providing some melody and at the same time keeping the chord progressions right. This doesn't necessarily mean stick to the riff with embellishments, but it is a hard skill to master. If we're planning a bass solo in one of our songs, I'll insist on the guitar playing a solid rhythm part.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1384503143' post='2277350'] For me it's the opposite, I love helping someone realise their vision. Obviously I have to love their vision and how they execute it. Contrarily, I want to write an album and put a band together to play it, but I don't want to be in the band. I want to be in the audience. [/quote] That's not the opposite. That's the same. Unless I'm mistaken. If we join a band that has the material written you are just playing an unknown cover. However, we've probably all been in different bands with different ideas of how covers should be played. If the band leader wants everyone to play exactly as the original recording you end up with the 'musos' leaving... If the band leader wants to make it you own (god I hate that term) then the musos have a great time and the perfectionists leave. The key is getting the balance right and that depends on the individuals in the band. Writing bass lines is one thing, asking the songwriter to alter the cord structure in the middle 8 and the rhythm in the chorus to give the song life is different. That's where I've had clashes with headstrong song writers who've slaved away in isolation on their 'baby'. I've also been involved in projects where the songwriter has presented his 'finished' song to us, we've played it perfectly first time, recorded it, all gone away and listened and learned it properly, only for him to turn up next week and change something. I don't mind that happening a few times but it gets wearing when you've worked on the same 'finished' song for two months and he is still making changes for it to be perfect before you can gig it.

"Bass is tough because a lot of the time the bass player is in the band just to make up the numbers. It’s always a nice surprise to find a bass player that can play solid and play for the song." I think he is referring to a lot of bass lines that are either root or doubling guitar. That's what he means by making up numbers. They're not bringing anything to the song.

I find it interesting that Thailand are adopting European standards and not (as I expected) US.

[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1384348078' post='2275501'] I'm all for having creative input, I have no qualms with that at all, I profess to not being perfect. I encourage others to get involved and have an input because as a band we'd need to be able to be open and honest about the songs and everyone should be happy playing the songs. I've been in bands where I've been told just play roots and play common time on the beat and that's that! It's horrible just like you say! I just cannot believe how frustrating and hard it is to find like minded people. [/quote] How far do you get? Do you find musicians but they're put off after they hear your demo, or do people just not answer your ads, or do they answer and you decide they're not what you are after. I know when I auditioned for the band I'm in now they just couldn't find a decent bass player. They had 4 guys audition but they just didn't 'fit'.

[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1384211559' post='2274177'] I've got a catalogue of around 25-30 songs, all finished and written, only changes that will be made are if the guitarists can't play the lead parts then I'll find a new guitarist and the melody and key, I'm more open to having singers change things with my songs, especially if they have a good voice and good ideas. Guitarists are ten a penny so they're easily replaceable it's the singers I have most trouble finding! Although it's been suggested that I look to take the lead vocals, it has never been my goal to sing, I'll do a harmony but won't take lead vocals, as I enjoy playing bass too much, even if I was playing a singing I'd rather only do the playing [/quote] If you are using this approach then you are going to have to pay your musicians. No one is going to play unknown 'covers' for free. You're allowing no creative input from 'the band'. I played in a project where the songwriter/keys dictated exactly what notes I played, what rhythms and tempo the drummer played at, how the singer sang. We never got to the gig stage because he had not written the parts In the way a bass player, drummer etc thinks and took no creative input from the rest of the musicians. It was fairly soul destroying for the rest of us playing stuff we knew wasn't right and knowing it could be so much better.

We had a long band meeting about replacing our singer. In the end we agreed the drummer would phone her in the morning and let her know. Next morning an email came out with all of us copied on. Git! I called her and spent half an hour on the phone with her. Some people are idiots. Turned out we were all fooled because the drummer just wanted to get his girlfriend into the band. I left soon after... I've been fired for 'not having long hair', when in reality it was to get someone's mate in (who then cut their hair short!) There's not a lot of honesty around during hiring and firing, it comes under personal taste and being tactful.

Yes. I get the same on tuba. Have to really push on ahead if I want the notes to be on top of the beat.

Fender twin inside a 2CV6? I thought it was a 12AX7EH inside a fender twin.