TimR
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10 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:
New pure-tone socket on the left, crappy flimsy cheapo rubbish original socket on the right.
7 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:That flmsy socket looks a long way from becoming unreliable. Tne contact is virtually aligned with the midline of the socket.
This is a really good demonstration of exactly what rubbish is.
One thing that, to one person, is no longer usable, or fit for purpose, so they are going to throw it away.
The same thing, someone else would possibly be prepared to buy from them.
The real question is; whether Jean-Luc has thrown it away, sold it, or put it in their spare parts box...
I see this sometimes at the local council tip. Wonder why people are throwing things away that look perfectly useful. And I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason for it, but you're not allowed to buy and sell things at the tip. Although I have seen people taking items off people as they're emptying their cars.
So is it rubbish, or is it ready to be recycled? A lot of rubbish music seems to have been recycled by various people.
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Ha!
I have Lozz's Keeley compressor, which I bought from him 4 years ago.
It's brilliant. Always on.
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I am not tiny!
I am still in. Truss rod adjusted last month - seems the saddles are at the lowest they'll go. Still plays well.
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A friend of mine died last month. 65.
Our drummer is going in for stents next week. 60.
A manager at work had a heart attack- has been off for 4 weeks so far. Stents fitted. 48.
Stay safe everyone.
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What is B doing wrong that is preventing you from progressing?
Where do you hope to progress to and when? Is everyone else 100% on board and capable of committing to playing at that new level?
The best musician is the one that can make the gigs.
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4 hours ago, Dan Dare said:
If I'm reading this correctly, it appears the venue wants 10% for recommending bands to those who book the place if those bands actually get a booking. Given that agents charge at least that in commission, it doesn't seem too bad.
Perhaps I'm missing something.
Yes. Quite.
2022 post so presumably post pandemic. Venues were trying anything to recoup losses back then.
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A search for 'lift up arms' with Office Chair, Gaming Chair, musician's chair comes up with a few ideas.
Gaming Chair
Think the IKEA one isn't going to work as ideally want the arms on and off.
And the Herman Miller ones are what we use at work. Keeping hold of a working one is impossible. I'm considering chaining mine down. 😬
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Looking to replace our home office chair. The current one was selected by my son as a computer gamer chair. It's been heavily used and abused and needs to go.
I'm looking for something that I can sit and play bass on. ie removable arms or arms that can adjust well out of the way.
What are you using?
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The artists will have to decide which sellers will give them the best price for acting as ticket agent.
Otherwise there won't be any ticket agencies.
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Aklot currently £32 on Amazon.
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11 hours ago, Misdee said:
Could I just say how refreshing it is for someone to ask a question about actually playing the bass.
That's only because he's posted in the wrong sub-forum. Should be in the Theory and Technique section...
https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/31-theory-and-technique/
Which IMO should be listed above General at the top of the forum and not 4 page scrolls down on the phone.
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I have a great app on my phone called Chordbot Lite.
You can program chord progressions in and then play along.
I'm sure there are other apps and PC programs but this is incredibly simple and intuitive to use.
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Its that time of year when my wife tells me not to buy anything and to put it on my christmas list.
Unfortunately the dog has eaten all my socks and I'm down to my laat two pairs. So I bought some more on Saturday. So.
1. Socks
I also bought 2 pairs of jeans brown and black - as I can't wear my curent ones out for any Xmas parties.
2. Jeans (I may or may not wear them, then they can be wrapped and I'll open them)
3. Trail running shoes - I'll buy them and they can wrap them.
4. DMX WiFi transmitter/recievers - I'll ask for Amazon vouchers and buy them after.
5. A new bass - no idea what, 3 string, possibly Ibanez - I don't need one - I doubt I'll find one....
1-3 are dead certs.
4 I may change my mind.
5 may stay on the list for the next 10 years...
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10 still in I think.
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No one can afford to buy the house they're living in based on their salary. No one, orher than a few could.
I couldn't afford the house I live in now based on my salary at the time.
Mainly because of the housing ladder.
I bought a very small house in the late nineties on the back of the housing crash. I lived there for 20 years. The equity due to property price rise added to the equity from paying off the mortgage meant I only had to get another mortgage based on my salary.
I also have had salary increases due to promotions.
People also have inheritances.
When you look at people who live in expensive houses you are not seeing the last 20+ years of the work they have done to get there. They're not magically rich people who have suddenly found £500k behind the sofa or are all on £120k a year.
There is a danger of labelling house owners as wealthy and taxing them, instead of looking at why companies who are making huge profits are getring away with low pay. And a higher minimum wage doesn't help if it's a blanket measure as it disprotionatly affects small struggling busunesses and disuades them from employing more people.
However, there are lots of people living in big houses whose children have left, who are still working and are cash rich.
It's disengineous to generalise.
The mode salary in the UK is £15k, the median £37k. This means that people on the Mode salaray are living in poverty. Technically anyone with a household income below £22k is living in poverty but most households with 2 incomes will be on 2x£15k.
Although I don't know how much tax avoidance affects those below £15k and skews these figures I know plenty of people who only earn £12k a year but seem to have very luxurious lifestyles.
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So some people must have a lot of money. Around 64% of households do own a house.
Yes. It's unequal and getting worse, possibly. Maybe it gets better as you get older, it should, otherwise what's the point of saving and investing?
Ironically if people's earnings were more equal, more people would be below the poverty line as it's a 'relative' measure. Ideally we are all pretty equal when 1 in 3 are in poverty.
I guess it depends on your interpretation of my use of 'loads' - that's obviously relative as well. Loads more people are above the poverty line than below it.
None of this explains why people are staying at home and spending money on pizza and takeway and watching rubbish TV while surfing the internet.
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26 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:
Don’t believe loads of people are poor?
Crikey.
Look at the disposable income of the groups.
https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/
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As @tegs07 will probably explain. Produtivity and a nation's wealth depend on people spending money and paying taxes.
If people stop spending the money they earn (I don't believe loads of people are poor) then they're not paying the taxes.
The government will then have to raise income tax...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8g6kdgzelo
The banks will be giving the government statistics on savings.
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10 minutes ago, tegs07 said:
minimal interest in watching unknown artists.
The world is flooded with mediocrity on Social Media.
The bands that know how to use social media get people to their gigs. Sponsored posts targeted at the town you're going to be playing in for a start.
Playing loads of gigs of the same material in your local area because band members don't want to travel is not making the most of your band, and having the same bands play the same venues isn't going to make your venue attractive to an audience looking for fresh bands.
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In an ideal world mininum wages would be linked to a companies profitability or at least all employees should be guaranteed a bonus based on companies results.
No more giving directors and shareholders a preference on dividends.
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@BigRedX The Irish governement decided. You applied and if you met certain criteria you were given one of the 2000 trial places.
It worked, or at least it reprotedly has worked.
It seems to me to just be a shift in 'benefits' to low paid workers, but it does allow them to be productive and examples given show the artists are generating more revenue for other people than they're recieving themselves.
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1 minute ago, tegs07 said:
The problem with this approach is it’s too broad brush. Plenty of jobs have to be done on site. Office jobs can benefit from some on site presence. HR, IT support, any creative industry. Flexible working makes more sense though. Not everyone needs to be in every day.
Many people are realising that if they want career progression then full time work from home is a dead end so are going into work.
I guess the city centre has lost out on footfall, but most people I have with who don’t bring their own lunch tend to get a meal deal from a Supermarket anyway.
I think we are getting away from my point.
Artist Universal Income has been introduced to subsidise artists because attendance has dropped off due to the effects of the pandemic.
A lot of my friends play in London. A lot of people would stay around affer work for a meal, a beer and a gig.
Now, if you're working from home, its a trip to London after work into London. Only very keen people are going to do that.
That's not limited to London, that is going on all over the country.
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Normal - what most people do.
At one time everyone bought lunch in the works canteen and sat around talking instead of sitting working at their desk eating a sandwich. (Which is also now normal behaviour)
Not everyone has to buy lunch every day. It's a numbers game. But if everyone is working from home, no one is buying lunch and all the money is going to the big Supermarkets.
Fine, if you all want to sit at home, not spending money and isolated from social interaction, do that. But don't complain that people aren't comming to your gigs, because sitting at home on your own is habbit forming.
They're rubbish!! or maybe you just don't like them
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I went to the tip today with a load of polystyrene.
No one asked for it. I Didn't even ask for it, it came around a cupboard my daughter bought.
If you wanted it, too late, it's gone.