TimR

Technically its fraud if people are paying you money to do it. He's not just "pretending to play guitar". But, I was just commenting on the fact that proceeds are often recovered.

Often it will be the cost and likelihood of recovery vs the amount recovered. No one is going to pay thousands of pounds to recover a few YouTube royalties.

It's just jumping on the latest trend. Beato wasn't going to do anything until loads of people hassled him. A lot of the YouTubers had interviewed him and been taken in by him, so guess they do have a personal axe to grind.

The procedes of crime are quite often (if not usually) confiscated.

I think he's miming to unknown artists work and passing it off as his own. That's not the same as playing cover versions in a pub, where the original artist is known and is probably getting performing rights payments. Nor is it the same as Mini Vanilli, miming to a bunch of recordings someone else wrote and played, and was paid for knowing that would happen. Not to mention countless musicians who were sneaked in the back door while the band were having a break, to ghost play on recordings, and not even the band realised it wasn't them on the record and probably still don't know to this day.

You have an extra finger on your right hand as well!

Or Jam Evening. Too early for me I'm afraid but would have been good to pop along.

Not in a pub. Trying to get everything as loud as a drummer who is trying to fill the pub will always lead to feedback and the rest of the band not being able to balance their sound and/or hear each other. Get the vocal mic level right first. That's just a case of ringing it out and finding the feedback point.

Sounds like your whole band are fairly new to this, or haven't been playing long together. At rehearsals you should be playing at an appropriate volume and getting used to how the balanced band should sound. Too many rehearsals and consequently gigs descend into loudness wars. If you can't get it right in rehearsals you'll never get it right at gigs. The line check at the gig should be basically vocals to get the right volume and make sure you're not getting feedback on the stage area. Each musician should then do a line check to make sure they're getting signal at an appropriate level. Then fine tune during the first song. Remember that someone sitting in the guitarists 'amp set to kill' zone will always think the guitar is too loud, while the guitarist standing next to the amp with his speaker blasting past his kneecaps is always going to think he's too quiet.

I disagree with this. Phones have enabled more people to take more pictures. You still need a good eye to take a good photo. Same with mixing desks. More people have more power and more control at their fingertips if they still have cloth ears, the results will be even worse than simple treble and bass control. See the recent Sound Engineering Guitarist thread.

The real questions should be: "Are you getting gigs for weddings where the couple are saying 'We saw you at X's wedding'?". "Are people dancing to your music and having a good time?" Usually after the buffet, but extra points for people staying on the dance floor after the first dance.. If you are, then don't worry about it. We are our own worst critics.

Simply copying and regurgitating wholesale and passing off as your own, yes. Part of what 'intelligence' is, is the ability to learn by copying. At the moment, that's the only element of 'inteligence' in Artificial Intelligence.

Why don't email providers just do the checks and then provide a verify service to third parties? Then anything you log into with your email is already checked for you.

But are extremely unlikely to. This will be retrospective, if someone comes to harm, there will be an investigation and the owner will have to show they assessed the risk, mitigated it. Any punishments will be proportionate. They're not going to take someone's house and throw them in jail for running a small local forum.

It's the owners not really understanding the implications. It's the old 'Health and Safety gone mad' syndrome, where people are just stopped from doing things by people who catastrophise everything.

I can't see anyone joining BassChat to pick up women or groom children.

It's is most probably a scam.

I've been in bands for 45 years and just when you reach an age when you think finally everyone is acting as grownups. Something happens to remind you musicians are mainly big kids.

Could be a number of factors. It's rarely just one factor. Daltry's ears are probably screwed and even with in ears he's struggling. Maybe Daltry has had enough now and this will be a good excuse not to play gigs for a long while. Regards Pino, wasn't it Townsend's choice to find someone who wasn't a lead bassplayer in the band so that he could step up from being rhythm guitarist?

I searched loads of places for a jack to fit my Ibanez, it's not standard is it? In the end, my problem was a dodgy Fender lead with an out of tolerance jack. There is an Ibanez dedicated spares site, it's not easy to use - doesn't really work on mobile. It's under support on the Ibanez website. https://cs.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pcw.nsf

When I had Hodgkins, I continued playing in the band and scheduled rehearsals for the days before the next treatment when I was going to feel better. We didn't gig much anyway so that may not be fair on your band if you'd be stopping them gigging. I walked a lot. I find that physical activity changes your mood, from 'sitting in the sofa watching TV' mode to 'doing something' mode.

The Kino album is worth a listen too.

The 90s material after Holidays in Eden is very different to the 80s Fish material and I'd go as far to say the first 3 H albums are still quite poppy but his lyrics are slightly less 'Fish' like.

I cannot believe a search of Marillion on the forum turns up nothing other than Word Ascociation and possibly a post by @Marillionred about a gig at the Albert Hall. Currently sitting in a Café in Paris having a beer. Just spent two nights at the Paris Marillion weekender. By luck I'm in Paris for the marathon tomorrow and managed to get tickets via facebook a month ago after they'd sold out. What an awesome show. Three weeks ago I managed to see Mr Punch at Camden Underword, again Facebook fed me something on the morning of the gig. For Fish era Marillion, comoelte with theatrics, they're amazing. Seen them twice now. I turned down tickets to see Marillion in 1984! And this is the first time I've seen them. Absolutely phenomenal gig. Anyway Pete Trewavas, doesn't get a lot of mentions. Ever. And is a big influence on me. Am I the only one, or am I rubbish at the search.

Might be worth posting in the Recording forum. I think some of the guys there are using AI.