TimR

You need to start off by compiling a list of dates where people aren't available. Calendars are a bit overkill for us as generally we are looking for Saturday night gigs. And they rely on people updating them without being prompted. If you have to prompt them, you might as well just ask in the first place if there are any additional dates since last time you asked.

We just have a WhatsApp group purely for gigs and a WhatsApp group for general chat. Ask if anyone is available on certain date in the general chat group, and when a gig is booked stick the details in the gig group and go from there. Getting amatuer musicians to be organised is like, well, as we all know, herding cats.

Your volume will be dependent on the cabs, not necessarily the amplifier. You can get very loud by adding cabs. I had a Trace Elliot that had a dry joint on a resistor, apart from that touchwood, I've only blown a fuse in a lead from using a 3amp fused (lghting) lead instead of a 10A one. The other thing I found with amps is you need to clear out dust and spiderwebs from inside the amp and cooling fans if it's not kept in a sealed box, flight case. If you can't hear yourself over the drummer then you need to look at your EQ, something that sounds nice solo'd, probably won't fit in a band mix. Check you are using speaker leads and not instrument leads between the amp and speaker. If you are hearing distortion, check what's causing it, is it the power amp (generally bad), the speaker (bad, the coil will eventually melt), or the pre amp(should be ok)

The band booked for the Friday failed to show up.

Good luck. More data is coming out everyday and as time passes people should get more confident.

Yes. I agree with you there. I'll try not to derail, there's a long enough thread in OT. Seems to be a mix, guess it's going to be down to all members of the band to be up for it. Hope it doesn't provoke arguments.

Played our first gig last night. Pub was rammed, seems the public are generally up for it. Have a couple of mini festivals booked, one is outdoor high stage next Sunday, one is a pub, not sure if it's inside or outside. How is everyone else doing?

It’s not really the same band. They’re two generations older now. 40 years ago.

It was their pinnacle. I saw them at Hammersmith on the Someowhere in Time tour, then a at Donnington and Hammersmith again. By the time they played Hammersmith they’d picked up loads of kids off the Number 1 - Can I Play With Madness. Bruce tore into the audience and pointed out my friend and I were the only true fans in the audience up in the front row balcony up all night head banging and singing the words to every song. After that Adrian Smith left and Bruce shortly followed. Shame. I last saw them at the O2, the night before the Croydon riot. They just weren’t the same. Might have been the big auditorium, I don’t like those big gigs.

I know Tony Parson’s sister-in-law pretty well. We were in a restaurant one night and she told me her husband plays drums a bit now and then, but his brother is a good guitarist. He was in a band called Iron Maiden in the late 70s. I also went out with a girl who knew Derek Riggs. It’s a small world.

I think I put The Battle of Evermore on a juke box once when playing pool in a pub. It was met with some very confused looks and people asking who had put it on.

Yes. Just running through Spotify looking for songs I’ve not heard. Song remains the same is one I know but had forgotten. Now working through Presence. Achilles Last Stand another I’ve not heard in while. Some classic tracks.

Just been introduced to The Ocean. It’s now replaced Kashmir as my favourite Zep track. What other great obscure tracks are there. All the ones that appear on Best Of albums seem to be ‘most popular’ rather than ‘best of’. What’s your top ten?

Please remember. No mugs of tea on top of amplifiers (or servers)!

I think the issue here isn’t the bass impedance, it’s the effects pedals and extra cables.

I seem to remember something happens with tube pre-amps vs solid state amps. Solid state amps have ‘infinite’ input impedance and tube preamps have an input impedance. IFAIR You can get buffer pedals that will balance the impedance as required. edit: https://www.premierguitar.com/tone-tips-a-crash-course-on-buffers

Now I’m looking at amps. My Warwick proFET5.1 weighs a ton but it’s an awesome amp and I remember listening a fair few years ago to many different heads and just not finding something I liked. Are these Class D amps really what they’re cracked up to be? Most seem to be quite low power. Tenpted by the Mark Bass one.

It’s probably a website database. For comparing amps. Plus it probably stops some people asking ‘does it have DI’. Although some people will read the list and still ask. 😂

Thought this was positive news for a change. Anyone else heard of anywhere getting grants? Farm Factory Studios in Welwyn, Herts have been awarded some money - although they don’t say how much. https://m.facebook.com/393552414014196/posts/4051954974840570/?d=n

No less than 3 music stands!

I wasn’t sure if your original comment was satire or not. The singer commands the stage. The guitarist on the right is moving a lot. The guitarist on the left is using what space he has. No music stands immediately obvious. That’s not exactly what I’m thinking when I say shoe gazing or fretboard gazing.

@Dad3353 Everyone seemed pretty animated to me.

Nothing to do with what he was playing. It was just expressionless. There are more recent videos of him on YouTube where he raises eyebrows and nods his head and leans back and forth. Maybe in 1961 before TV was a big thing it was acceptable to sit in the dark completely expressionless and motionless. Life has moved on. Show some passion.

Not at all. Are you? That’s is incredibly tedious. How long are his gigs?

Ah yes. Nothing going on here then. Very boring. 🤷‍♂️