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Of course but the question was about acoustic - not amplified - volume, and this will be low. It’s why string sections are the largest in the orchestra, takes close to a hundred of them to keep up with the much smaller brass and woodwind sections, plus when strings are pizz the rest of the orchestra tends to have to play rather quietly. A section of cellos can be pretty loud, but a single trumpet probably wins on volume 👍

Sums it up 👍

But yes, we need a PA and live sound section for the reasons already mentioned 👍

Sorry Jack was a slow Friday night 😕

I was thinking through the rights and wrongs of this last night, largely because it’s so common and about so much more than just an annoying few - in fact a lot of us probably either do it or have done it (there’s a thread on here somewhere about what well-recognised basslines we like to play at gigs). So I thought I’d shift genres and pictured an orchestra performing Wagner, and between the 2nd and 3rd movements a French Hornist kicks in with a solo rendition of the famous last movement of Mozart’s last Horn Concerto. Would be fired on the spot 😆

Orch stringed instruments tend to be a whole lot louder bowed than pizz so I doubt this pumps out a whole lot

As a DBist I thought this section was about live sound or have I misunderstood?

Yep, similar issue with a singist a few years backc, used to do impressions of a Memphis-based rhinestone-clad cheeseburger-munching Jailhouse-Rockin’ performer between songs in our otherwise bluegrass set. Used to make me so so SO angry. Funny how the ‘But people seem to like it’ argument was also used …………

I suspect it's a definitive watch for any bass player, whether you like the music or not. To me it's not unlike Some Kind of Monster, less about the music than the people

Not that it matters of course, just love that version

Yep, there's a nice feel to GE's band, @JimmySims did you play on the Live Lounge version of These Days?

Watching the Who's Next documentary, love the moment when Glyn Johns says of Pete's demos "How the hell am I going to compete with that'?. What's clear from watching it is that Townsend wasn't just an incredible musician but an equally incredible innovator, his use of synths probably wasn't bettered until Kraftwerk

Glad it’s sorted 👍

Like I said above, Thomann appear to share a terrible comms policy with their UK courier, I’ve heard of this same thing happening so many times - it’s missing, it’s missing, it’s missing, it’s arrived all’s good here’s your refund - but all the time none of the return process apparently notified by the courier to either Thomann or to the buyer. Even despite this, I assume in the grand scheme of things it’s still sufficiently rare for Thomann to keep DHL under contract

Coming on BC suggesting that 45 years of age is in some way old is a brave move! You should probably head over to BasschatJnr.com which carers for the under 50’s 👍

10cc songs, despite their extraordinary diversity in terms of genre, were always instantly recognisable, a truly great but largely forgotten band. And yes, very much the soundtrack to my pre-punk/pre-metal childhood. IIRC that documentary was great 👍