Beedster

Are you trying to record a good audio performance, or a good promo video, I get the impression you might be trying to do both but that's a big ask?

Yep, guess so

Well lucky you! I emailed John several times, and he even acknowledged that he’d received at least one of those emails in a thread elsewhere on this forum, but still no reply. Guess he has his favourites, but not sure what I did other than buy preamps from him and constantly promote his products here and elsewhere to earn the disrespect

Singer with lyric sheets? Sorry but that’s bad enough in a rehearsal, but in a video? Also I assume you’re distancing, but even so why have the singer looking like they’re in a fire escape when drums and guitar are on a stage? I think the mix is OK to be honest, but couldn’t watch the singer more than 30 seconds. EDIT My apologies, the above was harsh, I'd had a long day and it was my emotional reaction. I agree with all of the positives above and in the post below this. Importantly, perhaps most importantly, it's a tight band, and there's not enough of those around. Good luck with it all. Chris

You're probably right, I think Mozart was in the mix somewhere

....which is the polar opposite of nearly all guitar players in my experience. The oldest rule in musicianship, it's not what you play that draws attention, it's what you don't play. The virtuoso guitar thing is characterised by too much playing and ostentatious displays of technique and not enough musicality. As Mozart (allegedly) said of Salieri, "Too many notes"

Time Stand Still: Rush Emergency on Planet Earth: Jamiroquai Don't Stand So Close to Me: Police What's the Frequency Kenneth: REM

..............might need a second bottle soon

Stick a tonerider in there for a few quid outlay and it'll sound as good as the day it left the factory

Have to say that as the result I now like Yes more than was the case at about 2.00pm last Saturday. I think i need to pull together a good playlist to be honest. Also, playing the parts has always worked for me, I've had to play music by several bands that I really didn't like at the time, only to find that, as if by magic, they've grown on me. Might get to grips with some of CS's lines, many of which are stunning

No I don't think you did mate

Care to explain that Chris (pulls up comfy chair, opens bottle of red, cancels appointments for rest of day)

Absolutely, I love early Miles by the way, the later stuff makes more sense to me, but I like it less. Topical, but Van Halen without Dave Lee Roth were not, to my mind anything like as good as the real Van Halen. Others will disagree

Not sure why he needs a reserve, there's two days to go and shed loads of watchers, very few serious bids go on until quite late in the day anyway. It'll go for a decent price, perhaps higher than had he put on a reserve and put off all the early small bidders, many of whom have now got their hearts set on it. And yes, that was autobiographical

Odd post Mikel, it's exactly because people (like you) say things like the first paragraph above that I made what you clearly see as the error you describe in the second. If it is the ultimate prog album, I want to understand why. And to clarify, I came at it with exactly the right attitude, and given that like so many people in this thread I love the music of Rush, it's certainly not a genre issue. I didn't like Miles Davis at all (did everyone sense Bilbo's attention being drawn back in just then?), I seriously had to try to like his music. Reading about it, listening to it with people who love it and could describe why in emotional and not mechanistic terms, and trying to overcome prejudice (musical, not colour I hasten to add) based on my musical experience and preferences to that point, all mean that much to my daughters' annoyance, Sunday PM in the kitchen tends to be Miles Davis time for Daddy, replacing Sunday morning which tends to be Taylor Swift. So, I reserve the right to try and like something that previously I didn't.

I've watched that about 10 times now and find it funnier each time. I laughed so much the first few times that I completely missed the parrots, in fact each time I watch it there's something new. And no joke, the keys are EXACTLY the same as a keys player we had in the 80's, who would not only suddenly swamp the entire stage with unexpected and entirely unnecessary orchestral hits, but would do so with the most extraordinary flounce of his hand as if to say "hey everybody, look at me, I'm a virtuoso". He also accidentally set fire to my hair mid-gig at City of London Polytechnic but that's another story. Mr Smalls, thanks mate, I owe you one

Which, one way or another, is why we post a vid of ourselves playing EVH, why we start a thread about people who post vids of themselves playing EVH, if why we disagree with someone else who posts in that thread

This is a nice clip

You might want to put a link in a sticky

Yep, reminds me of Michael Douglas and his alleged carcinogenic activities

People just want to feel part of it mate, in the pre-internet/pre-covid days, everyone would gather outside the house or record company or studio, it's just people's way of managing their own stinky poo. I find the easiest way of not getting annoyed by it is to never look at social media, and by the way, I include BBC News 24 in that category, they increasingly report this sort of thing as if it's news "Person does something on internet that annoyed other person"

Absolutely, larger than life, great music, and mostly smiling all the way, they appeared to be both totally in love with the genre whilst often parodying it at the same time. DLR (and we're not talking train lines) was possibly the best front man ever, and EVH was likely the single most heard guitarist of the 80's - Jump, Beat It etc - up against some pretty stiff opposition that decade.

Unless your name was Mr Rubbish Nut

Awful, slots not straight, blank too wide for neck so all slots shifted towards treble side with nut overhanging, G and D slots close to same width.