Beedster

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1508437349' post='3392249'] Shame but think they could have found another band who look and sound the same...? [/quote] You'd have thought they'd have the condition under control?

To be honest, there's probably a few relatively non-criminal types who'd half-inch a double bass for the pure comedy value alone. I won't point fingers or name names but many such wags are to be found in our higher education system

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1508492830' post='3392520'] Pssh 'do we dress up'? This isn't amateur hour, spud. [/quote] Absolutely brilliant. Do you do weddings?

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1507800217' post='3387998'] Can report from personal experience the DEVO tribute is a better runner than you might expect. On the other hand, we don't need the competition so actually it's a terrible gig and you shouldn't even think about it! [/quote] Made my day Would love to see you lot at my local on a Friday night, do you dress up also?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1508433215' post='3392201'] My thoughts exactly... Welcome from Herts [/quote] Could have been worse, could have been called 'drummist'

Welcome from Canterbury. Hell of a brave username for a bass forum BTW

We put up with it for years and learned to play with a slack drummer, simply because he was also a mate. Think The Who did the same according to an interview I read with Entwhistle

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1507824326' post='3388240'] Or it could be the old trick of when you play a bum note always play it again so people think it's an "arrangement". [/quote] Damn, I thought that was my secret. Did pretty much a whole gig doing exactly that on DB, and was offered a Jazz gig immediately afterwards

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1507809851' post='3388094'] Ahh.. it's jarring to me. I've just checked and he does it on the original, too. It must just be me.. [/quote] Ha ha, there's a track on Street Legal by Dylan where the bass player plays a howler, it drives me crazy, but no-one else can hear it. Which of course means everyone else is just not as discerning as us

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1507801446' post='3388008'] I think there's a difference, 'rehearsing' means doing something in order to prepare it for performance, playing with mates for the pleasure of it is an end in itself. Both equally valid, but to my mind, a rehearsal is playing with gigging as the goal. [/quote] Which was exactly my point Dave, although perhaps not as clearly made

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1507796936' post='3387960'] Rehearsing is fun partly because it is intended to lead to a performance; rehearsing for its own sake would get very stale very quickly. [/quote] One man's 'rehearsing' is another man's 'playing music with mates for the pleasure of it'

[quote name='Lysdexia' timestamp='1507760590' post='3387858'] It's a load of fun. Which is a tremendous value - playing for the joy of it. [/quote] +1

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1507751280' post='3387790'] Again, personally I don't see that and I don't get the sense anyone here is suggesting anyone is any less of a musician if their not gigging. We all gig and don't gig for different reasons. One of the primary reason I gig is to bring a little happiness to people when the work week is done and they merely want to relax, have fun and a good time. We had a marginal crowd at best Saturday night. But there was this one older women who looked like she hadn't been out for a while. She was smiling, totally focused on the band rocking in her seat. Just watching her puts why I gig into perspective. Blue [/quote] Nicely put Blue. Wish that was my experience

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1507734440' post='3387598'] Why does everyone posting here seem to be insisting theirs is the only right way? Some like to play for its own sake with a few pals, some like to play for a living, some like to do the occasional gig, etc, etc. So what? Different strokes for different folks. I've played as a hobby and for a part and full living. I'm currently back to being a hobbyist. I enjoy it. End of. [/quote] It's a forum. End of

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1507708028' post='3387307'] Is this yet another re-hash of the "you're not a proper musician unless you get paid" thread? My mother is a pianist and LRAM, and she spent about 20 years duetting with a friend on the flute - mainly Bach. They never played a concert (even though they were a covers band ), and had absolutely no interest in doing so. It was purely for their own entertainment. Does that mean they weren't proper musicians? [/quote] I guess this is how I feel about playing music. Humans have been making music collectively for tens of thousands of years, it's in our DNA. Only relatively recently in evolutionary has the dichotomy of performer and audience crept in and become formalised (and it could be argued largely for business reasons). Personally I find the experience of playing music for the sheer pleasure of doing so extremely rewarding. I find the process of doing it in front of an audience marginally more so on some occasions, but [i]considerably[/i] less so on others. OK, this could be a function of the kind of audiences I've played to, but I imagine that unless you're in the top 5% of bands by status, these are pretty representative of audiences full stop. There is a sense here and on other music forums that unless you're out there gigging, you're less of a musician. I go to see bands occasionally, watch the bass player holding down roots/fifths or whatever 'the song requires', and at times I think it might be the other way around

I often found that gigging was the necessary evil of being in a band. I aways enjoyed rehearsing with good mates, loved the no pressure vibe and all the banter/good naturedness. Gigging was sometimes as much fun, but most of the time not so. There's a sense in which rehearsing is equivalent to jogging, and gigging equivalent to entering a 5k race. I'm more than happy to jog

Folks Thanks so much for the great advice above, I completely forgot that I posted this and for whatever reason is doesn't show up when I search my threads. I need DI because the room I have will take a whole of of work to get to anything like the acoustic quality I would like, this made a whole lot worse by unpredictable noise from outside the building that wasn't a problem when it was installed but has become one. In short, using DI I can get away with stuff that I might not using a mic. I also have some very very nice preamps that will help enormously This is the guitar that is currently making me feel a little hot under the collar http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PREMIUM-GIBSON-USA-Electro-Acoustic-Songwriter-Studio-Deluxe-Natural-2016/112586308701?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 and I'm very tempted to take a drive up to play it. As pointed out above, I have something of an affinity with Gibsons I have an Ovation USA Melissa Etheridge 12-string (which I can play as a 6 of course) and Gibson MK-81, both of which are lovely, but neither of which on their own are sufficient for my recording needs. Lots of ideas above, I might have to do some leg work

Perhaps everything should be priced the same to keep things simple

Would love to play in a BBD act but can't imagine it would pull in many punters? Having said that, a mate of mine a few years back suggested a DEVO tribute act