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Leonard Smalls

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    How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?

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    Rehearsal in the local church (amazing they let us, none of us attend!) with funky blues band last night...

    After our chat with guitarman two weeks ago about not playing ceaselessly and without end, and perhaps putting some space in, and perhaps listening to the rest of us (it's only bass and drums ffs!), and maybe playing stuff that actually fitted with what we were doing it appears that the penny may have dropped a bit! 

    He's actually listened to the Meters and Slave and Mother's Finest and Sly Stone stuff I sent him and throttled it right back with the aimless pentatonic noodling. Now we're sounding far more coherent as a band, and may have recruited a sax player (we can't find a vocalist!)... 

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    Thumb Support

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    17 hours ago, Ejb said:

    hopefully won’t impact on playing

    Mine's on the left fretting hand too, and has no impact at all on playing (might if you like to hook your thumb over to fret stuff!).

    And it looks sort of rock'n'roll, wot with the blackness and straps!

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    Thumb Support

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    I recently had a case of trigger thumb and seem to have sorted it out with one of THESE

    They allegedly work for arthritis too - the physio I saw said it was probably the best option (not necessarily that one, there's loads of similar ones!)

     

    How much backing track is too much?

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    Our last gig with Weeds was put into serious doubt when our singer was too skint to fly from his home in Ireland to do the gig.

    As we use a backing sequence anyway (why have a keyboard player just to press "go" on a sequencer?) we quickly recorded the rest of us and sent him an MP3 (this is how we record anyway!).

    So he sent us his vox.

    Then at the last minute second guitar dropped out too. But as we had them both on multi track we went ahead anyway and stuck a couple of dummies on stage in their place.

    And we went down very well indeed!

     

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    How much backing track is too much?

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    I remember going to see Kraftwerk at the Liverpool Empire back in 1981ish...

    Just before "Robots" started the lights went down, gradually came back up with band beeping and tapping away happily.

    Towards the end of the song the band walked on and the Robots were carried off. Nobody noticed!

    And despite this, and the almost complete lack of movement on stage it was one of the best gigs I ever went to!

    How much backing track is too much?

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    11 minutes ago, diskwave said:

    The live music scene has completely lost its way

    In my day etc!

    Kids don't know what music is nowadays etc...

    😁

    Basically, if the audience enjoys it, that's what counts. Even more so if the band (or even solo performer!) enjoys it too.

    It's largely irrelevant how the music is produced to most audience members - the only ones who really care are a few chin-stroking oldie musos at the back who are barely getting involved anyway, apart from to say "he's dropped a note" or " they could have done that better" or "bass player should be playing just root and fifth there, all that slapping sounds like someone falling down the stairs!"

     

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