Supernaut

5 minutes ago, Killed_by_Death said:

 Who is upset?

 

  Twice in two weeks?, constant?

 

  The majority agrees with my original thoughts, so where is the argument?

 

 

Wasn't aimed at you, my friend... have a nice cup of tea. ☕

Never understood those who get so upset about a topic that they feel the need to constantly post on it pointing out that it is in fact everyone else that is wrong. 

Any G&L Tribute.

Sandberg Electra series secondhand is a steal. 

Why they didn't do a second album, I'll never know. 

Please go back to Talkbass, thanks. 

On 04/07/2021 at 15:13, FreeThinker said:

since it has stainless steel frets they would need to be making sure that they are level before leaving the factory.

Add this to don't oil your fretboard for the most ridiculous thing I have read on here. 

I've got some absolute belters...

I remember starting a funk / rock band with a drummer I had met locally. We put up an ad explaining who we were and what we were looking for in a guitarist. I definitely remember putting "No metal guitarists", let's put it that way.

I get a reply from a guy around our age and he seemed enthusiastic. Have you played any funk before I asked him - "Loads of times" was his reply...

He rocked up to the audition, we tuned up and I announced we should jam for a bit to loosen up. Before we started, he interrupted and asked if he could play Master of Puppets for us... I looked at the drummer and said sure. 

What came next was two minutes of the worst MOP I have ever heard. I thought he was having us on but he was dead serious! He finished by saying he was now warmed up and ready to go. The drummer looked on the verge of tears trying not to burst out laughing.

We sent him on his way and that was that. 

Fortunately, our next guitarist audition went really well and he was invited to join the group.  

Love my TM4 SL - fantastic basses. 

My favourite is 'pay to play' venues...

Sell tickets at £5 a pop and for every ticket you sell, you get to keep £1...

I.e. Do all the work for us and then give us all the money.

Jog on, mate! 

Any 50-110 gauge should get you there. Hexcore over roundcore for a little more stability. 

14 hours ago, SumOne said:

Am still loving my TM5 SL after owning it for about 6 months - it's my favourite Bass I've owned. Tapewounds are the finishing touch:

 

That reminds me - buy DR Black Beauties... 

On 12/05/2018 at 12:30, MartinB said:

I'm not calling out anyone in particular, as I've come across this with multiple different bands and promoters. It's just puzzling.

A promoter is putting on a gig at a small venue (<250 capacity). They have their online ticketing set up. Any normal person who wants to go to the gig is going to buy their ticket on the web, and their name will be on a list when they arrive at the venue. Either that or they pay on the door. Simple, secure, no chance of losing a ticket.

Why, then, does the same promoter want to send a book of paper tickets to every band on the bill, and ask them to attempt to sell them directly to punters? Why would any customer choose the extra hassle of getting in touch, arranging payment, and waiting for physical tickets to turn up in the post? It's effort for them, it's effort for the band, and given that online ticketing is set-and-forget, it's no reduction in effort for the promoter.

It's not about attributing ticket sales to the different acts. This is 2018 - you give each band a slightly different ticketing link with an attribution code in it, or you just ask each ticket buyer which band they're most interested in seeing. This is usually what happens for sales on the door.

To be 100% clear: I am not talking about pay-to-play. The bands are not asked to buy the tickets and re-sell them. There's certainly some pressure along the lines of "we need you to sell x tickets", or "if you sell y tickets, we'll book you for another show". But this has no bearing on whether the tickets are virtual or physical.

Does anyone have any ideas about this? Is the industry just a bit technologically backward, or is there a scam element that I'm missing?

The answer is... lazy promoters use the bands to do all the work but they keep all the money. F those promoters and venues. Musicians and bands aren't doing this for the exposure. 

Cannot beat these for the money - someone jump on this. 

Really underrated basses these - hard to come by too! 

18 hours ago, Raslee said:

+1 Have had most of the basses aforementioned and in my view the Electra is leagues ahead. 

Definitely! 

My favourite song from STP: 

I'm quite lucky and have access to a hospitality suite at London O2 so normally use that for big gigs.

I usually go down smaller, local venues to see bands nowadays. 

1 hour ago, TheRev said:

Do they smell of wee and have a tramp homeless person living in them?

Of course, Digbeth might be all gentrified and stuff now with a nice shiny bus station free of tramp homeless person wee.

£20 secondhand: 

Get better soon, Juan... 

Any nu-metal band that has down tuned 7 string guitars with baggy jeans have Korn to thank. 

On 12/06/2021 at 13:08, Hellzero said:

Funny to moan now when you knew that Brexit meant being a foreigner (alien, if you prefer) everywhere with all the paper(work) hassle it implies... It's not political, it's a simple fact.

But, but, we're for immigration when it gives us doctors, nurses, carers, hospitality staff... we didn't vote Brexit just because of immigration - honest! 

Gave up on EBMM after a couple of new basses I received had questionable QC.