Cliff Edge

This is very sad news. Sam gave me reassuring and helpful advice around the time of my cardiac surgery.

Thanks for the introduction to Katy Hurt, I like what I hear. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the gigs

A bit off topic. The Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year has The Bar Steward Sons Of Val Doonican on the bill. If you have time to kill, trawling the acts appearing on various UK festivals this year has some wonderfully crazy band names. One of my favourites is Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5.

Thanks for all the info guys, If I had looked at the OnSong website which I haven’t done for several years now, all the info is there. Including some useful video tuts for doing exactly this. Even my old version of OnSong has all the required midi functions. I think all I need is the Widi Jack and I’m good.

It’s just buttons 4 and 5 via the expression socket to select presets.

This looks interesting, thank you.

Control a Stomp and an iPad using MIDI? May have been discussed already but before trawling 96 pages here I thought I would ask. I use OnSong on iPad, each song in a set list has BPM and elapsed time. I select the songs using a bluetooth page turner pedal and then select the Stomp patch I want using buttons on an Ampero Hotone. It’d be nice to do all this with one button push on something, possibly using MIDI as the Stomp doesn’t do Bluetooth?

There was a Queen tribute band I shared the bill with years ago called Flash Harry. They put on a good show.

Have we had Johnny Rash yet?

That’s what is known in the trade as “showing off”. Unlike bass solos, also showing off, he isn’t actually playing the bass while impersonating a Whirling Dervish. The drummer, however, is showing off. 🙂

A work colleague gave me a copy of this album on cassette, introducing me to Zevon, and it spent several weeks in the car cassette player. Probably being played too loudly if I’m honest. Great album.

Facebook is just too popular to be useful any more. It’s too crowded with rubbish and fake posts. Instagram is no better, Twitter has lost all the interesting contributors and Reddit is full of illiterate American kids of all ages. I like this place.

Thanks, I’ll do that.

An aol email address. This guy is old.

Genuine question in case I have heard some and didn’t know. How does Shoegaze differ from other sub genres of rock? Not talking about a live performance here, just the recorded music.

You bought it, surely it’s yours to do what ever you want.

Good to know, thanks.

Rechargeable PP3 batteries don’t deliver a full 9volts which may not suit some instruments.

According to my surgeon the drugs I’m taking are keeping me alive.

Saw him a couple of times a few years ago. Supurb player. Had no idea he was visiting the UK. Where ws this?

My Jap TSB650 from 1979 is 4kgs. I don’t feally get on with the neck and string spacing, being a long time Fender player. But it’s a really well crafted bass.

Amazingly I also bought a ‘72 Jazz in ‘82. It has been very well used since and suffered somewhat due to poor quality components. Some of which were binned in the intervening years and replacements fitted so it can never be 100% original. But it stays in tune, plays and sounds wonderful, looks a bit tired and these days never goes out of the house.

I don’t know if it’s common but I have seen it before.

I’ve enjoyed reading this NYE gigs part of the thread. I have refused to play any gigs on December 31 for many a year. There was never a good one, so I’m happy to see some of you managed a decent evening.

The duo I’m half of has used a beat-buddy for a couple of years now, using drum tracks the other half created in Cubase. It’s worked well and we always do a proper sound check at every gig. We are currently creating some additional backing tracks, played by us, to beef up the overall sound. But it’s a cautious approach as I don’t want to appear just another karaoke act. There are more than enough of those around already.