Cliff Edge

Once kicked off the second set with a great sound on stage, until the end of the first number when someone out front told us the PA wasn’t on.

Venues that advertise “Live Music” and put on a person singing to a Karaoke backing track. People who think they are musicians who sing to karaoke backing tracks.

I can never understand why people wear hats in cars. Especially the driver, I always stay well away from them. Same goes for country singers and cowboy hats. And anyone who wears a baseball cap when not playing baseball. (I have a couple of those). Oh yes, and bass players with the bass just above the knee when standing.

I saw Kenny Wayne Shepherd a year or so ago in a proper concert venue with normally great sound. Christ he was so stupidly loud we joined people walking out half way through the first set. A similar thing with Joe Satriani although we did last until the interval.

Not bass related, but Keefs “Life” is excellent.

Does any band have to be loud?

sounds like a plan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye5jx8y3go

Brass nut on my 72 jazz fitted many moons ago replaced the broken original. Graphite bridge saddles on that too. Brass nut and bridge saddles on the Aria makes a nice noise. Plastic nut on the Ibanez SR and probably just plastic on the Stingray too.

I don’t have any suggestions beyond what has already been said. Practice is the key. I started singing when I started playing bass but that was a long time ago. I Saw Her Standing There was my first effort. I figured if Paul can do it so can I. I admit he is better than me.

Three and a half hours into rehearsal yesterday my iem’s crackled and died. Green lights on the U4 receiver and transmitter flashed and then no sound. Placing the receiver right next to the transmitter works, and I can receive sound from my guitarists transmitter when on the same channel. So my transmitter is apparently dead, or at least not very well and only two and a half years old. The guitarists is much older. I charged it up but nothing changed. I can’t see how to open it up and I wouldn’t know what I was looking at anyway so I have to spend more money. Shame as the system has been very good and reliable up until now.

I can’t help you with that. As a long time OnSong user I gave it the boot recently. No one particular reason but the constant nag to pay the subscription to get extras I don’t need was annoying, especially as I bought the damn thing outright years ago. My co conspirator in the duo moved over to Stage Traxx 3 recently, mainly because he takes care of making and playing the backing tracks we use, and StageTraxx handles that better. I’ve switched to the cheaper and very similar SongbookPro which has the same functionality with less bells and whistles. And I have emailed a setlist complete with songs from the app.

It’s all taxes no matter what it’s called.

Only very silly people buy that kind of stuff.

Jools Holland and the band at The Congress in Eastbourne. What’s to say? Brilliant evening, not a duffer to be seen on stage, every member of the band had a solo including the girl singers, and Ruby of course. Plus a surprise appearance for a couple of old Squeeze numbers by Chris Difford. Special mention goes to Imelda May, quite possibly the best supporting artist I’ve seen in years. No miserable songs from her.

I have astigmatism and I have always been very short sighted, plus advancing years have buggered up the close reading. I wear varifocal glasses most of the time with no issues. I’ve used contact lenses for over 40 years and currently use multifocal Purevision2 from Bausch and Lomb, bought online from Vision Direct. Best contacts I’ve ever used.

Some of them are.

I have a ‘72 Jazz I bought in ‘82 but in the intervening years I’ve had to change a few bits that stopped working properly or not at all, so not really 100% original now. But still plays well, and sounds good with a pair of custom shop ‘70’s pickups, but I prefer playing my Stingray.

Crikey that is cheap if it lasts. Bonus, rechargeable battery too.

I’ve been using an iRig Blue Turn for several years https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigblueturn/. Bluetooth and totally silent in operation. I use an iPad with OnSong but the pedal works with Android stuff too.

It’s the age verification where this has always been a bit of a nonsense. Savvy kids can put any age they like, and just keep taking out new accounts in different names and ages. Free gmail, outlook etc email accounts make it easy.

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.