Cliff Edge

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.

yes that’s how I got a short scale.

You can add your own drum tracks to the Beatbuddy pedal. But this may be too much of a faff if the drummer is hopefully only going to be ill for a short time.

Yep. Probably in the oven. 🙂 It’s happened before, apparently caused by condensation due to the oven not being used enough. Fortunately we have another one, plus the air fryer and a few candles. We shall not go hungry.

Mrs Edge turned the oven on last evening and all the power in the house went off. Why do things always go wrong at Christmas. Have a great day, thanks to everyone for being here. (Problem sorted btw)

Bit of a Queen night on Sky Arts kicking off at 8 this evening with the 1986 Wembley Stadium gig.