lurksalot

in the same vein.................. pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street that guy knew how to put words together , ed for a terrible spelling irony

Wow , decent size parlour there Dad

I use an app on my phone for an amp simulator and it goes inline to my scarlet2i2 via a little connector box , maybe not textbook, but when used in a special tonal environment and with great taste, it gets the occasional vote

fair play , seems the best of both worlds

But where is the passion ?

I love that song in particular it says so much in so few words. next up... [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]What the hell is wrong with you tonight?[/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]I can't seem to say or do the right thing [/color][/font][/size]

great news , you may have missed 1 year , but it offers the opportunity of a few more yet to come

I counted 10 voters .... well it says 10 at the top but yes , it does seem a shame.

A private party last night , a very stop go affair , family member doing a 'disco' , speeches , cake cutting etc but a good bit was a friend of the birthday girl asked if we new any Italian music ........WTF.... he said ...O solo mio ...the cornetto song , so yes , we hashed up a bit of Elvis 'its now or never' with BV's singing the cornetto version , and the party girl (50th) was crying her eyes out . Apparantly she had always wanted to visit Rome , and the song request was the cue to give her the tickets that her friends had chipped in for!! silly little things like this make a good night great .

As Dr Dave's , not an openining line but one of my faves I saw 2 shooting stars last night, I wished on them , but they were only satellites It's wrong to wish on space hardware I wish , I wish , I wish you'ld care

OK I'm in ,...... after last months freak effort , I see my status is being restored to normality

There are 5 , apart from mine , that I want to vote for , this one may involve pulling numbers from a hat

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1442778131' post='2869439'] I'm disenchanted with them, to say the least. We're registered with three local agencies who almost never get us gigs - the ones that they do are emergency last-minute ones. It's not as if we're crap either, or don't appeal to the audiences in the places we play. Sadly, those agencies lock out a lot of pubs so there's at least 25 pubs we can't get into because they're with one of the useless agencies. [/quote] This is my experience also

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1442781396' post='2869485'] I can spot amateurs from the second they enter to load in. I can also spot those that treat every gig like the pros they are. You come in with a professional protocol. Blue [/quote] Maybe , but your not the person booking the bands , it's them that should know !

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1442733309' post='2868986'] ........ So many club venues moving over to "karaoke" solo acts because they can no longer find bands that can cut it! Scary. [/quote] I think though that there are plenty of places trying to book bands that don't even research the bands they are booking, they end up paying cheap , getting mediocre and the punters feeling non-plussed . then it goes downwards in ever decreasing circles , even if they hit on a decent band there is no-one left going to the venue.

Just got back from an amazing show at the Mold Food Festival , which for some bizarre reason was using a photo of my ugly mug as the token muso on the advertising and festival programmes We had a slot at 5-5.40 but the organisers asked us to close the show with the 7-8.00 slot as well, as a member of the band booked had a medical issue and pulled very late. We played the first set which went brilliantly , then a couple of lads came on to do some rapping , they tried hard but it wasnt exactly the right audience for them, but as they had nothing to set up with , we were able to leave our stuff set up , so the change over was slick. So slick that the organisers had them start early and finish by 6.30 so by 6.35 we were back on and we smashed it , best gig EVER , the talk was, up to 2K people still at the event and over half of them listening to us. The area set aside for dancing was full, with some proper rocking going on, it was quite incredible to see people on others' shoulders bouncing around . The sound guy was brilliant , and even he was buzzing over the reaction we were getting. It brings to mind the pub gigs playing to empty houses being the normal gig scenario, last week we played to 15 people,tops, but I dare say the experience of playing those pubs, means that if a big show suddenly breaks out that we are capable of smashing it .

OK I'm in The mix could have done with a little more , but I wont get any more time this weekend , it was very stressful following up with the winners mantle , but I really enjoyed it . I originally had it very empty just guitars and vocal , maybe should have left it at that , but drums and bass called and were heard https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/plain-sailing I hope you enjoy it

I think the 'band' reference in this instance is easy to translate to any group of individuals , if you actually work out how easily and quickly personal relationships fall apart , the fact that some people actually manage to transcend all their differences , lifestyles, inertia and commitments and play music with dudes they didn't even know before , would suggest the actual chances of making a band that stayed together, quite remarkable in its own right .

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1442253826' post='2865553'] Wore..? What is it good for..? Absolutely nothin' (Say it again ...). [/quote] Wore..? What is it good for..? Absolutely nothin'

We played to 10 men, two women and a dog last night, plus the bar staff of course. It is a regular for us , but the races were on yesterday and lots of the locals go to town all day on the sauce , it wasn't all down though, we brought 40% of the pubs clientele with us , and the most of the other regulars said they wouldn't have been out if it hadn't been us on, add in to that the fact that one of the women there enjoyed dancing , to the point that she put on a show for everyone else , we were then described as the support act . We blooded 2 new ones that were requests from our last visit , but we hadn't had a chance to rehearse them together , so a silent run through before the start, a couple of cheat sheets and we nailed them , nothing complex , but its great when it comes together like that .

Possible in reaper too , in fact to learn some songs I insert the audio file into a track and then I can slow it down to practice and pick up the pace as i am ready, keeps the pitch pretty good from my ears , though I am not quite slowing to half tempo

A fair selection of ideas , I think it comes across fairly well that packing down as soon as you've finished is fair game, unless it's negotiated otherwise .

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1441554732' post='2859750'] I play Jazz. No-one stays 'til the end. [/quote] But in jazz , does anyone know where the end is

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1441551720' post='2859723'] You'd think nothing of packing up gear that was no longer needed (with a dj playing) if asecong bad was coming on after, so what is different about this situation? [/quote] I think the difference here is that it is more likely to be an audience expecting a band changeover, rather than a party seeing the entertainers clear off and maybe distracting the actual party in the process

What was the venue , we were thinking of looking for the odd gig out your way......but not that odd