lurksalot

We played a pub in town last night and it was quite busy ,we knock out roadhouse blues for a sound check as it is dead easy to jam out and set the levels to , and we got some great applause . Rhythm guitar gets up to the mic when we open and says 'right then , we always have a proper party when we play here and tonight is going to be no different ......OK ' and a big cheer went up ..........we had a good night a proper party

One of the reasons I don't use to much VST stuff is that I can never remember how to bring them in , I have a rough idea that there is a place that you put the downloaded file , then Reaper scans the place and recognises it , but it takes me half an hour each time I do it

I am in as well now , it has come out a bit Bert Kaempfert meets James Last as it happens , however , my initial ideas were to have it a bit childrens TV theme meets Herb Alpert .......middle of the road....moi so , I reckon its the closest I have got to my original idea since I first entered this challenge. https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/emmatopia

Mine is nearly there now , no lyrics on this one though, but the inspiration from the photo has taken me to a very odd place ......inside Lurksalittles head , she used to daydream a lot , still does a bit , but her head goes off to Emmatopia , and that is what the picture is , it is the place where the daughters thoughts go, mainly when she should be doing homework

My cousin does a bit of acoustic stuff just outside Adelaide , but he also does musical bus tours around the outback , so he might not even be in Adelaide when you are !

There is a heck of a lot going on in there , I have had a few thoughts and a style of sorts , but as usual it may turn out completely different

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1443714596' post='2877116'] Very diplomatic. [/quote] It was a bit , I'll take it though

Congratulations guys , great work again

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1443685369' post='2876805'] Looks like the polls never close! Either way, excellent songs by Bilbo and XG - congrats! And looks like I'm 2nd bridesmaid yet again... [/quote] Well, after last months flourish , I am back into my normal position in the way of things

It looks like great fun, excellent .

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.