lurksalot

Wow , holy Schmoley and everything , that I very kind of you all , and I have no speech ready I will send a pic through as soon as I can

To be honest , as long as you can hold a tune down, be close on the timing and get on with the others OK , your actual tone and sound is something you can work on to suit the songs being played , besides , they probably wouldn't know that you didn't actually mean to sound like you do

We did a last minute gig covering for a band whose drummer unfortunately had a heart attack on Friday ( he is OK , if a little knackered) the first set was a bit loose to be honest, though the smallish gathering were quite appreciative , but the second set had them all going properly and seemed to drag a fair few in, it did seem an odd night , but ended with a bit extra from the LL and the promise of extra dates next year , he tried to give us a booking before Christmas but our diaries didn't work out.

well played gents , excellent stuff

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1440871642' post='2854490'] Quite so. And Los Beatles will probably have accounted for more of these epiphanies than all the other bands or artists put together. Not for much longer though. The Grim Reaper crooks his spectral, bony finger for the older generation and today's lazy, self-entitled, narcissistic floppy-haired youngsters are mostly too busy getting tattooed and drinking alcopops and indignantly protesting about the [i]desperate[/i] [i]unfairness[/i] of modern life to identify music as anything but a cheap, disposable personal soundtrack. In this misapprehension the young are greatly to be pitied; verily, it is a curse which will render the balance of their lives a barren, soul-less wasteland wherein they will wander in direction-less melancholy. But when they lay the sod over the last of the Beatles generation we shall be whistling 'She Loves You' through our decomposing lips; the last laugh shall be ours. [/quote] It matters not that everyone might not have an epiphany in a musical sense , as long as some do.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1440838457' post='2854193'] I've listened to all, but still need to choose three! Great stuff by all. [/quote] I just love your cakes dude

The daft thing here is that lots of people will have had musical epiphanies at various stages of their lives and they will be especially influential at an early age. Everyones experience will be personal and will awaken ideas and thoughts that provide an insight and even a passion that they can follow , this is a wisdom in its own way , but is very personal to the circumstances that brought it on. I think the argument about which artist influenced which artist is immaterial in this context, as is also the 'curse', I think that if someone has a 'hallelujah' moment with regard a performance or an occasion , whether it be on their own or shared with 10 million others , it is a personal thing. It is not really for anyone to be upset that they can't make us have the same feelings as them about the same event , but I am sure most of us will have those feelings about some event , so don't feel cursed , we may not actually have been [i]there[/i], but we've been there

we play Mold food festival, an outdoor gig third week in September , to be fair its not been to bad , but most times we do outdoor it just seems to p155 down

[quote name='tom1946' timestamp='1440690594' post='2853031'] ..................... but I think he just turned up and pleased himself [/quote] I've got to be honest , last time I did that I was asked to leave , .........................Oh sorry , I read that as pleasured

For cover bands , it might even be argued that even if its a different band every night , the set-list will probably be the same Take the gig

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1440525548' post='2851603'] Voted. If there are six people who have voted as of the time of my posting, how come there are only 16 votes in total? [/quote] That question pops up a bit , it appears that some people either don't want 3 votes or don't realise they have them to use.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1439972012' post='2847100'] So two years ago we moved into Northamptonshire and one of the things I really wanted was an outbuilding / shed so I could do lots of woodworking etc. At the time I was building pa cabs (BFM included) as a sideline income. The place we found fit the bill perfectly and had a huge shed and the house / garden was exactly what we wanted. So after being on the market just three hours we made the offer and bought it. [attachment=198777:IMG_6975.JPG] Last year we had a little girl and I also gave up cab building. I needed somewhere to practice without waking littl'un and the shed seemed like the perfect space. This spring I finally got round to pulling my finger out and making use of the space. The shed was already lined, insulated and had full electrics. I built a frame inside, insulated with acoustic insulation, used what seemed like 1,000,000 genie clips and floated acoustic plasterboard and then had my first ever go at plastering. The end result was pretty decent. I still have half of the shed as workshop and as you can see a really useable practice / recording / band rehearsal space. Found a drum kit for £80 on gumtree and with the addition of some decent drum heads we are up and running! I made some window inserts from an old memory foam mattress and some acoustic foam and used a whole mattress on the inside of the door. The result is we can have full band rehearsal in the shed and you can't hear a thing from the house. [attachment=198778:IMG_6969.JPG] [attachment=198779:IMG_6971.JPG] [attachment=198780:IMG_6973.JPG] Just finishing our first band demos this week [/quote] that is brilliant , I would love that solution, complete with workshop !![quote name='Shedua511' timestamp='1439973253' post='2847115'] This is mine... at the moment only a slab of concrete, but in the next few months it will be a studio! For the moment, everything is crammed up in a smallish room [/quote] keep the build thread going , its looking tidy already

OK then , i offer for submission this month Grind My Bones https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/grind-my-bones hope you enjoy

A Sunday , lunch-time-ish would give me the best chance of attendance , I would support it by paying for a ticket whether I could get there or not .

I have one well on the way now , I might need to put some words on it so that it can relate to the picture though

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1439508864' post='2843533'] That's a good example of things I have no interest in. I'm not the boss and would not want to be. We have a band leader she's the boss and calls all the shots. You identified the functions of a bass player, not things related to how to be in a band. Blue [/quote] So, you want a job then , you want to be told what to do and this job in music ticks your boxes , that's fine. Lots do it as a hobby , and it brings a whole different set of needs , money not necessarily being one of them , and this brings a different outlook to a greater or lesser degree. Compromise is always there though .

I have found myself an 'in' to the picture , as I guess the tiger is in fact an Asian tiger of one type or another , I intend to use my Spector Legend for this challenge , this bass was made in Korea which is in Asia , so linkage established. Its just what sort of tune to play with it is the next problem , but I see a lolloping kind of groove as tigers mostly lollop , when they are not running on the sea that is , though it could be fishing for jellyfish , and they kind of flop around a bit , so its definately a lollopy floppolly groove I need

[quote name='largo' timestamp='1439220482' post='2840976'] Do you mean something like this? [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_foot_8_dmx.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/stairville_led_foot_8_dmx.htm[/url] [/quote] The reviews for that seem very poor

Is it actually available yet , I am not sure that they have it on sale anywhere , even the you tube clips don't actually show it working , they say that it does loads , normally when they bother with a you tube they do a demonstration !

If you are actually trying to get a feel for an instrument or listen intently to a new one , then I find that it saps the talent straight away , I am probably expecting too much from my simple head . Similarly with the bands sound check , they all want to try fancy pieces to show off , but as I am out front listening , I want to play E , so , roadhouse Blues it is , without any chord changes !! I would often fluff the first song aswell as I would be trying to listen to the mix , but I am past that now , I just fluff it up cos I'm crap

For me , a 'go to ' flood , and a 'go to' blackout , is what I use most , everything after that is done on a whim , some songs played on sound to light , some on fades and chases , I would like the ability to go from a fade chase to a strobed type chase then come straight back to the previous fade , for a solo or a specific effect . I may well be asking for too much as I can quite close already

Wow , that seems a bit complex !! I would say 4 press buttons Flood , Blackout Program up , Program down Then the light chases, sound to light , or timed , can be selected from the program list when needed , To be honest the Ryger does a lot of that and a bit more , BUT, once you have changed to the next sequence , you have to go through 9 more to get back to the first one as it only changes sequence upwards . It sounds like a great idea though, good luck with it

I really don't know all the spec numbers , but I guess the more complicated you intend the process the better laptop needs to be , I started on a knackered old laptop that jumped around s bit , but it got me started , SWMBO bought the last PC and it gas a lot of numbers , but I don't know what they all mean !!

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1438987773' post='2839312'] i will if i can find some free samples and loops somewhere [/quote] That's what I am looking for , especially for 'tigers called Jesus running on water' ones

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1439030110' post='2839478'] My cans have an adjustment knob. I'm really surprised there are no decent programmable foot controllers out there. I keep toying with the idea of building one. [/quote] It amazed me too , the Ryger does a great job though, but lacks the programmability , though it does have lots of options to create a show on the fly , so I like it , my previous method was a remote control linking lights as slaves and running the master on a fade program , flooding and blackout on a hand held remote. Again, it worked ok but lacks the controllability , but the sound to light was far to sensitive even using the adjustments allowable , unless we are just too loud !!