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Zak says: "I was fired two weeks after reinstatement and asked to make a statement saying I had quit the who to pursue my other musical endevours this would be a lie. I love the who and would never had quit. So I didn’t make the statement ….quitting the who would also have let down the countless amazing people who stood up for me (thank you all a million times over and more) thru the weeks of mayhem of me going ‘in an out an in an out an in an out like a bleedin squeezebox x To clarify ‘other projects’ yes I do have other projects and always have. The Who have been sporadic or minimalist in touring most years apart from a two extensive tours in 2000 and 2006/7 To be precise while I was in the who 1996-1999 I had other projects with Johnny Marr, Lightning Seeds and Mike Scott. 2000-2003 Johnny Marr and The Healers opening for oasis in Europe releasing album and 6 month world tour 2004-2008 Oasis 2 studio albums and 120live shows. 2006-2017 Pengu!Ns , Sshh touring internationally. Releasing 3 singles, Kasabian bbc proms 2007 Weller Coxon Starkey Mani. 2015 Hollywood Vampires Roxy LA shows and rock in Rio 2017-2020 Trojan Jamaica record label releasing three albums and winning Grammy for best reggae album 2020 2020 Peter Green Tribute Concert . As u see there has always been time for other projects … 2022-2025/now mantra of the cosmos with Shaun Ryder Bez Andy Bell and NG. Releasing singles but not touring cos members are so busy. None of this has ever interfered with The Who and was never a problem for them . The lie is or would have been that I quit the who- i didn’t. I love the who and everyone in it."

If i were in your situation, I would just be asking the maker nicely if they could offer help to get the right 5 string pickup to put into your bass. It's satisfied the original buyer, so they did their job. It'snot the maker's fault that you are unhappy with the bass (though it may indeed be an error on their part that makes it sound wrong to you).

12 is the limit for me. The neck tension would be incredible on a bass with 3 courses of strings.

I'd normally say option 2 (the full soundcheck) is the way forward. However, with my lot, we found that we just set our levels like we do normally and just tweak vocal levels slightly to get it right. This normally works fine until Charlie Rock Star decides to turn his guitar up to 12. ... then he would come out with 'I can't hear myself sing.' I wonder why.

My band's CD is about to break even on pressing costs. It's not been a worthwhile exercise for me in that the stress involved in getting it finally recorded and ready to go, due to the disinterest of (and problems with) one member, made it an absolute chore and I ended up recording all of the guitars as well as bass on 5 of the songs that are on it in my home studio or it wouldn't have ever been finished. The band hasn't been able to play most of the songs on it because one person was totally disinterested in the project and we've only had three songs appear in our live set since it was released. It's put me right off it as a result. And I should be fiercely proud of it.

I'm being careful not to get us into a 'he said, she said' situation.

Our recent gigs were afflicted by some really strange playing and singing errors. There were discussions after the Sunday night gig and I sent a message about the situation on Monday morning, to which our guitarist replied, telling us he'd left the band. We are currently in the process of seeking a replacement.

GUITARIST REQUIRED FOR WORKING BAND. It is with deep regret that we have to announce that our guitarist has left The Three after 9 years. As a result, we're not in a position to play all of our gigs, so we are reluctantly obliged to cancel some bookings in May and June. We will look at bookings further into the band diary as we go along and will keep you informed. Our Sunday jam nights will NOT be affected. So... The Three seek a reliable, enthusiastic and dynamic all-round rhythm-lead-capable guitarist with some decent vocals, who's got the availability to play with us on the dates on the front page of www.the3.co.uk - including regular Sunday jam nights. Our age range is what we'd politely call 'mature' (meaning we are at the older end of the scale). As far as band bookings go, 2026 will be run at a slightly more relaxed pace than this year. Our set list and video is on the www.the3.co.uk website, and the set includes some original songs from our CD album. We are open to some changes to the set list and look forward to hearing from some good players. Message me.

Ugly and old Wreckless Eric

This sea refuses no river (Pete Townshend)

The whole band..

Which one's the muppet?

Out for a gig last week....

It's hard to show that much love for something that you don't love, so I wouldn't expect it.

@Muzz please check your PM's. Ta.

The similarity to Geddy Lee is only that the bass is prominent in the mix and very melodic, while sometimes 'busy'. Fortunately. Bruce was very influential on my own playing and inspired me to use Rickenbacker basses.

So.... Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have fired Zak Starkey from The Who after this recent performance. I find it absolutely staggering that some of my favourite musicians could go out and play like that, being so badly under-rehearsed and then turn round and blame the drummer for it all. To be honest, Roger Daltrey's voice stopped being great years ago and Pete Townshend did very well to stand through that show, following his recent knee surgery. He soldiered bravely on through the pain, but his best years as a guitarist have also long gone. It's an old joke to say turn round and blame the drummer when a song goes wrong. If I were them, I would have taken the band back into a rehearsal room for a week or two and have looked honestly at what, if anything, is lacking. 'Go To The Mirror Boy' - to quote Pete Townshend. It really pains me to say that The Who are nothing like they used to be at all. A man's got to know his limitations. Lesser mortals like myself have set sensible end dates. Quit while you're ahead, I always say.

Oh, I think I know the one...

We've run one for about 11 years now (9.5 years with our band line-up). Anything but cliquey, as we will NOT allow that, but you do tend to get the same people turning up playing the same things badly. We have never ever told anyone what to play. People have asked to play with us and we give them a set list to choose from in that case, but it's their night, not ours, which is why it's been going for so long. But we do get some new blood doing different things, we match people up to play together, or back them and people get decent length spots. I will be doing it up to the end of the year and it will no doubt carry on without me.

It's utter cack. A venue we play at tried to get us to use it and I did all the stuff to get registered and submit ID and tax docs. It never ever worked properly and the venue ended up paying us cash on the night. The venue manager has moved on and we are now being told to use it again. There's a little help from the venue, but setting me up with a new login ID that doesn't work is not much help. It's not the venue's fault, but I can see our three remaining gigs there going up in smoke and 90% of their bands pulling gigs. EDIT: They are going to take invoices from us and input them so we get paid. That totally defeats the use of the C247 system. God knows what all the other bands are going to end up doing. This is as far as most will get: https://www.c247.eu/index.aspx

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