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We costed our website out at just under £100. Sure, there are cheaper ways but that was pretty admin free, as much as these thinsg could be. For the type of work we did, we thought we could justify it but I am thinking I could go without. I retain all the right contacts I have so it is onoly for new business and I am under decided about that. The new band is not geared up for the higher paid new gigs as yet... so FB will do for the time being. Where we found it was useful was dealing with very professional events organisers, when of course it was obligatory almost......but for pubs and referral bookings, I doubt anyone looked at it to justify £500 over 5 years..??? So, 50-50 about it.

The only track I know is Portrait, but I would approach these with an interpretation rather than a copy. So if you had a blues tracks I would swing it with all sorts of chords changes underneath... standard enough changes or substitutions but depends how much of a reference they will have.. I assume they will have to research the pieces to know how you played it..?? and I would think they will have been hit loads of times by 'Portrait'.. If you must do a Jaco track.. How about 'Chicken' as it is such a good nod to his style, lends itself to blues and jazz influences ..?? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgntkGc5iBo"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgntkGc5iBo[/url] It is a lesson in itself..

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1419783208' post='2642666'] TH500 works really well with the S112's. That's our standard demo rig in the shop [/quote] Indeed.... I think it would be hard to get a bad sound and if you did, it wouldn't be those bits of kit at fault.. IMO

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1419702547' post='2642060'] True, but you can get that consistency if you practice. [/quote] I don't think you do... Classic example would be Starlight-Muse... VERY exposed bassline that really needs to be right on it... you haven't got a track otherwise. I am not sure double strokes on a pick would do it so well ...but the tempo is slow enough that you could do singles, and so that could also apply with a single finger. The distortion on the track might disguise the lack of consistant attack on some of the strokes and a good pick player could do it with up and down strokes probably... but finger players can be notoriously weak in that regard... let alone 3 fingers. I make a point of being very clean and consistant with 2 fingers ( no distortion ) and a track like Starlight when it is just bass and drums would get a lot of scrutiny. It would be the first thing I'd notice...

I think popular tracks are quite regional as there are plenty of tracks mentioned in these various threads that would not work at all in places round here.... not to the point where the band would be popular in pubs. And likewise, the staple stuff around here would likely bomb elsewhere. The whole picking a set that will work, the band can play and make the band a good draw is quite an 'art' For example, the classic rock 80's bands have too dated a set to do well in the best music ( most work ) town around and there appear to be demarkation lines about where bands can work. Odd, I agree, but pertinent, IMO.

Depends what work you do and get depends if a website is cost effective. I think I might not bother with a new band project website so FB will have to be the main tool. We use it it for events and general info and I only have a FB presense for musical/bands reasons. I guess I'm going to have to get into the like game again...but you only really want likes from people who are interested in the band and will come and see you.

Depends how many mixes your desk has... and since most bands desk are pretty basic, then I am not sure what use you expect IEM to be.

To get a new band up and running and pick up pretty much at the point my old band left off... so, indeed onward and upward. I think I can do this as I have good gigs waiting/lined up

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1419266559' post='2638160'] I can't envisage playing a song where I need to pluck the strings any faster than I do with 2 fingers. I'm noticing that these days I'm playing more numbers with 1 finger. [/quote] Quite..and the reason for one finger is the consistancy of the stroke/pluck, IMO so 8ths are solid and really work soundwise. Introducing a 3rd compounds the inconsistancy IMO and is only really useful for a few things so you wonder why so much effort to practice something of limted use for mainstream basslines. A bit like people practising slap 50% of the time when it features in so little in so few songs...??

No, we set a price that we would work for...and it appears it is too high.

Crikey..talk about leaving it late..??

The bass would have to stand up as an instrument first and foremost but my next bass is going to be RW block and bound so there aren't many places I can start. I have the 5st thing covered with 2 excellent, IMO basses so I am looking at the aesthetics as well so that rules out anything without those and the DJ5 is tooooo passive sounding. Whether a pre amp was rescue it, I am not sure but I wouldn't pay more than £700 or so for one anyway. I pretty much know what I am going to have to get from what I have found and played so far.

People tend to know they aren't bog standard Fenders but I'd like to think they like my playing or the sound..or both/neither..or they like the band and can't get near the drummer who is the real star

American Deluxe would be my starting point..

Funnily enough, I often get asked about my basses..

FB events for every gig.. surely everyone does that..?? But once you have people at gigs, you should try and get out and talk to them and that can eventually do well for you. Bands had followings before FB so it is not the be-all and end-all, but it is a useful tool along with others....??

Pretty tough to pick more than few numbers from this centuary, IMO. Rollin in the deep ..and then I'm struggling ...

Since there are only 3 of us at the moment, I might get outvoted and if that happens to a point where I can't see the band as viable, then we are finished before we are started... I guess I am questioning the 'chemistry and theme' already and I didn't expect to have to do that. I'll be looking hard at the drum names in the pot but sure, no panic, early days

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1419594745' post='2641098'] After the first rehearsal you can point out which songs are strong and which are weak. The weak ones will need a lot of (too much) work and even then they probably won't be strong enough. So they'll not be making the cut. [b]People who insist on playing their favourite songs are a liability[/b]. You have to play the best songs for the band. You play your favourite CD's when you get home. [/quote] Generally I agree, but the guy is very good and I think he thinks he can carry it. I thought I was getting a SRV type and wanted that as the core theme to how we'd do a song... so you can see why I'm struggling to get to grips with this 'pick' and anymore like it...which I fear there will be I think I'll drop in a full-on lay-it-down funk drummer into the mix to water the other side down

If the bass has a front plate then straight but since mine are at the bottom of a jazz body then right angle.

It is no use having a gtr who hides...or anyone else in the band for that matter, so them playing too quietly is a 'pointer' in my book. I'd probably keep looking... there is a difference between being too loud and being oblivious to that, and not being 'there'..

You haven't got much of a chance with some of those names...

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1419586081' post='2640995'] ............................ For sure. I always try and keep an open mind until at least the first rehearsal, if only for the democratic process to take it's course. [/quote] Yes, need to give it that as the proposer is so keen on it so I hope he has a very good version. I think early first set as a 'singer' type...but as good as it might be for that, as a 'dancer' it will kill things stone dead. I guess I am getting closer to the 80's than I wanted... altho give me 'Women in chains' and I'm there.

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1419514536' post='2640548'] I'll say it again for those who didn't watch this link.... This band is fantastic... 4:00 mins in and really is awsome.... If you didn't click and watch first time, honestly, take a few mins to watch this..... Very credible. [url="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddJRBQFRoY"]http://m.youtube.com...h?v=5ddJRBQFRoY[/url] [/quote] Liked the big chorus...again

Plays local round here..can be found doing jazz type gigs in pubs so that is usually a treat