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Can anyone recommend a lighting company who can light a decent stage and also the floor for a function in the Oxford area. Budget is decent and we want more than a few disco lights so Towers and Gantry is the type of thing we are looking for.

Some of those bands allowed a new writer to emerge from within, Gilmore, Collins..altho not sure of his content, tbh. Little Feat never recovered from Lowell G IMO, In the case of Fleetwood and McVie, compared to the input of Lindsey B and Stevie Nicks, they could have been anyone. Not really knocking their ability to reinvent ...as they needed a career, but you could say they lucked out BIG time.

I always give GAK a ring... Always been very good in my dealings with them so it is good that threads like this give good shops a mention.

Well, it will sound bigger, for sure... but the GS112 is a bassey cab, IME, so 2 of them, with your EQ settings is going to be in dub territory

Sky Arts are doing some good early band documentary's... I am currently enjoying one on Fleetwood Mac but on what planet is the Lindsey B/Stevie Nicks band the same one as the Peter Green named one. It is not as though Fleetwood and McVie were the main writers.. so never the same band.

Didn't realise they had so many hits...and a much overlooked band. They sounded like a real handful live and I liked it when Roger Taylor said he thought Queen were as good when they supported them. Very very much doubt it...

Anyone tried these against other active cabs in the same class? We normally run QSC KW122 cabs which are very good, have a renowned warranty and actually do what they say they do on the tin.... We need a backup option and the EV's are a wooden boxed competitor if some reviews are to be believed, at almost half the price... Others in the mix are JBL 612, and Yam DSR112, but they are £800-ish ea..which is getting the KW price. I favour wooden boxes over composite, so any opinions welcome or reasons why I should look further than the above Many thanks.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1394298173' post='2390048'] Why buy an amp which has inferior sound? That's one trend I won't be following. [/quote] yep...... just don't understand why you would do that.. and would extend that to basses and cabs as well...

Chris makes a good point in that this is such a simple thing to fix/get sorted. It is one thing that a band may not be very good...and there isn't much you can do about that, but for a little bit of effort like looking a bit organised on stage, that is one less thing to kill you over. We write a set to fit the gig... and if we want to achieve function set type prices at a beer festival, the first thing we want to head off, is the booker saying, 'I know what you work for in pubs, so why should I pay you that '£xxx x3' figure. I'll tell them that they wont get that show,,, it will be much better etc etc .... We will bring down co-ordinated lights, BV's, maybe a horn section if the budget is very good... and it will make the show... Anyway..these are all advanced selling points. Another thing we come across.... 3 piece band come into a pub... play a blues set all night with endless gtr solos. There is no extra effort and they walk out with £65 plus each. They have no lights, the P.A is an afterthought for Vox,,, the music is what it is... but it wont keep punters until you are VERY VERY good at it... Having said that.... it is all low cost, as it will do well enough for the LL, but there wont be too many ppl... just enough to make the pub rebook them as they ALL get away with it.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1394271395' post='2389693'] What wasn't explained very well was that there were two studios, Fame (the original) and Muscle Shoals (which the musicians founded). So the story of two studios in one place. Tailed off mightily and went too sl;ow in the beginning (who gives a deck about what Bono thinks?) but a good watch nevertheless. [/quote] I thought that was explained.... Hall went off to do a deal with Capitol and when he was about to announce it to his house band, The Swampers, they dropped the bombshell at that same meeting that they were off to work for Jerry Wexler...as he has promised to build them a studio... so Hall was left high and dry with no 'hit making' band. That is why he went out and got the new guys he did...?? That is how I understood it.. I don't know who ended up producing the greater body of work but I got the impression that the new regime wasn't the death knell Hall ( or Wezler ) thought it was going to be at the time....far from it..!!!

[i]Or even play for free.....but then some bands don't help themselves as even if the festival has a budget[/i] [i]they bring their pub set out to a bigger stage.... [/i] [i]and that doesn't work trying to get better money...[/i]

I thought this thread would be about festivals BC-ers are playing..? TBH... Glastonbury and the like look so much better to me on the T.V. Plenty on Beer Festivals round here and they range from the free line-ups to quite decent budgeted ones with worthwhile camping and the like. I'd be more interested in those...

I think people don't make the best of choices in the first place for their needs, don't do enough homework or just figure that they will take a punt and sell it on easily enough if it doesn't work. Emperors new clothes and a club/clique may also factor... The good thing is that there is a decent market here

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Go out and buy Chic's greatest hits, and learn the lines inside out...concentrating on 'everybody dance'.... That is a great track to vary how you approach these lines... You can double thumb it or just 1st and second finger which is more the handful... Anyway, after nailing that.... galloping octaves are so much easier... This is where a clenched tense approach to playing kills you...but that would be a MAJOR MAJOR technique shift.

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1393945670' post='2386103'] As Conan says, I doubt you'll notice much, if any, difference by replacing the bridge. Having said that, I'd go for something aesthetically pleasing with a quick string release. [/quote] Yes... agree. The bass either has enough sustain and resonance and sings or it doesn't, but I would also be getting something more than the stock Fender type plate as I always thought they were cheap and nasty...

I've had gigs say we can join their bill if we can 'win' a likes competition..ie, we get to play if we get the most likes. I forget what other angle there was as I refused to get into a time-consuming war with student bands who will win this situation every day of the week and 58 times on a sunday.. it doesn't garauntee they can play and it doesn't mean they will bring peope who will buy drinks.. I actually think bands with a moderate number of likes are bands that have hard won them. I am pretty sure I could pay for 'likes' anyway...so it is hardly a worthwhile commodity or creditable currency. I was talking to a beer festival about the bill they are putting on and they said they were thinking about making one of the nights..( a typically quieter night ) a youngsters night. I questioned whether that night would have those people buying beer but since they have to pay a ticket price for the evening maybe they are less concerned. To me..a beer festival is all about deposable income..not student bands who haven't got a pot to pee in..?? But there you go...........

The one thing that bugs me about FB is the 'likes' I will get requests to like a band I have no idea about..or just don't like anyway. The best you can do is end up trading likes... but that really devalues the whole thing anyway. In the old days...you worked cheap and often to get a following and it took a lot of time... Now, you approach a venue and they want to know if you have a following..understandably in these times, and people get loads of friends to come along and then they perform that favour less and less. so attendances may even go down for certains bands. In someways, it is better, to have a reasonable FB activity and build a proper following on the basis that people have seen you and actually like the band. FB is a banner page for us.... but I am not sure how much it actually gets people to our gigs.... I think most people would use our website to find out where we are playing. FB is a decent tool for that...... but only in those people want to come anyway. To have eleventy-eight million likes ( as Lozz says) and struggle to get people to gigs really defeats the object...

[quote name='Noisyjon' timestamp='1393582690' post='2382144'] Any good closeup pics we could see please JTUK? [/quote] I don't have any to hand.... but that reminds me that I should get these things sorted. Martin Sims did actually say that good tort was very hard to come by these days and I was lucky with the batch he had. As a blank plate, it looked a brown burgundy colour which I really wasn't sure of... much like some of the pics of blanks that Spitfire posts but when I saw it on the bass in context, it was great. If you know of the general level a supplier works at, their advice may well be more informed that 'yours' as was the case when I got mine made. As an aside, he also looked at the general finish of a bass that they work on and finish, and he did say...'that didn't come out of my shop'... it looked fine to me..and I am pretty picky, but in this case, I am obviously not looking at the right thing... You will see the blanks before you get them cut, wont you?

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1393781829' post='2384312'] Not sure that is the same Karen Lawrence? The one I have in mind fronts(or fronted) Blue by Nature, sort of country-style blues band. Thinking about it, she is unlikely to be in a kitchen anywhere in England, and is probably 10 years too young, but certainly got the pipes to qualify. Without wishing to hijack the thread, here is Ms Lawrence swaying her hips rather interestingly and generally giving it some welly. [media]http://youtu.be/sqx-1ME6rxo[/media] [/quote] KIck arse singer .....................and band, come to that. Good one.

[quote name='LeftyJ' timestamp='1393831740' post='2384678'] You want to mod the hell out of this thing, and you worry about the effect of some wear on the resale value? You'd better decide whether this is a definite keeper or not before you ask anyone to even [i]point[/i] at it with a router [/quote] Got to go with this sentiment... But if you want a refin, you need to be talking to people who know and about these things and work at around the same standard. The only ones I know are..or the 1st place I would go to are Sims...if you are after retaining value, Not sure butchering the pickup would achieve that, tho...

Temps and stability are key......IMO Not sure how beloved this bass can be to leave it in a cold lock-up but at least you know that the temp fluctuations aren't doing the set-up any good.

Cool, make it the gig you want.

Did she ask to change the key of that track..... and would it be a problem for the band to do so..?