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  1. Hey mate, i was there, riiiiiight down the front lol.

    It indeed was an awesome night, yeah his bass and vocals were quite low for the first tune, but the guitar was even lower right until maybe the 2nd from last song.

    But Richard was definitely on top form, and his band were fantastic to, i have a lot of time for his percussionist!! Well all of them! Great trumpet player.

    Well, gotta wait another year i suspect until he comes back :huh:

    Si

    p.s.
    Would love to see the pics and vids Mike, my phone ran outa battery, so couldn't get any myself :)

  2. Umm, how about in the middle of the ramp? or is the logo textured/embossed, because that might feel weird on the fingers if you're playing over it.

    I like the idea of it being in the tuner recess, but it might look a bit squashed/busy

    Si

  3. Right so who's tonight?? (18th). I might be going on my own (various people lamed out)
    So gimme a shout!
    Probably going into London about 11am ish and having a mooch around the various bass shops/denmark street

    I'll be at the gig in a black, over-sized beanie and a 'Pimp That Snack' t-shirt! :-D

    Si

    p.s.
    Obviously I'll be wearing trousers as well, but they're fairly nondescript :)

  4. Doesn't sound to boomy to me, although sounds like you've panned the guitar hard right, and the bass hard left, try putting them closer to the middle to get a rounder mix!?
    Umm, and also the guitar sounds out of tune!?

    Cool man, keep it coming!

    Si

  5. [quote name='endorka' post='32894' date='Jul 17 2007, 10:08 AM']You'll be fine, the hardest thing is remembering where you were the day before.

    Jennifer[/quote]

    +1 Like you wouldn't believe!!!
    Toured for a month this past May, played nearly everynight, 26 gigs or something. My fingers were fine, no problems at all but ask me where i'd played the night before and i wouldn't have had a clue! lol
    I don't get problems with my fretting fingers, sometimes i have slight issues with my right hand fingers but thats not because of the roundwounds, its because a couple of the polepieces on my Jazz bass are a bit sharp, lucky my touring basses were fitted with Barts! :)

    Si

  6. Anything smaller bodied, like the Corvette Josh took off of me. Sounded and played brilliantly, but just kinda felt like a toy in size, especially when sat down. Considering my other basses are a Stingray and 2 Jazz's, i definitely lean towards the slightly larger bodied instruments.
    Having said that, Ricken'knackers' have never visually or sonically 'fit' with me, i don't understand them lol

    Si

    p.s.
    Rodders: Try a few, my USA Standard jazz is lovely sounding and feeling, but i to have played some real dogs. Quite often its down to the shop letting them deteriorate, especially if they have air-con, mashes up the necks :)

  7. Alright all, as you will know if you follow my gig list........

    ....FSOF are playing at the Hay Music Festival tonight
    Gates are at 6:00pm, first band at 7:00pm with us playing at 8:30pm, 3 bands in total.

    Tickets are £5 for an evening pass.

    [url="http://www.onestopentertainment.co.uk/haymusicfestival.html"]http://www.onestopentertainment.co.uk/haymusicfestival.html[/url]

    Cool, maybe see you there

    Si

  8. If you're on the covers circuit, a lot of the chain pubs and larger places will only book through agents, and its strictly covers. Obviously for pubs booking entertainment themselves its a different ballgame, so ask them directly.

    With regards to original music, most venues will either have inhouse promotions, or will have a number of promoters in the area that put events on there. So take the Barfly in Camden for example, as far as i know, it (or any barflys) doesn't have inhouse promotions, they deal with external promoters. One example who put nights on at the Camden Barfly is 'KBY Rocks', affiliated with Rocksound magazine. I've played a loada gigs with them, and they're great. Note that this is Original Music only!!

    Just look up promotion companies on Myspace!!!

    Si

    p.s.
    oh and usually, i would suggest that all promoters of live entertainment will want to hear a recording of you, unless perhaps if you get recommended by someone else, but even then it wouldn't surprise me if they asked for a recording

  9. I have the Headrush E2, great fun
    What i would say about using it in a band context is make sure that the Drummer can hear the loop loud and clear so he can stay in time with it. The Akai has a tiny tiny time glitch when it reloops round, which basically means if you were to play along with a drum machine (which has perfect time), it would go out of time pretty quickly. It isn't like the newer midi loopers that can quantise the loops.

    I just use mine for solo playing, which works fine because you're just looping with yourself, nothing to go out of time with.

    Si

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