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    Dep for Stax/Motown band

    in Bassists Wanted

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    [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1499773795' post='3333482']
    I wouldn`t be able to do it but would be interested in seeing the band, love that stuff, do you do anything Herts/Beds/Bucks/Essex way at all?
    [/quote]

    We're mainly in Kent and South East London, but if you know of any venues in your manor let me know.
    Here's a couple of clips :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1WL_f834DY&feature=youtu.be

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijba_0_muLg&feature=youtu.be

    Shift work and playing in bands.

    in General Discussion

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    I've worked shifts for almost 20 years and it's been hard juggling shifts to fit in gigs. Only had to get a dep for a few gigs in all that time. Over the years I have used up a lot of my leave allowance to do it but I hate missing a gig.
    Last year I left the band I had been with for 13 years because the band raised the level of gigs. They were all happy to travel hundreds of miles on a Friday/Saturday night and they are getting more and more gigs in Europe. Only two of us in the band had day jobs and I was the only one working shifts. I got to the stage of taking two days leave to do one gig. The guys were really good about things and said that although they would use deps, I was the bass player so it would always be my call about which gigs I did or didn't play. I decide to leave as I couldn't give it the commitment it needed and I'm now the first call dep if the new guy can't do a gig and I also join them on Sax for the occasional gig.
    I joined a new band which does not want to be gigging more than a couple of times a month so I no longer have the stress of having to turn gigs down.

    Bands you adore that no one else has ever heard of...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Buzzy

    Back in the early 80s I was a huge fan of One the Juggler.
    I've never met anyone who's heard of them even though they used to fill up the Marquee back in the day and supported Elvis Costello at the RAH. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgUOfhjVP4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=2tgUOfhjVP4[/url]



    In a strange twist of fate in the early 2000s I found myself in a tribute band with their bass player who had switched to guitar.
    Eventually I played Sax with them when their album was reissued a couple of years ago.

    Wix

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I've been given the job of building my bands website. No experience in this sort of thing at all but have been advised to use Wix. So I've set up an account and started getting pictures, biogs etc that I want to put on the website.
    Any info or advice about getting this up and running as painlessly as possible would be much appreciated.
    One of the people in the band has already got a web address registered for the band, am I able to link this into the Wix website ?
    cheers
    Buzzy :unsure:

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