Les

Cheers Paul, am I right in thinking these things need a stereo feed otherwise you just get sound in one ear ? Know what you mean about the supplied earbuds they're naff

I need to pick your brains.

Pretty much my take on the situation.

They're great.🙂

Quite. I suppose busy depends on you're own interpretation

If you're a busy band I don't see anything wrong with wanting someone exclusively to be honest.

Plectrum is naff, plec is fine and the same vocal effort as pick but better.

This too

This

They're still wrong.

Quite

There, I've said it. Les

With Facebook fees are becoming increasingly transparent. I see places looking for bands offering a fee I wouldn't consider and then bands that I know or know of posting that they'd be up for it and I think to myself "Really ???" Not sure I'm at one with this transparency on public forums/media to be honest.

Cool as the other side of the pillow In a side projects first outing tonight I played Superstition, Turning Japanese, Laid, Sit Down and Swords of a thousand men for the first time with an audience.

Awesome, well done that man.

This

That's actually a thing ??? wow 😮

Those of you putting up with all this shiit I salute you. You're a better man than I

https://soundcloud.com/user-599147927/ring-of-fire-1

We do a version of it. It certainly is one of those songs. Ours isn't correct but sounds good.

Love them or loathe them, the public gets what the public wants/deserves (delete as applicable)

and very good you were Damo

My only experience of jam nights is being the house bass player for a year, finished about a year ago. I'd never been even been to one before. Have to say I don't really agree with some of the things I've read. We had a couple of nights were basically we played for pretty much the whole night as there wasn't anyone other players there but all in all I considered it a failure if the house band we're playing at all other than backing someone. We were being paid and as far as I was concerned it wasn't about us. It was about other people getting chance to play, using us as they saw fit or doing it themselves. Quality was never an issue, it's a jam night and even if you were rubbish but you wanted a go that was totally the point. Had a couple of busy occasions were I was apologising to people walking out at the end with a guitar case that hadn't been opened cos; it was too busy and that felt like a fail too. There was nothing cliquey about our jam night and upyourownarseness was certainly frowned on.

Thanks, that's cleared that up. So basically no house band at an open mic ?

What's the difference between an open mic night and a jam night ?