Rich

23 hours ago, Jakester said:

 

There’s some pretty good gigs WSM, Portishead and Somerset way too - PM me for details if you want. 

I might have to tap you for that list too .. I'm trying to get more gigs over this way for the ska band.

Warm Wet Circles - Marillion 

Mask, goggles, gloves... why is it that so many of these materials are just desperate to kill us?  

1 hour ago, Big J said:

Well, slight change in plan! 
I have just had surgery at short notice, so any chances of leaving the house for a week or two are slim😂

Ive been browsing the sales and I’m still bouncing around :

1: buy a cheap 5 er (Harley Benton or similar) and see how I fair with 5 strings before I drop and decent cash on one. just £100 to try it so I can do that without much issue.

2: buy a “modern” iby/yam/lesser known type 4 string with more tonal options to compliment my traditional p &J bases.Seems some decent stuff at the bass centre under £1k (MTD used?)

3: buy a short scale just for the hell of it, night be easier to noodle on as I sit in front of the tv… 

4: still keep looking for a fender 50s roadworn MIM P …that I once had then sold for £450 because I’m a fool. But that’s an ongoing search. 
 

thanks for all the replies guys, genuinely helped me realise that I’m buying more than one bass😂

jas

Option 1 is definitely a good idea. The Harley Barley basses are excellent (albeit on the heavy side) and would be a great way of finding out if fivers are for you, for a piddly little cash outlay. In fact, you could do options 1 and 3...

We recorded a whole load of songs in one day, the idea was to capture our live feel as much as possible. A couple of solos were re-done afterwards but by and large it was all first/second/third takes. Mixing and tweaking took a while, perhaps understandably. We recorded in the teeth of a huge storm, and at one point all the power went off... when it became apparent that it was staying off, we got a big generator from a mate of a mate and in true Apollo 13 style only switched on the stuff we really needed, and carried on regardless.

The hum of the generator is very faintly audible on one of the vocal tracks, but we kept it in as a memento of the day.

Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle

11 hours ago, cheddatom said:

It wasn't the drummer! 

Well who was it then, and why on earth did he need all the room above the drum kit? Was it a Morrissey tribute, and he needed the space clear for swinging the gladioli around?

A couple of wonderful songs from Fish. This lovely piece from his first solo album, with an orchestral arrangement so beautiful it brings a tear to my eye:

And then there's this, later piece. Deals with the gradual loss of a loved one to dementia. Mascara warning:

The first time I really noticed the bass was at a concert at the Albert Hall when I was 7 or 8 or so. I distinctly remember pointing at the bassist and telling my mum that I could feel what 'that man with the guitar' was playing, making my tummy flutter. If memory serves correctly, it was a sunburst Fender of some sort. 
From that moment on, my ears instantly homed in on the bass whenever I listened to music. When ska hit in 1979, I wanted to be Horace Panter -- he was the Specials for me. And when a bunch of us in the 6th form decided to form a band, there was only really one choice for me. First influences were Horace, Dave Steele of The Beat, then Tony Butler of Big Country. And then one night, I saw Mark King on the telly and he quite literally changed my life. 

Typical... So often the way, nobody's interested until you finally say "ah sod ya then", and it's only when you're walking away that they bother asking for your input. If I had a tenner etc. 

On 24/11/2023 at 19:48, TheGreek said:

 

I will always love you - Whitney Houston

On 24/11/2023 at 21:24, peteb said:

 

A pretty safe choice there. Whether you like the genre or not, or even if you don't like the song, one of the greatest vocal performances ever recorded...! 

 

Not for me, it's not. ANDAAAAAAYEEEEAAAA WILLALLWAAYS LUVYOOOOOO, oh spare me please. The way the acrobatic OOOOOOs drift in and out of tune is like fingernails down a blackboard. Give me Dolly's original any day.

Big Seven - Judge Dread

Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull 

On 19/11/2023 at 16:25, Rayman said:

1965 Fender Jazz for me

 

Ditto. CAR with matching headstock please.

Cigarettes and Alcohol - Oasisn't

On 22/11/2023 at 15:19, Supernaut said:

All we need now is fellow OG, Toasted, and the thread is complete. 

I wouldn't hold your breath, it's been over 4 years since he even stuck his head round the door. 

18 hours ago, chris_b said:

Does the audience like what you are playing? In a cover band that is the only objective. 

...

In our Top 40 covers band any song would be dumped, no matter how much we liked it, if it didn't get an enthusiastic response from the audience. If the audience liked it then my opinion didn't matter. I focussed on the mechanics of the song, playing it to the best of my ability and making it work. Hearing an audience shouting and clapping at the end of a song I didn't like made everything better again.

This, entirely. We've binned songs that we'd worked hard on and quite liked, because they were floor-emptiers. Conversely, Mustang Sally is absurdly popular with the punters but we had to stop playing it was because we'd been doing it for 20 years and it was affecting our mental health 😄😄

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

Last night was the first time I've rehearsed since I had the crisis meeting with my Pastor, regarding me almost quitting the Worship Team.

 

We had to rehearse last night as the keyboard player and the drummer couldn't do Friday, the drummer unfortunately is a repeat offender, late for EVERY rehearsal and late for EVERY service, he's been pulled up numerous times and so I was keen to see what he did last night.  Rehearsal is 8-10pm and at 8:50pm the drummer still hadn't turned up, I messaged him and he replied that he had forgotten, he eventually arrived at 9:15pm, which left us only 45 minutes to run through all the songs with drums.  The worst part is that this Sunday is a baptism service, clearly the drummer doesn't give a flying f**k about this and thinks his time is more important than everyone else's.

 

He did try to apologise afterwards but I wasn't in the mood for his excuses, I did ask him if he ever gets bored of saying "sorry I'm late" every time he walks into a room and I made it clear that I wasn't happy.  I wouldn't mind if he had been asked to anything special, all he had to do was turn up on the night that he asked for and, play drums.

 

Nothing ever changes and words are weak, I genuinely think it's time for action....watch this space.

 

Bin him. Enough is enough. It's a baptism, a tremendously important day in those parents' lives, and he couldn't give a sh!t. Get rid, and tell him exactly why.

I Concentrate on You - Cole Porter

Weave Your Spell - Level 42 

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Its a spectacularly awful ad; I can't see it without cringing.

Xmas ads are all, without exception, awful and cringeworthy.

Hannibal approves.

Yup, thanks for the reassurance chaps. 👍

Here's a thought. Obviously the new pickups are active, and so is the eq. So... will it all work off a single 9v PP3? The installation instructions suggest that 2x9v is preferable in such circumstances, but it doesn't say it's mandatory. Problem being that if I want to go 18v, I will need to do some routing first -- thus making it all a substantially bigger job.

6 hours ago, police squad said:

I hate support bands, I'm not there to see them

You've never played support for anyone then?