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    How was your gig last night?

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    17 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

    I know they meant well and that it was a very generous offer, but to cause someone to feel unwell at their own event by forcing them to put up with something that they have told they do not want to be used while they are onstage is not on.
     

     

    That is mad. I mean, who would even do that? 

     

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    How was your gig last night?

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    Our Train To Skaville gig on Saturday night at Trowbridge Conservative Club was excellent. Great crowd, danced to everything (even the soundcheck) and loved us to bits. Very very hot, I mean blistering -- my shirt and facetowel were both wringing wet by the end, if we play there again I'm taking a fan -- and thanks to the low ceiling and concrete floor, mahoosively loud too. At one point I took an earplug out, winced and put it straight back in. 

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    Level 42 currently on tour... who's gone/going?

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    Oh the lustre was back last night, in absolute spades. It was the best I've seen them in years.

     

    For anyone who's interested, the set was:

    Spoiler

    Almost There

    To Be With You Again

    Running In The Family

    Micro Kid

    The Sun Goes Down

    Children Say

    Heathrow 

    Love Meeting Love

    Kansas City Milkman

    World Machine

    Love Games

    Starchild

    Something About You

    Lessons In Love

    encores:

    Heaven In My Hands

    The Chinese Way

    Hot Water

    I'm off to make a playlist of it :D 

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    Level 42 currently on tour... who's gone/going?

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    I tried to get a photo of Mark's pedalboard at the end, but was hustled away from the front of the stage by a sweaty wheezing Forum employee whose sole job was to hassle people into leaving, so came away empty handed. So I'm still none the wiser. The only things I could make out were a Boss tuner, an old Eventide unit of some sort and a Moogerfooger, but I don't know which one.

    Anyone else just ready to give up?

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    Posted · Edited by Rich

    On 22/10/2023 at 20:41, Bluewine said:

    you know I'm an advocate for good people over good musicians. 

     

    I'm with you 100% there. I would far rather play with average musos who were lovely people, than with virtuosos who were utter gits. Luckily I get the best of both worlds... both bands are git-free zones, my 20 bandmates are all wonderful friends and I love em to bits, and they're all super musicians and performers too. I'm very lucky, but if I was to lose these two bands I'm not sure if I'd carry on. 

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    Scott Devines new record

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    19 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

    Agree 100%. I gave it another go but it's very reminiscent of stuff put out in the 70s, 80s and 90s going back to Return to Forever and Mahnavishnu to Tribal Tech and for chase scenes in Starsky & Hutch . But like shred, there's only the tiniest, most niche market for this stuff.  You really would have to play this for love as I'm sure there' s next to no money in it.

    It'd go down a storm on the continent, they still love their fusion over there. Mike Stern's latest European tour for example, he had 9 dates in France with 8 in Spain and 5 in Germany coming up. One in the UK. :( 

    Bass Direct

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    11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

    I hate when i ask to try a bass and the sales guy takes it down plugs into his preferred amp and continues to play the bass and attempt to show off all the while i am standing there knowing my wife will be wondering where i am. One time i waited till the sales guy had stopped showing off and said "yep it sounds wonderful but my wife is waiting on me and i now need to go". Never got a chance to play that bass at all. I did laugh but he was playing poor slap bass for approx 10 mins while i was standing there. I'm 63 yrs old been playing bass for 45 yrs and know my way around a bass. I don't need some young show off trying to impress everyone in the shop.

    I did that once in a shop many moons ago (back when I still went into music shops occasionally)... asked to try something, the sales guy plugged it in and went wickety-wackity-wock (badly) for several minutes and then handed it to me. I played 5 notes, just the open strings, then said "nah, don't like it" and handed it back. Even if I'd adored it, I wouldn't have bought it off him.

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    Scott Devines new record

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    Posted · Edited by Rich

    I adore fusion - there, I said it - and I like what I've heard of this so far, enough that I'll probably stump up the cash for the whole thing. I agree with @Bevan7, fusion seems to be an easy target for scorn - indeed I recall one former member of this parish making more than one 'joke' about what he believed were the illegal sexual preferences of fusion fans. Laugh? I nearly did. 

    Anyway. Whilst I'm quite happy with the guitar as the lead instrument, I agree that it would be interesting to hear another on there. Much of Mike Stern's work involves a sax taking a co-lead role and it works very well. 

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