Mykesbass

This. Looks like the only option. @Nick715there are a couple of specialist online traders for Japanese basses. I follow one on Facebook - will find a link and post it on here. There's also Ishibashi, a Japanese shop who have a massive secondhand inventory, and are very experienced exporters.

Drummers use sticks, brushes, hotrods, but pick???

Seems to be the way with most pub/club musos I've met. They either don't get it, or don't want to get it. It's ALWAYS the rock versions of Too Hard to Handle and Ain't No Love 😟

Better tell the OP then.

Had this with a band, a stripped down, semi acoustic gig every month. Do try and have a lot of material, but surprisingly, many punters like familiarity and would ask us for songs we hadn't played that particular month.

Lovely bit of old school Jazz on Cerys Matthews' show this morning - Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Duke's Place, with an interesting clarinet solo courtesy of Barney Bigard.

A lot of truth in this - finding a decent human being who will listen trump's perfect time keeping in my book.

There are a few sites where you can pick which instruments you want and mute your own. Can't remember if this was the site I used once, but certainly something like this. https://www.karaoke-version.co.uk/custombackingtrack/

Nick Fyffe - the 'other' Jamiroquai bass player who was great in Temperance Movement - two very different sounding bands.

This is where chatting on a forum becomes so much more difficult than having a chat in real life, so please don't think I' m being argumentative for the sake of it. I still think you need to re-think this. Making a recording can still be primarily for getting gigs, but it will be getting you gigs as it increases your credibility as an originals band, and not because you can play a half decent version of Sex on Fire/Brown Eyed Girl/Crossroads. Getting the gigs will also be through raised awareness from myriad internet radio shows (plenty of genre specific ones out there) and social media. Also, think of the recording process as part of the fun. My last band did rhythm track live to guide vocal, the vocals and guitars added on top. This got us good traction in the rock/blues genre, ended up doing a tour, some nice supports, and played the Skegness Rock & Blues festival.

If you are all originals then change the mindset a little. A demo for gigs is cover band territory. An original ep is for airplay, selling at gigs, and digital distribution (as well as getting gigs). So make it the best you can.

Perhaps because he's too busy playing to post on here? 😎

Nu Metal, New Labour, what is it with the nostalgia for all this 90s dross?

If you read through the thread you'll find I did 😏

Check the IP address, looks like Inti is back 🤨

There is, in my opinion, a sublime to the ridiculous couple of covers of one song, Hallelujah. Sublime; Jeff Buckley. Ridiculous; Alexandra Burke. I do have to admire Simon Cowell's chutzpah in creating such a dreadful version of a song that contains the line 'but you don't really care for music, do you?'

That's probably down to your avatar picture

Really? Sounds like it has been saturated in effects/autotune.

Bass player committing the cardinal sin of playing the guitar line.

That's great. Top detective work, much appreciated!

Can anyone recommend a good (audio quality and track selection) Toots CD - I need that version of Louie Louie in my collection!

Big fan of the Playing for Change organisation. They make some great music.

Sorry, been neglecting this thread (busy working), but just heard this absolute corker by Toots & the Maytals. What a vocal performance, some great brass, and a very interesting guitar solo!

I thought of the Acinonyx as soon as I saw this. Very nice.

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