Nice Guy Rich

You have to frame it 😁

I'm a worship leader at a Baptist Church and I love METAL !! 🤘🏼

Counter their scribble with Psalm 33:1-3....

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
    it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
Praise the Lord with the harp;
    make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Sing to him a new song;
    play skillfully, and shout for joy.

@SimonK I am definitely guilty of letting off steam in this thread because as church musicians, we all know that playing in church can be equally rewarding and frustrating.

Yesterday I led the sung worship, I was on bass and lead vocals, we played I SPEAK JESUS and whilst we have played it countless times before, for some reason it really resonated in the hearts of the congregation.  There was a huge and very vocal outpouring of love for Christ and it made the hairs on my arms stand up, it was a honor to be a part of it and it made me love what I do even more.  I'm still buzzing this morning.

Yes, I moan about playing in church but, I love it too 😁

@Woodinblack So true, I always wanted a Thunderbird so I bought one, the neck dive was a huge pain and I couldn’t get on with it so, I sold it on.

Its not a failure if we learn something along the way.

I've used the Levy's Leathers Poly Black Extra Long 3" straps in the past and, I found them to be great.

I just read this and added the Basschat app to my home screen 😃

I cannot get enough of this album at the moment, especially this song

@LukeFRC  I actually play more 6 string than bass nowadays, the "no need for a bass player" rule is just foolishness, dreamt up by non-musicians when they don't think to ask the musicians, what it is that they actually need or want.

I just posted a request for a drummer in the `Musicians Wanted' section of this mighty site.  If I can get a rock/metal covers band together, that'll keep me busy and then I can jack in the church band.  I don't need stress in my life, I just want to play and have a laugh.

Guitarist/singer and bassist/singer are looking for a drummer to get together just to casually play Rock and Metal covers for the fun of it and, to shake of the rust.  No plans to gig, just rehearsing every now and then and having a laugh doing it.

We’re both in our 50’s (young minded) and we’ve always played in Rock and Metal covers bands.

Message me if you fancy dusting off your sticks and rocking out before we can’t any longer 🤘🏻.

We’re based in South Woodford  E18 and we know a great rehearsal studio in Loughton.

@oldslapper Only because I know that the twisted logic that I’ll get as a reason will annoy me further and then, I’ll start think of quitting again 

@LukeFRC  The most amount of musicians we would ever have on stage at one time is 4; guitar, bass, keys and drums.  We normally only have 3.

I do not know why this decision was made and to be honest, I'm scared to ask.

I doubt that logic was involved in the decision making process.

I’ve just found out that my church elders have decided that we don’t need a bass player every week, it makes no sense to me…..I’m dealing with non-musicians making musical decisions 🤦🏻‍♂️

I used to rehearse at Soundlab in Loughton, Essex, I played through an Orange Terror bass head into an Ampeg 8x10, simply the best sound I have ever got.

@Rich  I bet she plays like a dream, I used to have a Status Energy 4 (wood body and wood neck), it was a lovely bass to play but the knobs were faulty so I got shot of it.....I wish I'd kept it.

@Rich That bass is simply delicious

I've been revisiting an old favourite...Gigilo by BLACK OAK ARKANSAS.

Who can resist Big Jim Dandy.

@TrevorR  Everything's good and back on track.  

On 14/01/2024 at 14:41, Risk101 said:

So this was today’s set up, as I still have the pins in my left hand where I severely damaged my thumb. 

 

@Risk101  How is your hand healing?  Back in 2010, I managed to put my left hand through a window and I completely severed both tendons, I went right through the Median Nerve and I had to learn how to use my hand again.  14 years on I still only have 20% feeling in my thumb and the first two fingers on a good day and, I have limited mobility of my thumb but, I can still play and nobody can tell when watching me.  Praying for healing for you.

Some of you might remember that I threw my toys out the pram recently and stood back as a Worship Leader in my church, I'm now back as a Worship Leader as I missed doing it and I think both sides learnt from the situation.  God is great !

I need to get a better gig bag for my EUB, I swear that the one I got from Gear4Music is one step up from a plastic bag.

I could never buy a red bass.

I don't like active pickups.

I don't like 5 string basses.

When I decide to play my EUB in church, it’ll be going through the Peavey TKO 115 that we use for standard basses, are there any specific adjustments I need to make to the settings of the combo to accommodate/compliment the EUB?

Any ideas and advice would be greatly appreciated.

@LeftyP We are due to have a worship team social night on Saturday, it'll be a room full of people only there to grab at free food and drink, pretending to be friends when in truth, they don't care a sh*t about each other.  People who respect each other, support each other and think of each other, they don't continually turn up late, they don't miss rehearsals completely and they do listen to the songs before we turn up to play them.

i also had an issue with different people knowing different versions of one song recently however, I personally sent each and every one of them, a YouTube link with the exact version that I was planning to play that week and do you know what? ...not one of them bothered to watch the link.  I play with a bunch of self-centred time wasters.

@Richard R On Friday I told them that I was going to temporarily stand down, on Saturday afternoon they were asking me when I was coming back LOL

They are only asking to try to make me change my mind, I can see through their fake, veiled words.

There's a lot more to the story, I was recently accused of being unapproachable by two other members of the Worship Team, one that I lent a bass to use for the past 3 months and another that I had lent a keyboard to as they didn't have one to practice on, if that's me being unapproachable then I'd rather be unapproachable than a two-faced backstabbing ungrateful c*nt. 

From now on;

• God first, Rich second, everyone else can whistle.
• Rich is looking after Rich.
• Rich is doing what's best for Rich.
• Rich does what Rich wants. 

That should save my sanity.

@bass_dinger After banging my head against a brick wall and getting nowhere for ages, why is it that as soon as I stepped down, people started messaging me asking what my ideas were to help improve the Worship Team?  My reply was to simply reminded them that it wasn't my problem any more as I'm no longer a Worship Leader.

To quote the Vicomte de Valmont....

I had a meeting with my Church Elders on Thursday and I felt that I was being demonised and, the overwhelming message being sent to me was to not rock the boat, to not try to change anything as it is what it is and that nobody’s going to change.

I thought things through on Friday and in the evening I decided to step down from the role of Worship Leader.

I’ll still be in the worship team, but only playing bass, playing guitar and providing backing vocals.

No longer do I have to worry about other people turning up late, not turning up at all, not learning the songs, not reading people’s messages and not replying to messages because it’s not my problem.  I’ll just be a hired hand and care as much as everyone else does.