Jacqueslemac

Me too, please.

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1450731144' post='2935382'] [url="http://www.thomann.de/"]Thomann[/url]. [/quote] Thanks for that. Just ordered a pile of bits!

Mixed feelings for me. It was my last gig with the covers band I've been playing with since January. In the Spring I'm off to France to try to make some money letting out my holiday home there and the band have found a replacement for me already! No idea whether I'll be able to find anyone to play with in France and I'm afraid I'm going to get very rusty.

He's been quoted as saying the singer is someone no-one will have heard of, but that they will hear more about him after the gig.

I've recently started to do some backing vocals. However, when I listen to the playback (I record all our rehearsals), I realise that what comes out is not what I'm hearing in my head. I'm currently working on the howl at the beginning of Mama Weer All Crazee Now. That's about my limit!

I used to play in a band where the lead guitarist was a massive fan. He had several guitars that were the same as Dave Grohl's (including a 1967 Gibson Trini Lopez). As a result I have all the Foos albums in my iTunes. Surely "good" is in the ear of the beholder, but I reckon each album has one or two tracks I wouldn't mind playing (and a load of others I wouldn't listen to more than a couple of times). We ended up with several of their songs in our repertoire, but only ever played a maximum of two at each gig.

I'm in a covers band, so don't spend that much time listening to the music we play, other than when listening to the tracks I record when we're working on them. I haven't listened to radio for more than a few minutes this century (in a hire car perhaps until I remember that no matter how many different stations I tune into, it's rare they'll be playing anything I enjoy). On the other hand, my iTunes has over 36,000 tracks and I spent a lot of my time listening to those (I work from home, so either I'm at my desk listening or I'm travelling for work, so I'm listening to my iPod through the car stereo). If I'm away from home I often listen (as in properly listen) to music in bed before I drift off to sleep. I also read a couple of music magazines and usually follow up on bands that I think might be interesting. I've found far more interesting new music that way that I ever did from the radio.

Warm your hands on a mug of BBC tea!

Well done! They must have confidence in you if they don't even see the point in sending you charts by email the night before. Relax (if possible) and enjoy it.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1442404941' post='2866671'] Now have any of you been to Johnson's of Leeds military surplus shop? That place is crazy. It used to have a white UN tank or something parked outside. For sale. And it's located round the back of the empty car park of a grim industrial estate, the kind of place you'd take someone to shoot them and dump the body. I see the website has various missile parts for sale, which is nice. [/quote] Off topic, but there's a place like that on the outskirts of Nottingham too. Did you know that you can drive a tank on the road with a normal car licence? Back on topic, I haven't been in there for a while (little or no GAS at the moment), but the Cash Converters in Norwich used to be the local Warwick dealer. They used to have half-a-dozen in stock. They also used to have complete lines of some of the cheaper brands in stock as well as the secondhand stuff. I reckon the majority of the stock was new. It was a completely separate shop to the main Cash Converters I should add.

As Slim from The Hamsters used to say "Why shouldn't I play Hendrix? Some people are still playing music written 200 years ago".

Arguments about the relative merits of different styles of music are ultimately pointless. It's all down to personal opinion. When they were growing up, I played all sorts of music to my two daughters (I missed out - my parents didn't listen to music much. I didn't find out that you could get music on the radio until I first went to school by bus when I was 11!). If they learned nothing except that there is no such thing as "bad" music, just music that this person or that person doesn't like, then it worked.

...and it arrived today (from Andertons). That was pretty quick service!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1439299668' post='2841651']I'm guessing that most cover bands don't actually play 'live' music, they play carefully rehearsed copies of something someone else has created. Although the music is being reconstructed by humans so there is the potential for anything to happen, even the rehearsed copy may not be what you're expecting, even if it's what the musicians are intending (although it's not always what they're expecting either )[/quote] Most cover bands do play live music. It may not be original, but it is live, as opposed to recorded and then played back.

Maybe it's the difference between a recital and a performance? Watching music played live is a more interactive experience than listening to a recording of it (even if it's a recording of a live performance). A local venue to me advertises live music every Friday - and often it's karaoke.

I'm going to cancel my spellchecker order!

Bass hat strikes again! Having read this thread I've just ordered one.

I played my first gig as a dep last night. Mind you, it was easier than most dep gigs because it was for a band I left about 18 months ago. We only had time for three rehearsals between when they asked me three weeks ago and the gig. I had to remind myself how to play about 30 songs, plus learn the half-dozen they've added to their set since then (one of those I'd never heard and they walked me through it on Tuesday). It turned out to be a whole lot of fun. Some of the songs I hated (part of the reason I left the band), turned out to be a lot more fun to play than to listen to (Pretty Fly (for a White Guy), Fight For Your Right and others from that era). And isn't Hate To Say I Told You So a great song to play? The venue was an empty sports hall so sound was terrible. The punters (post volleyball tournament crowd) seemed to love it, which made the whole thing a very good experience. Still think I made the right decision leaving the band, though, which is nice.

My two main basses are my Jazz (Deluxe, so slightly smaller body than a standard USA one) and and my Corvette $$ and I swap between them all the time. I've never noticed any neck dive on the Corvette and the body is very unobtrusive. The neck is one of the relatively thin ones, but still more beefy than the Jazz, whose neck is really, really silky smooth. I find the Jazz easier to play, but the Corvette has way more tone options and stands out from the herd a bit. The only way to find out which is for you is to try both. On the other hand, I've been switching between my two for a couple of years now and I still can't make up my mind which I would keep if I had to pick just one!

The longer you leave it the more difficult it will be. I hated most of the first 20 years of my office-based life and wish I'd followed a few dreams. It's not quite the same, but I jacked in a (different) job I hated at 43 to live in France for 18 months. Working in PR I thought there'd be no way I'd get another job in the same "industry" when I got home. I arrived home on a Wednesday, had an interview on the Thursday and started the following Monday. Now I'm hoping for redundancy so I can hightail it off to France again!

There are a couple of threads about this. I had no end of niggling problems with my first couple of amps, but the one I've ended up with now has been fine.