Dave Vader

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1453293589' post='2958119']
I don't know how old you are, and this is only my opinion, but originals bands are probably a waste of time if you're over 30, unless you want to do music that hardly anybody else is interested in and you only want to do a handful of unpaid gigs a year
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I'm 38, and I have been enjoying only doing a handful of unpaid gigs to a largely disinterested audience for the last year or so.

Am going to go back to covers bands this year as well though, as I am skint,

I was offered a gig with a Kate Bush tribute band who had a bit of a revolving door of bass players a couple of years ago, I turned it down as I was in two originals bands at the time, and didn't want to be out constantly. I figured the bass gig would come round again, and the offer would come up again.

It didn't, I wish I had taken it, one of those originals bands was a proper shambles and only rehearsed twice. I would have had the time.

Their current bassist seems very happy, and unlikely to leave (and is on this thread, being smug about it)

I regret everything, tribute bands are fun, and pay money, and get you big venues with full crowds.

told you there'd be more knowledgeable peeps than me along.

who's nicked my guitars then?
I are very proud of my work

Precision, Ampeg, Flats, Loud, play up by the neck and clank it. Also massively drop tuned to match Iommi's guitar.
I'm sure more knowledgeable folks will come in now, but that's most of it I think.

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]wife: Why have they put the drummer behind all that glass [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]me: what? [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]wife: Why have they put the drummer behind all that glass [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]me: what? [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]wife: Why have they put the drummer behind all that glass [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]me: what? [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]wife: Why have they put the drummer behind all that glass [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]me: what? [/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#292F33]wife: never mind, I think I might have worked it out [/color][/font][/size]



real conversation from the Vader household last weekend while watching Glasto

All things to fix it are more expensive than just getting a different bridge, using 20 quid adapters on a 12 quid bridge seems a bit nuts, so I'm buying one that fits. Thanks chaps, and anyone needing a cheap roller bridge and tailpiece assembly I will probably have one for sale soon.

[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]Damn it, I was already to spend a happy evening rebuilding my Epi SG, I've got my Oil City Mighty 90s, I've got a duesenberg Les Trem, and I carefully bought a roller bridge so I could have happy tuning. [/size][/font][/color][color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]
The bridge even came with the inserts in case the studs didn't fit my existing ones, so I expected no problems.[/size][/font][/color]
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However, the inserts are the teeny-tiny ones, and I cannot be arsed to go and cut wooden plugs, fill the holes and redrill, so I'm hunting for bushing adapters that will screw into the Epi inserts, and let me put the tiny holed bridge on top of it.[/size][/font][/color]
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Although so far I'm thinking I might just buy an entire roller bridge instead, with the right size holes to start with.[/size][/font][/color]
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Any tried and tested cheap as chips fixes will be gratefully received.[/size][/font][/color]

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Bugger [/size][/font][/color]

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1435587864' post='2810300']
Very entertaining.

To be honest Glastonbury is too big now to be all about new music. A massive festival costs masses of money which means people want to see big names for their money, the big names want the big money and the price rises accordingly.

As musicians I'm sure we're all playing our own low cost local festivals with our own home grown local heroes headlining in front of their mates, girlfriends (and proud mums and dads)


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Yep, or as we used to call em when I were a lad, village fetes

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1435518280' post='2809648'] This will be the Kanye West born in 1977 who is 39years old? Raised in a middle class household in Chicago. . [/quote]

Having been born in 1977 also, and having just had my 38th birthday, I refute your maths

And my right as a middle-aged white man to be pedantic on the internet.

I for one, didn't enjoy Kanye's performance, however, lots of people who were there didn't leave, so I think they probably did.

I wrote this about moaning about festival lineups for festivals you are not attending the other day though, seems pertinent to stick it here...

http://davedoesntwriteanythingever.blogspot.com/2015/06/things-on-internet-that-will-never.html

You're determined to make me jealous of everything you have today aren't you Paul?

Nice score, enjoy, I need a bigger house....

That is excellent Paul, i am suitably jealous.

I am impressed that you are hoovering your patio as you go along, Mrs Vader would love me to do the same when I am breaking guitars in the garden.


Awesome job by the way

Learn to watch the guitar player/keyboardist's fingers and translate it very very quickly in your head.

Then you don't need to learn anything

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1431375970' post='2770743'] I've only been in a band with one singer that I would describe as a musician. singers are the worst offenders but there are plenty of guitarists and drummers who do the same [/quote]

Also bassists and keyboardists, violinists, trumpeters, saxophonists, hurdy-gurdyists etc. etc.

loads of bassists I've played with actually, really loads

[quote name='jrixn1' timestamp='1430507425' post='2762217']
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBDF04fQKtQ[/media]
To me, the whole song never leaves the key of E. But if others hear it differently, then fair enough.
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To be fair, I try not to listen to it if I can help it, I was humming the chorus in isolation and forgetting the rest of it. It looks like you are probably right, in my head the long run down at the end resolves to an A, but I suspect that is just in my head and the record is different.

But all of those resolve on what you are calling the 4, pretty sure it is in E, and is 4-1-5

I think, at least that's how i've always seen them, and heard them (except Last Name, which i have never heard of)

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1430093998' post='2757960']
you're playing like a mentally-ill yeti wearing mittens
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I have lost my mittens I'll have you kniow

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1430156603' post='2758492']
Moondance, I loathe the thing to the point I've never made the effort to play a bass line that even remotely resembles the original.
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That's you and everybody else I've ever heard cover it then


Except Bilbo, he nails it.

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' timestamp='1430146259' post='2758368']
Later on, after we've played and the second band have taken the stage, he approaches me again. "Had to turn the gain back down for them. I think you should get your pickups checked out." I smile and thank him for his suggestion.

S.P.
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It really is all in the fingers, I once had a chap do one song on my acoustic guitar at a gig i was doing, it was deafeningly loud when I was playing it (I am enthusiastic with my plectrum) and you could barely hear it when he played it, unless I cranked the gain on the PA almost up to full (I had it at about 9 o'clock for me).
You have a light touch SP, unlike most punk bassists, I'd wager.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1430168607' post='2758662']
I wouldn't know, auditioning for metal bands just means you'd better be able to blag your way through the set, and that your metallica t shirt is one from an album that came out before 1990... And doesn't stink so badly that they can smell you coming before they see you
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But Justice came out in 1988, and i will judge you for it...


btw, I look a bit odd anyway, so have to just rock that look. Never failed me yet.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429482985' post='2751909']
What about a completely dead bass player?
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Once did a gig after the frontman/guitarist got hospitalised by one of the bouncers at the venue.
We found another chap in the audience who knew some songs and made it up as we went along.

Is still the most enjoyable gig I've ever done.

It was on Friday playing guitar with Dagobah, my mate Sez reviewed it for us,
http://www.seztucker.co.uk/?p=452

Yay

Don't spend a year saying no to all your usual bookings, they find new deps, and stop asking.



I have enjoyed my year off mind...

And +1 to playing in a function band, I got loads of extra work from a 2 month stint in one I didn't want to stay in any longer. The bandleader recommends me to everyone she knows as well, it's very handy.

Current rehearsal space in Exeter is secret, invitation only. Lots of steps, but decent room, bring your own gear, or ask the guys who leave their's there anyway really nicely. Price reasonable which has made it beat the usual exeter suspects into submission.
Once he's finished building it it might all change, but at the moment it's good.