How to get the sacking wrong

[chris_b]

Hey Jack, sounding good.

[Happy Jack]

Why thank'ee, thank'ee kindly Zur ...

[jezzaboy]

I have liked your page but as I am at the other end of the country from you guys, if I come down to see you I expect to be given bed, board and drinky poo`s for myself and any other reprobate that I can strong arm into coming along.

Or maybe not..

[Kevsy71]

I was accidentally sacked from my job as a rockabiily drummer once. All I said was  "I'm not standing for this anymore..."

 

 

 

[dave moffat]

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

So I realise how tedious it is when someone starts asking everyone to 'Like' their page, but we're trying to do a rapid re-build of what was deleted. @Silvia Bluejay was up half the night working on it, and we now have all the gigs and enough videos to get us close to where we want to be.

Can we now enlist the help of The Basschat Massive and ask everyone to 'Like' the page.

If you actually DO like us then so much the better, but frankly right now we'll take anything we can get. 

Duly liked.

Not usually my kinda thing but it brought a smile even before my second coffee on a Sunday morning

[ambient]

56 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

I have to say I do find it a real grind going out playing in bands, putting smiles on peoples faces and getting paid to do so.

I think I’ll hand my resignation to all my bands immediately.

I play solo. I played in Paris two weeks ago, I’m in Stockholm in three weeks time. Last year I played in Holland, Paris twice the year before. Many in the UK too, including one with one of my biggest influences Steve Lawson. I got so fed up with band politics, I’m also not particularly people orientated either.  Solo is much more artistically rewarding too.

I do the occasional collaborative thing, gigs and recording, I’d never join a band again though.

Edited November 24, 2019 by ambient

[Happy Jack]

Solo, duo, 3-piece, soul band with brass section and fully-landscaped Gospel group singing harmonies ... it's all music, it's all gigging, it should all be fun.

Let's all kiss and make up, OK yah?

 

[Silvia Bluejay]

Many thanks to all of you who've liked the page. It now works better - FB makes everything harder when the page is new and has less than 10 likes, and always assumes you're a spammer and up to no good, no matter what you're trying to do. Hopefully it'll get easier in the next few days. Much obliged to you all.

[Maude]

Like'd 👍

[ambient]

27 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

In your humble opinion 🙄

Of course in my opinion, also though through my experience, which can’t be disputed because it’s happened. Making the decision to concentrate on playing solo, composing my own music, and having artistic freedom over everything I do has paid off. I could have continued as I was, playing for whoever would pay me, for example I played on a cruise ship one summer and absolutely hated it. I’m now much happier, and satisfied.

[Happy Jack]

And ain't that the key? This is supposed to be fun. If you're not enjoying it, chances are that you're not doing what's best for you.

[Maude]

What works for one might not work for another. Yes it's clichéd but it's our differences that make us what we are. Not better or worse, just different. 

[Silvia Bluejay]

And what's best for one person isn't what's best for another.

Edit: cross-posted with Maude!

Edited November 24, 2019 by Silvia Bluejay

[mcnach]

45 minutes ago, ambient said:

I play solo. I played in Paris two weeks ago, I’m in Stockholm in three weeks time. Last year I played in Holland, Paris twice the year before. Many in the UK too, including one with one of my biggest influences Steve Lawson. I got so fed up with band politics, I’m also not particularly people orientated either.  Solo is much more artistically rewarding too.

I do the occasional collaborative thing, gigs and recording, I’d never join a band again though.

 

while I generally enjoy playing in the bands I play in... I am envious of you from time to time!

 

[mcnach]

3 hours ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

You should get very little stuff appearing on your timeline if you like the page now, as I've re-uploaded most of the it before trying to re-build our following. But you can like the page and then set it so it gives you no notifications, so you don't get annoying little numbers at the top of your FB account every time we post something.

 

liked.

I hope you recover your fb following quickly and move on to happier times

[Bassfinger]

Everything posted on Facebook is either fake news or plain tosh.

[Happy Jack]

Yup. That's what Jimi Hendrix said, alright.

[chris_b]

I love playing bass. I can like or dislike the songs, the gig or the band but if me and the drummer are playing well together, I'm in a negative free zone.

[Silvia Bluejay]

The name is Damo And The Dynamites, as per the other page, it's the Facebook URL that's added the 'band' bit. It's this one.

Many thanks!

[milford59]

This thread is incomplete without the full, unexpurgated details of the “less than friendly” parting of the ways with the drummer. 

‘What exactly happened ?

[Happy Jack]

I imagine that he has friends on Basschat, and it's not like he's out of the band because we hate him ... we had hoped for an amicable parting and to remain friends afterwards.

Who knows, maybe there'll be a reconciliation some time.

[PatrickJ]

Page liked, love the Skeleton's graphic!

[Richard R]

Page liked , and the music too 👍😀

[skankdelvar]

Page liked in all senses of the word 

[Silvia Bluejay]

Many thanks guys! 🙏