hiram.k.hackenbacker

Ah, but if you don’t like Stadium Arcadium, you don’t like Red Hot Chili Peppers!

It's worth remembering for anyone who gives RHCP a hard time regarding Stadium Arcadium (whether its deserved or not - I'm remaining neutral) that the following album, I'm With You, was almost the same format. The 17 additional songs they recorded in those sessions were released separately from the album, but could well have been included. RHCP at their best, ripping the funk out of a high bpm tune, just doesn't get any better, but they can't all be like that. Rough with the smooth I say and more material is better than none. I've listened to Black Summer a few times today and it's definitely growing on me.

Apple Music shows it as 17 songs, so just one more than By The Way. Stadium has 28. I guess it depends how long the songs are, but on paper it looks in between the two, Arcadium light if you will 🤷‍♂️. We can but hope.

Live, which is where it really counts IMHO, the biggest area of concern is what comes out of the mouth of the lead singer.

Ironically, April 1st is actually the release date for the album, but that’s not what I meant 😎

Ha ha. Is it April 1st already?

I said goodbye to my Alembic today 🙁. Even as I was handing it over to the very nice UPS man, I had that knot or regret in my stomach. I know it's going to a very good home, but that doesn't make it any easier. Another regret is a Rickenbacker 4001 I had back in the 80's. It had issues that I wasn't knowledgable enough at the time to rectify. I miss the Stingrays I've sold recently, but I'm playing slimmer necked instruments now that my old hands are thanking me for. So all of the above would have been nice to keep, but not much point doing so if they're not being played.

There last place I played with a decibel meter was only recently on 22/1. It was on the back wall just to to the left of the drummer. I think the receiver was incorporated into the main box as most of them seem to be nowadays. The drummer hit his snare whilst we were setting up and it went fully into the red with a single strike. When we started playing it went as high as it could go and stayed there until we stopped. Clearly not switched on thankfully.

It won't be a hand held device at the venue. The main panel will be fixed to the wall, usually with the receiver hanging off something near the middle of the room. Calibrated? You would assume so, but by whom, whether accurate and if in date is anyone's guess. This is also going to be the sort of venue that will require PAT stickers up your wazoo @scalpy. Easily solved if you know who to ask.

I guarantee there will be more knobs in the audience than there will be playing instruments. Are they going to vet all the guests as well? There is someone somewhere in the chain of decision making that needs a good kick up the derrière. The client needs to find out who that is and talk some sense into them.

Sound advice mate, but I think it will over complicate things. The issue is that someone has made the decision, that as the OP’s band is not on the ‘recommended list’ (whatever that is), that the band is required to do a sound check on a day prior to the day they have been booked for. The response should be no, that is not happening and if they are standing by that stipulation, then the band will not be playing the wedding. I’ve never heard such an utterly ridiculous request and I wouldn’t be surprised if this has been suggested by a wedding planner type person rather than being a requirement of the venue itself. The venue, it seems, allows live bands to perform there. Whether the OP’s band is on the list or not should make no difference whatsoever, unless they only have acoustic duo’s and the like in which case they should never have been booked. This kind of nonsense boils my blood.

Nicely done. Really enjoyed that Si 👏👏👏👏

The unprofessional part of all of this is expecting a band to turn up on a separate day to soundcheck against a sound meter because you aren't on the 'approved list' - whatever that is. In all my decades of playing in function bands, I never heard such utter tosh. As previously stated, your contract is with the bride. Tell her the sound check cannot happen and she then either has to sort it out or lose you. Her problem, not yours.

Yeah, you! 😂

I'm still in, despite the temptation of the OP offering me one of his 😂. I have no itches that require scratching, but it doesn't stop me looking, which doesn't bode well.

Well done 👏👏👏👏

Tomorrow headlines: ”Basschat thread descends into Anarchy”

That can’t be right can it? You’ve bought something, but then sell it?!? I can almost understand it if you sent it back from whence it came, but selling it on?

Ah, it’s all coming together now. In that case, I take back what I said a while ago. I don’t think I had met you before 😂.

I’m struggling to get anywhere with this without speaking to the venue itself, which I may well have to do somehow although the phone number listed for the venue doesn’t seem to work - shows ‘call failed’. Does anyone on here happen to be in this band, know of them or how to contact them? My band, also Total 80’s are getting notifications for this and it’s causing a lot of confusion. It wouldn’t normally be an issue, but my Total 80’s get gigs through an agent and we perform nationally, not just locally. Please PM me if you have any contacts for them. Thank you.

I do 😎