stingrayPete1977

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1480262604' post='3182876'] Just a polite grammar correction. Your= It belongs to you You're = You are [/quote] Thanks, small screen and auto correct honest chief, I'm not a regular offender

[quote name='ChunkyMunky' timestamp='1480206563' post='3182569'] Thanks for your help, guys. I'm picking her up in the morning! [/quote] Like

It's ok if your Jimi Hendrix because well your Jimi Hendrix and that's the sound you need, if your playing a couple of Hendrix numbers amongst dozens of artists then you are going to need a couple of distinct sounds imo. In a previous band our front man had a strat for most of the set but he also needed a Gibson for some of the songs, he had a guitar tuned really weird for some killers tracks I think they were and one that was totally detuned a semi tone, the other guitarist just used a strat and a les paul. The guitarist in our trio has a Variax

I'm gonna mention Lee Pomeroy.

I think circa 1990 was a good era, best of most bits imo.

Trans Teal and maple is as they say "for the win!"

There's probably a technique thing at play too, those that grab onto the neck like their life depends on it are going to have more problems sliding up and down the neck than those who grasp gently with their thumb 'resting' against the neck aren't they? I've noticed it more with neck dive prone basses with glossy necks where you spend all your time holding the thing up!

1200 grit wet and dry up and down the playing area, gloss gone. Bit of cutting compound at a later date and it's glossy again if you want to sell it on.

I have nothing to add here

Got to be an upright!

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1479996100' post='3180868'] Nah, not even a moan, certainly not annoyed. [/quote] This thread isn't over yet, that's why I said threads like these, referring to the topic, the last barefaced one someone waded in laying into everything bad he thought the thread must have already contained after two pages, but it hadn't at the time! Of course a page later it had done

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1479911171' post='3180223'] Will this turn into yet another thread critical of Adam Clayton's bass playing ? They always amuse me, baring in mind they're currently celebrating their 40th anniversary. How many records have they sold ? How many sell out tours, playing the worlds biggest venues. How many of us can claim the same ? He does what he needs to for the song. [/quote] [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1479981704' post='3180719'] Can you show me where there there is a post of someone annoyed in this thread, cos I sure can't see any. [/quote] Erm is this not a moan?

If it's as prolific and detrimental as people say I wonder how thousands of hit records have been recorded using one? Maybe they use a P bass to fill in all the notes played on the G string in the studio after

I love how these threads go, same as barefaced ones, we get a page of people annoyed at the naysayers before any naysayers join in

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1479913135' post='3180243'] whenever I've used eBay to sell I've always made it very clear that if they are paying by PayPal then I will not post or meet to hand over the item until I have cleared money in my bank account, which is not the same as having the payment confirmed by PayPal. This then typically results in the buyer travelling to meet me and hand over the cash because they want to get their hands on the instrument ASAP. [/quote] [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1479931560' post='3180430'] Yep, it now costs the sender a 1% fee to send to a "friend". But if you withdraw the money from PayPal and they subsequently do a chargeback, won't the money just be taken from your bank account or card registered with PayPal? [/quote] Yep, my brother got paid via paypal, £300, he withdrew the money but some time later it turns out the person used a stolen card or account somehow, paypal have now had to give the victim their money back (and quite rightly obviously) and they now want the money off my brother, great!

Good luck I've got something similar myself on Saturday, lots of little rooms all on different levels, what will be will be.

I quite fancy just depping and or reading charts for every gig for any songs I don't know or can't blag my way through, let other people sort everything else out, turn up with a stingray and some wireless in ears ten minutes before cutain up

I meant free time to practice before you even get to gig stage, many bands here don't get beyond the practice room, I've been in some of them! I'd rather slip into an existing band or be involved at the start but with a group of known players/singers rather than hunting them out.

It's a great picture, it's only as I'm getting older I wish I had more pictures from things like early gigs. Looking good blue

Being in a trio is useful sometimes, we can take the low paying but good crowd gigs, one place pays £150, there's normally about 20-30 people in the bar area and the same again watching the band, it's all open plan so you are playing to around 50 people but they like their live bands, it's a happy medium. That said I wouldn't be able to get my other four piece wedding/function/pub band on there at that price so that band only does (half) decent paying gigs, some packed and some empty. I have in the past done the empty venue but for the £30,not any more thanks!

I can see where blue is coming from here, I've been in these bands where the guitarist "can't do weekdays except Thursday,and only for an hour before 9pm but after 6.30pm, nor weekends, or mornings or evenings" etc, my brain goes straight to- even if we get gig ready will anywhere want a band for an hour starting at 7.15 on a Thursday night?

I actually think using the pa is the best way as you can use small amps as backline to keep the volume down, ironically the bigger and better your PA the lower you can get the volume but keep a nice sound, the eq on the pa in most cases will be far better at tweaking out the frequencies that are causing the "bad room".

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1479735936' post='3178831'] You can't play 30+ year old songs through a modern PA though. It'll sound really scratchy ... [/quote] You need to download the "descratcher app", free on Android, £50 for the Apple version