stingrayPete1977

I feel it only my duty to warn anyone from the south heading north or at least out into the sticks over the summer to bring some cash with them, unless you stumble across a Harvester or Wetherspoons etc I strongly suggest you bring some folding cash along! On the plus side a pint will taste better and cost half as much so it's not all bad news

Our last drummer had a JoBecky drum kit, looks and feels like a drum kit but it's electronic!

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1499960990' post='3334861'] That works if you have a sound tech/person (sound engineer is an oxymoron). I saw (heard) a band recently that were self mixing. They used in-ears and must have spent 15-20 minutes getting the foldback correct. No one ever came out front. The sound sucked and the biggest culprit was the bass. They were using two really big JBL cabinets for PA and the bass drowned out everything. [/quote] I don't think you can blame the technology for that though can you?

That's the ones, the live shows were excellent.

We've got two village pubs, neither take cards and the nearest cash machine is an eight mile round trip, suits me just fine

It's not my sort of thing as such but we saw him live at the Manchester bass day, ridiculous and had my hairs standing on end! He's also a really good public speaker with a good sense of humour.

[quote name='radiophonic' timestamp='1499889779' post='3334388'] I wish. "The way to solve this and to play your best is to use in-ear monitors". No. The way to solve this is to have a sound engineer who has a clue. Tech is only ever a helping hand. My band don't have a drum kit, but try explaining to a house sound guy that this means the wedges don't have to compete with a snare drum. I've played gigs with my rig turned to zero before now because house sound guy won't do his job, listen and think. Instead they try and [i]make[/i] the cajon as loud as a kick drum, then crank everything else to match it: [i]et voila [/i]tinnitus and feedback[i]. [/i] [/quote] So if you had in ears you could do your perfect own mix in rehearsals then at the gigs you'd get a consistent perfect fold back.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1499863598' post='3334132'] So by that token, running 'Fender' would be a hobby, then..? [/quote]

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1499856058' post='3334052'] Popped up while I was typing. Being paid cash is fine, it's the refusal to accept invoices which makes it hard. And I play up to five gigs a week, with no other income, all local venues this year. I can invoice a couple pubs and a handful of weddings, but HMRC might like to know how I got by for '17-'18. Telling them it was all cash, and givng them a record of it all which I wrote down myself might not get brushed off quite so smoothly. Maybe there's more provision for earning cash out of the landlords pocket than I thought, but I would still welcome a more invoice friendly system. [/quote] It's not your problem what they do with the invoice, you give them the invoice and collect the cash, make it out to Michael mouse, 12 Coronation Street if that's what they want.

Ernie ball super slinkys are a popular string, or regular slinky in the five strings 45-65-80-100-130. Those are my favourites.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1499813115' post='3333866'] Fine by me. I play for a living and would happily invoice for all services rendered. In an area with a busy music scene I can't imagine how so many venues wouldn't benefit from writing off those costs, and how so many musicians can scam their way through gigs. It is illegal, after all. Maybe we'd get a bit more f***ing respect and have our services and skills bought with a more reasonable amount if we were known to be running a proper business by more venues and punters, and gigs couldn't just be thrown around week in, week out for pocketmoney. But them maybe I'm just a jaded breadhead who cant possibly love what he does because he wants to do it by the book. [/quote] There's nothing illegal about being paid in cash, the venue will probably have made an entry into their books (that's not our job anyway) and the person receiving the cash can keep records and pay any taxes/receive and rebates on the cash at their leisure. If you ring hmrc and tell them roughly what you are bringing in against what is going out for most weekend warriors they'll say don't bother of it's below a couple of grand, my wife ran her own business for a year and they did exactly that when she rang them and gave them the sums.

[quote name='leroydiamond' timestamp='1499690781' post='3332948'] Terrific service for sure. After this, Fender might be inundated with a barage of dodgy jazz bass guitars that made it through QC over the years☺ [/quote] The postage fees on a 70s Jazz would cost about the same as sending a baby elephant by post!

Have you grown a quiff? Once the quiff grows you'll have it nailed, it's ALL in the quiff!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1499164083' post='3329585'] Why on earth would you touch the controls on a bass? Set and forget, guys, set and forget. [/quote] By law a bass should just have a single humbucker

Yep, cool!

Excellent, can't knock that.

I had a trans green SB320 Bass Collection, it was a great bass, probably still is whoever has it. I didn't realise that it had no fret position dots until about a year after I got it!

I've seen some right precarious looking rigs, mismatched cabs, one large cab stood on end of smaller cab on it's side then with a huge head overhanging the top cab either side, handles and feet glued back on and the tolex peeling off here and there.

My dad has had this one this week, he's selling a dining room set for £300, bloke wants it 100% and is going to put the money into his account including the £400 courier costs to take it to scotland, he wants my dad to forward the 400 quid onto the courier, he's obviously going to cancel the payment once my dad's genuine 400 hits the false account. They've no interest in actually collecting anything other than money, I'll bet it will be the same and he'll want you to send £50 or more to 'his courier'. The daft thing is if he'd asked to forward £100 for delivering the table my dad would have paid it!

I saw Soundgarden a couple of years ago, Chris Cornell's voice was excellent still, the recent album is great too, such a shame

Have you got a 'DFA' knob on your amp?

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1499275554' post='3330487'] Though I do agree, it helps and I use them for that reason... 'A bit of basic theory, job done' might be more pertinent! [/quote] True but Eb on the five is going to sound more in keeping with a typical song with lots of open E string notes played on a four than a four with the Eb played up on the 6th fret A string of a four string bass imo. Generally I prefer a fretted E on the B string these days too.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1499208137' post='3330047'] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Robertson"]https://en.wikipedia...obbie_Robertson[/url] Played with and wrote many good songs for The Band [/quote] Never heard of them either

Never heard of him.

It's not by mistake that many covers bands have male and female lead vocals and if they can be combined into another instrument (our male drummer is a great singer for example) it makes the money go further or opens up gigs a five or six piece don't want.