stingrayPete1977

It clearly states that the person hiring you should carry it out be you staff or part time, volunteers get it done for free.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1494848310' post='3298917'] Which is what I said earlier. Again, that's why the MU offer the service. [/quote] It's not the MU that are using your services. The school should be checking you themselves at their cost, the enhanced DBS you are showing them that you've obtained from the MU means nothing legally.

This is the official line from the Gov site regarding the institution using your services as a self employed person. Self-employed workers Individuals and the self-employed cannot apply for a DBS certificate of their own criminal record, as they cannot ask an exempted question of themselves. Options available are: a self-employed person who is eligible for a DBS check can ask the organisation that wishes to contract their services to apply for their DBS check individuals can get a basic check from Disclosure Scotland which provides details of any ‘unspent’ convictions

It's a bit of a mess, you can have a portable one "working in the same workforce", if you are self employed I suppose you are always in the same workforce! But the school should be checking you out like they do for me and will have some kind of annual account, your own enhanced DBS isn't worth anything to them in the event of an incident.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1494842044' post='3298847'] Here's a quote: [i]A Basic Criminal Record Check is the only level which is available for individuals to obtain for themselves. Organisations can also access this level on behalf of their employees.[/i] That basic level of check is insufficient to teach either in a school, or a to do any kind of work with vulnerable adults. [/quote] Reading up on it, it's not how it's supposed to work, the school shouldn't be accepting your enhanced dbs anyway if it's a position where the enhanced is required, they need to do their own even if you have one. I work with (around) vulnerable adults and children too but not directly like teaching them but I still have an enhanced dbs, if I was to do that the employer needs to check me themselves. I worked with a guy when the CRB thing really kicked off in schools, he thought he'd be out of a job as he had been to prison for fighting when he was younger, his CRB came back clear! All the MU are doing is acting as an umbrella the same as the hundreds of companies online that will do it for you, they are essentially suggesting to the records agency that they are thinking of employing you to access the details then selling them on to you. Everyone knows that's what is going on, how many job applications do they think the MU do per position?!

That's who can ask for the check as in ask to see it, not ask to apply for one, there's loads of places online where you can apply for your own DBS.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1494677652' post='3297783'] Fur me st least membership is extremely useful. I wanted a dbs check for my teaching. You can't do this as an individual, but the MU will do it for you. [/quote] That's not true at all, £65 online through the official government site, who told you that you can't do it?

Well it was listed 3 years ago!

It's been suggested by many people on here regarding public liability insurance over the years, the monthly membership cost adds up to far more than just taking a policy out with Ampband. Unless you want any other benefits of which the reviews aren't great for then I'd look elsewhere.

Cool, enjoy it

[quote name='keving' timestamp='1494528666' post='3296801'] I think if used to refer to all guitarists then it is disrespectful at the least, although I've always thought it referred to the specific type of guitarist that has no awareness of the rest of the band. What I find much more offensive is the ginger bashing that seems so prevelant these days. It's almost as if people have finally accepted that it is wrong to abuse people based on the colour of their skin so have moved on to the colour of their hair. Where next, the colour of their eyes? [/quote] It's the only thing we've got left! Chin up rusty

Ah the old misery stick! I prefer playing upright these days, there is something proper about it.

What does it matter who played on it, they're all unconvincing anyway

Credit where it's due +1 for 10cc, that's one tight band. I also enjoyed the Latin funk type band "something machine?"

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1494360842' post='3295394'] I'm a Ginger Tosser. Knock y'self out... [/quote] Shut it carrot top!

"I'm not convinced" isn't much of an opinion really.

Dave Grohl played everything on the first Foo Fighters album.

I think we've had this thread before a few years ago, I don't use the term but at the same time it doesn't really bother me either, my parents would still use the term retarded or backwards at times but they are not being nasty, that was the term they grew up with, funnily more people would take offence at retarded now than "a sandwich short of a picnic" or similar, my parents still use 'coloured' instead of black as that was the polite way for them, black would have normally been followed by another word beginning with B when my dad was young! Times change and you need to see the context it is used in IMO, that's where the written word on the net can go astray at times. I might start a thread about picking on gingers now .........

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1494268508' post='3294571'] And all of the guitar stuff apart from the solo. [/quote] Yep but still doesn't meet Jenny's requirement, if Steve Lukather doesn't count as a guitarist that recorded bass on one of Michael Jackson's biggest hits I'm not sure what we're after?

Funilly enough it's a Genz NeoxT 2x12 that I use too!

Elvis Presley.

Steve Lukather played bass on Michael Jackson's beat it.

Regarding organisers "throwing bands together" I'd actually rather watch four very different acts than four 'new wave hypothetical death folk' bands.

I'm not being arsey, I've got a pair of RCF 735s right here, for a typical gig where I don't know the PA situation I could do EXACTLY what you are suggesting but I never have! Getting a complex full range bass mix including lots of FX to the back of a big room without over powering the PA system and keeping a balanced mix across the room is practically impossible using it as backline tucked up one corner, the bass will travel and the intricate bits will get lost, the voice coils are meant to be at ear height for example, I hate it when you go to a gig and the bass sounds brilliant for the first couple of songs then they click a pedal and it's gone! Flea does it even with a pro sound crew!

It's just a lot of work taking your own PA to a gig just so the bass sounds killer even though the FOH PA sounds crap?