mcnach

really pleased to hear that!

I'd try David Wilson in Hexham. I had a body and a neck refinished by him and was very happy with the results, plus David is a great guy. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002025970885

It's a 4 string But it's still awesome!

Hey Steven! I'm glad you're enjoying the bass... and I love the band, sounding good. I didn't expect to hear a bit of ABBA in there

Indeed! That was my bass!

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

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

We sold our 1000 copies of our first CD (released in 2013)... it took us 5 years. Actually, we still have a box, so there's less than 30 left, but close to having sold all). Then in 2015 we released our second. I think we've sold about 200, and given away another 200, roughly. We sell very few online. We sell far more download-only versions. The best place to sell them is at gigs. However we generally forget to bring them which is why so few have been sold. We tried harder with the first one. We're about to release another one, and we're considering not having physical copies. But we really like to have a physical copy, with the artwork etc etc. We may just get a lot fewer made, but the cost barely goes up between ordering 500 or 1000 copies... Commercially, however... we don't find they fly off the shelves exactly, so best if you have a good storage space I think it's still good to have some that you can give away. We want people to listen to us,even if we have to bribe them

again... just negotiate. I'd agree, I would not want to to the gig without some members: the band is X and that's how we play. But a lot of times you may get landlords with concerns... it could be volume, it could be space, it could be a lot of other things. It's a lot more productive to talk to them and negotiate. They have the money, the band needs them more than they need the band (there's no shortage of bands). Talk to them and find a way to make it work, if their concerns can be appeased (which is often the case).

negotiate!

If you manage to squeeze in the same space I don't see why it should be a problem. Good luck negotiating. Sometimes landlords/ladies can be funny/difficult/plain-silly... but it's them who pay so it's best to at least appear like you're working with them. We once brought a 9-piece when they were expecting 5 of us (not sure where they got "5" as we had not played as a 5 piece in years at that stage). It got tricky for a minute, but once we established that yes, we'd make it work with all of us fitting in the space allocated, there was not trouble.

I know you don't intend that to be 100% serious (maybe only 95? ) but the thing with the originals... is yes, it's harder. A lot. But that should not stop anyone from trying if that's what they want to do. It doesn't get much better than getting avenue busy while playing your own songs and having people dance to them and sing back your lyrics while they're dancing. Don't stop yourself just because it's harder.

indeed, pretty different animals

It was quite common. The earlier ones suffered from that, then they changed the glue and said the problem was gone... but it wasn't (my two cabs come from that period). Then they changed both glue and tolex, I believe, and I *hope* they finally got it right.

which is a fortunate thing!

I have never played any of those, no. I jammed along to Superstition once, but that's about it.

He could not have known that the sender would follow Amazon's policy on packaging.

There's an Ashdown RM500 head in one of the rehearsal studios I use... ugh. Nice sounding amp, but that mirror face... whose idea was that??? It's great if I want to retouch my make up, but it's a pain if I want to read which knob does what.

I never paid much attention to most lyrics until I was in my 20s. That's for songs in my native language! In English... it took a while longer. Even to this day I generally treat vocals as another instrument. From time to time, I stop to see what they say...