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[quote name='highwayman' timestamp='1498378884' post='3324114'] Check this one: Geezer Butler's vegan strap: [url="http://heavyleathernyc.com/product/geezer-butler-signature-strap/"]http://heavyleathern...ignature-strap/[/url] I bought my superb (leather) strap from this company in New York - great girl called Rachel - I think she sent it marked 'gift' too to avoid any extra sting... [/quote] [quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1498381957' post='3324152'] Here's another source - looks like quite a popular movement: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/306518-righton-handmade-straps-spain/"]http://basschat.co.u...e-straps-spain/[/url] [/quote] Hmm... Not sure if buying a strap, albeit a vegan vinyl strap, from a company specialising in leather goods is in the spirit and ethos of vegan..? The Californian Couch straps look to be about as vegan as they come. Worth inquiring as to availability, for those interested in cruelty-free, no sweat-shop, vegan products, maybe..? Not bothered, myself; just sayin'.

One (slight...) advantage to being old: my current band [i]is [/i]our kids..! Our eldest on guitar 1, our youngest on bass, I play the drums, with buddies Vincent (guitar 2...) and Stéphane, a mightily good singster. Soft(ish...) rock-pop covers (we're no good at writing good, playable songs an audience would like to hear and that we'd be proud of presenting, so we bend the works of better than us to our formation...). Stuff like Midnight Oil, Radiohead, SOAD, Bowie, Bashung, Noir Desir and more. A hiatus for the last year or so, for various medical reasons, but we're now planning on rehearsing again soon, maybe letting a couple of gigs find us, we'll see. Music doesn't [i]have [/i]to [i]end [/i]with kids, it can [i]start [/i]with 'em, too..! A sample... http://youtu.be/nM_u1XEOPbY

... or do without the wheels altogether..? Not sure about on the train, though.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1498244911' post='3323425']... I wonder what is happening in the forty bars before ? I was going to say, possibly tacet... [/quote] If my reading is up to scratch, it is indeed [i]tacet [/i]until 40, and after his high spot until the end..! Why do I never get those gigs..?

[quote name='No. 8 Wire' timestamp='1498223919' post='3323262']... Equally its baffling why the band didn't put these links in their ad (unless the site blocks it)... [/quote] All the ads on that site have the same formula; they apparently don't allow plain direct links. It's simple enough to get around, however, so shouldn't be too much to the detriment to the posters, as long as the readers are aware of how to see further. Good old Google, eh..?

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-in-1-Aluminium-Folding-Sack-Truck-Hand-Trolley-Cart-Car-Home-Foldable-Office/262965014383?_trksid=p2045573.c100505.m3226&_trkparms=aid%3D555014%26algo%3DPL.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D43783%26meid%3Dac03ed80a7594e7a805d430509a75091%26pid%3D100505%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26"]Aluminium Folding Sack Truck ...[/url]

Lots of opinions being thrown up here. Well done, Basschat; it's good to have a mass debate on the subject.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1498219227' post='3323197'] I bought one of these many moons ago. I prefer this type rather than those tall sack trucks because it takes up very little space when fold down. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Folding-Platform-Trolley-Truck-Sack-Cart-Barrow-/282523584598?hash=item41c7b7c856:g:FVcAAOSw7U5Y~fKa"]http://www.ebay.co.u...VcAAOSw7U5Y~fKa[/url] [/quote] These are good trucks for hauling stuff around, although perhaps not so ergonomic when boarding or alighting from a bus/train/taxi..?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1498214893' post='3323160']... Excellent for studying scoring and arranging.... [/quote] Indeed; thanks for posting. The pdf's have to be downloaded one by one; the mp3 files can be had as albums. Just for kicks, here's a extract from one of the pdf's... The poor fellow, marching along with his triangle, waiting for his moment..!

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1498214704' post='3323158']... I've put a kick through a broken speaker emulator... [/quote] ... and now I've a broken speaker. Serves me right for being deaf and turning up the wick, I suppose..! ... Nah, not really..! So, neo-grime grunge is the new 'black', it would seem.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1498211198' post='3323119'] Bass ID please. P type? [/quote] It's a black one.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1498193231' post='3323016']...BUT I also pack a spare backup CAR with an amp, cab and backup backup bass... [/quote] ... as does your backup dep, whose been booked just in case you've an accident before or during the gig. He, too, has a suppliant; [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]you can never be too careful[/font][/color]

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1498151464' post='3322844']...trying to think of hedge-related puns... [/quote] U2..?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1498123239' post='3322608'] I'm no expert but those are not inverted commas, you didn't say you were "tipsy", you were 'tipsy'? Take it away Douglas [/quote] [url="http://universitywriting.shu.ac.uk/punct/advice/s_double.htm"]Writing For University Courses - Punctuation ...[/url] [Quote]...[color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]Double ("...") and single ('...') quotation marks or inverted commas (you can use either term) can be used in the same ways. Whether you use double or single is up to you...[/size][/font][/color][/quote]

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1498118317' post='3322567']...I must apologise for misspelling their ... [/quote] Misspelling their [i]what[/i]..? That's the usefulness of inverted commas, to denote that it's a quote from the original post, and so... ...I must apologise for misspelling 'their'. ...

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1498062502' post='3322313'] What, the kind that get a laurel laughs? [/quote] Oh, yes..! Excellent..! Holly good, sir..!

As I wrote above ^^, I'm more towards the 'deaf' end of the scale, but have, and never have had, any problems hearing the bass drum I'm playing (pretty standard 22", full drum heads both sides, Camco 5-piece kit...). There must be quite a racket going on all around to drown out a bass drum, even when playing more lightly, except (again, as stated above...) on large open-air stages, where [i]all [/i]the sounds seem to dissipate (into thin air..? ). Maybe it's just me, though, although I doubt that; t'would be a 'first'..!

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1497961584' post='3321624'] hmmm, I'm a drummer and I used to like to mic up the kick drum... [/quote] It's all a bit 'genre-dependant', of course. In my vein of predilection, it's the hi-hat that is most important to me; the bass drum is used mostly simply as punctuation, not the 'big beat'. Old-school swing style. Of course, things change a little when 'Daddy Cool' is in the repertoire, or 'Highway To Hell'..!

[quote name='Tony p' timestamp='1497953370' post='3321520'] Has anyone else here just played the set twice when they've used up all their material.... ? [/quote] Yes, depending on context. If the audience has changed since start of gig, no great problem; not really recommended if they're the same folks, I'd suggest.

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1497953878' post='3321527']......however, I was thinking about bass drum volume the other day (triggered by the Download thread mentioning bass drums being too loud in the mix) and specifically my experience of drummers who will insist on having their bass drums mic'd up. I wonder if it's the drummers version of the "amp pointing at the knee" thing, that it's the one drum they can't hear because it's not pointing at them so they assume that nobody can hear it. I've never understood why the ones that insist on it do so when everybody else is constantly telling them that everybody in the studio/pub can hear the bass drum just fine... [/quote] This ^^ makes no sense to me. assuming you're meaning 'at live gigs', and not rehearsal (there's really no need to mic up a kit for rehearsals..!), then surely it's a call for the sound engi to make as to whether to have the drums miced, and how, and maybe (just maybe..?) feed some back to the drummer's foldback if he/she needs it..? I can't imagine how or why a drummer would want to dictate what the FOH gets; even less the monitors for the others..! Maybe I'm unusual, but when I've been playing my drums, in any formation over a long career, it's never once occurred to me to amplify what I can already hear very well indeed (and I'm now rather deaf, due to ageing..!). Very rarely, usually on open-air 'festival' type stages, I've wanted a touch of BD in my foldback, but even then only a tad. Is this common amongst drummers, then..? What have I been missing all these decades..?

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1497949731' post='3321479'] We tend to set the PA vocal volumes at a very comfortable level and the instruments have to sit under that level so the vocals can be heard easily... [/quote] This ^^, drums included. You know it makes sense.

Jazz tone knobs are smaller than volume knobs.