gapiro

Just came onto BC because I wanted something interesting to watch at lunchtime, This is awesome. Made my day!

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For the majority of us here (me included) a decent Jazz [b]Or precision[/b] bass of Squier upwards quality and some form of quality amp with at least either a 2x10 or 1x15 cab will get you 90% there, after that its for the fun of it and if your enjoying your nice gear you will enjoy the gig, if you enjoy the gig others will enjoy watching it
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Fixed

As above. Piano / keys always seemed to be helpful to me even though I'm not good it makes things more obvious in some ways

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/"]http://basschat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/[/url]

Make sure you read the rules in there before you post too!

The chorus baseline is really nice if you do it properly. Might e able to do some dots tomorrow forya

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Lol

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1361809177' post='1991215']
Sorry, thanks. That was really helpful. Are you a troll?
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No, it is just my number 1 bug bear. It really. Really. REALLY . frustrates me.

Apologies for abruptness but it just winds me up something chronic. The amount of near misses I've had, and collisions i've seen are stupid. Lets say I want to cycle on the cycle path to work , and you can't hear me behind you , ringing my bell, etc, thats just stupid. Lets say you are cycling with head phones on, and someone hoots, or you can't hear the car coming behind you, or you cant hear the other cyclist coming behind you who is ringing his bell, or shouting, its just there is so much to hear with your ears, I dont see why you would ever want to remove yourself from hearing it. And it is dangerous. Taking risks that affect other people more than yourself is just not worth it in my opinion. If you wont listen to your surroundings yourself, why should anyone else take any notice of your surroundings

Link didn't work for me
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNd1lXq5MQA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNd1lXq5MQA[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1361795336' post='1990858']
Sell it and buy a B3 - you'll have it sussed in about three minutes. Seriously.
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+1 to that. And you can play around with it using your pc.



Our keyboard player is also a PITA in a personal way. Hes a brilliant musician, and nice bloke, but when someone hasn't learnt something, it is always him, and its always him who has to redo patches during rehearsals.... (although they often sound awesome at the end)

I would but am stuck in cambridge and can't get to the LBGS

Triggering my pet peeve here.
I ABSOLUTELY HATE joggers with headphones/earplugs in. The sheer amount of spatial awareness you lose really frustrates me.
It is dangerous, and downright stupid. The only time it is acceptable is on private land or on a treadmill.

Applies to cyclists too.


And if you want to think about it from a jogging perspective , you are unable to hear your feet striking, or your breathing,

I recall a thread on here about it where a luthier pitched in, I'll try and find it

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You might only be a semitone away from a correct note, but you could be six semitones away from the best note.
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Who is to decide what the best note is though

Nice start good sir!

Hmm
Interesting thread!

The band I am playing in, we have an "extremely light" setup - We run either no foldbacks (drummer/singer use IEMs anyway) or maybe one for the keyboards , everything di'ed / mic'ed. Set up into a gigrac 1000w (2x500w) powered mixer into a couple of unknown tops, with a mini 5 channel mixer so the two singers can control their mix a little (volume etc between each other)

We have also got a "super heavy" setup, however weh ave a soung guy to do that, and i've never had a chance to look at it.....



I actually run sound for another band, who have a rather nice amount of kit. They have a A+H Zed 428, a large array of amps for particular occasions, a huge stack of effects, which I usually end up just running compression on vox, reverb and some gates on drums....

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUxgqH-y4s[/media]
Always makes me smile... Dunno why!

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1360583737' post='1972571']
Would you be willing to split the volume knob and jack lead from tr bass?
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As you haven't answered my inane question , I'll pm you making you annoying inane questions

Would you be willing to split the volume knob and jack lead from tr bass?

Would you consider a split of the (amp/cab/volume knob/ speaker cable)?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1360418637' post='1970048']


Is your mate a bad electrician then?
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Oops. Meant to say he rewired it to fix it after new owners bought the studios

[quote name='Ben Jamin' timestamp='1360458635' post='1970888']
Correct me if I'm wrong but no-one's mentioned Superstition yet?

Must. Put it at the end of the set for our last wedding gig and it was groooovy.
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When done well. Seen it done terribly by so many bands around here.

I really like evanescence. Most people like bashing them and I have no idea why. Not ashamed to say I like them , but almost always greeted with they are sh*t etc when you say it.
Amy lee. Fit. And amazing voice.

[quote name='JayPH' timestamp='1360446854' post='1970739']
Thanks everyone for the suggestions, links and a bloody good laugh. I'll jot them all down into a list.

Not sure I want to go through with it now. We play Sex on Fire too and I hate it already even before we've played it live haha. We'll have to break it up with a good pub gig now and then.

Noticed all the old songs are still popular so we might as well try them although we are just a 5 piece guitar bass drums job so we might struggle to do some of them.

Interesting to target a specific genre. It would certainly be easier to do that. Lots to think about really.
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It gives you a target and makes it easier to promote yourself. Eg we are an 80s band and so all sorts of 80s imagery is used in promoting ourselces

[quote name='Rustyhornpipe' timestamp='1360394502' post='1969710']
The following are essential (some of them unfortunately ) for our wedding sets:-

Sex on Fire - KOL
Mr Brightside - The Killers
Dakota - Sterophonics
Sweet Child of Mine - GnR
All Right Now - Free

All of the above will pack the dance floor out for almost all age groups - apart from the usual Buddy Holly & Elvis brigade.

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A good list in my experience . Also add Bon jovi living on a prayer to it

There are two routes in my opinion


Either pick a genre and base Your set list around that as much as possible. Then throw a couple of tenuous songs to the genre to entice other groups of people
Eg an indie rock band can do some classic rock like the who etc
This means people who like the genre of music you play will book you and they know what to expect
Or make yourself as wide and varied as you like , and advertise as a function band. Unfortunate I think this route tends to require leaning about 5 times as many songs and having someone capable to call out things to go with the current dance floor and mood. You tend to appeal to more range of clients but might e a bit more boring or end up playing the same stuff week in week out ( mustang Sally etc)

Either way you need to define wht you are going to be doing