borntohang

There is a gentle winnowing of the great field of musicians as you pass through life. Early on everybody sucks and consequently nobody really cares; as you get older the untalented, the unmotivated, and eventually just the plain mediocre slowly drop out as other things take priority in life (partners, kids, jobs, making rent). Eventually you end up with only the truly talented or the truly delusional still available playing, and the truly talented are rarely struggling for gigs or advertising on classifieds... That's not a knock on your level of playing at all but unfortunately most people are going to have to go through the audition mill a few times until some of the bigger lumps get knocked out! I've always felt that you should never be the best musician in a band and often it's actually better to be the worst, so long as it inspires you to get better rather than give up.

Flats, relatively low headroom amps, big speakers with no tweeters... T'was truly an age of mud and thump. Ox was one of the pioneers in high treble clarity, but even he used a pick when he needed the extra help.

I don't think EastGlove are intended to look as much like an authentic relic as just an unique 'distressed' finish. A bass isn't going to look like that unless it's come out of flood waters or a house fire. Actually, I once had a chap pop through the shop with a charred telecaster. His house had burned down at some point with all his gear in it, and with the insurance settlement he bought a partscaster and gave it an extreme burned finish. He admitted he was probably still working through some issues. 😄

What circuit are you basing that on? I haven't run one through a frequency analyser, but always found series wiring is more of a low-mid and output boost than any kind of scoop. You do lose a lot of treble though so it can be pretty muddy with high output pickups. To answer the question, I wire all mine parallel but having a push/pull option for series is a great trick. It should be stock as a 4-way switch on telecasters too - it's perfect for a passive boost.

So it's just the tuner output with a new label then. Snooze. This is usually what I do - or if I don't have an adapter to hand I just used a patch cable with the preamp gain turned off so it doesn't pop if you catch it.

Yes, the pedalsynth. Actually kind of interested in this as I double on Moog bass and it's always annoyed me that the Return/In jack on my ABM500 is muted unless you plug a lead into the front. Sometimes I just want a clean power amp! The 'Full Range' output on the front is interesting too - presumably that's for sending synth/sub signal to a DI?

My guys do a full guitar change about every three or four gigs, except for the acoustic which only sees one song so usually lasts twice that. Bassist gets a fresh set at the start of the tour and then only if they break. They're all on Elixirs and I wipe down with Fastfret before and after every show so we could easily make them stretch a bit longer without degrading but if they have the budget I'm happy to do them - can do a full five guitar clean and change in about 45 minutes now as long as I don't have to do the Gretsch. They're all keen on recycling so old strings get put to one side, electrical taped together in a little bag, and then at the end of a tour I'll take them all to the recycling centre (bass strings get kept separate to use as emergency spares). Bit wasteful overall so ideally if somebody could turn them into art or jewellery we could sell on the merch desk that would be perfect, but I'm still working on that side.

I set the relief till it's choking around the 9th to 12th frets and then dial it back a bit so I can dig in and get a little rattle but not when I play softly. Action gets set the same - down until it's rattling and then back off a touch. It's not an exact science for me.

I'm happy to double on pick and pluck, but there's definitely something pure about the connection to the instrument when you play plucking style. I used to use pick for anything that needed consistent rhythm but it got to be a pain switching up between songs so I've just worked on improving my two finger straight-eights/sixteenths instead. I'm perfectly happy to get through a gig without having a plick on hand now but generally keep one just in case I really feel like using that sound. I even switch up more on guitar these days, although nowhere near as much as bass.

I'm lucky in that I rarely play with a singer who doesn't also play an instrument, which helps a lot for basic theory. Massive fan of singers trying to teach other musicians parts via mouth guitar and semaphore though. "Can you make that second fill more like babab baba babababda!"

Picked up a bag of used Rotosound flats off Andy - turned up practically next day and zero issues. 👍

The UK was actually well placed in that regard as US bands could fly in here to pick up crew and backline, do a few shows around the country, then head out for Europe and do the reverse on the way back out. Sort of an Airstrip One/forward operating base kind of deal. It's still expensive and monotonous to negotiate the visa requirements, but most touring agents were aware of how to minimise the issues.

Charlie is a tidy drummer himself, but above that he's incredibly disciplined at resisting the temptation to play out. There are lots of great players with similar discipline at that level who could sit in for him though - I doubt the Stones needed to scrounge around to find someone to play Bill Wyman's parts after all. Darryl is probably only firing on half cylinders most evenings but he does what's needed.

The risk with in-ears is usually either cranking them to cover up crap isolation, or taking one out to 'hear the room' and then pushing the other one to compensate. I didn't realise KT had already totally lost one ear. Nightmare scenario and absolutely can't blame her if she's in the position to scale back shows. Wouldn't blame her if she decided to hang up the hat entirely to be honest, but I guess it's a hard monkey to get off your back.

I think Worship Music would specifically need to be music involved in the act of organised worship rather than just featuring religious content (so Hillsong are Worship but POD are just religious). I find very few of the Satanists I know are into the organised religion vibe, but it could be considered the equivalent of Christian Rock perhaps?

Not a been churchgoer since I was old enough to not have to sit through school assemblies, but if you were offering regular paid gigs with no drunk audience and a guaranteed 1PM loadout then you can call me the Pope... Atheist in miraculous overnight conversion; Halleluiah, Halleluiah, it's a miracle.

Don't have them myself unfortunately but their customer service is excellent - everyone else in my group uses them and they've been really good with us.

Biffy are going to be up there for a while yet. Sleeps and BMTH seem like good shouts for future main stage headers - BMTH probably sooner than Sleeps based on the venues they're doing.

You can't do deals with individual EU countries - that's why it's a trade bloc. Norway, Iceland, and Lichtenstein are all signatories to the EEA but not EU members. We won't have any deals with any EU countries until all 27 members can agree on terms. Also I've played gigs bigger than Liechtenstein. Norway was nice though and Iceland means at least Airwaves might be doable.

Lat flow tests are irritating but they're free and it's half an hour out of your morning (well, five minutes plus a bit of waiting while you do something else) so hardly the most onerous requirement. Luckily I have been taking them for work every Monday/Thursday anyway but most large industry setups seem to be doing them as standard these days.

I mean Brokencyde were going off the Crunk trend anyway but 100 GECS are absolutely taking that ball and running with it. They're pretty good if you don't mind your music being the aural equivalent of deep-fried memes. https://youtu.be/z97qLNXeAMQ

That tune is old enough to be hitting puberty. The average 2007 Brokencyde enjoyer is more likely to be working in IT than heading down the yoof club these days.

We've had to push back a tour twice now - currently got late April/May but who knows. Unfortunately most venues are booking so far in advance now we can probably write off next year entirely if we have to reschedule again. Ho hum!

Somebody jump on this bargain! Wish I had the cash/lived a bit closer. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Squier-classic-vibe-precision-bass-Fiesta-Red-/303770263870?