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[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1374490042' post='2149202'] Favourite Stanley track ever is probably "Desert Song" from "Schooldays" - John Mclaughlins playing on that is just superb. [/quote] Knowing that John McLaughlin has played on a track is quite sufficient for me to decide to avoid it altogether.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1374666470' post='2151482'] That's very true, but I tend to be sort of 'living the lyrics in my head' when I'm performing. (Hope that doesn't sound too pretentious for a newbie who only does jam nights! ) [/quote] That would lead to serious existentialism problems for me and Mrs Zero, as one of my songs is about when we split up 30 years ago. I do have another song about us getting back together, but the guitarist is having a hard time trying to play it.

Not an experience I particularly want to repeat. Not the pre-gig stuff, anyway, though the gig itself was good. We, The Lightning, were playing support to Seventh Syndicate. The venue was supposed to be sorting out the basic drum kit, with the respective drummers bringing breakables. The venue organiser emailed Mrs Zero via Farcebook at 3.30 (we were supposed to be getting there at 7) saying that she couldn't get a drum kit after all. She had phone numbers for both me and Mrs Zero but didn't bother using them. Mrs Zero isn't a Farcebook addict and so didn't get the message. Then the organiser told us that the main band's drummer had injured her leg and wouldn't be playing. Our drummer would have had to journey back to Redditch from Tamworth to pick up his kit. Eventually Mrs Zero asked the organiser to ask the main band (who hadn't yet arrived and were closer to home than us) to bring a kit. I'd already gone back home once for my stool in case we finished up playing a set that would last longer than my back did, then again because the extension reel that the venue had provided was completely shagged. Then I finally got to plug in the bass, and got no sound whatsoever. Thought that the amp had gone funny on me, so went home yet again to pick up my little Crate Powerblock. On the way home, thought I might as well pick up my 1x12 speaker as well, just in case. Got back to venue, plugged in 1x12, and got sound! I haven't yet mentioned that the venue has no car park and the closest one is about a five minute walk away. You can park outside to load and unload but that's it, and it means going through a long one-way system, so after the initial load-in I carried everything from the car park. When Seventh Syndicate turned up with the drumkit, the drummer showed remarkably undamaged legs but there were only three of them (band members, not drummer's legs). It was actually the lead guitarist who'd broken his foot and they'd decided to go ahead as a three-piece. So after all that, we finally struck up and had a really good time of it. Mrs Zero was wearing a bright orange wig as part of a fundraiser for the MS Society, which subsequently got passed round the pub. Audience enjoyed it and so did we. And Seventh Syndicate were enjoyable, despite being a man down. Photos of the evening taken by an audience member finished up on Facebook: [url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.547077801996523.1073741828.100000829252794&type=1&l=3894607ff4"]https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.547077801996523.1073741828.100000829252794&type=1&l=3894607ff4[/url] And even Youtube: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1JnNaMF7M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1JnNaMF7M[/url]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1365010902' post='2034150'] I believe dear old Sam Fox prefers the company of women these days. [/quote] She seems to have left the price tag on that bum-bag she's wearing round her frontal nether regions.

Sennheiser HD419 for me - around £40. Very good bass response.

Number 3 - "Arguably Gibson's greatest bass". So it's a pretty low bar then... PS. Is "EVAR" just "RAVE" backwards?

It would do you no harm to get a drummer in who's done a gig or two (or more), as long as they're happy to wait a bit before you're ready to gig. You want someone who can play more than one beat and keeps reasonable time, and doesn't get lost doing overambitious fills. Note: it's all very well saying "enthusiasm more important than ability" in an advert but you have to be prepared to find yourself trying out a series of enthusiastic [politically-incorrect word that rhymes with "enthusiastic" and betokens poor physical co-ordination]s. Presumably you'll be playing in the Town Hall and not outside the Village? At least you'll have a captive audience.

I bought a pair of B-stock SRM450 V2s for £325 (there's still some going for a little more money on That Ebay, search for SRM450 B-stock). I use them with a small but perfectly formed Behringer Xenyx 1002B mixer (very small footprint but still has slider faders) for vocals. Still looking for decent (and cheap) monitors, currently using a pair of cheapo QTX PAJ-10As. Avoid Behringer powered mixers - the power supplies are made of fragilium. However, if you want a bombproof power amp, the discontinued Behringer EP2500 is good (but heavy).

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1374516072' post='2149616'] The problem hasn't arisen as it's been managed as described, but that's the point, what you've said is obvious, what isn't so obvious is their tele is forcing issues in my household, and always seems to be used as the measure; 'well, I could hear it above the tele", as if that's the worst possible thing that could happen. [/quote] If I could hear someone next door practising drums loud enough to be heard over the telly, I would think they were being antisocial bastards. As flyfisher says, it's not what they're doing. Just think of the telly as a calibration of sound level and extraneous noises as going from inaudible = acceptable to louder than the telly = unacceptable. And please, don't ever move in next to me.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth[/url] Other than that, my vinyl album "Sunshine Possibilities" by the Famous Jug Band.

Certainly, pm me your address and I'll send it on to you shortly.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1374426379' post='2148593'] But what if some people do have dire taste in music and I am offended by that? What shall we do then? [/quote] Post to Basschat whinging about it, of course. It's what everyone else does.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1374339106' post='2147818'] Dinosaurs is not a species. [/quote] Species is a singular and a plural.

That would contribute to the problem, the further forward the speakers can go (or the further back the mic), the higher the volume can go without feedback. The floor would be less of an issue than a hollow stage, which makes things boomy and where you can get feedback through the stage itself. I'd be inclined to look at the room generally and see what oddities it had.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1373287796' post='2135641'] yes - and pointing the speakers at slightly different angles [/quote] How far forward of the mics were the speakers?

We used to play a bit of Quo in the ceilidh band - the middle 8 from "Burning Bridges". Great band, I saw them a couople of years ago in Brum and thoroughly enjoyed it. Don't think I've got any of their stuff on anything more recent than vinyl though.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1374177454' post='2146219'] It's not the noise from both, rather the assumption that the music has to stop because the all important tele may be disturbed. The tele, now indirectly disturbing the music. [/quote] Is the telly loud enough to disturb you? If not, then I think you may need to readjust the level of your playing field.

One of the pioneers of tribute was Bjorn Again. T. Rextasy are pretty successful. Another I've encountered (but never seen) is Alike Cooper.

3. tauzero - Tecamp Puma 900, TC RS112 (if there's room for more cabs), Sei 5-string everythingless, Warwick JD Thumb 4-string, Antoniotsai 5-string, probably a couple of Zoom things (B3 and/or MS60B)

AFAIK I can do either.

I'm up for it too. Seem to have a rather fallow period at the moment so I'm not particular about date, a Saturday or Sunday afternoon would be great.

Audacity is available for the Mac. I use it for editing audio recordings from a Zoom Q3 - generally just select a track, normalise it, and export selection. There's lots of other effects available.

Actually, I might take up the trombone. When I was at school playing guitar in a Glenn Miller tribute band, one of the trumpet players had a missing hand. He had a sophisticated hook for everyday use but he'd take that off for playing the trumpet and put on a special adaptor. And a while ago I played a gig at a pub which had a house band. I thought the (two-armed) bassist was playing with hammer-ons so he could make adjustments to his amp, but after a little while realised that he simply didn't have the use of his right arm. Turned out he'd had a stroke some time before but it hadn't stopped him playing.

I'm sure I'd find a way round it. After all, it's all that most of the bass players in the bands round here use.

I saw a bit of their Glastonbury performance. That was quite enough for me.