BigRedX

I've got almost 1000 pictures on mine... Do you have any videos stored on there? A few very large files might account for the lack of space and the fact that deleting the more normal sized images makes little difference.

How many photos have you go up there? I thought I had a lot yet my free account is only 1% full... Try refreshing the page or logging out and back in after deleting some to see if that makes a difference.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1454314338' post='2968399'] We all have set lists, but he can't read his and won't wear his glasses on stage, so asks all night what's next, once he is told he changes on to whatever sound he needs, then plays a few bars of the song to check he remembers it, thus giving away what's coming next. He is actually a very good player, it's this ocd that winds me up! [/quote] He might be a good player, but he doesn't sound like a good band member.

Programmability and tap tempo are two essential features on any time-based effect. I haven't bothered with any device that doesn't include them since 1990.

Who cares? All the interesting new music on the BBC is on 6 Music and occasionally on Radio 3 or 4.

Proof that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Gorgeous bit of top wood and nicely stained, but IMO the rest of the bass looks horrible. The sides look like cheap plywood and what is the deal with the back and neck not matching the top? It's not a cheap bass, so it can hardly be a cost-cutting exercise. Also the nasty Schaller 2000 bridge. One of the worst bridges I have ever come across and this is a feature that would make me automatically reject and bass with it on.

If you get a custom relic bass made like a Limelight, does the builder take your playing style into account when they do the relic'ing? After all if you bought a J-style bass with wear around the bridge pickup, but you play mostly with the neck pickup as your anchor it would fairly ridiculous to any when looking closely.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1454064827' post='2965915'] I use one of these: [url="http://www.herculesstands.co.uk/p/mini-electric-guitar-stand?pp=24"]http://www.herculess...tar-stand?pp=24[/url] Someone will be along shortly to tell you what a bad idea that is and how often your bass will fall over. [/quote] I've got one. It's fine for a symmetrical-bodied guitar at home. But I wouldn't trust on stage and never anywhere with a bass on it. The centre of gravity is just too high for it to be stable.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1454099801' post='2966531'] Kramer Duke bass, unstable aluminium neck? [/quote] I've owned several Kramers and a Hondo Alien which is a copy of The Duke, and never had any problems with the tuning or neck stability. Maybe if you come from a very cold van straight onto hot stage you would have some issues, but I bet you'd have just as many problems with a wooden-necked bass.

IMO the only decent sized keytar is the Yamaha KX-5. Everything else either looks totally ungainly unless you are over 6 foot in height and built accordingly, or is small and awkward to use like the CS1 in the clip above. How about one of those guitar-like MIDI controllers? Finally don't even bother with pitch to MIDI or putting a guitar or bass trough multiple effects in the attempt to make it sound like a synth. I spent the best part of a decade trying to convince myself that it was a worthwhile exercise. I reality it turns out that even with my ham-fisted keyboard skills, given a decent synth I can achieve the same effect but far more reliably and consistently.

I've only come across this situation once in my gigging career so far. I found the "jug" bearers uncomfortably aggressive and was glad I was in one of the bands playing and not being bothered by them. At one point we had to go a rescue our driver/roadie from their attentions. I would be very reluctant to play a gig like that again.

It just occurs to me that my very first band had made a record and had it played on Radio 1 long before we did a proper gig.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1453999481' post='2965221'] If they REALLY want to have a go at 'making it' then they would also probably be willing to give up their jobs - you can't really do that when you have a wife/kids/house to pay for. [/quote] But there's also a lot of people who have come out the other side of financial and family responsibilities. They are in their 50s with the mortgage paid off, the kids if they had any left home etc. Many will have taken "early" retirement or be self-employed and a lot more flexible about taking time out of work to do music. A lot of older musicians are still young at heart or more realistically have really ever grown up and just went through a phase of pretending to be a responsible adult. I know I did. My current band are all in their 20s except for me...

Most of the bands that we play with use double basses. And hardly any of the ones who don't use Fenders.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1453910321' post='2964124'] I see your point but in the last months/years there are a lot of pubs that stopped having live music and now only have DJ's and Karaoke. Their excuse is that is more profitable for them (i can't judge them for doing that). [/quote] And I'm sure that if you look you'll also find places putting on live music that weren't before. Things change. That's how it is.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1453895884' post='2963894'] Oh! And i think nobody mentioned DJ's yet! They also have their good share in decreasing live music gigs. [/quote] DJs and discos have been supposedly killing live music since at least the mid 70s. They can't be doing a very good job.

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1453900771' post='2963972'] Is YouTube killing the UK’s live music scene? [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35399194"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-35399194[/url] Not sure if this adds anything but..... [/quote] Already been linked to in this thread, and as I said in my post above pretty much crap.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1453894461' post='2963862'] Here's a topical report about changing times for live music: [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35399194"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-35399194[/url] [/quote] Another crap article full of half-truths dressed up to make it look as though the sky is falling. There may be lots of venues closing, but there's also a lot of new ones opening. The location of venues within towns and cities changes as the use of the buildings around them changes, it's only natural. In Nottingham I don't think any of the venues that were putting on bands in 1980 when I moved here still exist, but there's plenty of new ones and definitely far more gigging opportunities for bands today then there were at any time over the past 35 or so years. London is a bit a of a special case though simply because as a location it's no longer anywhere near as important as it used to be. In the past (up to the 90s) if you wanted to get noticed you had to play in London, it's where all the record labels and music press were based. Nowadays though it's just another big city with some venues and no more or less important than other other big city with music venues. Unfortunately the venues don't seem to have realised this, and so it's little wonder that they are struggling. Finally Justin Bieber may have been nurtured for his audience on YouTube, but he was discovered by his manager from a video of him performing live in front of an audience.

And yet another thread about how there's no more gigs and that they are mostly crap and that it's all too much effort. What a load of bollocks! There are plenty of great paying gigs available provided that: 1. Your band is entertaining 2. Your band is prepared to put in the effort to go and get them I was going to write a whole load more explaining the above, but TBH if you need it explaining, you are probably never going to get it. My band is out there doing songs we wrote ourselves playing paying gigs pretty much every weekend because we are entertaining and because between the various members of the band we put in 20-30 hours a week promoting the band to get the gigs that we want. And that's what is required if you want gigs that pay and have a decent audience in attendance. Besides nowadays if you want to make money out of music, gigging is the product which has value because it can't be copied, and even a good video of a show is no where near the same as actually being there. It's not like the past where bands toured to promote sales of their album and it was acknowledged that touring lost money but that was outweighed by increased record sales as a result of people seeing the band live. Today when a digital copy of your music, no matter how obscure your band is, can be easily found for free on-line, the recording (and video) is now the promotional device to get people to come to the gig where ticket and merchandise sales are money makers.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1453847238' post='2963491'] That's an interesting take on it considering how well it sold and continues to sell. I don't really think the 80s started producing anything really defining until around 1984. [/quote] In the end it's all a matter of taste and has nothing to do with how popular the records were (or still are) For me the 80s were all about the first few years and became less interesting by the middle of the decade (much like the 70s) until acid house shook everything up again in 1988.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1453843987' post='2963431'] Strangely I've just been listening to Brilliant Mind by Furniture so I'll put that in as a classic eighties song. [/quote] Go and buy their album "the Wrong People" then. IMO Brilliant Mind is probably the weakest track on it.

For me the 80s was all about the single, as I discovered when compiling my list of favourite 80s albums, there were loads of great songs but often the album as a whole would be a bit weak. Also because the independent scene was in full swing there were loads of bands that made a couple of decent singles but never managed to scrape enough cash to ether to put out a whole album. Expect a massive list tomorrow when I get my act together...

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1453761706' post='2962622'] The Wall No pedantic replies please. [/quote] Ignoring the fact that it was released in 1979, for me "The Wall" is very much an album that signifies the end of the 70s. Compare and contrast with PiL's "Metal Box" which came out at the same time and was pushing music forward into the new decade.

Going amp less makes you entirely dependent on the PA monitoring. IME unless you are playing on big stages with good full range foldback, your bass (if you can hear it at all) will sound pretty nasty through the average vocal-biased monitor. Also the more things you put through vocal foldback the less useful it becomes for the vocalists who need it the most.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1453815382' post='2962987'] How difficult (and/or expensive) have you found it to get hold of replacement strings for E-C tuning? This thread has got me considering whether to convert a cheap fiver and give this configuration a punt, but I presume I'd have to chop and change with string sets. [/quote] It's not that difficult, although there doesn't seem to be the range of sets available to match B-G stringing. I tried it several years back, however I found that I didn't like the sound of the high C string much. For me it didn't have the required heft that playing the same note on the G-string did, and I found myself encroaching too far into the range of the guitars with insufficient tonal difference to make it worthwhile for me.