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The smallest proper kick drum I have ever seen belongs to an ex-Terrortone drummer. The whole kit is tiny and the kick drum is a cut-down 16" floor tom shell fitted with kick-drum hardware. He used it once at a multi-band gig in a venue with a very small stage where he was supplying the kit. It was most amusing to watch the drummer from a metal band earlier on the bill struggle to use his double bass drum pedal with it...

UPS or TNT booked via Interparcel. However with shipping out of the UK the important thing to ensure is that the parcel is shipped all the way by the same carrier. For smaller parcels some of the big carriers contract out collect or delivery.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1454412322' post='2969414'] There's always one. I have a removals company just up the road but haven't a clue where the nearest bike shop is. But I suppose if you've grown up with Blue Peter.................. [/quote] And I have no idea where any of the local removals companies are yet I know of 4 bike shops in Nottingham that are happy to get rid of their empty boxes. And here's another packing tip. Go to the fabric department of your local John Lewis and scrounge some of the cardboard tubes that material comes rolled on. Cut in half lengthways these are excellent for protecting corners and edges of cases and cabs before they go into the packing box.

You don't even need to pay for packaging. Go to your local bicycle shop and get a bike box (or two) which they will be glad to get rid of. These are massively strong and can be cut up to fit whatever you need to send. All you need to buy is some decent quality tape to stick it all together with.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1454258041' post='2967919'] You should, as if R1 were doing their job properly DV & the T's would be in with a serious shout of some airplay! [/quote] The Terrortones would only ever have been in with a chance of Radio 1 airplay in the days of John Peel. I can't really see "I Can't Find My BrainCell", "Invasion Of The SpiderQueen" of "StickyPants Trance" making the daytime playlist under any of it's incarnations, and that's the main attraction of getting on Radio 1. Besides as others have said, with the introduction of 6 Music and broadening of Radios 2, 3 and 4, Radio 1 is no longer the only national radio option for introducing new music to a wider audience. Radio 1 can go off and be as mainstream and populist as it wants because there are plenty of other credible alternatives with national coverage.

What's the problem selecting a courier? Just general confusion or is the cab in question particularly big and/or heavy. If you just want a general recommendation use UPS booked via Interparcel. I've used them for hundreds of parcels and the only once have a I had a damaged parcel and then the insurance paid out promptly and in full. I've never encountered a problem with parcel size and I've sent some fairly large things. However they do have a weight limit of 50kg. If you cab in the packaging is over the weight limit then the best price I found was by going direct to TNT, but don't expect it to be cheap.

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1454400755' post='2969270'] Or just use a less annoying and poorly designed site. No idea why people still use that terrible broken ad-ridden site. postimg.org is great for single images, maybe flickr for whole albums? [/quote] Ads on Photobucket? Not with an ad-blocker. Then the site works just fine.

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.