Silvia Bluejay

Yup, that's how it's currently done. Hopefully this thread will have reminded Basschatters of the Gigs forum's existence.

If you want Basschatters to know about your gig, and they're not among your friends, then FB is absolutely pointless. No amount of doing it right will change the algorythm - even on personal profiles, a person's post will not be seen by all their friends unless they have less than 100 or so.* *Probably should have said 'unless the numbers of friends involved on both the poster's and the receiver's side is low'

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1479164707' post='3174519'] And the reason it's underused on BC is that there are already a million - better placed - platforms out there for this kind of resource. Facebook, Twitter, local gig guides... [/quote] At least if you post here, your post will be seen by anyone who goes to the relevant forum, as opposed to your post being a victim of a mysterious algorythm that shows it only to a small, random percentage of your followers unless you pay for promotion. Facebook and Twitter have had their day. Local gig guides are rarely up to date, unless you mean walking to a pub on the day and reading the boards outside it. There is a strong argument for Basschatters to post their gigs on here, in the Gigs forum. However, its presence needs to be more widely known. Those who follow Basschat on Twitter will know that I bang on about the Gigs forum almost every weekend, but as I said, Twitter as a useful platform is pretty much over, so more effort is needed on here. So, let's have a bump! http://basschat.co.uk/forum/11-gigs/

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1479164105' post='3174518'] I thought you were omnipotent [/quote] Shhhh...

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1479143444' post='3174294'] It is a good resource that is very underused. Would probably be more use to people looking for a band if it good be divided into areas like North West,South East etc. Would that be a lot of work to do bluejay ? [/quote] I am not allowed to create extra subforums, so I will have to submit your suggestion to the admin/global mods team.

When you guys have finalised the date and address, please create a new thread in this Events forum, and I (or Lurksalot) will pin it to the top, and then I'll plug it on Twitter and create an event on Facebook.

The threads in the Gigs forum usually don't need much discussion, so the vast majority tend to consist of one post. In that respect, the forum is one long list, and can be read as such, or searched through using the search function in the top right-hand corner.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/forum/11-gigs/"]http://basschat.co.uk/forum/11-gigs/[/url] The more Basschatters post their gigs there, the more useful that forum will become for both bands and potential local punters. So, guys, use it or lose it!

My guitarist ex swore by the Floyd Rose bridge setup (with heavy-metal-ready whammy bar...). He's one of the few guitarists I never noticed needing to tune up after each song.

Hope to see you at the next one! Stop me and say hi if you see me walking around with my cameras and clipboard.

Incidentally, Sting is featured in the new issue of Bass Guitar Magazine, out next week.

Manufacturers don't pay BGM for reviews; the items to review are chosen because they're new on the market or interesting in other ways. The reviewers have a common template to follow in their articles; they are obliged to be factual with the information quoted (technical specs, custom options etc.) and are expected to express their own opinion, whether positive or negative, without being influenced by any correspondence they may have had with the manufacturer while looking for information. You won't see anybody writing that 'x is utter rubbish': you have to express your opinion in polite, factual terms, and justify your statements. If a reviewer doesn't like something, they'll say so.

Thank you guys! Pete, thanks for that - caption amended.

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I've just tweeted this thread as Basschat. I'll also Facebook it now. Good luck, hope you recover it all.

Long-suffering Happy Jack came with me to one of Tragedy's gigs in London, despite hating heavy metal and not being a huge Bee Gees fan. He's definitely a keeper...

Yup! I was in my early teens in the late 70s, so I was into disco in a big way. Then I discovered the band's back catalogue. Then in the 80s I got into heavy metal (the kind that's now called trad metal), but never abandoned the Bee Gees.

Teeth aside, Maurice seemed to favour playing a R*ck*nb*ck*r, usually a white one, for most of the 60s and 70s...

I'm not surprised that Maurice mentioned having a drink first of all...

As someone who was taught to write with her right hand by mistake despite being left-handed, I can assure you that learning to do something in a way that you feel is 'unnatural' or 'reversed' is a lot harder and, judging by my near-illegible handwriting for instance, the results are poor. I am so glad for the era of computer keyboards (even if they are right-handed too!), and grateful to have started playing bass in times when left-handed instruments were already available and relatively common.

Alan was in the band behind Spirits Having Flown (album and tour). He's great. I'm FB friends with drummer Dennis Bryon, from that same band. All amazing musicians. Edit: speaking of You Should Be Dancing... [Warning: drums-related content! ] [url="http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2015/09/on-the-beat-with-dennis-bryon-of-the-bee-gees-you-should-be-dancing/"]http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2015/09/on-the-beat-with-dennis-bryon-of-the-bee-gees-you-should-be-dancing/[/url]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1475833340' post='3149039'] Mo did all the high vocal lines on Bee Gee records as well. [/quote] No, he didn't, Chris. Barry did the falsetto, Robin did the high lines with his unmistakable vibrato, and Maurice, whose voice was admittedly not as good as his brothers', did the choruses and harmonies. He only sings lead in a total of 2 or 3 songs in the whole of their back catalogue, IIRC. He was at his strongest as a multi-instrumentalist, and he was also the connective tissue between the other two brothers' rampant egos.

IIRC he played all the basslines to most of their 60s and all of their 70s records, including Fever and Spirits. In the 80s he started programming synth bass, and the band also had star session musicians on some songs - Reb Beach on guitar for Overnight, a young Marcus Miller on bass for The Longest Night, etc. Maurice's basslines, and especially You Should Be Dancing, are the reason why I started playing bass, and possibly also the reason why I [i]still[/i] play bass.

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