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Certainly will post up pics or links or whatever. Though it has been noted by some wit at work already that, on the day this was confirmed, the Met bought three water cannons. So you might see them being tested on us on the 10 o'clock news...

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1402495018' post='2474119'] Fabulous name... [/quote] Cheers! It suits us well....

Hi all I play in a slightly wonky pop punk covers band with 7 work colleagues, we got together for fun and to raise a bit of cash for charity. We've done all of three gigs, one in a practice studio, our works Xmas bash in a hotel and three songs at a talent contest in a theatre. Raised about £3k so far for Bliss. One of the guitarists/the band leader (Ian) is a Sales Director, and thoroughly enjoying this mid-life crisis inspired band, as are we all. Any how, we work for Barclaycard who are sponsoring British Summer Time in Hyde Park, Ian has convinced the organisers that we should play. So we'll be playing on the Band Stand in Hyde Park between 6.30 and 7.30pm on Tuesday 8th July, which just happens to be World Cup semi finals night with free entry, beer and big screens for the footie. So, who knows what it'll be like or how many people will be along. If England get through, were in real trouble, not much danger there though ;-) I'm under no illusion that we've got this gig through anything other than a first class blag, connections and twisting arms. We will add precisely zero to the sum of human musical development as we knock out our dodgy under-rehearsed, pop punk covers. But I'm heartened by the fact that there weren't going to be any bands on at this time, so it's not like we've displaced someone else! Any how, I'm claiming it as supporting Black Sabbath, just a couple of days late and on the wrong stage. If you happen to be about, look out for Declined Transaction!

Thanks both, got a couple of feelers out (one with CH, thanks for the tip!) will update or post pics later.

Think they might be Gotoh GB2s?

Hi all Just realised that I've lost one of the little end caps that fits into the bottom of the machine head on my Sandberg. It must just have worked loose and fell out. Now, I can't tell the manufacturer of the tuner, there is nothing printed on it but it's a pretty classic design. As seen on this link to the Thomann website (it shows the tuners clearer on here than on the Sandberg site.) [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/sandberg_california_jm5_mn_natur_matt.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/sandberg_california_jm5_mn_natur_matt.htm[/url] Any idea where I can get the replacement part? Don't really want or need a whole new tuner. Thanks all Jason

Hmm. The thing that helped me most was playing with a lighter touch and using a Gramma Pad with boomy rooms/wooden floors etc.

I can ask him mate, drop me a PM with a few details about yourself and what you want to do etc and I'll pass them on. Cheers J

Haven't seen loads, Limehouse Lizzy are excellent though. I think that they do 'pay tribute' to the original band, rather than try and ape them. It's obvious that these guys are real fans of the band in question and talk to the crowd as fellow fans in between songs, not pretending to be the real thing. The others I've seen where the wigs and slightly shonky costumes come out, do put me on the back foot a bit. Saw a well regarded/known T Rex tribute recently, I think that the 'Marc' may actually believe that he is him re-incarnated. Kept dropping these rock and roll stories in the first person, freaked me out a bit. Good band though, other than the hits material a bit thin. As regards to the tribute/original/cover debate, they all have their place and I like to sample them all. Always seems a bit self limiting to just say I only like 'such and such', after all you may prefer 'fine dining', but a bag of chips on the way home the pub also sometimes hits the spot. (I'm not saying which is the chips btw )

Great practice tonight, we all really like the rod things, my mate turned up with a variety of types and not only are they just that bit quieter we all really liked the quality of the sound. Just took a little of the initial crack out of the drums but left us with a nice fat drum tone. The overall levels just dropped a smidgeon and the mix was so much cleaner as a result. Good stuff.

Cheers guys, to be fair to my mate his attitude is pretty spot on really, he's being proactive and has a few different types of rods for trial tonight including a set of the nylon ones. The ones he had initially fell apart more than broke really, the rods slipped out of the heat shrink handle. He hasn't broken a stick in years (thrown a good number at me though...) I think we are getting there, and probably without the e-kit route coming in to play.

Traded my Rat Tail for Paul's VMT. Really straight forward transaction and easy. Cheers mate!

Thanks all for your input. We had a practice last night and my drummer tried out some of those birch dowel rod sticks. They worked really well for him (and us) in just taking the volume down a bit (well, they were cheap ones and started to fall apart but he's now on the hunt for better examples.) I think we'll try this for a bit for rehearsal (our singer is pregnant so we don't want to pummel her little passenger), great to have all the insight into e kits though, should he decide to go down this route we'll be well informed. Thanks again!

Thanks guys, some interesting points here. It's not so much that my mate is massively heavy handed but his a big fella with long levers! But the durability and issue re hand damping are worth highlighting. Whilst I have your attention, and kind of related, have you or your drummers ever used those sticks made of nylon rods as another means of taking the volume down a touch? Any good?

Thanks both. We only put vox through the PA and run on backline, so a stand alone cab seems to be the easiest option. Any drawbacks to an e-kit? I can't really think of any myself.

Hi all Our drummer is considering switching to an electronic kit. I can see quite a few advantages, he's a big unit and beasts the kit so volume can be a challenge. He's looking at an Alesis DM10 or DM10x. Anyone gig with a drummer who uses an e-kit, any thoughts? How do you amplify it? PA or seperate cabs etc? We are a hard rock/classic metal sort of band. Cheers Jason

Metallica are a great live band, hopefully they'll show some of the pretenders that usually grace Glastonbury what that really means. I'm sticking with Soni though...

or maybe, a Richter

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