BILL POSTERS

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1362229341' post='1997244'] 2 for a pound at poundland. kodak ones [/quote] Sony ones for me, or maybe panasonic. Still from the pound shop, which charges 95p for two where I go, cos theres a 99p shop next door to it - yeah, as cuthroat as that ! I dont trust Kodak for stuff thats not photographic any more than I'd buy a guitar from Ever Ready.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1362233543' post='1997323'] That's a concious decision to change the genre and feel of the song in the same way as I've heard metal bands doing very good versions of Britan Spear's - Hit Me Baby One More Time. With no sense of comedy. The song will sound different just by virtue of other people playing it and different instrumentation. You don't need to change much [/quote] Agreed, you dont NEED to, but sometimes a good number comes out of it. And it saves on the bad feeling you get from a blunt refusal.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1362232478' post='1997294'] I think bands seem to spend too long getting the song 'exactly like the original', without consciously trying to make it sound different it will sound different and until you try a song you don't know how different it will sound and whether even it will sound good or bad. [/quote] Yeah, thats what I meant, although I was thinking more of more radical changes. The difference between Sinatras, and Sid Vicious's versions of my Way for exmple.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1362162133' post='1996700'] Really the only thing that matters to me is that we can do the song justice and the song will do us justice either one doesn't happen and I will have an issue with doing the song [/quote] I cant see any other valid reasons. Except maybe a song thats just too personal, or say, with the name of an ex in the title. Part of the trouble is, doing a song your/your bands way aint what most covers bands are about. Which is a shame in a way, even real pap can sometimes be turned into good numbers.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1362040758' post='1994756'] If anyone in a band really hates a song, to my view the band shouldn`t play it - unless said hating person joined the band after the song was already in the set-list. If the rest of the band are adamant, then make it part of the show. "So-and-so is going to the bar whilst we play the next song, cos we`re all dying of thirst up here, and we can do without them for this one". No need for anyone in the audience to realise it`s an inter-band argumant/dispute. [/quote] Done that ! Just said " I'm going for a piss, I'm Bostin" and just walked off. Got waylaid in the toilets by a young lady once, and didnt make it back for the next number. But thats a tale in itself. Stuff like that never seems to happen to me anymore, must be gettin old..

Albert Lee on Dave Edmunds' Sweet little Lisa. Come to that, anything by Alber Lee, such as Country Boy. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rx-zaBjow"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rx-zaBjow[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGU63KqXuZk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGU63KqXuZk[/url]

[quote name='Phil-osopher10' timestamp='1361998397' post='1994333'] does anyone have a good online resource where you can learn from the very basics of electronics? currently building that zen clone and feeling as if I'm basically doing an adult version of paint by numbers... [/quote] You might try Everyday Practical Electronics or Elector magazines from W H Smiths, both have online versions I think. They have teach in type articles, and adverts for correspondence courses usually. That way you can learn a bit at a time. Good sources of cheapo bits and pieces as well.

Wot....Nobody ???

Anybody got any thoughts about Fenders new or newish tone network. I bought a new USA P last year and never been entirely happy with the sound, its, well, muddy. Hev'nt decided yet whether I want to remove it and rewire the bass to the old fashioned top cut like they, and pretty well everybody else used to fit.

I played in a reasonably successful covers band for two years and never had a single conversation with the drummer. It turned out that one of the the guitarists had been shitstirring all along, while coming across as the nice guy. Wish I could say the the drummer turned out to be OK, but actually he was an asshole. It got so bad that any gigs I found, he would always be unable to make it, more than once crying off just a few days beforeand making out he hadnt been asked etc. I just got fed up of the bad atmosphere in the end and walked. It just wasnt worth the stress. You cant get on with everybody you come across in life.

afaik, theres a requirement to supply a lead with a fitted plug. Doesnt state what type of plug though. If you just cut it off you might find the colours are different to the UK. Nothing to lose though, except may be a problem if you need to send the amp back and the supplier wants to be awkward.

Wilkinson pickups are great for the money in my humble opinion. So are Kent Armstrongs. I put a PJ set on my passive SGC Nanyo Bass Collection, and they are a vast improvement over the original ones. I put Kent Armstrong vintage 10K on my bitsa P, and it sounds more like an old Precision than my USA Precision does. But then so does my 92 MIM.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1359063231' post='1949421'] I stopped playing for 18 months or so... and it was just what I needed. I was rejunvenated and came back much stronger after I got my playing back together which took a while. Everything is so much better now... so don't be scared of a break but you have to recover some ground but I have the energy and drive to do that now. The only downside was that I gave up so many gigs and you can't get them back easily............. [/quote] Absolutomundy. Even a short break of a few weeks helps me sometimes. Seem to play better and not just plod through. Works with the whole band, sometimes when gigs get short, a 3 week break, without a rehearsal, and in my case hardly even picking up a Bass, makes it all kinda fresher, and new ideas come that way..

Sometimes you get cornered into letting people use your gear. Short notice etc. I dont mind too much, but when your last on, you get set up first during the soundcheck, let somebody use your amp. Then after a quick changeover find out your leads and tuner are in a tangle thrown behind your amp. Then find the gains been deliberately turned right down or something like that, cant hear yourself and cant just turn it back up without blowing the sound guys mind. Happened to me that way a few times. Sometimes wonder if its a deliberate attempt to make you look crap, or in my case, Crapper than I am anyway.

Is Bernard Cribbins still cool ? How can we have a thread like this without him? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk4AKOwJbc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGk4AKOwJbc[/url]

[quote name='Toddy' timestamp='1360770299' post='1976196'] Not everyone's cuppa Bill, agree with that,, however still packing them in (think we had 1750 people turn up in Newcastle) but yeah,, thanks, were chuffed. [/quote] N, seriously, good luck. I wouldnt turn it down btw. But spent some winter time in Tenerrife, All the bars were full of chavs watching chubby brown videos while their kids sat watching and looking bored. Crude jokes and bad language just dont make me laugh. Prhaps thats what put me off.

Well done getting the gig, and good luck with it. But chubby Brown is about as funny as a baby sucking a razor blade.

[quote name='Floyd' timestamp='1360751324' post='1975710'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1o9Hg8sORs[/media] Daft as it is this always fills the floor when people are ratted. [/quote] That and Great Balls of Fire win almost any audience over.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1360687087' post='1974700'] Seeing this on TOTP, age 13, was what made me want to be a bass player! [/quote] That, and my first job, repairing blue spot radiograms working a directly above a west indian cafe in winson green, and hearing this coming up through the floor all day did the same for me. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWpovcGjQ0[/media]

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1360628506' post='1973836'] Actually this is nothing unusual. Lots of people use a Sansamp and a monitor. I've been using a Hartke kickback for my onstage sound for about a year. I bought it to do folky stuff and to use as a practice amp but you've got to try it so i took it along to one gig. I roll the bass back on the hartke to give it a bit more headroom and then compensate with a little extra bass through the PA. You get to hear the deep notes from the PA and having an articulate little speaker behind you pointing straight at your ears means no trouble hearing rather better than a conventional stack. I don't really need to feel the bass, just a taste thing I suppose. The biggest bonus is that everyone else turns down as a result and there's far less stuff from the backline going through the vocal mics. Got to be worth a try, there's more than one way of doing things. [/quote] Where theres room, any reason not to use a normal head and 4X10 + a kickback driven from the line out ? I like to feel plenty of Bass, but in pubs with only a vocals PA I cant always hear myself, or if I turn it up I cant hear the guitar.

Cant understand why more people aint covered this. Makes me think of 50s teds in dance halls. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0U-eef6OyQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0U-eef6OyQ[/url]

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1360672315' post='1974242'] You never gonna beat the Bonzos, sorry guys FF nailed it! [/quote] Yeah, beat me to it with that. Never mind, lets have another. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw[/url]

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360628540' post='1973837'] Yeah, that kinda makes my head hurt too. But what I'm trying to say is that when I was a teenager, lots of other teenagers listened to The Beatles and I didn't, because everyone else did, despite being a teenager myself and being exposed to the music of my peers, and so I decided to the buck the trend because my peers' taste in music (aside from The Beatles) largely sucked, so I thought to myself "what they hell do they know anyway?" and went and did something less boring instead, which by and large involved bands other than The Beatles, not that they're boring or anything. Capiche? [/quote] This. Pretty much how remember it. Just got sick of hearing about them, and of their supposedly witty answers when interviewed on TV - which seemed like every day. and couldnt stand, and still cant, McCartneys cringeworthy twee little ditties like oobla dee. Didnt dislike it all, but what I didnt like, I seriously didnt like.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1360604372' post='1973201'] Bloody Hell, you were rich. I was 13 then and I got £1 2s 6d which had to last for a whole school term. I was allowed to spend it on what I wanted (within reason) but when it ran out - tough luck - I had to wait for the next instalment which was the start of the next school term. I did use some of it to buy 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' by a guy who had the name of Tony Sheridan with The Beatles. Wonder where that disc is now, Ho Hum........... [/quote] So it was you who bought it.. He was probably playing the same circuit as Levine back in those days, I do know Roy Wood played for both bands at one time. I met him once, nice bloke. Still doing the odd gigs in Germany I believe, and has had an album out recently. Living proof that your never to old eh ?