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great post!

I think Gary Barlowe can dance better than me!! It's exhausting!! should get the extra weight off though. 2 hours yesterday, still can't quite remember the words but the routine is starting to come together!!

my God, I am preparing so hard for this. I'm up at 5.30am today, and I think I've nailed the first verse lyrics I have 2 songs to learn and routines too. I know the songs but some of the words, the way they meter and fit together. Very well written songs. There's no room for the words on an ipad here. They must be learnt well. Still quite bruised from the fillers😅

I'll be singing in this, not playing my bass

I don't want to jinx it by saying who it is but originals

I've been dying my hair blonde for 20 years now. I'm doing this to enhance my chances, it's not making me look 20 years younger, I don't need that. Will I keep it up, I don't know. If I get the gig, I'll see how it goes, if I don't get it I won't bother (The filler was quite painful actually)

no one has asked me to do this, I decided to do it

I will post them when the botox has kicked in. Takes about a week to settle down.

he would't get the gig looking like that!! (what a thing to say)

yes absolutely, I am male. I wouldn't do anything permanent either

probably not no. Just a little enhancement to turn heads (coloured contact lenses too)

Here's one for you. Would anyone here go down the these routes to make themselves look a bit better, less haggered, younger.................whatever I have always said no, this is what I look like (pretty good for 56 years old, if I do say so myself) But I have an audition coming up in a few weeks (with a fairly well known group) and have decided to pull out all the stops, in a hope that I get the gig. So I took the plunge, with the help of Mrs PS and her cosmetic genius at a place in Chistlehurst come on then.......................spill the beans

you are the Guru. It has changed my life

Obviously names can be registered. Check out the whole Bucks Fizz / Original Bucks Fizz / The Fizz story. Only 1 original member in Bucks Fizz and 3 in The Fizz (although it will be 2 soon as Mike is retiring) I have been in 2 bands that registered their names and one band that was around for 30 years, which at one brief time had no original members in it till the original singer rejoined. People knew what the band were about and the evolving line up didnt detract from it. I don't think anybody in the UK is using the name now, but someone is in the States (original guitarist actually)

lol, maybe I will!!

I hve too many guitars and basses. totalling 30. My wife has another 10!! QSC pa and subs and 3 different A&H desks, 3 bass amps, 3 different cabs, bass preamp pedals and FX pedals 5 different valve guitar amps, several 4x12s too drums, electric and acoustic A bass combo in my office and an AC30 too I just can't be bothered to sell the stuff I dont use

The la bellas on my hofner are 12 years old now. But have only done a handful of gigs. They're staying put!!

having read all this, I've forgotten what the original post was!! I've been in and run bands since 1986. In that time I've played with mad people, quiet people, good players and bad. As already said, it's not the best players you need but the players that help themselves. I now play with a select few people that are organised, well equipped and easy going. My last band was around for 30 years. The BL was the bass player and ran the diary really well, he had all sorts of deps at the ready etc. He had cancer and continued to gig up until the end. I took over running this band and playing the bass (I was at the time, the singer). Drummer coudnt run a diary and missed plenty of gigs, so I told him to clear off, then the 2nd guitarist became all about himself. He started playing with a cleaner sound and got louder and louder. It was awful, so I took the decision to finish it. If it's too stressful, just stop doing it, IMO it's not even worth talking it over with your bandmates. It'll just revert to type in the end

do you play with a pick, your fingers or your post-it notes?

This is the bass that Phil Lynott used, much later in his career. Although he painted it black and put a mirror guard on it

I do a gig, with the same band on August Bank holiday on the Seafront in Deal. I've been doing it for 12 years now. We would often have special guests turn up and play and our mate Chris (RIP) would play his 12 String acoustic on Wish you were here. Every year he turned up with a guitar lead that didn't reach the desk (which was only a few feet away) I always had a spare. Last year it was his Son that came and played the 12 string on the same song (it was quite emotional) I can't remember if he had a long enough lead but I had the spare just in case. I always have spare mic leads, vocal mics, bits and pieces, gaffa tape etc

I'd come to it (as long as not gigging etc) I'll even bring my beat up '73 P bass

I have an old hofner violin bass. I've used heavier tea bags than this thing, worth a look if you don't mind the shape and the short scale

so I have an update on the MI Pro 58 system. I was making a showreel on wednesday and was using the MIPro system and my wireless sennheiser mic. The videographer/ soundchap had my tracks playing thru a monitoring system, with my vocals. The very very slight latency in the system made my voice sound like it had 'chorus' on it (which is a delay based effect IIRC) This isn't a problem live as the PA is normally in front of me and I will continue to use them. I'm about to 'rack' the sender and the Sennheiser receiver to make my setup/teardown easier the headsup here being, if you have onstage monitoring as well as IEM, you may hear the effect too

superb, I remember it like it was yesterday