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Sunday and Tuesday rehearsals this week with each of my bands.  Suffering from severe lurgy so both were sit down affairs with absolutely no singing.   

Made them fun by enjoying a session man approach to the bass parts.

18 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Gigging in shorts. A great idea until you see how silly you look in the photos. 

Agreed. I played outside at The Dereham Blues festival thinking shorts and a tee shirt was a great look.  Looking back at photos later my wife said "The shorts were OK but perhaps next time wear a better shirt so you don't look like a total tramp"

Love is ❤️ 

After last night's gig in a pub in Paisley a random stranger tried to sell me a Vox AC50 that 'used to belong to the bass player in The Animals. He sold it to my dad.  It's huge as f**k and better than yours'

I don't need it I said. 

it's better that yours he said again.

I still don't want it.  I couldn't lift it. Was it Chas Chandler's I asked.

Aye, he's English.

This went on for several minutes before I walked away.

Back on stage I asked my fellow bandmaster why all the idiots always speak to me.  

His answer was brilliant.  "I used to think I attracted them but you're different league"  😄

For the last few weeks we've been working on nine new covers and last night we allowed ourselves a smug nod with the realisation that eight of them are finally ready to go into the set.   

Played with the blues band in a tiny pub in Lanark.   Didn't take many people to fill it so an enthusiastic audience of thirty created a great atmosphere.

One downside was the access to the toilets door being immediately behind us.  Two songs before the end of the first set I was aware of a most unpleasant honk emanating from said direction. Thankfully the air had cleared by the start of set 2.  

Man alive, it was grim for a while. 

We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals

Mama Don’t- JJ. Cale

Is There A Better Way - Status Quo

On 19/03/2025 at 11:01, mikebass456 said:

Sorry to interrupt! 

 

Brilliant bass player humour. Made me smirk. 

Friday and Saturday was QuoVention, a gathering of Status Quo aficionados in Bilston's Robin 2 venue.  Seven tribute bands over two evenings including guest appearances from Quo drummers Jeff Rich and Leon Cave and Rick Parfitt's replacement, Ritchie Malone.  

All the bands were excellent and gave the punters what they had come for.  

The backline and drum kit provided for us did the job perfectly and the sound engineer put in a sterling shift over the piece.   The event took 18 months to organise and was a great success.  

Bands and fans came from England, Sweden, Belgium. Germany and Scotland.

Back to publand for our next gig to bring us back down to earth. Ha ha.  

2 hours ago, mike f said:

“Broadcast live on Friday 28th November 1985, plus the songs they carried on playing when the show went off-air after transmission”.

 

On YouTube. Go watch it.

 

Michael Burnett playing a Stingray that sounds amazing. What a player. What a singer. What a band! Eyes right! 

I remember that performance well. Brilliant. I'll watch the youchoob tomorrow.  Thanks. 

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

You will now be a man on a mission. 

Dave

I am indeed!

6 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Where was that ? I remember playing a wee support slot with Status Quoiing at a club in West End Glasgow possibly out towards Paisley area that had a Db monitor. Mic was at far end of the hall. I just put a cover over the mic and no-one was any the wiser.

Dave

Last night was a Blues band gig Dave at the other end of the city from where you played.  Small amps, much quieter than the Quo trib.   I didn't think to look for the mic but will make that my mission next time we're there.  

Battling against a sound limiter is never fun.  Resting level before we played a note was 82dB.  We were told not to exceed 100dB so set phasers to soft blast and away we went.  On any occasion where we tipped 100dB the barman ran out and told us we were too loud and had to turn down.

We adapted the vocals to suit and at one point I was asked, jokingly, if my bass was on. 

Well, we made it to the end, got paid and went home.

Drums, bass, 2 x guitars, 2 x vocals and moothie.  

11 hours ago, sprocketflup said:

Lets have a look then

 

Thanks to everyone for your help.  Card option is definitely the way to go.   SumUp is simple and inexpensive.  

Tees arrived yesterday and look the biz. 

We're venturing into selling t-shirts at shows soon.   How do you deal with payments?  Initially the idea was to be cash only but is there a free app that lets  us accept card payments?

Thanks in advance.   

February

The Rezillos in Glasgow.

All in March.

Six Quo tribute bands at The Robin in Bilston.

Young Scottish singer songwriter Kerr Mercer in Glasgow.

The Countess of Fife in Coatbridge.

I was offered a freebie to see Robben Ford but he's not my cup of tea.  Brilliant as he is. 

Tiny pub lounge with the Blues band.  Not that one.

Busiest it got was 13 punters.  At the interval that had reduced to one old guy at the bar.  Two bar staff and one of them put his coat on and left.  

At the end of the night the remaining lonely bar maid (can I still say that?)  said it's the same scenario most weeks.  

Ever the professionals we played our full set, got paid and went home.   

We have two and a quarter hours of tight songs and the venue can have any permutation required.

Normal sets are

2x45

3x45

2x60

1x120 at one specific venue

We also recently did a short 30 min set at a sports event.

Dr Feelguid  in Ivory Blacks, Glasgow last Thursday.  Only their 2nd gig since lockdown but as a fan of the original Feelgoods I really enjoyed their set.  

Teardrops.  Take the name of one of your most widely known songs, keep it simple for use on posters and advertising.   Venue owners and promoters or agents like names that are easy to remember.  You can also add a simple strap line pointing to your Soul/Funk style.  

This is how I've done it for years but Mark. 

articulates it brilliantly.  He's also a better player than I am. 

Bye Bye Johnny.  Quo's version with audience singalong.  

Outside under a gazebo on Girvan Beach Front in Ayrshire.  

Baby Please Don’t Go,  Them. 

4 hours ago, jimmyb625 said:

It's difficult to say for certain.

 

One thing that might be worth checking, is the frequency range it's operating in. From what I could see on the website, it doesn't look like it operates in the UK available frequencies (apologies if you're not in the UK) so you may have problems.

 

Thanks.  I'm in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The chap in the band who bought the system used it live last week and it worked perfectly.   Frequency range is 555-575MHz

The receiver pack I can find online is 500-570MHz

Splendid. Thanks