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This is the version we do.

The starting point for any new cover song suggestion, is can the vocalist manage it, is it comfortably within their vocal range, does it require a key change that still works with the song. You can have the best musicians in a band, but if the vocalist is struggling (murdering a song), the band will always sound poor.

That was Dave Bronze on bass playing through the MarkBass rig, looks like EC.

Bryan still has the voice unlike some others who have unfortunately lost it in their older years.

Just heard this on the radio, very tasty.

I recon it was the great pretender.

I was only just watching a documentary on The Hollies on Sky Arts last week, Graham Nash was talking about leaving the band and moving to the USA, he described his first meeting with David Crosby, pure magic, it just clicked.

Yes. I did state we only do about 20 gigs a year which everyone is happy with, there is absolutely no need to book any gigs that require at dep. IMO and the rest of the band, when using a dep the band is not performing at its full potential, the stuff we play is reasonably complicated and it’s not worth the hassle just to secure a gig that the band will not be totally comfortable with. As I stated earlier, if there was an unforeseen problem with a band member just prior to a gig, we would seek out a suitable dep rather than let the venue down by cancelling.

Just weekend warriors, all had good day jobs, about 20 gigs a year which suited all of us.

I don’t quite understand the question here, unless your gig bookings are done in an entirely different way. I was the only person in our band who sought and booked the gigs. Firstly, all the band members have full commitment to the band and are not involved in any secondary projects, so zero conflicts of interest. I contacted the venues and they gave me the dates they had available, I checked our band calendar which showed dates specific band members were not available, if all band members were available for the available gig dates, the gigs would be booked, no gig was ever booked unless all the band were available to do it. The extremely rare occasions we had to use a dep was if a band member fell ill just before a gig. This ensures with all things being OK, we have 100% commitment.

If that’s an active bass it shouldn’t be a problem, the jack shouldn’t be plugged into the bass whilst it’s on the stand, you will flatten the battery very quickly, only have the jack plugged in when it’s being played. If it’s passive, then everything I have said above is b*llox.😀

My hand is up, seriously into the early prog in the 70’s. Here are the bands I was into at that time - The Nice ELP Yes Camel PFM Egg Badger Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Khan Family Brand X Genesis Caravan Supertramp Focus Greenslade Styx Rush Pink Floyd Journey Darryl Way’s Wolf Mahavishnu Orchestra

You should have no problems with The Reaper, it’s a doddle, we used to do the extended album version. 👍

Seen him a couple of times playing with Nine Below Zero.

Hello Mr Tut, Is that John Verity ?

Same around here, it’s soul destroying. I have actually called it a day with our band, something I thought I would never do, very sad times.

We enjoyed it.

Currently on Sky Arts - Queen Live At The Rainbow 1974. This is from their early days when IMO they were at their best being a proper heavy rock band.

Lucky it’s not a Rush tribute band. 😀

Bob Harris is standing in on the Jonnie Walker BBC Radio 2 programme this afternoon, all the music tracks are from the year 1973, brilliant music that brings back so many great memories of my younger days.

This is exactly what I did, strangely the SUB is now my preferred bass I use for gigs.

AC/DC - Punk ? 🤔

That was Louise Marshall, very classy voice. I was looking forward to The Real Thing as they had some great songs in the mid to late 70’s. The first number was OK, but the second and third got progressively worse, the lead vocalist was lacking in range and was almost shouting them out at times, sadly another vocalist well past their best.

Boogie F*ckin Woogie. 😤😤😤 Time for bed, goodnight all.