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Love rears its ugly head - Living Colour

The drummer in our Free tribute band was Jeff Rich ex Status Quo. Many years ago I played in a classic rock covers band, we used to play a pub in Somersham and on a couple of occasions Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers) came in to watch us play and chatted to us while we were packing away at the end of the gigs.

Oh no, bit like songs from the shows, I'll take The Police anytime over this. I love some of his solo stuff, the one recorded at the villa in Italy around the time of 9/11 has some superb musicianship.

+1 regarding Walk this Way, the only rap recording I actually like.

Mrs Mills

A drummer 90 miles away and doesn't drive - it will never work. You now have the singer with issues, this person also picks up the drummer, every time you have a singer issue it will effect two members of the band.

Kanye West - that's what he thinks !!!!

Don't look good, personally I would be looking for another band. Very frustrating and it has been mentioned on other threads, a fair share of musicians are not the most reliable of people.

I know, please drop me a line at - Number 1 Portmerion Wales

Free Allman Brothers Doobie Brothers

Why go out and play on NYE and enjoy yourself when you could stay in and watch Jools Hollands NYE show ???

Another stupid craze that that originated in the USA.

A pint of cider and four diet cokes cost about £12 to £13 around our way, times that by four band members and it's well worth negotiating that as part of the gig deal.

My usual for a night is one pint of cider then it's diet cokes for the rest of the evening. All of our band drive and none of us would be stupid enough to drink and drive.

I must have been lucky that I have played with three excellent drummers, two were pro players and all three were also drum tutors. All three were rock solid and the tempo was like a metronome. When you play with ones at a lesser level, which I also have, their timing wanders, one guy in particular also did backing vocals, whenever he started singing the tempo sped up.

If it's just a pub gig, I would be happy to take away £100 per band member plus free drinks.

Awesome, love Chickenfoot, top quality musicians.

11am Currently on the BBC Red Button, repeated until 2pm.

Currently on BBC2.

This does nothing for me, IMO a horrible toppy tone. A bass is called so because it should produce lovely low bass tones.

I don't, my back line is enough without resorting to putting it through our PA.

All very subjective, but this list is really stretching the boundaries of the genre of a rock band. A lot on the list I would never consider to be placed within the category of rock band, some are just pure pop, indie or punk. IMO there are twelve bands included that would not be on there. Where are the likes of Cream, Free, Whitesnake etc etc ?

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1510252304' post='3405090'] I try to play the music I love. Can't imagine playing music that leaves you cold can lead to a passionate perfomance! Like working at a copy shop and calling yourself an artist, weird! [/quote] +1 I did play in a band for a few years that had half the set of songs I would not listen to personally or had any interest in, eventually got fed up with playing what I considered to be crappy songs and left the band. I now enjoy playing in a band with musicians of very similar musical tastes and like playing every song in our set.

I'm in the same position, that I end up booking all the gigs for our band, the case is if I didn't do it we would not be out playing. I also contact the local press and send out the posters to the venues in advance of the gigs. I am now getting to the point that I will be taking an extra 10% of the gig money for all the additional work and stress that goes with it.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1510048519' post='3403430'] How long does it take you to set up? If I'm on bass I plug my pedalboard into a DI and tune up. It takes abut 20 seconds. I play a lot of drums and can set up my full kit in about 5 minutes. If I'm on a "shared kit" it's about the same as every other drummer seems to sit about a foot lower than me. My main band is generally ready within 10 minutes. Most bands seem to take significantly longer. I've waited over an hour for the "headline" drummer to set up for soundcheck at a multi band gig. It really winds me up! [/quote] Is your drum kit carried in pro flight cases, if so it would take well over 5 minutes just to take the full kit, stands and cymbals out of them before actually putting the kit together.