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[quote name='Coldflows' timestamp='1475952518' post='3150078'] Does that logo look strange to you? It has a weird shadow around it, like a waterslide transfer... [/quote] I had one in Candy Red, that also had a clear outline around the decal, it looks legit to me[attachment=229519:144.jpg]

I marked all my gear with smart water, when I have sold gear I have used the smart water as an asset telling the buyer to keep my details as if it is ever stolen and is subsequently recovered it would show my details and I will have some kind of record to show who I sold it to and when, buyers have not been put off in any way

Signed 9152 (if I was paying attention!)

I didn't know much about him and certainly didn't know he had written so many huge songs, RIP Rod

My mate gigs one of those, I had better tell him to wrap it in cotton wool from now on, seems a tad pricey to me!

My mum was a concert pianist, still is a fantastic player but never once did she offer a single word of encouragement to me in my playing, she has still never seen me play live and has never heard a song I have played on despite friends of hers telling her that she should have a listen as she would likely be very surprised at what the band sounds like.....I did put it to her once but never got a proper answer. My dad was a decent drummer, who worked in the entertainment industry so I got good support there, my step brothers are all cracking guitarists who took up playing after coming to see me play when they were small She taught my son to play piano to a very good standard Nowt as strange as folk!

I am "special" if that helps at all?

I have just bid proper money for a USA Musicman Sub....why....I already know full well I don't like Musicman Basses

I have far too many....but still suffer horrendous GAS!

Battered Mike Dirnt Precision that I paid £80.00 for, I have repainted it and upgraded most of the parts but it sees far more action than any of my more expensive basses

I can't vote on this one, both were massively influential in their own genres, I imagine Bob would have listened to or at least heard the Beatles stuff in his younger days but to choose one over the other is something I can't do Football wise I think Bob would have won, he was a really keen footballer, I don't think the Beatles were?

The painful reminder that technology has moved on and left me behind....it all sounds fantastic, I understand IEM's and even own an IPhone but putting the technology together scares me. From your IPhone can you alter the mix for the other members of the band and just give them loads of lovely bass guitar? Could a member of the audience with the right app totally trash your monitor mix and even replace it with a One Direction song playing in your ears?

Sally McLennan by the Pogues, I gigged it for years with Sack The Drummer and I don't think I ever played it right! It was always played as an encore song, everyone (including members of the band) were usually well lubricated by that point so it always went down a storm

A local shop tried to sell me a Jaguar bass apparently once owned by the bass player from Coldplay, I suggested it was worth less than one not owned by Coldplay.....the deal didn't happen!

I voted for the MIM jazz, I know the Squier's are excellent basses but I just think the MIM bass is a touch better, but play both and buy whichever you prefer

25 years ago, Birmingham university (High Hall) Supporting a band aptly named Stress with my Westone Thunder 3 fretless....happy days!

So, at a rough guess this thread has ordered at least 40 units! When I ordered it said 10+ available, I wonder how many the + equates to?

I started on guitar at the age of sixteen, I wanted to play bass but second hand basses were harder to find back then so I ended up with a "cracking" Satterlite Strat. I got my first bass about 6 months later

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1473007009' post='3125984'] If the venue is regularly getting low audiences I'd look at the attitude of the management and then bar staff and the cleanliness of the toilets and general ambience. People have had enough of going to grotty venues with surly staff. May not be worth playing there of that's the actual problem. Plus. How does your music fit in with an Australian beat box and a hardcore metal band. That's just the wrong combination on my mind, it's not going to attract anyone for a whole evening. [/quote] You are probably correct, but my frustration was not just with last night's venue, I think my biggest frustration is that we get to play empty venues with some fantastically talented younger, up and coming bands who should be pulling in audiences but end up being watched by the other bands members only, I am far to old to make it in the music business nowadays and I am not sure I would even want to, but they are not, it would be nice to play alongside bands like this and bring them a bit of a new audience.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1472990604' post='3125790'] what's the age of your band? I'm afraid with very few exceptions bands tend to attract the same age group as themselves and older folk, generally, aren't interested in new music, I've said it before, but as rule of thumb, if you've not 'made it' by the time you're 30 it's very unlikely that you will. That's not to say you shouldn't make new music, but it'll be only for yourself and a few followers, my band are working on our next CD but I don't really expect to sell more than a few hundred. [/quote] I thin k you are probably correct on this, we do accept that age is against us and to be fair this project was based around recording the best music we could and if we got some decent gigs out of it then that was an additional bonus, so we didn't bring a crowd, no surprise (we actually stepped in last minute to fill a hole, so couldn't really promote it in advance, not that it would have made much difference if we had!) but we played with a young post hardcore band (whatever that may be!) on their first European tour who to some extent are relying on merchandising sales to fund the tour and a truly phenomenal Australian beat box performer who just blew my mind! It is not as if the event didn't have diversity and appeal. What does annoy me is people moaning locally that "you're always playing in Leicester" (20 miles away so hardly the other side of the world) so when we do play locally and invite those that moaned they still can't be bothered to get off their lazy asses and attend. I know I can play in a covers band and trot out the much hated Sex On Fire to our hearts content but what are the next generation of covers bands going to have to pick from if there is no one creating new music that anyone is interested in?

How does the current guy gel with the rest of the band? Bands are about what all of the members bring to the table, change one member and you change the whole band and if it is a band that gets on well as a unit sometimes bringing in an "outsider" does not improve the band. My old covers band had an inexperienced drummer who developed as the band went on but was never going to be viewed as an excellent drummer, he took a year out as he had got to the point where he wanted to do other things, we brought in a far more experienced drummer who on paper should have made us sound so much tighter but, it changed the ethos of the band, we weren't the same team anymore, when the original drummer announced he was missing us and wanted to come back, it was an easy decision to make and the balance of the band was restored.

I tend to play with three fingers now when playing finger style, it didn't take long to include the third finger into the playing but stopping three fingers giving a triplicate type rhythm took a little longer, it shouldn't be too hard for you to go from one finger to two as you are already a competent player so you shouldn't need to be concentrating on what your fretting hand is doing just focusing on what your fingers are doing should see you getting it right pretty quickly

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1472979051' post='3125659'] [color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]So, we played the Shed in Leicester last night, great little venue, great PA some fantastic artists and absolutely no crowd again....you have to wonder whether it is worthwhile, clearly bands / artistes playing new music are less attractive than a Saturday night in front of the television watching the next up and coming manufactured buy / girl band / whiny solo artiste with an acoustic guitar on Britain's got X Factor?[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]We have spent hundreds of hours writing, rehearsing to be[/size][/font][/color][color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]come the band we are, we get radio play and great reviews from the few that bother to come and see us. It seems a waste of time inviting people to come to these things as invariably they don't turn up. So, it was a waste of time for the venue, the promoter, the sound man and the bands, I assume at some point these venues will close, the promoters will stop, the bands won't have anywhere to play and people will be on here bemoaning the fact that there is no new music anymore.....rant over[/size][/font][/color] [/quote] Sorry, I just copied and pasted what I had put on Facebook, so the bit about "people on here bemoaning the fact there is not new music anymore" was not aimed at Basschat as we are all musicians on here that want to see live music thrive, it was more a dig at "friends" that grew up knowing how important live bands were that now just sit in front of the television on a Saturday night eating pizza and bitching that the likes of X Factor has ruined music....well no, the fact you can't be bothered to get off your lazy collective asses and go and support live music is the reason that the likes of X Factor have been able to ruin music!

[color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]So, we played the Shed in Leicester last night, great little venue, great PA some fantastic artists and absolutely no crowd again....you have to wonder whether it is worthwhile, clearly bands / artistes playing new music are less attractive than a Saturday night in front of the television watching the next up and coming manufactured buy / girl band / whiny solo artiste with an acoustic guitar on Britain's got X Factor?[/size][/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]We have spent hundreds of hours writing, rehearsing to be[/size][/font][/color][color=#1D2129][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=4]come the band we are, we get radio play and great reviews from the few that bother to come and see us. It seems a waste of time inviting people to come to these things as invariably they don't turn up. So, it was a waste of time for the venue, the promoter, the sound man and the bands, I assume at some point these venues will close, the promoters will stop, the bands won't have anywhere to play and people will be on here bemoaning the fact that there is no new music anymore.....rant over[/size][/font][/color]