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Aaaargh! I've missed out on loads...! Band I was in at school (many moons ago!) kept plugging away with it long after i'd left and went on to have two top ten singles, and a top ten album plus toured the world etc..... Another old band got a 5 kkkkk review of the album in Kerrang magazine and were offered a japanese tour and two of the guys didn't want to take the time off work to do it..... One of my favourite bands of all time (signed to Sony) were looking for a new bassist and through a friend vaguely knowing the drummer I got an audition. They tried out twenty people and I was down to the final two but didn't get the gig because my backing vocals weren't up to scratch... particularly annoying as the old bass player didn't even do backing vocals!! And it would've meant supporting Smashing Pumpkins at Wembley!! Grrrr!!! Another band had a bunch of songs written and through the singer's connections Maiden's Steve Harris and Sanctuary music were gonna record our album and release it. Literally the day before we were due to go down and start recording the plug was pulled on the whole thing by Sanctuary. Guitarist, drummer and singer now part of British Lion, signed to EMI and about to set off on European tour playing a few of those old songs.... Recent band started getting lots of good album reviews, radio play, decent gigs and even a BBC Maida Vale session - then the singer's wife joined on backing vocals.... need i say more!!?! Guitarist from said band also used to tour with a signed band sometimes... one morning I get a text - 'how do you fancy some gigs in New Zealand, urgent ring me ' so i ring and... turns out he'd meant to text the drummer.... who then went and did a bunch of shows in NZ! oh, and don't mention local boys The Darkness!!!!..... For some reason i still stick at it but i do often ask myself why!! I know as well that it wasn't all plain sailing for the above mentioned bands... one ended up getting screwed by the record company who kept delaying the release of their fourth album until they ended up having to sign on or get proper jobs in the interim - by the time it was released tastes had changed and it didn't sell. Another did one more US tour and then split up anyway! peace C

Did a gig recently at Epic Studios in Norwich which was streamed live etc etc - bit out of my comfort zone as i'm primarily a rock player but here it is!... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcsiuxbTjw[/media] lots of other tracks on their youtube channel.. peace C

aside from the spitting.... good grief what a boring band to watch!! looks like they're purely going thru the motions to me..

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[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1348175402' post='1810572'] im not doubting you at all but how come they're your bass lines and not Harris's?? Cheers. [/quote] no probs man... Basically, many moons ago (around 2001 ish) I was part of a band with the singer and one of the guitarists off this British Lion album. They already had connections with Harris and he was putting up the money etc for us to record an album at his studio. Literally the day before we were meant to go down to start recording Sanctuary music pulled the plug on the project. Shortly afterwards I left to do other things but Richie and Dave continued writing and recording together and the project gradually morphed into this Steve Harris solo record. A few of the songs on the album are from the original writing/recording sessions I did way back when and they have changed very little (if at all) - Harris has played the exact same bass parts that I originally put down... if that all makes sense?! cheers C

just listening to this now on the Metal Hammer site - very weird hearing my childhood bass hero Steve Harris playing my basslines!!! I played bass on the demos for a few songs off this new album of his.. nothing spectacular bassline wise but he's pretty much kept to exactly what i played so i must have been doing something right! [url="http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/steve-harris-british-lion-full-album-streaming-exclusively-on-metal-hammer/"]http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/steve-harris-british-lion-full-album-streaming-exclusively-on-metal-hammer/[/url]

haha not sure what to make of this!! Stick with it.. theres some hilarious bits (not the playing so much..... just him!) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdAOsY-mnE[/media]

had a similar thing this week... i'm normally a rock player but was asked to step in at short notice with a 9 piece 70's funk/soul band - very little time to learn the songs and half a rehearsal later i only really dropped the ball once. Made a very nice change to play some of those kinda basslines, and the band were impressed that i played all the twiddly bit in Sir Duke... their regular bass player just drops out for that part apparently!!

I worked on this project when it first got underway about ten years ago! Wasn't a Harris solo album then but a band that was gonna do an album for Sanctuary music - unfortunately the plug got pulled literally the day before we were due in the studio. Guitarist/vocalist/drummer from that are now on this British Lion album as are a lot of the old songs... be interesting to hear Mr Harris playing some of my bass lines for a change!! If its not changed too much then its nothing like Maiden, more classic rock - I have a bunch of the original demos somewhere.

cheers guys.. [url="http://www.ronsayer.co.uk"]www.ronsayer.co.uk [/url]is the band - nah, Paul Jones wasn't there when we did the session, just his producer and the engineer... although whispering Bob Harris popped in while we were mixing.. which was nice!

heres a bonus track of ours that wasn't broadcast on tonight's BBC Radio 2 blues show: [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w1n0h"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/p00w1n0h[/url] sneaky bit of two handed tapping from me in there too! Guess the rest of the show (another 3 of our session tracks) will be available to listen again on iplayer somewhere if anyones interested?!! C

so.. our promoter fella wants us to put together an EPK to send out - anyone else done one or got some good examples? Any pointers? Back in the day they seemed to be a good idea.. some kind of multimedia presentation with pics, audio, video etc on CD to send out but I dunno..... is it really necessary these days when the website contains all that kind of stuff? All the promotional material is already up there online so would just be duplicating that?.... thoughts, comments etc on the back of a five pound note to the usual address..... cheers C

spot of random jamming yesterday - warts n all! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mgx5NdeM0[/media]

just posted this on the attitude FB page: The post that was removed was in my opinion totally relevant to the Attitude bass,,, the colour scheme and inlays of the Fender looked more than a little inspired by the seafoam Attitude and the thumbnail pic even looked like an Attitude at first glance...the Attitude being of course based on a Fender P in the first place... Lots of pics of 'the wife' on here too containing 0% Yamaha. Karl getting blocked for posting said Fender pic seems completely OTT as he has previously contributed lots and is an Attitude player himself. He wasn't trying to promote anything and was just posting info he thought would be of interest to fellow Attitude fans.. it was to me. I like a good P from time to time!

only just saw this Karl... does seem a bit ridiculous.... hmmm may have to say something on the FB page......

cheers dude. As it goes the bandleader mentioned the other night that he's not been playing to his full potential the last few gigs which coincidentally ties in with the amount of times the kids have come along so we're going to suggest that its maybe the extra pressure of having the kids there thats causing his playing to suffer. I think that may make him realise its not such a great idea and is a way of raising the issue without making it personal. We've got no gigs now for a month anyways so hopefully things may get resolved. In summary, they're not bad kids, or bad parents but there is a just a question mark over the wisdom of bringing them on the road. peace C

[quote name='Starless' timestamp='1337468553' post='1660635'] Wow, fame at any price eh? I just hope I never meet the OP, the urge to punch him in the face for his part in the abuse of innocent kids would be just too strong. Unbelievable. [/quote] WTF? ..whats more 'unbelievable' is your attitude right here. Yes the situation is not ideal, but never, despite my feelings on the situation, at any point did i say the parents were a***holes and being a parent myself I would of course step in if anything really bad was happening towards their kids and the matter is of course going to be raised within the band. The whole point of this post was just to highlight the absurdity of them bringing the kids on the road and the awkwardness of us, the band members, complaining about it without risking our position in the band. 'The abuse of innocent kids' as you call it is far too strong a way of putting it! I don't know who you think you are and I don't normally rise to these things but you've pissed me off if I'm honest so anytime you want to meet face to face feel free to bring it on. I guarantee you would not come out on top. Mods... feel free to close this thread. I wanted some genuine advice/thoughts on how to handle the kids/band situation which of course I have recieved from the usual helpful contributors along with the usual dose of humour. I didn't want or expect personal abuse or threats of violence from some idiotic forum troll. Starless? Brainless more like. Idiot. C