Norris

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1355241150' post='1895826'] 'Post- Jazz' is one of those meaningless terms that probably indicates a lack of clarity ...[/quote] So it's like jazz but you can't hear what the individual players are doing?

I don't really know where I'm supposed to look any more - if the new classifieds have been abandoned, the old marketplace forums are still in use? I've just been hanging around the General Discussion & Bass Guitar forums. So to the OP - yes, a lot.

Is it a new service offered by Royal Mail?

Who are you all talking about?

The first FAQ on [url="http://www.herculesstands.com/faq.html"]this page [/url]

They know I play in a band as I have to keep swapping my on-call shifts around gigs. I'm also one of the few blokes amongst the many hundreds at our head office that has hair longer than 2mm - bit of a giveaway I don't talk about it much though, except for the occassional "You'll never guess what happened the other night..."

Friday night we had 3 different people ask "Can I have a go on your drums?". None of them could stand up straight. The funniest bit though was when the guitarist started playing Smoke on the Water - Dum dum dum, dum dum de-dum, dum dum... [b]<silence>[/b] He looked down to see a girl lying flat on her back sprawled across his pedal board. Luckily she had fallen on his tuner pedal and muted the signal. She must've had some nice bruises the next day.

Summarising a lot of common responses:[list] [*]Many people on here are happy to pay an annual subscription [*]Some people would leave if the annual subscription was compulsory [*]The site can't do anything too complicated to segregate paying/non-paying members [*]The mods want to reduce the amount of time they spend moderating [/list] So my idea is:[list] [*]Decide an annual subscription level (£20 has been suggested) [*]Make it easy to pay [*]Make it [u]optional[/u] (then you won't lose members/passing traffic) [*]Find a way to display to [u]everyone[/u] if a member has contributed or not (an icon next to their avatar or something other than the "Members" group under their name) [*][u]Let the users decide[/u] who they want to trade with or pressurise (regular traders) into contributing (there is enough badgering already going on in the Marketplace for sellers to provide location/price/photos etc. without involving mods) [/list] Would that keep everyone happy?

Firstly I'll say I'm not a huge fan of the classifieds. I think the change (albeit in it's present un-finished form) has lost a lot of the community feel. Even the 'pointless' banter in the thread let the seller know that people were at least looking at the advert. Anyway, needless to say I'm encouraged by this thread. Anyway, my real reason for posting is regarding the raising of funds - and the blatant copying of an idea from another website. On [url="http://b3ta.com"]b3ta.com[/url] (and I wouldn't try to access it from your work PC or if you're easily offended!) membership is free. However the users can buy special icons that appear next to their names - that show that they have donated to the site. The icons are changed regularly, encouraging users to be displaying the latest one following another donation. As there are no actual items changing hands (such as the BC lanyards), just kudos, so the entire donation goes to the upkeep of the site. Just an idea like...

Waits for Bilbo's "God I Love Prog" thread...

This probably won't help much, but my old Aria SB-1000 is currently being restored/refinished. This is mainly due to it being abused for a decade or so by me and my drummer. It was absolutely covered in dents from being wacked with drum sticks, bashed on cymbals and generally thrown around. A further decade spent in a dampish loft were not kind either. In mitigation though it has sentimental value, is a 'keeper' because of that, and was barely playable as it was. Having been stripped back to bare wood it will be finished with an 'ultra-blond' clear coat rather than the original honey, and will have gold hardware to 'match' the brass bridge. You never know, I might actually gig it again. I will eventually post photos in the build diary section (when I get my hands on them/it!).

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1354194695' post='1883354'] * [/quote] White cat in a blizzard?

In my first school band I was always meant to be the keys player. However we decided that bass was more important, so I took that up instead. I think I'm the only one of that group that still plays.

I have a GT-6B & use it most of the time for a bit of valve emulation, but I have also set up a 'clean' (bypass) patch on it

Be different - Blue pearloid

Play Misty for me

One hell of a noise - that's Billy's boys

<whisper>I actually quite like playing it. And Wishing Well</whisper>

I wish I could afford one, but prices are stupidly high and likely to stay that way. My first 'proper' bass was a lovely midnight blue 4001. Having part-exchanged it for next to nothing many decades ago, I'm still kicking myself now.

This weekend I set up my turntable and dug out the old vinyl albums. They have been put away 'safely' for the last 15 years or so while my kids grew up a bit. WOW! I've never really appreciated the difference before, but after not listening to vinyl for the last 15 years or so the difference is quite marked. Having been on a diet of digital music for that time - CDs, mp3s and DAB, analogue sounds so much smoother and dynamic. Nostalgia points:[list] [*]The 'ritual' of putting on an album [*]A sleeve you can look at without needing glasses [*]Dynamics - the music hasn't been compressed within an inch of life, and there are actually quiet sections [*]Warmth - it's a more pleasant sound to sit and listen to [/list] I suppose one of the key points as well is actually taking time to sit and listen to music.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1352691747' post='1866220'] ...Louis Walsh doesnt care about musical integrity ...he and mr Cowell care about making lots of money [/quote] Nail, meet head

I make a point to avoid shows of that ilk. Britain's got X-factor, strictly come auditioning for Lloyd-Webber, etc. I have heard of people being rejected at the initial auditions because they haven't got an interesting 'back story'. What do I care? As others have posted, they are entertainment shows, not music shows. The only music show of note at the moment is Later... - and that has some pretty ropey performers a lot of the time. TV has not been interested in music since TOTP was dropped - which is a shame, as despite being generally crap it was all fodder for the much more entertaining TOTP2 shows. Bring back the Old Grey Whistle Test!

There may be cases where things are in storage, or kept elsewhere. However if the seller is serious about selling it, they should get it back in their possession and double-check the condition before offering it for sale. There's no real excuse for not providing photos these days, or even sound samples where appropriate. There again if it's more than a couple of hundred quid I'd want to see it 'in the flesh' before parting with any cash.

Good (and impressively quick) work. A slightly longer flash duration might help - some of them are quite short on my Galaxy Ace. It also might be an idea to be able to choose the flash colour - if the stage is washed in red light you might have difficulties seeing it. Another idea would to be able to overwrite a saved beat - just in case you got it wrong the first time.

Back in the 80's/90's pop music was bad - at least for a guitar/bass/drums covers trio. I've lost count of the number of times we've been requested to do some obscure one-hit wonder that was built purely out of loops & samples and heavy on the keyboards. This usually cues us to look around the stage for the keyboards, scratcher (or whatever you call those people who can't play a record properly), backing singers, etc. Also I always like the drunken guy that hovers near the stage. You can always tell he's dying to jump on the mic to join in on the chorus, and spend most of the gig watching him like a hawk.