FinnDave

We started our one song, but ran out of time before the second verse 🙃

I have used https://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk in the past and was very satisfied with the bass case I bought from them.

I don't think that's ever been considered 'OK'. If someone had done that to our female singer (back when we still had one) they'd probably have received a good kicking from everyone in the band.

Hopefully, we'll have an option not to see the resulting post!

Maybe he had a request he really wanted you to play! The bit you didn't understand was probably Flemish for Freebird.

We once had the police come in to a gig to attend to a chap who had wandered onto the stage and tried to talk to each of us in turn before tripping over the edge of the stage, banging his head on the PA and knocking himself out cold. Police asked us to keep laying until the ambulance arrived, then we stopped. Bloke was hospitalised with concussion. Turned out he was trying to buy us each a drink!

I was playing on that stage yesterday! The Wirebirds acted as host band for the monthly blues jam at Fat Lil's - first one they've been able to have since early 2020.

To be honest, I've experienced worse - from a professional (but excessively lubricated) singer.

Pub gigs around Oxfordshire pay between £100 and £300. When I've played in London, we usually got the door money but had to pay for someone to run the house PA, so it depends on what we charged at the door. Tenner a head with a limit of max 120 people made the hassle of driving into London, parking, and driving back out almost worthwhile.

We made the mistake of playing there on a bank holiday weekend - took our guitarist most of the day to drive there from Nottingham.

Would that have been the Wharf? Good venue, played it a couple of years ago.

Guess that depends on your age - I was well past caring by 1991 and will admit to having heard of Nirvana and the chilli pepper, but not the others at all. i certainly couldn't identify music from any of them. So far from the most important day in music history for me - in fact a day of no significance whatsoever in my life.

Quite. Looks like four fingers on one side and a thumb sticking out on the other. Most unnatural. Four fingers, four strings. It's nature's way of telling us what's right.

Sod that, I'm on the gin and tonics!

I refuse to use any system known as true temperance. Nothing wrong with a little refreshment taken in moderation, no matter how frequently.

He's probably got a dozen or more just the same.

For the argument that CDs sound better than vinyl, I can do no better than to refer you to the writings of Bear (Oswald Stanley) the original sound man and recordist for the Grateful Dead, the man who designed the famous wall of sound PA http://www.thebear.org/essays2.html#anchor506008 (scroll down to 'analogue vs digital')

Anyone dumb enough to believe that vinyl records sound better than any digital medium has their head sufficiently well buried in the sand to buy bandwagon jumping tat like this.

I am stunned to learn that some people don't like sunburst basses. It is definitely my preference, by a long way. I am currently selling a few basses in order to slim down, the two Jazz basses I am keeping are both sunburst (and tort, obviously). Sadly, my Precision, which is the best best example of them that I have had, is white. If I could find a P that sounds and feels as good as that one but was sunburst, I'd swap.

I very rarely bother to watch videos, but I watched that from beginning to end - very nice playing, and no showing off, just good, tasteful music. They looked like they were enjoying themselves, too.

A Fedner Prescription bass, no less. Actually doesn't look bad, and the seller obviously has a sense of humour.

We were in a small bar round the side of Waitrose car park. We're hosting the blues jam at Lil's next Sunday - first one they've held since the lockdown started. Which band are you playing with at Lil's? I can't drive at the moment (eye problem) so have to ask my wife to take me to gigs, etc.

Played a regular gig in Witney again, bigger audience than last time so it went well. Drummer was trying out his first electronic kit which sounded fine to my ears and has a volume control. I'm playing there again with another band in a couple of weeks.