odysseus

Great for exercise up the neck, but a bit of a ball-ache further down.....

Yeah, unfortunately, a significant number of the public expect musicians (and others) to be all things to all people and fulfil their expectations. Fulfilling expectations outside of music and performance isn't really a musician's job, outside of realistic limits. One could argue that 'if you don't want the attention, then don't seek the fame' but that just panders to the entitled fanboi. I guess you need the patience of a saint to be nice to every single person who wants a piece of you.... I ain't got it, and I wouldn't expect others to have it either. I'd make a crap rock star!! 😂

Right handed, right leg for bass, left leg for classical guitar...

I pretty much lost interest after Counterparts.... not that any of it was 'bad' as such, it just didn't move me the way earlier albums did...

Anybody else read Ghost Rider? All respect to Neil for coming back from the sort of devastation that he went through..

One of my all time favourites along with The Enemy Within. 😎

A couple of my mates needed a finger-style bassist and knew I played classical guitar. The rest is history... 30 years on I'm still loving the bass.

Why is it that the lady gets upset when I'm using her botty as a drum kit when she's saddled up?... I wonder if Mike Portnoy has this problem... 😟

I have the breaking strain of a lettuce leaf where bass gear is concerned.... 😮

Reminds me a bit of Ian Astbury too. I quite like this.... 🙂

If you fancy something a bit more trippy, along the Ozrics vein.. try Shpongle. There's a couple of live sets on YouTube as well as albums. ☺️

A Show Of Hands was a massive influence on my teenage self. Moving Pictures is probably my favourite studio album. Honorable mentions to Power Windows, Grace Under Pressure and most of the rest of that era.... lol

It's Tool doing what they do. Anyone expecting a skiffle album will be sorely disappointed. You can't please everyone, nor should you try. I'll be interested to hear the rest of the album. If it's good I'll buy it. If it ain't I won't. Simples. 🙂

Damn fine it is , too!! 🤩

That is my experience. I ditched my stack and got a Barefaced Big Twin 2 - the sound is way better, loads of headroom, and my back is very grateful too...

I didn't mind TBH... it was the pool room right next to the tiny stage. I leapt in and out occasionally to keep myself amused... 🙂

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I've played in a different room before....

I don't let my gear out of my sight....

1 - 12 hour work shifts got in the way. 2 - Guitarist wanted to control everything, and no input was allowed. 3 - Drummer wouldn't even listen to tracks outside of rehearsal, let alone practice etc. 4 - a couple of members wanted to be rock stars... in their 40s... good luck with that.... Apart from #1, the other 3 bands were in the very early stages. Over the years I've developed a quite accurate pillock-meter.... if I think it's going to be a pain in the derriere, I walk.

Only had one of those, and that was when the singer/guitarist was as p!ssed as a mattress.... fortunately, so were most of the punters.

For sure. In my experience, established bands would be further up the order while newer bands would be playing earlier in the day, or possibly on one of the smaller stages if it is a multi-stage event. Where I am it is common for more established band to take a newer band out with them as a support act, and the whole networking thing kicks in with bands recommending each other for festival slots or multi-band events like biker rallies etc.

Yes indeed. There seems to be quite a lot of variance between areas. Fortunately, the festival scene is predominantly original where I am, and small festivals seem to growing in number year on year, which is pretty cool.

Fair play, mate, I've been on both sides too. As long as everyone's happy doing their thing, then all is good! 🙂

My experience of playing originals is that you get to play festivals in front of people who want to see original bands, not some bunch of Man U shirts squawking for Wonderwall all night. If I wanted money I'd be playing Agadoo (and possibly Wonderwall!) in some function band. Nowt wrong with that, if you're in it for the wedge. We all got our motivations. Vive la difference and all that... 🙂