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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... 🙂

It's one of them. Gigging, recording and jamming tickle my gonads in different ways. Jamming is the one I couldn't do without, though, if I had to choose.

I would suggest that many 'big artists' are in the same category.... However, I think for our purposes, 'original' means 'not a cover'. I played in a mate's original rock'n'roll band for a while.... it sounded like most other rock'n'roll I've heard lol...

Yeah, there aren't THAT many venues open to original music down here, but as none of us are relying on it for the money (good job, as their ain't much!) we can avoid any crappy ones. Gimme a little festival over a pub gig!

"People don't want original music" They like it well enough when it's on the radio, and their music collections are full of original music, albeit from peer and corporate-approved sources. Strange world we live in.... If we're to give the punters what they want, how long before pubs just have juke boxes? - The punters can have Mustang Sally and the Crazy Frog all night, and they'll pay for it too... and no more having your in-the-doorway fag rudely interrupted by some bunch of posers with coming through carrying large objects....

Yup... Isn't that most of us? I live in Cornwall, so making a living from playing in bands is nigh-on impossible unless you're an acoustic guitar and vocals act and can bag enough gigs, and even then you're going to be looking for a girlfriend/boyfriend with a house. I can't honestly think of any local musicians that don't have a 'day job', even if it's just a bit of teaching or few hours in a music shop or studio. Maybe there is more opportunity in the cities? I can't comment on that...

Jamming and writing music is where the fun's at for me. Gigging I can take or leave. Fortunately my current band plays originals, and we mainly play small festivals, which is usually good fun. I played in crappy pubs on and off for years and, with the odd exception, I really can't be arsed with all that any more.

I've played a range of styles, and 45-105 have never let me down. But like the other guys said... technique!

Usually ain't enough room to swing a cat, let alone 4 of us move around in the venues we play. However, loading in and out of some of these venues can be tiresome due to no parking, flights of steps etc. 4 gym workouts a week, two mountain bike sessions and as much surfing as I can fit in keeps me something like it at 49. Just as well, as nobody else in the band does anything sportwise!