Woodinblack

You know, I watched some of the Diana Ross set, and considering mostly that she just shouts the words to music, I don't think that if you had been there, it would have been that bad at all. I mean I have some gigs that I thorougly enjoyed, and then listened to them on the Telly or youtube and they didn't sound that great, but there, they were fine. Plus, frankly if you have a totally clear head at a 4 day festival to analyse the quality of singers on a saturday night, what the hell are you doing at a festival?

Often the case (especially christmas work do's), but the last two weddings we have done have gone down a storm, the wedding before last the bride danced for the whole 2.5 hours of our set, and she wasn't even the one who booked us.

Yeh, I saw him there, and had a ticket to the next one but that got cancelled.

I have done a few gigs where I think the audience would have been happier with the DJ, but this was one of the first where i really would have been happier with the DJ too! To be fair, the DJs were very helpful and friendly!

Love the idea of stingrays but never found one that I could cope with the neck on.

Interesting weekend, tale of two halves. Saturday night, local club at the bottom of town where we never play. Its a very.. local.. club, but one of the people we know hired us for their party. Big stage, disco and karaoke before us, that was an experience, always makes me worried hearing people doing karaoke, I assume they think they can sing? Anyway, did the first hour but was so hot the guitarist insisted on having a break there to get some air, very funny vibe. Then they went back to disco and karaoke for the break then we did a second hour and a bit. The guy whos party it was was completely out of it and had a 5 minute rant half way through about.. who knows. Went back on for the second half, then 2 songs before the end, he insisted on doing a karaoke of hazel oconner with us, then the last two songs and out of there. Then the disco - I think they would have been much happier with the disco without us interrupting, and I think so would we. Sunday afternoon, local pub on top of a hill with views over most of somerset, havent played there since before covid and looking forward to it, never a bad day, but this one I had put a facebook post up and it had taken off. They had done it up a bit since were were there. Set it up, even miked the drumkit so I thought I would record it too. By the time we started playing it was already over packed and they had got some more tables in and then it was dancing, singing and full audience interaction from the word go, sounded great, everything worked well, played my TMB35, no irritations at all. Great day. At half time a woman in the crowd did say that she thought the singers vocals needed work as it wasn't as clear as when she saw queen with freddie mercury, but I suspect they had a separate sound guy And the owner overpaid us. Not unheard of in a venue, but unheard of for that venue!

I saw on the local news a rather sad looking mid 20s woman complaining that although she didn't have a ticket, she travelled down from london in case anyone wanted to sell their ticket before realising she couldn't get in. Probably didn't understand why someone was playing outside london! Indeed - Killed by Death as he predicted.

Good point, and well reminded. I think I will play the TMB35 at tomorrows gig.

I find it hard to imagine that anyone other than you would care or notice?

Oh thats good, mine are velcro. Same back on the outside though, two pockets (that each have pockets) on one side and 1 on the other side.

There is a talman 605 which has nordstrand pickups, but it isn't the mint colour.

Was the fan working flat out at that time? they do get hot but shouldn't get that hot.

I have one of those but after a while the individual cross things sag down and it ends up being just a big bag! I suppose I could sew them in.

As a supporting member you have 500M of space, so if you are running out of space its probably video or something!

Well, we have two gigs this weekend in the westcountry on a glastonbury weekend. One is a party so that should be ok. the second is one of the first hill gigs sunday afternoon outdoor in the garden on a pub. Did a facebook group post for it and it seems to have blown up, so looking forward to that.

Its amazing really that that photo had been there for a few weeks and noone noticed until you said.

Hope it improved!

Not quite... Although I do like the more traditional double-dot position

Took a while for me to get that one too - and the answer to all these things are to just do it slow and break it into smaller steps that you repeat until you don't get it wrong. Sir duke is pretty good in that it naturally breaks into a series of obvious phrases. I have a problem with all of these as my two finger picking is bad (my nail picking and 3 finger picking is fine) and I always try to force it. It really is just small section repetition and speed increases.

The reaction is the little like or haha icon on the right hand side of your post. Like the one I have just done on that post

Although the Phasing effect was used in the late 60s, there wasn't actually a standalone effects pedal until 1971. The envelope controlled filter (mu-tron or auto-wah) didn't come out until 1972. Chorus came out in 75 with the roland jazz chorus. The bitcrusher came a lot later. Not even started with synth pedals. Hope that helps

Behringher 4 channel mixers.

I never got into snapshots so I don't use them, and no patches either. Actually no reason that it isn't like that as the majority of songs are just fairly straight, I just dont do it. Plus our set list has a habit of being more flexable than most bands, so can't really rely on the order we are going to play the songs until a few seconds before we do.

Does it need to be somethign as complicated as a kempler, not maybe just a DI box like the radials and straight in the PA, then you are talking putting it in the bass pocket.

Not how I use the HX effects, I don't have an patches, apart from the main one, I just use them as 6 effects and turn them on or off as required.