Woodinblack

As a point of keeping on track, I am not sure anyone said they found listening to music unpleasant but did it because they have to learn it. There were a few 'only listen when I have to learn it', which is different. I have listened to some songs that I found unpleasant because I had to learn them, but that is just the way of being in a covers group - you can't expect to like everything when there are other people in the group and I am sure there are other songs they don't like. In general I don't listen to music I don't like, once I have worked out I don't like it

Nothing yet. Added up all the gigs we had missed. Once it got past the £1000 mark I stopped counting as it was getting a little depressing!

Honestly don't see that one as bad. Obviously it is supposed to be stupid, so within the time and remit of the group, seems quite good.

Seen them many times, one of my favourite groups. Strangely enough the last time I saw them in london a few years ago they were the best sounding they had been.

This would entirely depend on the venue, there is some venues I would pay for free for if I believed they needed help, on the proviso that it was while they needed help and would expect it to be a temporary things. There are some other venues I fully expect to be asking because they are the type that have always tried to pull a fast one in the past, so this would be another excuse. Those I wouldn't.

My name is stan and I love K-Pop! Actually, it is not stan but I actually do like a fair bit of K-Pop

We all have different priorites and relationship with music. I think one of the interesting things about this thread is that clear indication that there is no 'normal'

But louder...

Excelent - I will go and check what their prog, pop and classical stuff is like then!

Now that is something I couldn't do, like listen to just one group (not meaning specifically the Grateful Dead - I don't think I know any of their tracks), even if I liked that group a lot. It would just drive me up the wall. But then I have an incredibly short attention span.

I was in Death Valley once, at a sort of turning space on the road down to the valley. We stopped and I walked out the edge. There was no sound, like none. Then there was the sound of the inside of my own head, like hissing and rushing sound, the sound of existence. Then a bird flew past making an awful racket with its wings moving the air, and broke the silence. That was the quietest I have known.

Yeh, our version, not so much.

Just because I like listening to music doesn't mean I don't like silence. I love silence. Its just not something I get to experience too much.

Unfortunately due to Peter Greens demise, that has being playing a lot. I really dislike that song quite a bit. It is in our setlist, I always dread it coming up.

Depends what you have. If it's a straight fender type, probably around that. More for other models

I can't believe that is the worst manowar you found!

So someone upgraded an American P bass with a MiM neck?

Ah, that probably explains our greek teacher, Mr Dorian Mixolydian

Hmm.. worth a try then. However, my main two gigging (hah - gigging!) basses have just had new strings, but maybe I will get some for the next time

Thats good all the time it works. Anyway, given them a try so thanks for the heads up. I wanted to see what the black strings were like but they are too expensive here

Yep, i have all that too. And certainly if you are one of the people who can be bothered to set that all up for a quick 2 minute noodle, that is a better idea. Its one of the ways I play things, but by the time I have set that lot up, I have lost some of the enthusiasm. I want a spark so I can plug in and play it. You cna make your own. It has what is in the Positive Grid amp apps, which is already pretty damn good. So you can make your own models.

Yeh, I did that a few times then go a post office slush money claim on one, which ended up being very expensive strings, like £6 vat and £12 handling charge

What I found in school when I was there (and hope it is different) is that often the teachers were teachers for a 'proper' subject, who had some free slots so had to do music as they had a record collection.

One day I will get round to trying Elixirs, I get fed up with how quickly strings go dull but they are a lot of money to spend on something you don't know. I mean, I have bough new guitars cheaper than that!

One of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353141464225 My wife bought one and it was just what I was looking for. It has an up / down (optionally left / right) button, a switch on the back to switch from apple / android, a USB socket to connect to a looper, and a usb power socket (lasts for weeks on batteries). But the USB socket was marked as 'looper pro' and although I bought them from different places and both ebay adverts show different footswitches / loopers, they did turn up in the same packaging with the same sort of paperwork, so I wondered if I connected them would it work. And it did.