Woodinblack

So very on topic https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/man-with-coronavirus-went-to-packed-rock-concert-at-new-zealand-arena I am sure Tool are ok here, but that is probably not good for the crowd

I get that you do, you have been saying that. Just to me the music is a thing in its own right, outside of the creator of that music. Yes, I to would prefer to hear it done by the original artist assuming that they could do it ok, for sentimental and connection reasons, but I don't see it as 'theirs' - I see it as something made by them, that is the difference for me. And yes, you clearly see music differently, you seem to see it as something connected to an individual where I don't necessarily. Yet they are tied up intrinsically with their music? I saw them a few times and they were great a few times and dissapointing once. However, there is no way I would have paid to see the last tour as Geddy Lee could no longer sing the songs, and I couldn't have listened to it. Yes, I would prefer to hear rush doing rush songs rather than someone doing a bunch of covers, but I would have rather have not heard him doing the songs the way he was doing them at the end at all. Whereas someone doing a bad cover version rarely damages a song*, an original artist really can. I hope you enjoy genesis and you get something positive out of it. I really couldn't. *Apart from Zombie, by the cranberries being done in a montreal subway by someone who couldn't speak english.

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Maybe that is why I like the TC. I don't really want it to add any character.

Worrying isn't the term I used at the time.

I see your point but then it is a one off. The painting is made once, and will never be made again. You wouldn't go and see Van Gogh and say 'oy Vanny, do me another one of them sunflower pictures you did for trevor'. Frankly whether he did another sunflower, or someone as talented did another sunflower, it would still be a copy of the original. Well, all they can do is an interpretation of their music. Whereas I am sure they can remember when they sat down to write ripples for instance, they are certainly not the same people who did it, and they don't feel the same as they do then. Especially in that case as one of them is missing so they don't have his interpretation. For you it appears that their interpretation is more important, for me the music is more important. And I understand it, as I said, you are connecting hte music to the people in the same way that my wife does. There is loads of music she won't listen to because she didn't like the people who did it, and some she likes that isn't her style, because she liked the people who did it. I don't really have that connection as much. I understand that. My connection between the person that made some music and the person performing that music is not anywhere near as connected as yours. Maybe it was starting out in classical music where everyone was already dead (and frankly, they didn't play it anyway), or maybe people just interpret these things differently. DOn't get me wrong, I would like to have seen them perform it if they were as good as they were when they were normally touring, but they weren't, and for me, as I realised when I had the option to go and see Rush do their last tour, I would not only rather not see it at all than see them do it badly.

I had to upgrade my tuning pegs to hipshot ultralights. The body is chambered, so very light, and it is a 5 string so wanted to reduce the potential for neck dive (there isn't any). My bridge options were limited as I was getting quite tight spacing. And I also like hipshots as I had them on the Ibanez that I was basically copying the dimensions from Yes, I remember that. I told him about the strap lock breaking, and got a sort of 'well that happens' sort of response.

Yeh that is almost exactly how it would sound when I was playing it. Except I would have done my hair first.

No, get the cheapest and then as soon as you get it, replace them with good quality screws and hardware. But be careful unscrewing them

Fair enough, and yes I know some people can't separate the music and the people, and for the it matters, so I suppose the music really does die. luckily for me I would take the second option, the music is far more important to me than the personalities.

Yes, I think they are made of cheese, the cheapest of the cheap - replace those as soon as you can. I didn't actually have an question as to whether I would upgrade mine as I went to put strap locks on the bass, but trying to undo the screw to get the old one off it broke and left half the screw in the body. Luckily I had a friend who managed to get the old bit out and redo the hole, so while I was there I updated the rest of the screws.

All headstocks are marmite things. Love the G&L, hate the guild.

I have had that. I am glad they have improved that in their new offering (and the screw coming apart thing). That gets rid of the main problems with schallers. Probably is when you have 10+ basses, the decision to switch from one to the other is a bit tricky! Thats why I have both, and ones that don't have either.

Remember even with the same PA, every room is different. There is one pub i always have a problem with, shiney floors, walls ceiling. The guitarist keeps nagging to turn the reverb down 'there is no reverb on!'

I suspect that since he has just been kicked out of Public Enemy, it probably isn't so important to him now!

Yes, like that. If you want to use that with just a regular strap, you are a braver man than me! That is much worse than just using an ordinary strap button that comes with any guitar. That is what I like about the dunlops, they are about as big as an ordinary strap button so you haven't actually lost anything putting one on.

Really? All the schallers I have (and the ones I have seen), have a very small lip part, so any normal strap wouldn't stand a chance of staying on for a gig without the locking part. Maybe there is another shaller type I don't know about? Mine all look like the image you posted up there ^

I used to like the schallers, but had a few that unscrewed themselves. Apparently they have fixed that problem now, or mitigated it somewhat, so worth trying out. The advantage the dunlops have is that if you end up with the wrong strap, you can still use a normal strap on a dunlop where you can't with a schaller.

That is an essential feature for my guitarist! i have only owned a few, and tried a few more, but I have been gigging now for 3 years with the TC450, and I trust it. I still have an ashdown CTM100 but I rarely get round to using it

Don't ACG fit Dunlop's to all of their basses? Certainly where my first Dunlop came from. I was Schaller only before that

There was a bit when I looked before you could book tickets that said that tickets were only valid when purchased through <whatever that system was> and if you no longer could use your tickets they would be refunded. i don't know how accurate or enforceable that is

Friend of mine posted a link to the Genesis reunion tour notice on facebook and wrote: Brexit, Coronavirus and now this? 😂

Been looking at one of those column PAs with interest. Trouble is they are generally way out of my price range for the bose ones, or some of the others, and not convinced that what I need to get as a replacement for £300 of Altos on sticks wasn't £2k of fancy stuff I don't want to take down to the Dog and Angry Duck. So I looked at gear4music, with their subzero ones. Some of them get good reviews around the net. Decided I needed at least the 12" one to be of use to me. Then I remembered that gear4music pretty well break everything they touch so looked on their eBay store! Found that one of their battery powered ones (which is only an 8") was reduced from £499 to £299 for a slight broken bit of plastic, which seemed a bit too good to be true, but thought it was worth the try. So I ordered it on monday and now it is here. Here is what the £200 saving was for: Yep, that bit of plastic missing on the left. It all still works fine. It said it wouldn't come with anything else, but it came with all the things the full priced one comes with. TBH, I am not sure it is going to work for a noisy rock band, but it will work for vocals for practice (it is very clear, just not that much bass) and it has a battery too, so I can use it in the street if I decide to try random busking! I will find out next week how loud it is with a drummer. Anyone else use one of these?

Would love the rack, but don't really have a need for it. I have an X18 - the desktop shaped one, otherwise the same as an XR18, except it gives you a few other monitor options but the aux outs are on TRS instead of XLR. It has an area on the front I think the original design idea was that you placed an ipad, except it is too small if it is plugged in. I had (in fact I still have, hoarder as I am ) an XR16 that I started with. I am not sure but I think i ahve had problems with it on two occasions recently. The first was a gig just after christmas, we set the sound up and the singer said that it wasn't coming out of the left PA. I listened and it was coming out but it was really low, So i turned the PA itself up from its own knob (which I never do ). Come the show, unmute and major feedback. Turned stuff down and got it under control but unbalanced, then I realised it was because the 'quite' pa was now deafening and clipping, so turned it back to normal, put the mixer levels at normal and sound was good (lucky I make a scene save everytime I get it where I am happy just incase). At practice for my other group, one of the PA speakers didn't appear to be working, so I muted and unmuted and it was back. But I was doing other things, so I didn't really pay much attention. This is however the same PA and the same leads, so it is hardly a conclusive test. I tried it at home and everything seems fine. I have been storing it out in an outbuilding which is cold and possibly damp, and both of those events would have been in an unusually warm area so a big change of temperature. However, after a couple of hundred gigs and the fact it has not been treated well in its life (and it was second hand when I got it), if it died tomorrow, I wouldn't feel cheated and would go out and get another one. There are very few technological things that promised as much and actually delivered like this.

Obviously there is that to-the-point thing, which is a bit jarring to start with, but beyond that, I didn't find him that helpful when trying to work out what I wanted back in the day, and not really clear what he was suggesting, and then when it came to aftersales, actively unhelpful. I do love the bass though, especially once i have replaced the cheap strap screws..