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...and another from me. This is designed for exactly your situation. The ability to slow down the MP3 is great when you're trying to learn something, as is the ability to create a short loop. [quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1444246349' post='2881606'] Another vote for the GB-10 [url="http://tascam.com/product/gb-10/"]http://tascam.com/product/gb-10/[/url] I've used its predecessor, the MP-BT1, for years, and the CD-BT1 MkII CD-based one before that. [/quote]

Like several other discussions on this forum, it really all boils down to the audience. Try going to a festival DJ set, and ask the audience if they think the DJ is an musician and worth his fee, then if enough of them say yes, then he/she is. Nobody else's opinion is relevant. If you accept that a DJ adds a significant amount of value to the raw material he/she is using, then he is a creative musician. If he does some of that creativity live, ( i.e. not everything is created in a studio or computer ), then he has a right to be called a live creative musician, or a performer, just as much as a musician putting their own interpretation on jazz standards that somebody else wrote. like a lot of people here, I'd rather listen to the latter, but it takes all sorts to make up this wonderful world of music we all live in.

Thanks, Fuzzbass, for the heads up on the Tascam iPhone mic. I do have an iPhone, but it's a company-owned device, only 8GB, without a whole load of empty space, so I wouldn't want to rely on it having space, or on me still having the phone in two years time. The Backtrack sounds like a good idea when used as originally designed ( I don't think I would ever use it like that ), but the microphone add on sounds a bit of a compromise.

I want to buy an entry level recording device, mainly for recording our band to help with my practice regime, but also other musical things, and possibly just as a dictaphone* for work Both the Tascam DR05 and the Zoom come in at under £100, and seem to suit my needs. Does anybody have any opinions on one of these vs the other, or of anything else in that price range I should consider ? Thanks in advance. * "I use my Dictaphone" " That's odd, I use my fingers" There, I said it before anybody else did

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1383492839' post='2264990'] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Starcaster-Electric-Guitar-with-Amp-and-Accessories-/111190132941?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item19e372c8cd"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item19e372c8cd[/url] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Stratocaster-practice-amp-gig-bag-leather-strap-and-lead-VGC-/261313958446?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cd786922e"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3cd786922e[/url] My sons both had Yamaha Pacifica guitars. Yes - very good as a start. They also sell for pathetic sums of money. So you should get a real bargain. [/quote] +1 to that, my son started on one too.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1380699993' post='2228982'] the 'live in the air age' version ? agreed [/quote] I bought that album back in 1979 and then the CD when it came out, I don't think a few months have passed when I haven't played it. Wonderful, and so different from their rather bland studio recordings.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1376371540' post='2172850'] Seconds Out is up there with Floyds Dark Side of the Moon in my book. 2 of my fav albums from that era. Saw them on the Duke tour and have met them all - even had coffee with Mr Collins who is an absolute gentleman and very friendly. An album I think sometimes gets a bit over-looked is "Then there were Three" which has some great tracks on it. I'm pretty sure I have a live tape from around 82 could have been Wembley but off hand not sure. Great band and I like various songs from all Genesis eras but Trick, 2nds Out and Ttw3 are the highlights for me. Dave [/quote] Completely agree. Seconds Out was what drove me, as a poor student, to buy a proper hifi. My favourite album of all time. I also agree about And Then There Were Three, which has some great songs on it. A friend of mine, as a party trick, plays the keyboard solo from Follow You, Follow Me on bass. I also love The Lady Lies from the same album. "So glad you could make it, we've got everything arranged..."

Those who were around when Phil Collins's In The Air Tonight first came out will all remember air drumming...

Dogs Die in Hot Cars were pretty good too. I can't help feeling they would have more success with a less wierd name. Came from the same Scottish arty scene as Franz Ferdinand.

I would like to set up a band based just a few miles west of Gosport called... The Kings of Lee-on-Solent

I've got an acquaintance who plays in Bjorn Again, and they were invited to play at Benny's ( or was it Bjorn's? ) birthday party. I also heard a story about Mick Fleetwood turning up at a Fleetwood Mac tribute band gig and asking to play in the second half.

We do... REM End of the World into Girls Aloud(?) Love Machine and back again. Crosby/Stills Love the one you're with into the middle bit of Stairway to Heaven and back again. Bit of Bob Marley's Everything gonna be all right over the last bit of Coldplay Fix You.

I've been playing in a covers band for a few years now, and have come to the conclusion that when choosing a set list you have to...[list=1] [*]Entertain the audience AND... [*]Entertain yourselves. [/list] If you can't do the former, you may as well pack up and go home, and if you can't do the latter, you will soon jack it in ( unless you are getting paid a lot of money for doing it ) You should probably apply that test to each song on your list. I suspect there are one or two on there which you are playing for your own entertainment, and you should remember that your taste in music is probably affected by the fact that you are musicians, and unless you are playing to an audience of other musicians ( which doesn't happen very often, but it's nice when it does ) some of those might be a bit obscure. Of course, you may see it as your mission to introduce your audience to stuff they won't know, but you should do that sparingly and with some discretion on the night. Last year we learned Pelican by the Maccabees, which we all loved as a song, and is huge fun to play, but the couple of times we've tried it in public it's been a real floor-clearer. Lesson learned. You could probably get away with one or two that don't fit criteria 1, and you should maybe consider 1 or 2 that don't fit criteria 2 but would be popular with the punters ( Mustang Sally ? :-) )

I played at my own 50th b'day party, I did a few numbers at the beginning of the set, and the last couple, but got two different people to stand in for the rest of the time, including a young relative who had never played with a rock band before. If it's your wedding, people will want to talk to you and you new Mrs ( preferably at the same time ), so I would recommend doing something similar.

Drop tuning my P-bass to D seems to upset the intonation slightly. Not enough to stop me doing it for one song though.

We do One Day Like This by Elbow. Wonderful song, but the bassline is just octave E's ( the original is, I think, in Eb or F ) all the way through until very nearly the end. When it does change to following the tune near the end though, the effect is quite dramatic.

How Music Works was a 4 part program covering melody, harmony, rhythm and bass. Extremely informative and took examples from all forms of music. Looking forward to the new series. In case you didn't know, Howard Goodall wrote the theme tunes for QI, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Vicar of Dibley and lots of other stuff.

I have a Fender Rumble 15 too, great sound, nice and bassy ( I have a Fender P ) and has an aux input for my mp3 ( Tascam ) and a headphone socket if required ( which it never is in my house, and if it was, I would probably just use the Tascam on it's own ) Loud enough for pub gigs where the rest of the band is playing acoustic, or very lightly amped, but anything more and it's just not powerful enough. The Roland Bass MicroCube is an amazing bit of kit featurewise, and will run off batteries, which would sometimes be useful, but just has no low end. Fantastic for pure practise though. Not cheap.

I've done several gigs in a club where there was no room on stage for amps, and we all just DI'ed into the PA, with a couple of monitors. The stage had a big sub underneath it, so the bass came though OK, but it helped a lot when I asked the soundman to up my treble in the monitor. Not great, but it worked, and we really enjoy the gigs there, so put up with it.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1355739254' post='1901909'] Similarly, have you noticed that when the air pressure is higher your wifi is quicker? (check your barometers for your best download periods) [/quote] That is probably true. When the air pressure is higher, the weather is generally better, so more people get outside to enjoy it, leaving saddos with no life less contention on their broadband. ( Sorry, that's a bit off topic ) Have to agree about Sandbergs. A friend has one and I drooled over it for ages before he actually let me have a go, whereupon I was deeply disappointed by how playable it was. Mind you, it was a Jazz, and I'm more of a Precision guy and I think it needed a good setup too.

Merry Christmas Everybody Fairy Tale of New York 10,000 miles ( Pretenders ) I believe in Father Christmas Do they know it's Christmas.

[quote name='Paulgm1' timestamp='1352983742' post='1870080'] Sorry, can't help with the tab but just need to say that reckon this is best acdc track ever!! [/quote] Jimmy Savile's favourite too ?

I've got an EB150 and it's loud enough to compete with a loud drummer, but not with one very, very loud drummer I had to play [s]with[/s] against once.

I'm not really a fan, but, my god, they were slick, tight and very, very good at what they do. I haven't watched everything from Reading, but they were the most professional outfit I saw.