Sarah5string

When playing live... would you rather stand still and be more accurate (but less interesting to look at from the crowd) or be lively and energetic and a crowdpleaser but in turn sacrifice your accuracy?

In other words... what song do you ALWAYS mess up.. regardless of how much you practice it.... For me it's Incubus Wish you were here.... it's becoming a bit of a band joke now!!!

I do a mix of both, as I use my thumb to mute my bottom B.

My first gig ever, am I bricking it? Heeeeell no! Can't wait! Come see us and say hi! £4 on the door, doors 8pm. 18+ only.

My amp is called Laney

57 I've got 3. lol

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='260142' date='Aug 11 2008, 05:05 PM']Time for a beer and a chat methinks.[/quote] +1

[quote name='Delberthot' post='260113' date='Aug 11 2008, 04:36 PM']Mine is called Goldie funnily enough [/quote] That's Blingin'. Cos I is so ghetto innit?

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='256209' date='Aug 6 2008, 12:57 PM']Probably a scary looking C#m7[/quote] *spits her tea onto the laptop*

[quote name='joe_bass' post='260093' date='Aug 11 2008, 04:14 PM'] ........... Naming things does seem to be a trend with girls lol.[/quote] It's a loooooooooooooooong running joke too. He's my b*tch.

Dean, OLP and Shine. Not very original I'm afraid... but our guitarist is also called Dean, so can get a bit confusing when I say I'm going to go work on my fingering technique with Dean.

The only worry I would have is someone who was genuinely very talented and 'perfect' would also have an ego the size of a planet, and would in fact be the most annoying and arrogant person because of how good they KNOW they are.

The way we see it is.. we're doing this because we love music and want to play music... if you're not enjoying it and are seeing it all as work rather than enjoyment then there's no point carrying on so it was inevitable really.. oh well Onwards and upwards!

Well back from band practice. We are carrying on as a 4 piece and going ahead with the gig. Our singer is going to step up and do some of the guitar rhythm bits that are missing, during the solos etc and our remaining guitarist is going to take over lead. My only concern is now that my mistakes are going to be even more noticeable LOL. Nah, the show must go on and all that. There's no hard feelings as we're all good mates and if he's not happy then best to tell us now than not turn up on the night of the gig or something.

Yes he has actually quit. Thankfully we've got a band practice this afternoon anyway so we were all going to get together so we can now just practice our set and see what happens.

Oh hell... our guitarist (one of 2) has decided he wants to quit, and our very first gig is 3 weeks away. What the hell do we do now? Our singer cana play guitar but not sure if he'll be happy to take over and sing.. Crap it!

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='253053' date='Aug 1 2008, 11:33 PM']Sarah? [i]You[/i] were distracted?? Shocking [/quote] I'm of the 'best of both worlds variety'

Someone was playing bass in that video? I think I was distracted..

Wow... I'm SO doing the james brown at our debut gig on the 30th.... it's go so well with hard rock/metal!!

[quote name='MuseMatt' post='250255' date='Jul 29 2008, 10:30 AM']Just out of interest what covers are you playing?[/quote] setlist.. our song Slither - velvet revolver wish you were here - incubus Mr brownstone - GNR random bass/drum guitar swap song Them bones - alice in chains Almost easy - avenged sevenfold Our song. end

We've got 2 songs which are in c# hence the guitar changes. We were playing it in Drop D in previous practices before deciding to go with the proper tuning seeing as we'd have to be in c# anyway for Almost easy.

[quote name='The Funk' post='249784' date='Jul 28 2008, 05:00 PM']Sorry, I'm sometimes a bit blunt. Sounds like quite a cool set list though from what I can gather. [i]Them Bones[/i] and [i]Mr. Brownstone[/i]. What else are you guys playing?[/quote] Setlist as it stands Freedom of Speech (our song) Slither - Velvet revolver Wish you were here - incubus Mr brownstone - GNR random little guitar swap song Them Bones - Alice in chains almost easy - avenged sevenfold Untitled (our song affectionally named nunuting for the time being lol) oh and don't be sorry.. honesty is the best thing!

lol. You probably have a point. I'll just come up with some random filler song then with the drummer. hmmmm... Good job it was the guitarist's idea and not mine! Lol

Right guys. For our debut gig it's been decided that, as our geetards have to swap guitars before our cover of Them bones by alice in chains, that me and the drummer are going to do a lounge version of it to give the guys time to swap. Now... any lounge bands I can have a listen to get inspiration for how the hell to play this thing??

Well so far our plan is 1st - Our song.... merging straight into 2nd - cover (They both start and finish with the same note) *guitar/bass swap* talking intro etc. 3rd cover 4th cover *guitar swap* possible guitar/bass duet thingy as I don't need to swap. 5th - cover merging into (again both start and end with same note) 6th - cover *guitar/bass swap* thank yous etc 7th - Our song end