Happy Jack

Loved the show, and great work by The Caffreys (well done Michael), but it left me wanting to know more about the Acid-Bhangra-Rock outfit from Peterborough, Kissmet. At their initial piece of the show when they were rehearsing I thought they sounded great, really interesting, original, and a great beat. At the Sheffield battle of the bands their version of Sunshine Of Your Love was strictly UK pub rock ... well-played and they're clearly a good band, but all the bhangra was gone and with it the originality. What was that all about?

I'm glad you didn't use the Axe to do it ...

Not mention to [i][b]Dust Til Dawn[/b][/i], a house cleaning firm near Ipswich. In fact, Til Dawn is looking increasingly like a name you might want to change to something more Google-friendly. A quick search reveals that even that awful band I auditioned for come up WAY before you guys. But at least they seem to have ditched their appalling drummer. Incidentally, who knew about this film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_%27til_Dawn Presumably this was Matthew Perry's debut?

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1465630622' post='3069711'] [b]Hubris + Hutzpah[/b] .... if anybody is looking for a new band name (1% royalty non-negotiable) [/quote] But what if you were to spell Chutzpah correctly?

Looks pretty good. For metal.

Hubris is always followed by Nemesis. Does that help at all?

Tried listening to that cut of Get Down On It ... I have no clue which of the sounds was supposed to be a 'tenor bass', something of an oxymoron I'd have thought.

http://youtu.be/WSN_DrkF5tM

Come on Barbie, let's go party ...

Is that being stated as a fact or merely an opinion?

Or check your band's bank balance, then change the name to Til Dawn Broke.

So essentially they heard his song [i][b]Photograph[/b][/i], and they thought, "[i]Wow! That's [b]Amazing[/b]![/i]"

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1465467240' post='3068453'] Both the videos were recorded with your Zoom Q2. [/quote] Oops.

[quote name='zbd1960' timestamp='1465416499' post='3068098'] Very good sound on that - I pushed the output from the PC through an external DAC connected to hi-fi, very good bass. [/quote] Silvie does all the band videos for the bands I play in. That camera she uses has an excellent microphone, and always does justice to the sound of the band.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465465405' post='3068421'] Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere! [/quote] ??? I always thought the Strat was the bastard love-child of a Precision and a Telecaster ...

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1465463202' post='3068375'] Just to say, if people would like to continue this discussion, I'm really enjoying all these old clips of The Who... [/quote] Oi! I told you - check out Felix Pappalardi!

I recently auditioned for a band called Dusk Til Dawn. They were dreadful.

Nothing you can "do" about it unless you have actually copyrighted or trademarked the name, but TBH it's not a problem that's going to last long ... if it's causing you grief as the well-established band can you imagine how hard it's going to get for your teenaged girly competitors? If they're trying to get gigs then they'll soon discover that they're invisible on Google because searches will find you instead; if they're not trying to get gigs then they'll implode soon enough anyway. Chill. Before we named our band, we held off using Junkyard Dogs because there were two other bands using that name or something very similar. One (Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs) is based in the West Country and the 'Hobo Jones' bit meant that there was little risk of overlap. The other (Junkyard Dog) was a well-established band based IIRC in Leeds and with a big internet presence, which mean that Google was always going to find them first. Then Junkyard Dog announced that they were breaking up and quitting, so we grabbed the name and started gigging in London. They re-formed a year or so later, but by then we were an established band in London and there's been precisely one occurrence of confusion between the bands in the last five years.

That many keys needs a board ...

Was it you who left the stains?

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1282216915' post='929651'] Many years ago Fairbourne railway station (the one at the end, in the estuary!) with the tide coming in (how will we get our gear out?) & then the drunken singer decides to start throwing fireworks at the audience!!! [/quote] Never saw this thread at the time, which is a pity because the Fairbourne railway was created by my stepfather and built by him and a large team of volunteers, and in those days (i.e. "many years ago" as at 2010) he still owned and operated it.

As always when this topic comes up, I'm gobsmacked at the number of Basschatters prepared to lecture us all on how you shouldn't rehearse, or need to rehearse, unless you're introducing new material. I can only assume that you all hate your bandmates. The key bit of that last sentence was 'mates'. They don't have to be your friends but [i][b]By God![/b][/i] does it make it easier when they are. For me, Tuesday night is the night when I hook up with the Junkyard Dogs and we have some fun. We play some songs, have a cuppa, play some more songs, go to the pub, talk bollocks, part as friends. If I thought that was too "stale" I wouldn't be axing rehearsals, I'd be checking the availability of nearby therapists ...