NancyJohnson

I'm gigging in Chatham that night, but will be there for a catchup as my gear will be enroute to Kent. P

We're doing a gig in about three weeks with a dep drummer. I won't lie that I am a little concerned...I think we have one rehearsal with him and another half rehearsal (we're playing another gig the night after the first gig and want to have a run through with our actual drummer). Our original guitarist came back for a show once, we did do a set based more around his tenure within the band and that went OK.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1502610397' post='3352393'] Just press/tap/click stop.....What's difficult about that ? [/quote] Well, wouldn't that be dreamy? If I close an app, it should stop working, just like it does for Spotify, Chrome, Neko Atsume(!) and so on. It shouldn't however keep running, pasting itself over my screensaver and making me have to restart my S7 Edge to shut it down.

I've only really used Soundcloud to upload the odd track for sharing with band members. To be brutal, honestly couldn't care less if it stays or goes. The app is horrific really; it just seems to take over your phone and you can't seem to switch off the audio even after you've shut it down. The web version is equally lumpy. These services come and go and whoever injected funds into this has lost their investment.

How long will it be before there's a 78rpm revival, I wonder?

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1502554789' post='3352185'] N.J. From your lips to my ears. Self-obsessed ass-showing. [/quote] I honestly have no idea what this means.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1502546038' post='3352117'] PS. anyone getting upset about YouTube clips of people playing bass to cover tunes really needs to get out more... [/quote] I read something a while back about bedroom guitarists...they don't gig, they don't write their own material, they just play over backing tracks and video themselves until they get a decent take, then push it up onto You Tube. Look, I know the above is a massive generalisation, but there's a lot of truth in this. I'd just like to see these guys playing something original rather than gurning their way through someone elses lines.

While I prefer the tone on the finger-style version (the second one), the guy's face between 30-45 seconds represents everything I just detest about cover bands; that smugness and grimacing, the mistake at about 3'20" followed by the slapping get-out and wry smile. He didn't write that line, he's just copying it. I'd like to see him do something on an original piece. Rant over. Sorry.

[quote name='No lust in Jazz' timestamp='1502284482' post='3350460'] Either way - I've just had a session with the 'Who Killed Nancy Johnson', You tube collection and enjoyed it. [/quote] Where do I send the cheque again?

Paul Schuster at Lull texted me and said it'll be a killer bass, so my expectation is fairly high. A few years back I was well into double figures bass-wise and while I'll admit is was a lot of fun having them, it was kind of ridiculous, to the extent that periodically I wouldn't be able to list all of them. Anyhow, I'm down to five or six now, three of which are definite keepers. While I don't need to sell the Thunderbird Gothic now, I can see it getting less and less use as time goes on, so I'll just leave it up for sale. If it sells, fine, if not, that's fine too. I can't believe it's been two months since I ordered it. It should be here October/November. I'll report back when it's here.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1502185648' post='3349789'] I don't even know what 'post hardcore' is? [/quote] Wikipedia is you friend in this instance: [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-hardcore"]https://en.wikipedia...i/Post-hardcore[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFdvxkzop8[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06GOu9JjHDM[/media] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHuNcPbt5Ms

Musically, we're a four-piece post-hardcore band, gig wise our crowds number 30-50. As we're not fans of playing to an empty room, we've been trying to formulate an intro strategy that just makes people realise we're about to play, rather than walking on stage, doing final tunings and standing around like lemons until our singer decides we're good to go. I'm not talking about intro music, for god's sake, no, just something we can play. The cough, musicians in the band, cough, all seem to think that we need something throwaway that we just play, big noise or something like the start of this live album (obviously without 'Konnichiwa Tokyo' bit): [url="https://steviesalas.bandcamp.com/album/bootleg-like-a-mug-live-in-japan"]https://steviesalas....g-live-in-japan[/url] I do kind of like the Salas thing, but at the same time, this appeals: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdOcGTiyjQ[/media] HELP

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1502132057' post='3349517'] Did you get paid? Blue [/quote] Bwahaha. Oh, stop. You're killing me.

I played a sh*t-hole in Wardour Street, London on Saturday night. St Moritz. It was a dungeon with a labyrinth of rooms and the place stank very badly of cheese, so much so that I actually gagged when we went down there initially. Stage was about ten foot square, about a foot high. There was a fecking great aircon unit on the low ceiling over the stage ('Over six feet tall? Mind your head then.'). Vocalist insisted on standing on the stage, knocking into everyone, terrible sound, just terrible. We only did it because we thought it would look good on our CV. I'd rather have stayed home and watched the athletics.

Last summer, Andy/Wolverine and I spoke to Alex/Barefaced about having a dual speakered cab (2x12 or 2x15), that would run in parallel (one input/both speakers) or dual-channel (two signals/speakers working independently) modes. I wouldn't be bothered if the enclosure had a switch to facilitate this or if the cabinet simply recognised whether it had one or two Speakons plugged into it. Running two 1x12s or 1x15s isn't really an option. I run a dual channel poweramp and would genuinely like to (try and) run a Sansamp GED2112 pre-amp into this and utilise the dual channel output rather than combining the GED output into mono (via a passive mixer) before it hits the poweramp. Alex said it wouldn't work well (and I respect what he said), but I'm curious whether anyone as tried it.

Emperor's New Clothes.

I tended to do the bulk of the writing and pretty much just sat in front of a PC plugging away on DAW software, then I'd circulate. All good. The main issues (aside from not even bothering to listen to what I'd done) is/was discipline, laziness and ignorance on the part of band-members when they tried to collaborate. Corrupted session files, not knowing how to use the DAW software, recirculated files that were all mixed with all vocal or all guitar, or even better, overdubs that weren't even in time because of latency issues. I've just started a new project where we're going to try and send sessions around, but part of me is dreading that unless the guy I'm working with knows what he's doing, I might be doing more firefighting than writing.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1501506073' post='3345103'] If Lull starts doing an SG shape.....I'm in trouble! Si [/quote] Ask them. Go on, Paul Schuster is on Facebook. The dark underbelly of bass-guitar purchasing starts there.