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I never knew you could do that. Cheers mate.

When I was learning in my teenage bedroom I used to move the needle on the record player back countless times to learn my parts.

I find using Youtube to learn a song quite hard as well. The tab moves at such a rate that I can't get a grip on it sometimes. I need to plan what I am going to play.

We played for enjoyment but we got paid for it. It's not hard to understand that we liked playing for our own fun. Thats why you do it in the first place. Obviously getting paid is the bonus but we wouldn't want to lug all that gear down every week and not get paid. So anyway, we play and we get paid. If we play music that the punters don't like they will leave the pub meaning the pub won't make as much money so they won't ask us back. Therefore we are forced to do songs the punters like rather than what we like. We ended up playing mostly songs I don't like. I enjoyed playing but didn't enjoy most of the songs. I put up with it because having lots of people clap and cheer after you perform a song is why I started doing this in the first place.

I used to do this to lots of songs I was bored with. We used to do Message In a Bottle and I used to sing message in a sausage.

At a funeral yes.

We did it for entertainment too but we also wanted asked back. We tried to do a mixture of songs we wanted to play and songs that would go down well. Gradually the set became all songs I didn't like but went down well. People used to say we were a good band and asked us back but we were playing songs we didn't like particularly. If we tried something edgy they showed their disgust by remaining silent or sitting down.

Well good luck to you then but certainly up here if you try something different people don't like it. They want what they hear on the radio or pod cast or whatever it is now. They want what's popular.

Anyone who doesn't think bagpipes sound good listen to this!

You must get served mighty quick in your local!

Threatening to leave a band or refusing to play is just childish in my opinion. I have had to play loads of songs I didn't like but the paying public did. You have to play what people want to hear, end of story. otherwise you will have a very short tenure in the venue you want to play in. Try playing Wagon Wheel endlessly!

We used to cover Don't Look Back In Anger, Roll With It and She's Electric. They were always well received by the civilians in the pubs. I don't care what anyone says about Oasis and by the way I agree, they are twatts, but they came up with some decent songs.

What about cowbell? You can never have enough cowbell!

This. If it be good who cares what label it has? Take Grunge for example. To be Grunge you had to come from Seattle around the early '90s. Grunge bands vary greatly in sounds.

The tambourine is an accepted instrument in the percussion section. The fact that it is so cheap and easily available makes people think it's a waste of time. When used properly it adds to the music.

Just think of the exposure you will get! Great , my rent is five exposures a month!

Who cares? If you enjoy it you enjoy it!

I like Slade but still prefer this-

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Sometimes it's the perfect storm that makes you love a gig. We went to see NIN at the Glasgow Hydro a few years ago. We were in the seating area but right at the front. The view was second to none and the sound was superb. It was the same with Def Leppard. I have seen them may times over the years and wasn't bothered but Mrs Ubit loves them and had never seen them. For her birthday I bought really expensive tickets and when we sat down, again the view was brilliant. When they came on I can honestly say I have never heard such a good sound. All the people who say The Hydro has a bad sound have obviously not experienced sitting/standing all over the place like we have because there are spots where the sound is superb. We were seated for Black Stone Cherry and their sound was rotten. Next time they played we were standing. Their sound was rotten again but Shinedown who had proceeded them had a great sound, as had Halestorm who started the gig. We decided that was the last time we went to see BSC. Love them on record, not so much live.

Even more so when it's been such a well known song for 34 years and thanks for ruining the joke by the way

Yeah and our other rhythm guitarist didn't bother at all at practice but expected to sing live. I have had people say you shouldn't let him sing he's rotten. We eventually had to turn his mic down when we played live. He never seemed to notice. I think it made him feel better. He was playing acoustic which was ok at rehearsal but got lost under the lead guitarist's loud playing. He also had the most miserable look on his face. Again people used to say what is the point of him being in the band? I always thought the same but my massively passive aggressive guitarist mate always got his way and he stayed.

You had never heard the AC/DC version? What age are you?......... 12? 😂

We used to rehearse in my spare room. We rehearsed pretty loudly. Almost at the volume that we would be playing on stage without the PA. I would sing at my normal volume but my mate, the guitarist, wouldn't practise his backing vocals, or if he did it was in a stupid voice to try and get a laugh out of the rest of the band. It used to drive me up the wall as he wasn't practised for the gig and some of the live backing vocals were rotten. I blew up at him one night and everyone thought I was being the knob, but I think all instruments including vocals should be rehearsed properly.