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Probably one of the reasons I don't play sax then. No wait, it's because I am rotten at blowy instruments.

I dunno, that sounds like a great party! 😎

Status Eclipse bought way back in the mid 90's.It was gigged relentlessly for years. I Still have it in my music room.

That's spot on Abi, I tell ya when I first started I couldn't tackle a piece like that. I was thumping away on an A and my mate the guitarist used to say I didn't need the D and G strings. Bloody cheek!

The Caledonian is still there but is now called The Perle. Quite a high class joint. Auleys is the bar you mean, named after the owner Auley Dunn, which is a favourite watering hole for many people. What's your mates name? I might know him.

Back in the 90's and early 2000's when we were playing so often, I never rehearsed as we could play the songs back to front. Later, we had to rehearse regularly or the songs would leave you and you would end up making a hash of it, I definitely have to play things regularly to keep it in my head.

Just spoke to Mrs Ubits brother and that’s what he did. Cheers bud. I sent a complete file. I’ll need to try sending it differently so that he gets both editable files.

I’ve laid down the bass and drums and emailed it to Mrs Ubit’s brother who is rather a dab hand at guitaring. I never thought about how he would do this. Anyone know how to get the m4a file to open on garage band so that you can edit it?

I miss the argument, will you play such and such? We don’t know it mate, yeah you do, I saw you playing it in here last week. We weren’t playing here last week mate, yes you were etc.

I somehow managed to get it on to my Mac. More by accident than planning. I went into the hard drive and found it tried to play it and it said there is no application to open this software, so I went in and allowed access to all applications. It then appeared in Garage Band under, as said, plugins. I got it open and now have no idea on how to use it. I managed to get a drum pattern playing, closed it and tried again and there is absolutely no sound coming from it now. Gawd knows what's wrong. Every tutorial I see has nothing to do with my set up i.e. a Mac and Garage band. Im just going to have to muck about a bit more because it certainly looks just like what I want as Garage bands preset drums are playing shuffle type beats and I just want a straight one two beat.

I am using Garage Band on a Mac. Garage band isn't available on a pc, so the rules may differ. Thanks anyway mate.

Cheers, I will give this a go.

Because two Fender P's or J's CAN sound quite different.

I must have done or not done something somewhere as it is not there. I will search a bit more on Youchoob for tutorials. Trouble is, most of the tutorials are dealing with situations unlike mine. I am using Garageband through a mixing desk with a USB. No one else with a tutorial is doing this.

I might be really thick here but I have downloaded it and just can't find it. I have found plug ins but that's it. I just don't know how to find my way around this yet I guess.

Right, latest problem. Bass and drums down and sounding great. For some reason now when I try to record the guitar, I get silence right up until the recorded bass starts and then the bass comes through distorted. It's like the distortion is bleeding into the other track. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? I have turned the bass gain on my desk right down. No difference. Even if I don't play a thing on the guitar, as soon as I hit record on the guitar track the bass track starts, distortion.

I find the pre set drum pattern are all a bit fancy for what I need. I have found the more I muck about with the beats that you can simplify them to a degree by moving the ball around from loud-complicated-quiet-simple and removing or putting in certain percussive effects. I just need to spend more time on it.

Will try it tomorrow thanks. Does it go into Garage Band no hassle?

I have sussed it out now. My input was far too quiet. Thats sorted now and all is good. Great tool Garage Band. Only trouble I find is getting a straight 4,4,2, drumbeat. Gonna have to use the drum machine I think.

Not better but a good version none the less

And this!

Whilst not being better in my opinion Gun's version is a great version which more than holds it's own

That was always my attitude. I used to hate when we played in a duo and I would see my mate the guitarist shoe gazing or looking miserable but he was nothing compared to the rhythm guitarist that we had when we went back to the full band. He permanently looked like he was about to start crying. Everyone commented on it and we kept saying cheer up FFS! I think we are there to entertain the punters not look like we don't want to be there. Miserable looking musicians don't make people enjoy themselves. I always tried to play with a smile on my face or at least look interested.

You have a new fan! Love that sound!

I can't stand him. One of my favourite bands The Dead Daisies now have him as bass player and singer. Thats me finished with them now. I just can't stand his verbal masturbating on songs! Im not saying he isn't a great musician and has a pedigree that I can only dream of, I just don't like his style.