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I think as long as a band is tight, they can get away with quite a lot. If a band has a good sound and is really tight, little things like playing everything exactly like the original can be forgotten.

I think covers should be different from the original anyway. If you are playing to a drunken audience, most folks don't even listen anyway. It's background music. We played at a birthday party once. The electrics were dreadful and my valve amp kept cutting out. I would keep playing and 20 seconds later it would come back in, then same again all through the first set. We came off for a break, totally demoralised and everyone was, wow, that was great! I now know that as long as they can hear a beat, the singing and a semblance of a tune, they are happy. Little details like the bass coming in and out mean nothing to them. I DI'd for the second set, but we had no monitors, so it was horrible for me.

There was a pub we used to play regularly and there was a fight of some description just about every time we played. We used to launch into Eye of the Tiger whenever we saw one start.

I'm really liking this dude. Thanks for that

Many years ago we used to rehearse the full band in a church hall, which was underneath the actual church ( it was built on a hill) We were giving it big licks at full volume when the church handyman came running down the stairs with his arms flailing. Stop, stop, there's a funeral going on up there! We paid for the rehearsal time every week and no one had told us.

We used to play Losing My Religion. Years and years we played it. Then one time I had a complete mental block. Couldn't remember it. Next gig, after telling everyone that it had been a one-off, the same thing happened. Then the next time, until I had to realise that I had completely forgotten it. I had to re-learn it. Strangest thing. It became that I was so worried that I would forget it, that I did.

Only trouble is they have no bass player! Philistines!

I saw a professional band from Glasgow playing a low key gig and the bass player was using a Squire. A great sound he had too.

I have a Squire 5 string Jazz bass. It sounds bloody amazing!

I love Grunge, but I agree, it is a mystery. It seems that you had to be a sort of heavy band coming from Seattle in the early 90's and you were considered grunge. I mean Pearl Jam and the Melvins couldn't be much different. I tried to like the Melvins but just found them too tuneless and manic. Alice in Chains is just fantastic, as was Soundgarden, but some of the bands considered grunge are only there because of the time and place that they prevailed. One of my favourite bass lines, not for its complexity, but for the gorgeous sound, is Would by Alice.

This mob

Even worse than asking to sing. I had a guy asking on numerous occasions to play my bass. It became awkward and eventually I relented. I think he just wanted his five minutes but it was pretty meh

Don't know about you, but I think we might have scared a the punters away!

Man, we used to play in two different tunings ( because of a bloody accordion player, who wanted to play on the white keys) I liked to play E flat for the rest of our set because it sounds meatier, plus easier for the ageing vocal chords. Anyway, it meant changing guitars around, as we didn't want to tune up and back all the time. Started a set for an alcoholics anonymous dance and I had the flat tuned guitar and the song was in standard. I'm the singer, so I had to try and play the song (crazy little thing called love) a fret out, whilst singing. The result wasn't pleasant and I was suitably embarrassed. We managed to save the evening after that, but it was a terrible start!

Thing is, I have played in front of an audience hundreds of times. The largest was about 2000 ( I know, I wasn't big time), so it should be no problem, but I still freeze when I am in a music shop. Fingers get all mixed up and it sounds rotten and you can see the guy thinking, yeah, I can see your level

What price are they bud?

I love the new sweary word filters. It used to be just. ******, but now its substituted with little kid alternatives. I love it! Well done admins!

A group of girls ask can you play such and such? 'Cos we are just going. How to endear yourself to the band !

A space rock techno band? Id love to see that! Had that many times. me playing bass and singing and someone comes up and starts talking to me. I'm like desperately trying to tell them with only my eyes, to do one and they are holding down a conversation!

Can my mate sing? He's really good!

Yup!

We played at a birthday party once. Our set was mostly rock and middle of the road, with a few Scottish trad songs thrown in. The guy was delighted and asked us to play at his wedding a few months later. We started playing our tried and tested set and this guy came up and said, no, we want more traditional. Can you play that? Look, mate, we will play some later, ok? Next tune. Can you play some trad.? And so it went on after every song. A real pain in the derrière. We just didn't have enough traditional material. Eventually, we had to complain to the groom, who all this time was whizzed and totally oblivious to this scenario unfolding. he had a word and we played the rest of our set to a near empty dancefloor. The party crowd was obviously a completely different crowd to the one at the wedding. Horrible evening!

I have not played live for a couple of years now, but recently I was talking to another musician and we were laughing at some of the ridiculous things we used to get asked for by punters. Can you play such and such? We don't know it mate. Yeah, you do, it goes la ,la , de dah dah etc. Can you play such and such? We don't play that. Yeah, you do, I saw you play it in here last week. We were not playing in here last week. yes, you were and so on. any more humorous, but annoying titbits from you lot?