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I hear from a Facebook group that there is an OM night where “keyboards have been spotted, so maybe bass is fine” (tr: I’m less likely to get lynched for instrument based non conformity) this Thursday at Stamford arms in groby, Leicestershire I shall report back

I can’t say that anything much in the last 15 years of theirs has seemed much beyond a rehash of older work, or on the same theme. They’re just a karaoke machine, other bands fall into the same class imho, not singling them out they might release “new” work, but I’m not sure anyone goes to their gigs to hear it as Cato says

Actually no, I changed my mind. Can they please go away.

Way past their creative best, can I suggest they enjoy some time off in their retirement?

A metal one. What are you, a guitarist ? Fibreglass vehicles are rubbish in a crash

I would not sand anything off, just buy a replica neck, get it sprayed to match the current one’s laquer and add your logo of choice. really bad idea to do irreversible changes to something with innate and accumulating value

Flats, zoom tube preamp I sound checked with groove is in the heart

Thanks, and entirely fake.

Think what I actually need is a jam night, and that means I have to learn red house, sweet home Chicago etc at my old OM night myself and a local acoustic guitarist used to choose a random song, run it through twice in the corridor and then do it. That worked …

No, it’s all unplanned and on a previous occasion he invited me to do exactly that, including agreeing a tune we’d do in my next visit. so, I don’t think I was unrealistic in my expectations.

This is the offensive thing, but with flats

This is mine, with a blues tribute pickup off eBay

It’s not in Coalville im not even aware of any going on here, travel needed if you or she know of one, please let me know @tauzero

I liked mine, it had nice tone for a cheapie and my daughters found it easy to manage being a shorter scale

Then why run an open mic night and moan that no one comes along to play

He was asking if I “could play acoustic”, meaning six string but I thought since that taking an acoustic bass would totally f u ck him up.

As I said to partner, there’s no way I’m having an acoustic guitar in the house just to make him happy. I sold the one I had as I couldn’t play due to needs of kids during day, and it was too noisy when they were in bed. Which is one reason why electric bass is much superior

You forgot the pedals dude…

I asked if I could sit out the front so I could see his chording hand but I don’t think he wanted anyone sitting between him and the /his audience I guessed what he was playing from the sound of the chords and my view of the back of his guitar neck (not that easy, at my experience level at least) He was such a total Canute that I don’t want to go back. F u ck him and his unattended OM night

he wouldn’t worry. Fed up with being ignored, and with his “no applause ?” Motif

Thing is, when I got there I asked host what songs he was doing “so I could do some advance homework to avoid looking a tw at” and he said “don’t know” and looked away… should have bailed at that point Edit maybe I should go back with a semi acoustic bass..🤔 second edit … first time I went there the hypocritical basket was playing a white Stratocaster

Okay thanks for your thoughts, sounds like I wasn’t being over-sensitive then

Wow … I did not know that could happen to people …

after a few songs of playing along with an acoustic singer/guitarist aka host and his singing buddy (who was much more personable) …I was asked “if I could play an acoustic guitar instead” … it’s advertised as an “open mic night” (ie word “acoustic” nowhere in sight, then anything goes IMHO, even a triangle or a violin (one I go to regularly features a very Downs guy who plays really good violin, violin is hard and doubly so if you’re not fully physically able. He goes down a storm and deservedly so) after I’d finished feeling sick at the thought, I said “I can, but I choose not to” and left. I didn’t suggest he was some rearranged version of the danish spelling of Canute. am I being unreasonable here ? I didn’t know what song the host/“star” was playing until he started it, and I quickly googled the chords and improvised. Valuable skill I know, not very nice to me, but I’m using to winging it in other fields so I shrug and get on it. My volume was deliberately low and I tried not to upstage him in any way he was complaining no one else turned up to play, beginning to wonder why (not!), he even made an acid remark about lack of applause nice pub, landlord and young barmaid were very nice and good beer too. Not going to name the venue as they don’t deserve the bad publicity p bass with flats and a spot of “tube preamp” and compression from the zoom b2.1. Sounded pretty good actually, pleasantly surprised at the sound from the monitors