Dan Dare

It's confusing because the drummer adds half a beat (an extra quaver) to the fill in the 8th bar of the intro before the final two when the guitar lick leads into the verse. If you add half a beat to the 8th bar of the intro (count it as nine quaver beats) and then go back to straight fours for the next two (the guitar lick), it makes sense. The "I'm" of "I'm running" is sung on the last beat of the final intro bar and the "run" of "running" is on the first beat of the bar of the verse.

And certainly more than the bass is worth...

I'd change the bass player 🙂

I've just subscribed to his YouTube channel (so there are now 87 of us with taste and discernment in YT land). It appears he hasn't updated it or added content for the last few years. Shame, but hopefully, he will add some new gems in the not too distant. A workshop video (along the lines of those "How I rebuilt a barn find Ferrari using only hand tools and ingenuity" vid's) would be particularly interesting, don't you think?

I'm thinking of setting up a service for people who suffer as you do. For a modest fee, I'll pop round with my 3KW PA and an old CD my daughter used to love when she was a nipper. It includes such gems as The Laughing Policeman, The Runaway Train, The Wheels on the Bus and many other delights. For a very modest fee (little more than a few beers plus my petrol), I shall serenade your annoying neighbours until they beg for mercy or at least agree to behave. Think it might work as a business venture?

Thanks for the link. I love his vid' about his P bass for people with short arms (he does seem to specialise in instruments for those who have some kind of physical impairment - fat fingers, short arms, etc). He's extended the neck pocket into the body so the neck is moved towards the pickups, meaning he has had to have the bridge REALLY hanging off the body (for that "perfect balance"). As a bonus, he treats us to "a couple of verses of an Abba song" to demo his creation. The hi-hat playing is particularly fine. He certainly has cognitive issues. He has written elsewhere of his being "thumped by a truck", which I presume left him with some kind of brain damage.

I wasn't being entirely serious, in case you hadn't realised. Didn't the fact that I moaned about the birds singing give you a clue? However, expecting or worse, demanding, absolute silence is not realistic or reasonable, unless one lives on a remote island. Sure, playing loud music late at night or at the crack of dawn is selfish and unreasonable, but most people are aware of that. Absolutely, although I did it once to get back at a downstairs neighbour. She insisted on playing loud music at 6 am every day whilst she did her aerobics. I asked her to wear earbuds to listen to it and she told me to eff orf. So I invited the lads round (having warned the other neighbours, who were also fed up with her) for a "rehearsal" one evening. We had a couple of Fender Twins, full kit and my old Trace rig giving it large in my large lounge. Didn't half make the windows rattle. She was banging on the door and screaming. Hilarious. She agreed to be more reasonable after that.

Exactly. Expecting absolute silence when one lives in any kind of urban environment is utterly unreasonable. Even out in the sticks, it's not achievable. I'm sitting typing this in rural Hampshire with the patio doors open and the bloody birds are squawking away, some selfish so and so is mowing his lawn (the audacity of the man) and a blasted helicopter has just flown over. Disgraceful. I'm going to send a strongly worded letter of complaint to my local council.

I always respect Bill's opinions. He knows his onions. Just as well for you, eh? Now, about my other point, re Hartke and 1000w not being a "pipedream" rating. Let's hear your wisdom.

Ah. Good old "musical differences" again.

Two more things. Hartke is a reputable manufacturer. Perhaps not quite as sophisticated in its cabinet designs as BF, but better than many. Their drivers - hybrid and aluminium coned, for example - are quite innovative. They don't simply play the me-too game that so many do. What really "busts up woofers" is feeding them a dirty, clipped signal from an amplifier that is struggling to deliver enough power because its power supply is inadequate. Reputable drivers can deal with short term transients of up to twice their rated constant power as long as the signal is clean and the cabinet they are mounted in is properly designed.

It's a matter of degree. When you see people perform their songs live, they won't necessarily copy exactly the way they played it on the record. Duplicating a part from the original isn't necessarily essential, but widdling around with it is not good. If there are key or iconic phrases and so on, it's vital that they are right and that whatever you add or alter is true to the mood of a piece. "I'm making it interesting" begs the question "For who?". Best not to excuse sloppy or wrong playing with the old chestnut "It's how I feel it".

Perhaps, but as has been discussed extensively on here previously, wattage is a crude and not particularly accurate measure of what an amp can deliver. A 700w rated amp may deliver that in a one millisecond burst when connected to a test meter, but not into a reactive load like a speaker cab. That applies especially to some class D amps, which can be optimistically rated (no names, no pack drill, but the letters T&C spring to mind). 1000w isn't necessarily a pipe-dream cab rating. Barefaced rate their 2x12 cabs at up to 1200w and their 4x10 at 1000w and they are not known for exaggeration. It isn't at all unfeasible that a good quality 4x10 could safely handle 1000w. The OP isn't asking for more absolute volume, but more low end weight. It's well-established that a more powerful amp will give a fatter sound, even at lower volumes.

Unless the person in the story was practicing at ludicrous volumes, a complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman looks to be in order.

A lot of good advice above. You aren't driving your 4x10 to anything like its potential with your current amp. A decent 4x10 can produce plenty of low end weight. A single 12 or 15 will likely struggle if you add it, as well as causing issues others refer to above. I'd be investigating a more powerful head to get the most out of the 4x10.

It does to a degree, but if you want flat/clean, a TH is probably not the ideal choice. The AG 700 (which is what I use) would be more suitable.

If you sit on a stool to play, remember to hold the neck as close to vertical as possible and play jaaazzzz. Nice.

That was one of my favourite Rick Beato interviews. Chuck was funny, thoughtful and gave a ton of good advice. Great musician and man. Thoroughly disproved the notion that you should never meet your heroes (even if only via a recorded interview).

Absolutely. Even more strange that they give those musicians money to be bored for a few minutes.

I could try potatoes if you like.

Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the bogie

They slime together

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Spectors are quite good in that regard, too.

This, but bear in mind that if you are playing with acoustic guitars and vocals, the musicians may find all they can hear on stage is your bass amp if you aim to fill the venue from backline alone. Small venues often don't have any monitoring to speak of. So you may want to do as suggested and take a Di from your amp (or use a DI box if it doesn't have one), so you can play at more reasonable levels on stage.