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Marshall Allen is still leading the Sun Ra Arkestra, at a sprightly 95 years of age.

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If he was a Delta bluesman then he's just getting started 😎

Former BC'er OldGit (RIP) often had something to say about this. Which basically boiled down to - it's in the bands best interest to promote/publicize their gigs too, regardless of what else is happening.

In the course of your musical endeavours, what lies, bull5h1t and bollox, have you been told and/or experienced? I'll go first: Told a gig was going to be broadcast on MTV2 Joined a band who the BL claimed were getting an endorsement deal with Schecter Received an email claiming someone from V2 Records had seen the band and were sending A&R to the next gig.

Bugger.

you can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna bass.

The OP is free to start a GoFundMe campaign. People are free to donate or not. I suspect 'not', either way no biggie. However the OP did ask for opinions regarding this, and now he has got them...

wetwipes and hand gel!

What with identity theft and all, plus an aversion to posting personal details on the line, I will not be sharing the details of my occupational life . It is however considerably less interesting than anything posted so far

Wonder if she will play anything from her first 2 albums?

I need all the help I can get 😆

Actually I have. Bass low to look cool, but then needed higher up to do some shredding. I got around it by having 2 strap lock buttons on the end of my strap.

This is why Punk happened.

will do

"another thing entirely adopt a religion that you have no cultural connection to." like people in Europe adopting a religion started in the middle east by a bloke who spoke Aramaic? The first white singer to have a reggae hit in Jamaica must have been doing something right?

muscle memory is great, until it isn't.

great sound, and as I said close to what I'm trying for, I just want it clean.

I'm hearing some synthy fuzz - which I assume is intentional - I don't mean clipping or anything.

Christmas Phat is getting mightily close to the sound I want, if I can take off the distortion without changing anything else about the sound I'm almost there

new drummer?

... over broken glass and past the occasional fight. Yup, I've played some quality gigs!

i've just posted this in the 'Jazz' thread, but relevant here: Marshall Allen is still gigging and touring the world, leading the Sun Ra Arkestra. He's 95 years old. I missed last years gigs, but hope to get to Subterania in that London on 9th May.

Marshall Allen is still gigging and touring the world, leading the Sun Ra Arkestra. He's 95 years old. I missed last years gigs, but hope to get to Subterania in that London on 9th May.