Doctor J

All of them. The restriction, if there is one, is the player.

Black Night at an audition for the school band.

Great work, as always. It looks fantastic, but I really liked the white. I understand it was very full on, though.

Some numbers Rick (Allen) - one Meat (loaf) - two (Marc) Bolan - tree Jaco - four Dave Clark - five Nikki - six S-club - seven Elvis - ate Kraftwork - nein Pearl Jam - ten

After your Ruby Murray, you might need to have a big Barry White?

Yuss

If you want to protect your memories of the good times, simply don't go. I wouldn't begrudge anyone doing something they enjoy, even if it is dirt to my ears. I haven't seen Metallica since 1992 so I don't erase the memory of the AJFA tour with some 'Tallicrap and that's how it will stay 😂

Living in a Ox

A Fock of Seagulls Heave 17

Green Da

Kool & The Gag

Manc Street Preachers

Ski Row The Siths Jon Mitchell

Cak Killing Jok Minor Treat

Guns '' Roses

Ban Aid

Canned Hat

Theray? Turn Brakes The Cut Eats International Fat Boy Sim

Earl Sick

Boney

Meallica Sayer Ron Maiden Steve Wonder Funadelic Cic

The other bass was a BC Rich Eagle which appeared in a lot of photos but didn't sound very good, apparently.

And also bear in mind, that's just my preferred way of going about it. Try different positions yourself and see what feels good to you.

The Yamaha has a 20" kick and the rack toms are 8", 10" and 12" so I can get it all a bit lower. In the pic of the Export kit, it's a 22" kick with the 12" and 13" toms so they're a bit higher. Like I said, one option is to use the tom arm to hang the 13" like a floor tom. It's just long enough if you stick the short end in the bass drum.

That's why I said to utilise the likes of intros for the talking. They can be scaled down, stretched out, used to to build tension and be a part of the show but they can still be musical and engaging. For me, when the band stops playing they lose their momentum. Silence (or worse, and utterly unforgivable, someone playing the tuning song) with someone trying to be a cheerleader is tedious. It's lost time in a set. It should never be Level 10 all the time, definitely not. It should also never be Level 0. We used to rehearse instrument changes. It shouldn't take more than 10 seconds and can be easily covered by other instruments doing something interesting and musical. People come to hear music. That can be a solo bass drum just holding a beat to keep attention for a while at least, or the bass riff, or some guitar, while you introduce a new song. Use your imagination. The skill of a DJ (a good one, not some berk talking over a chorus about charideee) is keeping an audience engaged without sacrificing the dynamics of a show. A band can learn a lot from that approach. Play song. Stop. Talk. Play song. Stop. Talk, etc etc etc is frankly rubbish. Your performance starts at the first chord of the first song and ends at the closing chord of the last song. Don't let gormless idling be a part of it 😉