BrunoBass

Cocktails served in Cornflake packets? Where do I sign?! 😢🔫

Ha my baby has just arrived, selling gear hasn't been necessary though! Yet...

https://m.facebook.com/groups/689090051102626?view=permalink&id=1396453177032973 Nice. Wish I had a spare £2500!!

I really think it's the beginning of the end I'm afraid. To say something is cyclical implies that it will come back around again. I don't think the pub band scene will do anything other than whither and slowly die. Where are the new guitar bands to inspire the next generation? Well, the only area of growth (or at least stability) in the guitar based genres is metal. There are heaps of young metal bands with strong, young, live followings but it isn't a pub scene. The young metal bands I know (including my daughter's band) play at rock nights and club nights but have no desire to play in pubs, and the kids that follow them have no desire to go to pubs either. Once the current generation of pub bands dies out or retires they'll be nothing left to replace them.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1484124654' post='3212796'] Oooo er Missus ... great name for a band though. [/quote] 👍

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1484062307' post='3212331'] I'm banbury based as well - what band are you in? [/quote] Hi, I'm in Til Dawn, and I play solo too. How about you?

Banbury (my hometown) has always had a strong live pub band scene, but recently it has started to tail off. Fewer pubs in town are booking bands, favouring instead acoustic solo performers or duos, or even stand up comedy. This time last year my band had a diary of local pub gigs covering the whole year, at 2 - 3 gigs a months. This year we currently have just two booked. It's concerning.

I've got more important things to worry about to be honest... 😉

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1483483461' post='3207651'] Sure has, but only if you like fat asses 😂 [/quote] If it wasn't off topic before, it certainly is now... 🙄

Just before hand contact is established, raise your thumb to your nose, wiggle your fingers and blow a raspberry. Germs avoided, awkwardness averted 😉

As someone has already said, this comes under 'are music stands acceptable on stage'. I think both are a total no-no. As someone else has said, learn your parts before you go on stage. I can see where a tablet could be useful though; a friend of mine plays acoustic covers at weddings and stuff. If someone requests a song he doesn't know, he looks up the chords and lyrics on his ipad (providing he has network access) and is able to oblige.

What a damn shame. I met him once, nice guy. Monster rhythm guitarist too.

When I was a kid I remember Chas and Dave being on Swap Shop, Dave gave away one of his Precision basses as a prize. This would've been early '80s, and the bass must've been '60s or '70s...

Shared on Facebook mate.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482188667' post='3198398'] We're at Pillars on 12/23. It's an old church converted into a high end club. Just a great looking room, lots of wood work, stained glass and antique chandiliers. Small but beautiful stage and balcony.And 5 minutes from my West Bend condo. [/quote] Sounds terrific!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1482187407' post='3198377'] I never understand this point of view. It seems a very British thing to hate success and deride those people that are really very good at what they do. [/quote] I think it's less about deriding people who are good at what they do, and more about some people's suspicion of anything that's perceived as being unauthentic or insincere.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482186962' post='3198367'] At some level you might, all genres outside of classical evolved from blues. Certainly all rock & country genres including metal. The roots of blues are there, but you might not recognize them. I'm not a huge blues fan, however I'm aware of the history and value. The blues gave me the foundation to build my improvising skills. Blue [/quote] I'm well aware of the importance and foundation the blues has in rock and other genres. I enjoy many of the genres that the blues had spawned, I'm just not keen on blues as a genre itself, and what it evolved into once it went electric. I do however enjoy very much the originators like Robert Johnson, and I dig the whole scratchy, time capsule experience of listening to those old hotel room recordings. Authenticity.

Mark King (*flinches at coming onslaught...*) Clearly an incredibly talented musician, but all that rapid percussive stuff doesn't do a thing for me.

I'm not much of a Stones fan, and I don't really like blues. Not much for me here. Sorry to be negative

'Chelsea Hotel #2' by Leonard Copen is allegedly about Janis Joplin. 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon is about, well who knows, but Dylan, James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson are all possible subjects, other than the more probable Warren Beatty. 'Let Me In' by R.E.M. apparently about Kurt Cobain.

'Tim McGraw' by Taylor Swift

Tomorrow 😊

For me it's this. All of it. http://youtu.be/r49Duqauq5I

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1481963794' post='3196540'] I must have listened to this clip a thousand times, and it never gets boring. Firstly because I love funky gospel and secondly there is always a nuance in his playing that I didn't hear before. His bass playing has so many dynamics, you can get and learn so much from it. What I really love just like Pino, there is not one bit of slap bass. Not against it but it shows how amazing bass playing can be without it. it's just off the wall groove playing. And that famous fill at 2.05 minutes. Just a wow peice of bass playing. It's this and Willie Weeks on Donny Hathaways Little Ghetto Boy. What's your favourite.? http://youtu.be/pATcvr3zAhg [/quote] Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed that. Outstanding 'tight but loose' groove. I don't really get some of the other comments about there being no solid beat though...

One of the few pop songs to use a snare drum with the snares turned off.