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Having worked with victims of abuse for over a quarter of a century I am 100% sure there is something wrong with how the abusers brains are wired. It’s not a change, a choice etc etc. No one wakes up and decides to be a child abuser instead of a ‘normal person’. In the same way that people are heterosexual , homosexual, bi, etc etc, some people are peadophiles. I think the various professionals have been wary of admitting this because they fear it will weaken prosecution cases but we need to shift our thinking to safeguard kids better. These people are sick in the head and just locking them up isn’t going to change that and they end up far more dangerous when they get back out as they know more tricks. We need to invest in better ways of treating this problem and accept that if we can’t then whole life tariffs for seemingly minor offences are the only safe option. The victims suffer a life sentence after all.

My sincere apologies, I could not see the other thread and as the wording and title were identical I jumped to the wrong conclusion. I have edited my post above, Thankyou, As above, I didn’t see the other and the exact same wording threw me completely. I got it wrong on this and apologise to the mod team for thinking they had removed a post.

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Do his victims really need reminding over and over? Just let these people fester in a dark room somewhere and give them no attention. I worked with the victims of abuse for many years and even the mention of the name can reignite trauma. And the TV companies are doing it purely for profit.

Saw the Hives (again) last night and they were superb as always. Boy do they know how to work a crowd, proper show. The new album is the best in ages and great to see them headlining again. They were supported by Bad Nerves, a punk band from Essex according to their blurb. Proper high energy band and I will be checking out their stuff later today as sounded good last night.

Gormless Ezra and shotgun, Mustang Sally. The world would be better place without them.

I had a four string for a while and it was great, could not fault it. Only sold it as had far too many other basses and it didn’t do anything unique for me. Would not hesitate to get another if I needed a cheap, reliable, well made bass.

I have a Sire Larry Carlton LP type 6 string. The quality is superb for the money and it plays very nicely indeed.

Most of the gigs I go to aren’t sold out by any stretch, a couple were cancelled last year due to poor sales which is tragic. No one I know is saying it’s the only factor but only someone detached from reality could assume cost of tickets doesn’t affect the ticket sales.

Nor me before the last 18 months, but its becoming the norm very rapidly for Birmingham and Nottingham to find most well known bands knocking on for that. I have tickets for Filter, Hives, Idles this year, none I would consider big bands but all around the £40 mark. Paid over £40 for SLF at the Academy last year compared to twenty something a couple of years ago. Even some tribute bands want £15+ around here. There are still plenty of free ‘covers band’ gigs which is great.

I think the increasing ticket prices are as much to blame. Four gigs booked for the first quarter of this year at a total cost of well over £200, only one is what I what I would call a big band (Smashing Pumpkins), not many gigs below £30 now. I would happily go every week at £15-20 but when it’s £50+ you have to decide if it’s a band you really want to see.

Backup stays in the bag, I used to have it in a different tuning for a few songs we did but swapping is a pain so now just retune quickly while out singer introduces the song.

Ah, my mistake, I thought the Digbeth stuff was HS2 as well. The tramway work is crazy, they have closed loads of roads and coned off huge areas but work on a 50m stretch at a time. I know a couple of businesses in the old custard factory that area struggling because of it.

Isn’t that area part of the HS2 nonsense? Loads of work going on around there. The academy has survived so far at least……

Weirdly I find it’s often just a different bass line writer (if that’s the correct term). I can happily play complex stuff from one band but struggle with seemingly simpler stuff from another. Some bass lines/ sequences just seem to fit my way of playing better than others.

An absolute Bell end that I had the misfortune to work for was in a band called the Grateful Dads (I am sure there are more than one band who have come up with that ‘witty’ name). The only thing I was grateful for was that I only suffered listening to them once. That was once too many.

He is having a laugh, £75 sounds very reasonable as long as it covers what you need it to. The bass I picked up was a lot more expensive but I couldn’t get a quote even close to £100, from memory I think about £130 was the cheapest.

Just make 100% sure that any insurance does actually cover the value of the bass. Many exclude instruments or have low limits but will still allow you to buy the insurance. The only time I bought a bass from Northern Ireland it worked out cheaper to get an easyjet flight over and collect it. I think I paid less than £50 and the seller met me at the airport. Cheapest quote I had was well over £100. It won’t work for everyone but I am ‘lucky’ enough to live 15 minutes from an airport.

Took a while but haven’t bought anything new in well over a year and even that was replacement when my practice amp died.

Saw Bad Manners earlier this year. Buster Bloodvessel has lost a lot of his energy and his voice isn’t as powerful but they still put on a hell of a show and had everyone bouncing around despite the average age of punters being 50-70.

Do you feel it (physically not emotionally) as much as hear it? That’s dark. Bright is the opposite….. At least that’s what it means to me.

If multiple people do it you have a chance, they seem a bit useless overall though sadly.

I have a behringer and we did loads of back to back tests against an SM58 when I first got it, no one could pic any difference between the two. We took it to our local nerd at the recording studio and he claimed the behringer was slightly more ‘warm’ but I’m not convinced. I didn’t see much point in forking out more for something used for very occasional backing vocals. Perhaps your mate has a dodgy one but I was amazed by how good this one is for less than £20 with a hard case. Not suggesting this in your case, but there is so much snobbery against cheaper kit where in reality the differences can be much smaller than most would care to admit.

I think it depends on expectations. I never expected to be. Professional or make living out of it. I just wanted to be able to play in a band, so I guess I ‘made it’ at our first gig. As of last year my present bands’ lead guitarist has now gone pro and the band is somewhat in stagnation I guess I have now ‘unmade it’.