Newfoundfreedom

Oh God no! That would mean going a whole week without beer. Never gonna happen! 😂

Ours will probably be defunct before Tuesday. Now there's a band name. Defunct Before Tuesday. If only it was a punk band. I can come up with a million names for those.

Written in English (as opposed to the native cyrilic) would be Ponedelnik Klub. It doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Although just Ponedelnik could work. 👍

Ooh controversial 😂 I was expecting something much closer to the knuckle. I actually quite like it. 😀

Oh come on! You can't write all that then leave is in suspense over the name. What were they called? I promise I won't tell anyone. 😋

I've actually been toying with Monday Rules. Because we have a no politics and no religion rule. We also later added preamps to the banned list because one of the lads is a bit of an anorak and it got a bit boring. 😂

True enough. But the band formed out of a group of friends who meet up for a few beers every Monday night. We actually call it the Monday Club. None of the other 6 have any relevance.

I'm very tempted myself with the 5 string. The reviews are outstanding and the thing looks amazing, and looking at a few YouTube videos it sounds pretty good too. I can't see how you can go wrong at that price.

Just though I'd revive this thread instead of starting a new one because it's nice to see I'm not the only one struggling to name a band. I've come up with several, what I thought we good names, only to find after a bit of Google Fu they've been taken. Even "Monday Club" which was in the running for a while has been had by someone on this very forum. We're a five piece rock/ pop / blues covers band with a female singer and we're hoping to start gigging in a couple of months time, but we also have the added complication that we're all English people living in Bulgaria, so the name has to be something that, at the very least can be understood and pronounced (although not necessarily directly translated) in both languages. Brain racking continues.

Thank God!!! I thought it was just me.

My left ear is heavy but my right ear is light. I just find myself going around in circles looking for the right sound.

Cheap!!! 😵 I didn't pay that much for the house I reherse in with my £200 Squier.

Three bottles of vodka and hopefully a blackout until all the b@ll@cks is over with for another year.

I can't even do that after 6 months rehearsing with the same band. 😂

I've had this discussion with my guitarist several times. His theory is, he sees himself as an average guitarist, so throwing loads of money at gear will make him sound better. My arguement is, that it would be imperceptible to 99 percent of the people listening. However, if he perceives himself as sounding better, then he will play better. Therefore, yes, expensive gear can make you sound / play better. But in my opinion it's mostly a placebo effect.

Sadly not. We never really got to the stage where we had any specific tracks down. We were only a few rehersals in and none of us had played for years. Also it was one of those putting the house up for sale to "test the market" kind of things and it sold within a week. So one week it was all systems go. The next week he was packing up his kit.

Sounds like a pretty good arrangement to me.

Strangely that's not a problem. We have one of those rare beasts, a shy guitarist. We spend most of our time trying to get him to turn up. 😂

I'm sure one of the lads mentioned having a drum machine. That could help if things get desperate, but I honestly think it'll do us good to go without for a while.

Is it the worst thing in the world? We've just found out our drummer is moving away so will no longer be in the band. I'm pretty sad he's going because we're just a bunch of mates who play together, and it was the drummer and I, who have known each other for several years who started the whole thing off. We're nowhere near gig ready anyway, but things were just starting to come together and sound like music. So here's the thing. The social side of the band is much more important as far as I'm concerned than going out gigging. None of us are professional musos and it's never going to be about money or how many gigs we can get in. It's far more important that we get along as mates, the music is almost secondary. So basically, I don't want to put out an add for another drummer and bring a random stranger into the band. This isn't helped by the fact that we're all English people living in rural Bulgaria, so that fact that we met each other, got along, and all happened to play instruments was a one in a million chance anyway. So amazingly, I have another couple of English friends moving to the area in 4 or 5 months time, one is a guitarist and the other a drummer. Problem solved, both from a social and a band point of view. Our lead guitarist is absolutely dismayed at having to manage the next few months without a drummer, even though we're not a gigging band, have no gigs arranged, or any kind of pressure or timescale. I just don't get it. I actually think that it will be a really good opportunity to get ourselves playing well together. To be able to hear one another without competing with the volume of a drummer, and generally tighten things up. So to the voices of experience, is it all going to fall apart without a drummer? Or, as I believe, could it give us a kick up the @rse and help us to tighten up our own timing and playing and help us to hear one another better, therefore to play better as a unit?

I always find the hating on Bugera / Behringer utterly pointless. Is it a copy of another amp? Probably. Most of Behringers stuff is a copy of something else. Would I pay (in this example) £250 for the amp? Absofeckinglutely! Would I pay the best part of a grand for the amp it's based on? Not in a million years. I'm a weekend warrior not a professional musician. I simply don't have that much cash, or even the desire to spend that much cash on gear even if I had it. So are the companies who make the original amp losing out to the cheaper copy? Absolutely not. If the copy didn't exist then I still wouldn't be buying the original amp, and the people who want the original amp wouldn't buy the cheaper version. What Behringer do is supply decent quality gear at an unbelievable price for those of us who can't afford to spend thousands on top end brands. As well as supplying tons of gear to schools and academies who buy it for the same reason, and introduce whole new generations of people to playing music. Long live Behringer!

I may have been in the company of several famous people in my life and I probably wouldn't realize. Honestly, I doubt I'd even recognise Brian May if his hair was in my soup. Famous People belong on telly or on stage. They have no business existing in the real world. 😋

Usually a wadded up section at the bottom of whatever t-shirt I'm wearing.