Newfoundfreedom

I can feel my anxiety levels rising just reading this thread. I always have really bad nerves before and during a gig. I wouldn't even dream of taking something like this on. Fair play to you. I hope it's "alright on the night", as it were. But yeah, the singer sounds like a totally clueless wannabe.

Beat me to it. I use a laptop bag for my Veyron. You couldn't design a custom bag to fit any better.

Nope. Never had any interest whatsoever in doing so, and highly doubt I ever will.

That's easy for you to say.

The one that really gets me is how Americans pronounce Herbs as Erbs, when it clearly has an H.

As long as we don't stray off topic it'll all be fine.

The question you really need to be asking is why Constantinople is now called Istanbul. Well.......? Hmmm........? Nobody's business but the Turks.

I often look like I'm dancing a but. In reality I'm just shifting my weight from one foot to another to stop my back snapping in half.

That was a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, well before the internet and Google. If you want to come up with something unique now, you've got to do something far more than swap a vowel.

Define "quality". One man's dream gig is another man's nightmare. For example, I can't imagine anything worse than playing at a wedding. For many this would be considered a quality gig. Drunken afternoon barbeque in someone's back garden, I'm all over it.

The most recent one I wrote down was Buxom Struts

I have a list of potential band names as long as my arm. Like you, my current band spent weeks of back and forth before we came up with a name. So now ever time something pops up in general conversation that sounds like it could make up a good band name I write it down just in case. Although as you said, it's amazing how many of them are already taken, even when you think you're being obscure.

The problem is, if you get creative with spelling to try and come up with something unique, you spend the next X amount of years not only telling people your band's name, but having to explain how to spell it.

Welcome Paul. I play an ESP LTD sixer as well. Fantastic bass, but it weighs about the same as a small house.

I don't know about playing, but I think I'd enjoy watching that. 😆

Life.

I'd rather play 2 gigs a year. Ideally without leaving the house.

Learning to play the recorder in primary school has had a profound effect on my life. I can't even list the amount of times I've found it an invaluable skill.

Amazing level of skill, but like Jaco et all, it's about as musical as roadworks.

Can't wait to receive the 50% payout for my 600 Spotify streams! I've been looking at villas on the coast.

We were recently contacted by a friend and neighbour, a fellow Brit in our little Bulgarian village, who runs the local village community Facebook group. He had been contacted by the daughter of an elderly village resident, complaining that her Mum, who has "sensitive ears" was being disturbed by the noisy English musicians in the village playing at all Godforsaken hours, and as he knows the other English in the village, would he mind having a word before they get the police involved. Given that we only practice one day a week, for about 3 hours in the afternoon, and my drummer and guitarist live about 30km away, I was rather perplexed by this. So I told him it wasn't us, and if they were hearing anything on a night the only thing I could think of was my home cinema system up in the barn, and I would endeavor to keep it down. So for the next couple of weeks, I wore headphones when watching the cinema so there was absolutely zero noise. Then one morning when we were out shopping, the local plod turned up at the gate, which was answered by my 75 year old mum who's currently battling cancer and undergoing chemo every three weeks. Who did her best to explain we weren't in. I actually really, really wish we had been, because the sh!t would have seriously hit the fan right then and there. A couple of weeks later, my friend received another complaint about the noise we were making, except this time we were 40km away playing a gig in another town. My friend informed them as much, and told them there was no way that it could be us making the noise she was hearing. Since then, I've played as loud as I want, whenever I want, and will happily watch my home cinema in the wee small hours with the sound on full blast. Until I get an apology for sending the police round and disturbing my seriously ill mother, they can quite frankly kiss my @rse!

Something from the Zoom Handy range should do the trick. H2 to H6 depending on your needs and budget.

I don't think I'm in much danger of it being hosted here.

Thanks Yes. Real drums. The lead guitar, bass and drums were recorded in one live take. The singer is my wife, and backing vocals by our drummer.