Richard R

It took me ages to realise that when the band leader lifts one leg that means "back to the chorus".

Welcome aboard. Great band name 👍

I was sort of spared the kids song this evening, as I had to double up as sound engineer. Sunday will be OK if I manage to get some practice tomorrow. Hope your Sunday goes well @Big Rich.

Welcome! What's the second on the left with the knife-like headstock? Very cool.

I'm off to band practice in about 10 minutes, and have discovered that we are playing this as the kids' song: I appreciate it is for young children, but any suggestions? Please? Help!

See also the thread on smuggling pop bass lines into church music. 😉

I have a washboard somewhere...

"my church band" - I take it that means you already know the style of music and setup if you're worshipping there regularly? Assuming that, then I guess it depends on your playing ability and experience. I still have to get the music/lead sheets/chord sheets well before the practice and in the keys the band intends to play them in. (Lead sheets especially as they show what the timing should be). Practicing with YouTube is fun, as you probably won't play in the same key as the video! Then as @LukeFRC and @owen have said, it's about playing tastefully to support the band, who support the congregation. If you can add fills that support the music then great, but watch that pianist's left hand. And, please, talk to the sound guy/gal. We're not scary, just tired, and we do actually want the band to sound as good as possible. 👍

Welcome aboard!🙂

At the Midlands Bass Bash? Assuming we finalise the date..

Just googled your band and found the bandcamp pages 😁 Need a proper listen when I not being harrangued to help with the end of year crossword, but as you say, very metal!

Hello and welcome 🙂

Welcome aboard. 🙂 If you have been on this forum for any length of time you will already be anticipating this question: Contrabassoon - is it any good for metal?

Last purchase of 2019 now made, post Christmas sales and money sat in my PayPal account: https://www.dawsons.co.uk/armourdillo-defender-bass-guitar-gig-bag It won't arrive this year, but I shall post back in @Kirky's thread as to whether it's any good or not. Slàinte Mhath everyone!

That I like. I can see why it didn't make the album, it wouldn't quite fit. Sounds like it should have been on Heavy Horses but with the synths from Broadsword. Tull got their Christmas Single royalties with Solstice Bells, but I'm off to dig out this and wake the rest of the house up.

Just googled the Osaka Monaurail album. That blew away the cobwebs! You must have played a real belter 😎

Well I was confused as I read " \\ to the .." as "angled to the ...". "// to the..." is clearly what you meant, unless you're left-handed. 😉

That's what was so strange and funny, clearly the sax player can play. My first thought was that his iems must have failed and so he couldn't hear the keyboard. But when no one stopped him...

Terrible reheaesal on Monday for a big service on Sunday. Very, very, stressful, still wound up yesterday. A friend sent me this to cheer me up. Hope it makes some of you smile too.

Oh Come All Ye Faithfull (adeste-fideles). Trad words please or you'll confuse me as to where the chords change 😉

It is magic. B---- cold though! Standing on Leuchars station platform waiting for a train is still the coldest I have ever been, and that includes Ottowa at -31C. 🥶

As is said elsewhere above, common decency wins in the long run. FYI, I knew I had seen a Musicians' Union article on this somewhere recently. https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/Advice/Your-Career/Legal/Partnerships So when your next band takes over the world, you'll be ready and set up properly! 🍻🍻

Do you, as a band, have any sort of written contract or agreement about how the band runs? If not then you are all, in law, equals in a partnership by agreement and all equally own all the common assets of the band. As soon as you started working together for a common cause you're in a partnership. By sacking you they have technically dissolved the partnership, and you now all equally own the assets. In particular the right to use the name. Court cases on this go on for decades (Bucks Fizz), but that is the case. Plenty of web sites on band law to reference. So you could very politely point this out to them, and ask that they pay you for the gig and then buy out your share of what they think the name is worth if they wish to continue. Since you hold the social media passwords, do absolutely nothing at all on those sites, nothing malicious especially. If there is no desire to pay you for the gig or the name, then you own it as much as they do, so after the gig do as you wish. If you do have a written agreement that takes precedence of course.

Hellooo! Where in Fife? My wife and I lived in St Andrew's for two years when we were first married and I absolutely love the East Neuk. I would have stayed up there, but it was a long way from our families and there wasn't any sensible work.