Richard R

Thank you for all your organising @jebroad . The sports hall in our church halls would do, or one of the smaller carpeted rooms, but the parking and load in/out isn't straightforward. Parking may be getting better with the nearby carpark removing the 3hr limit, I'll investigate.

Well you're all wrong. There is even less place for humour in music than there would be for a dog turd in my pipe and slippers. As a recent convert to the Sillhill School of High Intellectual Theory I am firmly convinced that humour should be careful contained and kept for very rare and special occasions, as I believe orgasms are. I am now off to burn/melt my recordings of Half Man Half Biscuit, Tom Lehrer, Flanders & Swann, Kitt and The Widow, Peter Sellers, and Muse.

I've been wanting to try an Ibby fan fret for a while. I've played my friend's Dingwall, and I can tell it makes sense, but 37" was just too long. And he wouldn't lend it to me for the 6 months I would need to acclimatise.

Welcome aboard!

Just had an email to say that Joe Satriani is postponing the European leg of his tour until spring 2023. ☹ Hopefully still going to see Nick Mason.

Just skip the words on the livestream and sing twice as loud 😄

I went into this in nauseating detail when we started doing this, including long phone calls with CCLI and the PRS and PPL folks too. It's over 18 months now, so hopefully I've remembered this right! Churches are not required to pay royalties or PRS on songs performed during worship, or PPL for recorded music played as part of worship, when in the building. The copyright issues for a streamed performance are the royalties due to the writers from the viewers on livestream, and potentially your local recording of it. If you're using YouTube then that's covered by a blanket agreement between YT and the PRS. (Think of YT as being a huge pub that books a lot of bands. It's the venue's job to keep track of what is performed and to make returns to PRS. They do and apparently very well.) Some performance and recorded music may get automated copyright claims against the livestream, which just means that either you can't monetise your stream (which you aren't) or occasionally people in the US and Denmark can't see the stream or the recording. CCLI covers the fees due for the copying or display of the words of the song, it has nothing to do with fees due from the performance of the song. It also covers you for recording (i.e. copying) the song. If you don't display the words of the song on your livestream, and don't display on projectors in church, or photocopy from songbooks, then CCLI is irrelevant. You should pay CCLI to cover streaming the words on YT, because effectively you're copying the lyrics and distributing them. If you don't show the words for that song, then CCLI is irrelevant. CCLI streaming license covers you streaming songs from your own server or on a platform such as YT etc. If you are using your own server then you need the CCLI streaming license as you're recording then streaming from there. But the stance from the PRS people was that if you were streaming on YT, then it is YT's responsibility to make the PRS returns and a CCLI license wasn't actually necessary. Convenient, but not necessary. Again - think of YT as the venue making the return. So in short: If you perform it and stream it, the writer will get their royalties CCLI or not. If you stream the words as well, then strictly speaking you are distributing their words without copyright clearance, but YT won't block you. The writer won't get anything for your copying the words. I seem to recall there are a few we have done where the words aren't covered by CCLI, and I think we did put the words up. We always put the full song acknowledgements in the service description on YT anyway. Hope that helps!

Oh of course, the fun is in playing the damn' things.

But where's the fun in that? Especially for us spectators. 😉

Well, not a flawless performance by any means, but no truly terrible howlers except in practice where they belong. 👍

Welcome aboard! Bad luck on the injury. Basses are generally heavier and longer than guitars, it might be worth you checking out a couple of the excellent resources on how to avoid injury when playing bass. Scotts Bass Lessons and StudyBass in particular are good. You wouldn't want to make things any worse.

Welcome aboard! And congratulations on the start of an interesting and rewarding* hobby/obsession. Lots of friendly folks here and always lots of help. Some have been playing for decades, some of us only a couple of years. Don't be shy to ask questions, even if they seem really basic. Everyone, and I mean everyone, had to start from zero and figure it out. * potentially expensive too, unless you stay away from the marketplace until you actually need gear 😉

Thank you @Sardonicus. On other threads that might be taken as joke post, but on this one it's genuinely appreciated. Quite how we'll manage to truly groove to "Holy Spirit Living Breath of God", I'm not sure, but this band does a pretty funky version of "Blessed Be the Name of The Lord" .

p.s. if anyone feels like praying for a nervous bass player on Sunday please do 😁. I'm depping in the most musically accomplished band, and we have a potential new minister visiting the church and preaching. My target is to keep it simple and not embarrass anyone!

Yep! I'm Running just over 66/33 and have no idea what the preaching series is about!

Ouch! On both counts. I wouldn't play on Sunday @Sardonicus, politely decline as you have made other plans. @oldslapper- tell the minister's wife that your calling requires that you take a sabatical as you've been doing this over seven years. Preferably a paid sabatical like ministers have. I've been very fortunate in that the vicar in the church where I became a Christian gave me very sound advice 30+ years ago: "The order of priority is: God, Spouse, Dependent Children, Everything Else. Church is not the same as God. The order within Everything Else will change and vary over time, but if pushed then family and paid employment have to take precedence over church activities" I've made that position quite clear ever since and while I will happily work my socks off to keep things running I have also stepped down and let things fail when necessary.

Welcome aboard Lots of helpful folks here, but don't ask me though. I can barely spell sinthersyzer, let alone play one or offer helpful tips.

The whole album is just great. Impossible to work to 😁

Looking forward to seeing and hearing this. 😀

A 5 string bass and a decent amp. What more does a man need? 🤔 Answers on a postcard, or see the Marketplace. 😁 Welcome aboard!

Might account for the odd crackle sound that started yesterday on my bass in fact... 🙃

Bad luck. Had a couple of colleagues with MS over the years. They had the same general attitude: "It might be sh*t and it's not going away, but it's not going to stop me, just slow me down". Which is a pretty good attitude to life regardless of the hand you've been dealt.

Hope it lives up to expectations. Look forward to the NBD post 👍

Well if you're going out, go out in style!!