PaulWarning

there was a similar thread not long ago, I replied I've got a laptop, use a Behringer UM2 audio interface, load any song into the audacity app (free) you can slow it down or change key, if required, then play along using headphones

I don't think I've ever got through a gig without at least couple of mistakes, it's usually lack of concentration, normally I don't think anybody notices but the last gig we decided to do the Specials Rat Race for the first time in ages, I got completely lost and couldn't get it back until the second chorus, even the drummer said it was messy 🤣

but there's plenty of other old men wanting to relive the best time of their lives, can't see the harm in it myself

So I'm in the pub and someone has left a Daily Star on the table, so I have read, as you do, there's John Lydon giving it some about the Pistols doing gigs without him, oh dear, that hasn't done his ego any good

I've got a laptop, use a Behringer UM2 audio interface, load any song into the audacity app (free) you can slow it down or change key, if required, then play along using headphones

never really considered a 5, guess it depends on the style of music you play, not many punk bassists use a 5 string, I avoid playing anything below a G on the E string anyway, for instance I usually play F or F# on the D string seems to cut through better, to my ears anyway

went to see Black Water County at the Bodega in Nottingham on Saturday, packed small venue with mosh pit, very lively and enjoyable, all of a sudden a drum stick hit me in the face and broke my glasses 😡, which took the shine off the evening somewhat

one of my Trace amps thumps the other doesn't, I always assumed it was some sort of capacitor fault, it's never damaged the speaker

similar thread here, Rumbles are good if a little bulky

We have a similar problem, not the feedback, but being too loud in a small pub gig, I have raised the subject and asked if he could play quieter, but he just says he enjoys bashing hell out of the kit (he regularly trashes his 300 quid cymbals and at the end of gigs it's like a wood yard round his feet), in all other respects he's an ideal band member, decent drummers who don't cause problems within the band don't grow on trees so we just accept it

I've posted this before, always makes me smile

my mistakes I was thinking of Richard Skinner who like you say came a little bit later, anyway Whispering Bob didn't like punk, after all punk was invented as an antidote for the over indulgence of Prog Rock and 20minute guitar and drum solo's

well Sid certainly didn't help, the aborted attack, which was inexcusable but typical Sid, was probably because Bob was resisting having Punk bands on the Old Grey Whistle Test, which is why he got replaced by Richard Williams

but not punk @Lozz196 😂