PaulWarning

I wear hearing aids, my loss is round about 6K, the audiologist insisted it wasn't playing in a band or going to gigs that did it but working in a noisy environment, funny how I've got tinnitus in my left ear then, being cack handed I always have the drummer on my left,

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1427805687' post='2734428'] We play all over the country and there are plenty of paying gigs available to us. I think that people expect the gig venues to remain the same over time, but that simply not what happens. I can only speak for what has happened here in Nottingham, but only a couple of the venues that were active back in 1980 when I moved here still put gigs on, and even just 10 years ago the venues were completely different ones to those operating today. Venues come and go, it's whether the overall gigging scene gets bigger that matter and here there's certainly far more, and far better opportunities for bands than any time I in the past as far as I recall. [/quote]talking of gigs, I see we're playing the same festival soon, Strummercamp

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1427798537' post='2734298'] There are still pubs putting bands on but some I don't know how they do it. A gig prior to Christmas, that I did a gig where for the first set there were a total of 5 people in the pub, the landlord, a bar person and the half a dozen F&F & WAGS we bring along. The second set livened up but it seems a strange thing for a landlord to risk money on in those circumstances.. [/quote]I've wondered this but some landlords get an entertainment allowance from the Pub Co, so it doesn't come out of his pocket, well, not directly anyway, we played a pub recently where they openly said they could only guarantee us £100, that was their allowance, but would pay us more if it went well, in the end they gave us £200

[quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1427792602' post='2734190'] I think the scene is contracting at the moment as the pub trade is generally contracting. I wouldn't say dying. If you are good and willing to travel a bit, there are as many gigs available as you could want to play. [/quote]yeah, lots of Pubs closing down,Some deserve too, the best ones are doing well, the ones that specialise in real ale, mostly, but they don't tend to put loud live bands on, but pubs don't stop putting live bands on if it's paying them to do so, I've played/been too to many gigs where you stand there thinking how the hell are they making this pay. Having said that lots of pubs don't do their homework, they don't check out the bands before they book them, if a pub has a few bad bands on people stop going, simple. I'm rambling a bit here, basically if a pub is well run they will survive, unfortunately there's too many out there that aren't, IMO it's due to pub companies giving out crap contracts so anybody with any business acumen wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, it might change now the recent law been passed which means they can't be forced to by their beer, expensively, from the pub companies, fingers crossed

and another thing, how come 90% of the time the support bands sound is crap compared to the headliners? not just quieter but the mix is usually all over the place

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1427451944' post='2730469'] Di on the bass never really helps unless you like the sound of your bass plugged straight in to a clean amp. Thats what's coming out front, your sound you created and spent years getting right stays on stage. Unless you fight your corner, hours sometimes on drums, play the bass mate, ten seconds for a level, right on to the guitar for twenty minutes. You have to sometimes collar them and say go get a ****ing Mic and mic the cab up and get the sound I have here out front. Often your sound is a mix of compression and slight overdrive creating sustain you realy on to play certain things. A dry DI, slight fiddle with the desk EQ and you are just a dull rumble with no sustain and there is nothing to put back in the mix to start with. Any sound engineer not willing to help, well not as if there is a shortage these days is it. A lot have forgotten that it is the artistes who are the important people in the room, the sound man has a job to do and that requires listening to the people he is supposed to be working for sometimes. [/quote]that's why I use an FX pedal, to get 'my sound' when the everything on the amp is flat,

am I missing something, what difference does it make? apart from being on the 'right' side of the string when changing to another string, like I start the riff to Babylons Burning with an upstroke, but all upstrokes, I don't get it

went to see the Stranglers last night at Rock City and the mix was great, no bass drum dominating the mix, don't think JJ would put up with that lol, mind you his bass sound didn't sound like him but you could hear it well enough

went to see the Stranglers at Rock City in Nottingham last night, enjoyable gig, but, his bass tone was nothing like I would have expected, they came back for a 2nd encore and did Peaches, sounded bassy and distorted, Walk on By wasn't any better either.

Why? I just don't get it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Fender-51P-Bass-Left-handed-precision-jazz-51Telecaster-50s-70s-custom-/271798769459?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f48781733

I thought the idea of using rehearsal rooms is so you don't have to hump a load of gear about, basic drum kit, PA for vocals, amps for the guitarist(s) and bassist, means an equal split, if someone chooses to bring their own gear that's there choice, still an equal split

frustrating isn't it?, I send posters to pubs via the post if they're too far away to drop them in then turn up at the gig and they haven't even been arsed to put them up, then they wonder why their business is going down the tubes

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1426448043' post='2718160'] I heard an interesting programme on Radio 4 today talking social media, and Facebook in particular. It was reported that the trend to share every part of your life in intimate detail with a bunch of, what are essentially, strangers has been steadily losing its appeal for some time. It was mentioned that younger users are starting to realise that bullying can be an issue and that what they say 'now' may come back and haunt them in the future in both personal and career spheres. Got to say that its something that I've never been tempted to get involved with, but I can be a bit of a luddite when it suits me. [/quote]Our soon to leave guitarist hasn't got the message yet, he was saying on FB the other day it was a quiet day at work so he was in the toilets doing sudoku's, not the sort of thing I'd put on there even if I did post stuff [quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1426449763' post='2718178'] [color=#141823]From Facebook - "We've recently updated the way we measure how many people like your Page. Pages may see a decrease in likes after 12 March, when we removed likes from inactive Facebook accounts."[/color] [/quote] I hadn't seen that, mystery solved, cheers

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1426422188' post='2717838'] I deactivated my facebook about a year ago, by coincindence to this thread my mate said in the pub last night that he has seen quite a few people leaving recently, is facebook losing its crown? [/quote]Well I wouldn't bother with it if it wasn't for the band, most of time it's used by sado's trying to convince everybody else what a wonderful life they've got, when, if it was, they wouldn't be wasting their time on FB, rant over, well I have just got back from the pub, perhaps I ought to put that on FB lol

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1426417703' post='2717776'] I think there's some small print about drummers [/quote]

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1426415532' post='2717729'] Something to do with facebook removing as bunch of fake accounts recently I think. Iirc it says something about it if you look at your stats page? [/quote]right I've found it, they've removed a load of likes from deactivated accounts, I always thought they were removed at the time the account was deactivated though, they certainly were when our drummer deactivated his, happened straight away

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1426415597' post='2717731'] Maybe you had a bad gig... [/quote]oh we've had loads of bad gigs without this happening before lol

On my bands facebook page we suddenly lost 14 likes in one day, now I know some people cancel there likes for various reasons but to lose 14 in one day seems a bit much, we can't have upset that many people in one day surely, is it something to do with Facebook?

maybe Fender haven't got a clue how to get JJ's signature sound lol, there's been enough debate on here about it

I think it's been well documented that JJ's sound changed when his green P bass fell in half when he punched it during a gig, it never sounded the same after it was repaired, he said he tried hundreds of other basses and could never find one that sounded like it, although some people on here have got pretty close

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1425203201' post='2704894'] Interested what people think if his current tone and how it compares with the past one? [media]http://youtu.be/SItRVpLjAI0[/media] [/quote]a lot cleaner and more like a normal bass these days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cje1W6iGesw

I use Hydrogen, you have to programme it yourself, but once you've figured it out it helps you understand what a drummer does, it's great for demos to show other members what you've got in mind and it's free, converts the drum pattern to wav form so you can load it into audacity or something like that, and record vocals /bass/ guitar and whatever else you want on to it

I always know if the Excuse is "Oh I haven't had time" what they mean is I'd rather be doing something else, if you really want to do something you make the time

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1425122771' post='2704143'] You are the only one registered with PRS, so you have no legal obligation to share. The money went on band expenses, so you have no moral obligation to share it. Yes, he will need to register with PRS and someone needs to fill in the forms if he wants any money. However, as far as PRS are concerned, you are the sole rights holder at the moment, and he can't just register and say he wants a cut - If that were the case, I could just write to them and say I'd like 50% of the Rolling Stones' rights please :-D This is why an agreed band split is vital. Everyone who gets a split needs to register individually and the PRS need to know the percentage split for each song. [/quote]ok thanks, at one time I did suggest we draw up some sort of agreement to split royalties, (we'd just made a CD and were all optimistic!) but no one seemed very keen on the idea so I didn't pursue it, To be fair to the guitarist he's not getting arsey about it, he just asked the question