PaulWarning

I went to see Black Sabbath at the NEC a few years, hated it I I've avoided large venues ever since, Rock City in Nottingham is about as large as I'll go think it holds about 2000, and I hate sitting down completely ruins it for me. I'd rather go and see a good tribute in my local pub then watch the real thing in an aircraft hanger. Another thing how come the bigger the venue the higher the price, shouldn't it be the other way on?

[attachment=158651:Hondo Bass.jpg] yep, looks like my Hondo

go and check out the opposition, if they're crap it don't half cheer you up, and if they're good it might give you and idea or two

£282 + £6 postage, I would say that's a bit of a bargain, if it'd been any colour but sunburst and a maple neck I might have been tempted myself

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Left-handed-Jazz-Bass-Sunburst-779566bch-/251470301708?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3a8ccc4a0c it's mexican, BIN price £369 not bad but not overly cheap I wouldn't have thought.

that's happened to us too,hopefully it's somebody who's bought it and is selling it on (after ripping it to their hard drive), and not someone who we gave a promo too

Stranglers with a low bass mix can't be good

[quote name='phil.mcglassup' timestamp='1394223291' post='2389392'] The old goth band I was in were around in 1987...and no one needs to know we had a 25 year break to write new songs [/quote] My punk band reformed after a 25 years sabbatical nearly 10 years ago, still going, and now have the advantage of sort of knowing what we're doing and can afford semi decent gear

I've always considered my self lucky, but then everybody thinks that I suppose, I was just getting interested in music when the Beatles issued Please Please Me, then I had Hendrix coming along, and finally when I was getting fed up and had stopped buying records Punk hit and restored my faith in Rock and Roll.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1394051030' post='2387462'] Sounds a bit operatic to me. [/quote] like I said

I no longer have the HiFi bug, bit pointless now I've been diagnosed with industrial hearing loss I will say this though, crap music is crap music no matter how much the system costs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0fM3tChADY

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1393438985' post='2380371'] [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/ol/1846687446/ref=mw_dp_olp?qid=1393438937&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co...93438937&sr=8-1[/url] [/quote] cheers, just ordered mine

[quote name='FuNkShUi' timestamp='1393426673' post='2380137'] I dont get jazz. At all. Im well aware im probably the minority. I do appreciate the musicianship, and skills that they obviously have. But its not for me. Dont enjoy it at all. Ill get my coat.... [/quote] No, I think you're probably in the majority. I don't get opera either, what a racket

[quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1393420678' post='2379979'] It helps if you were alive in the 60s.....if not I guess a lot of the Beatles may not resonate with you. I never understood George Formby..... [/quote] most people 'get' the music of their youth, although I always said it wouldn't happen to me most modern stuff leaves me cold, and if it doesn't I find myself saying "it sounds just like (insert old artists name here)" Never got Springsteen but love the Ramones (and the Beatles!)

I do open mics about once a week, electro/acoustic guitar and singing, (no bass) they vary a lot, but they all have a basic PA (unless advertised differently) so like loads of others have said just your bass and a DI pedal, Oh, and tell the guy running it what time you've got to leave by if you don't want to play the graveyard shift

and Fender don't make MIM P's although they produce lefty J's, very strange

there's always audacity, or http://kristal-audio-engine.en.softonic.com/ both free

you've not got a lot of control over your tone when going through a PA, it's what the sound engineer thinks you should sound like, although I do hear a some bass players with way too much low bass dialed in (imo of course) which results in either a boomy sound or one with no definition or both

our guitarist probably makes more then his share of mistakes, trouble is they stand out more (only having one guitar in the band) we've asked regulars to our gigs about it and comments vary from "what mistakes" to "it's live music what do you expect", mind you it is a punk band so nobody expects perfection, in fact they'd probably be disappointed if they got it

it was interesting that it was a bass, wonder if anybody on here carried out the threat to buy one of his guitars? edit, I really don't see why this thread should be locked as long as we keep it adult, stick to the facts and avoid juvenile name calling

what's clear is that even in the 'good times' these venues couldn't make a profit, these days they got no chance

sorry just seen a topic on the same thing, can I delete this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03trs7b

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1392127476' post='2365039'] The guitarists could also be a lot more "pro" about being ready for the next song too [/quote] We've sort of improved this be keeping the same 2 songs together in the set, then he knows what the next one is without looking at the set list, like we always follow London's Calling with Should I Stay or Should I go.

pater like everything else gets better with practice, but I agree with most posters on here no interaction with the crowd is not a good thing, but if you're not comfortable with it you tend to mumble which means nobody can understand what you're saying anyway, and yeah don't overdo it we occasionally have to pull our singer up on that one, like most singers he's a narcissist and thinks everybody is hanging on his every word