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I'm guessing here but there's probably very few members of a tribute or covers bands that didn't start of with the dream of making it big by writing there own material, after years of playing to 1 man and his dog in some flea bitten hell hole they realise they've missed the being in the right place at the right time boat, so because we all love playing live music to an apreciative audience we start playing the songs of their hero's. As far as I'm concerned there's still no better buzz than leaving the stage with the cries of more ringing in my ears, yes, some might accuse us of selling out but it's a lot of fun.

I suppose the bottom line is that the majority of people want to hear something they're familiar with when they go to a gig, this is why originals only bands have such a hard time

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1346763649' post='1792809'] No personal disrespect intended,but this shocks me. [/quote] I'm surprised it shocks you, have you never been to a gig when the band says" this is a song from our new album" everybody buggers off to the bar?

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1346762417' post='1792771'] Nope. [/quote] fair enough then, wouldn't do for us all to be the same, personally I don't like listening to bands doing a set of stuff I've never heard before

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1346761289' post='1792748'] I still don't get it. Why would anyone want to see a band/act pretending to be someone else? [/quote] do you not enjoy watching a band doing a well played cover version then? a tribute is just one step up from that

in my book a tribute is where they make an good effort to look like the original, if they just play the songs they're just a covers band, once saw a band billed as a stones 'tribute', made no effort to look like them and spent half the set doing other artisits sixties covers, glad I didn't pay to get in, what a con

probably get slagged off for saying this, but, I would rather go and see a good tribute playing in the local pub, free admission decent beer nice and dry, than pay £100 to stand in a wet cold field or a massive arena with crap sound , with about 50000 other people watching the original thing from about half a mile back. I agree with a couple of posts on here, the secret is not to take youself to serously, saw a stones tribute once and 'Brian Jones' came on wearing angels wings, brilliant

haven't got a clue, anybody know where it comes from? perhaps I'll start another thread asking

Just watched Green Day at Reading, it's on teletext, not a bad thing to do, play a short 'secret' gig on a smaller stage, did they only do half an hour? but I do wish Billy Jo would cut out that tiresome A O crap

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1345539679' post='1778511'] I have a plywood hondo P like this. it sounds luvverly, but weighs a ton. ply is fine. [/quote] +1 so have I

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1345630029' post='1779605'] But is that down to the band not being able to perform the ballad well or the audience’s natural preference for faster, more groove based songs that they can dance to or sing along to?? [/quote] The later I would say, ballads do tend to show up dodgy singers though

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1345583494' post='1779212'] Dunno why a band that can nail a fast or even a mid-paced track shouldn't be able to pull off a slower song? The main problem seems to me to get an audience to listen and not rush en masseto the loo or bar...! Think you answered your own question there, if the audience rushes to the bar you've not pulled it off [/quote]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1345573400' post='1779048'] I had one for a while, only slight problem was the pre-amp valve became loose, so my mate had a look, put it back in place, and tightened the holder. Never a problem again. Great amps, very loud, and sound good with the matching MB410, awesome with the Marshall VBC412. [/quote] so why did you off load it?

has anybody heard any trouble with the heads,? there's one here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/181750-marshall-mb450h-price-drop-l160-delivered-fsft/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/181750-marshall-mb450h-price-drop-l160-delivered-fsft/page__fromsearch__1[/url] just a thought with all the trouble seeming to come form the cab crossovers

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1345556271' post='1778765'] Most bands can't play a slow song which is the reason why they stay away from them. If you are going to pick one..make sure you do it well [/quote] +1 to that. and try and make it a singalong as well

[quote name='citymariner' timestamp='1345553772' post='1778738'] This has come a couple of times about the democracy of a band - if 4 out of 5 want to play it, what would you say? [/quote] Well I'm in a 4 piece and generally we reach a concensus, but if one person really doesn't want to do it we don't, there's enough other songs out there without causing resentment, having said that we've all got more a less the same musical taste which helps a lot, it's an old cliche 'musical differences' but it can cause a lot of aggro

don't do a song that that somebody in the band doesn't like, resentment builds up and it'll end in tears

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1345476026' post='1777893'] I don't get what you mean. How would a crossover stop it overheating? [/quote] no crossover to go wrong stops it overheating, I got the impression the the faulty crossover, or splitter?, was causing the amp to overload and therefore overheat, mine gets quiet warm but it's never cut out

I'ver got one of these, had trouble with the first one, Marshall replaced it, since then it's been fine, love the sound with a 1x15 extention cab, mind you my ext cab has no tweeter so no crossover to break down which seems to be the main problem here

nope, don't miss it at all, much prefer my MIA P, each to there own I guess

you cam spend a £1000 on ear plugs, but if you forget to put them in, like i did at the last gig they won't do any good at all Incidental I use ER20 and have found them to work very well, when I put them in that is

how about the worst guitar solo ever? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI403cCUSCM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI403cCUSCM[/url] kicks in about 1.20

my girlfriend wonders up halfway through the sound check and will say "that don't sound right" (she's not very good with technical jargon) so we adjust something, eventually she say "that's better" and away we go, then the room fills up, if we're lucky, and the whole thing alters anyway. Sound engineers cost money.

yep I'm a GAS free zone since I got my MIA P

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