PaulWarning

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

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOLy6Wzf-U"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOLy6Wzf-U[/url]

can't believe nobody's mentioned Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower

this has been done a few times, here's one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/95282-declaring-your-hobby-to-the-taxman/page__st__40"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/95282-declaring-your-hobby-to-the-taxman/page__st__40[/url] best answer I read somewhere was from one guy who got his tax reduced because his expenses where more than what he earned from the band, after claiming against his other earnings for a couple of years the taxman told him it was a hobby and not to declare band earnings, something like that anyway it

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1340218866' post='1701347'] It's horribly common and I run into all over the place and not just with pub bands and not just at festivals (where there might be a partial excuse). I've paid good money to see bands where I've filled in the words from memory (Todd Rundgren, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, The Nice (reunion tour), Johnny Winter to name but a very few). Steve [/quote] [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1340181088' post='1700318'] Exactly - the amount of bands I see where I can hear the singer, but not understand a word they are singing is amazing. I`ve always thought that as soon as you can hear the words, the band sounds much more professional. [/quote] This can be a trap you can fall into quite easliy doing your own sound, because you know the words it's tempting to have the vocals a bit lower than they should be, at the end of the day the melody line (usually the vocal) is the main part of the song

We do it to the volume of the drums. All you need to do is be able to hear everyone in the band on stage and that will transmit outfront with the exception of the Vox..as monitors will be loud and clear. can't really agree with that I'm afraid, sometimes I think my bass is really loud and out front it's fine, sometimes the guitar seems loud but again it's ok out front, depends on room accustics

me the guitard and the singer, with his cordless mic, do it by concensous, if you can't hear the vocals turn your amps down and if the drummer is way to loud buy him some lighter sticks, noisey bastard

thanks everyone, I've figured most of it out, in a fashion, I've listened to a couple of live recordings of it as well and as usual they're all different, as Chris b says it's mostly root/5th/ octave, an added complication is, as Lewk says, it's quite high and I can see us having to lower the key and the song starts on bottom E so it ain't going to be exact anyway

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1339770961' post='1694103'] We play this in the cover band. I don't like it that much so I just twiddle over root/5/octave. The band's happy so it's good enough for me too. [/quote] I've had a quick listen and there does seem to be a lot of root/octive going on

[quote name='Vinny' timestamp='1339767735' post='1694030'] Do the chords not help? [url="http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/e/eddie_and_the_hotrods/anything_you_wanna_do_crd.htm"]http://tabs.ultimate...anna_do_crd.htm[/url] [/quote] cheers Vinny but I can get the chords off the net, that's the route I'll have to go down when I try and figure it out myself, trouble is I'm not very good at it and it could take a while, I was hoping for a short cut

guess not huh?

been trying to find the bass tab for this song with no luck, can anybody help?

ask Macca, he'll know

nah, I prefer P's myself, tempting though

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1338389419' post='1673762'] Welcome back! This is a pleasant surprise, I was expecting [i]another [/i]'Should we play "God save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols at our Jubilee gig?' thread [/quote] Well, we're going to play it, unless someone gets there first, we're doing a 3 day beer/music festival near Brighton

I've got a cheapo clip on one for my accustic guitar, my zoom 506II has got a built in tuner for gigs, and I've noticed at open mic nights when it gets noisey it doesn't work very well, have to try and find a quiet corner, is it the same with one of these?

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1337801033' post='1665757'] I think that was Marquerita Time - on one TOTP show they had Jimmy Lea of Slade as a stand-in. Apparently Rick was off his face on something & fell over the drum kit. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oChnHlBnpo[/media] [/quote] I'm happy to stand corrected, Marquerita time is even worse than living on an island, I have total respect for Alan Lancaster refusing to play such utter tripe

yeah, Lancaster was the rocker, that's why the band was never the same once he left, I may be wrong here but did he refuse to play on Living on an Island, saying he wouldn't be able to go home and face his family after playing on such sh*t, somebody will probably put me right on that one, but I hope it's right, great story

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1337782290' post='1665380'] [media]http://youtu.be/_rYWx-erzio[/media] [/quote] bit of a generalisation I know

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1337780321' post='1665340'] Hmm, I drifted away a bit when John Coghlan left... [/quote] nice Quo in joke there

just read about the 'classic' line up of Quo to make an album and do a short tour, don't know about anybody else but the albums this line up made up to, but no including, Rocking All Over the World are some of my favourite records, one of the reasons I took up playing bass. I know Quo have become a bit of a joke in recent years, usually amongst people who don't know how to play, but I'm fond of telling my slightly younger band mates "Before punk all we had was Quo" I suppose John Edwards is a technically better player than Alan Lancaster but Lancaster's hard playing bass style, played with a pick, just seems to make them rock.

I started getting it about 10 years ago, not a whistling sound but a rushing sound, bit like holding a sea shell up to your ear, not from playing in a band but going to other peoples gigs, the sound is a lot louder front of house than on stage, started wearing ER 20's, and it slowly got better, and I hardly get it at all these days, guess I was lucky edit, mind you I am a bit deaf these days, have trouble hearing conversations with other people when there's background noise

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1337028643' post='1654410'] Similar as above, of course, but we were putting a band together for doing some originals and some covers, of which I remember a Gentle Giant song and one by Dalbello. In comes this guitarist with his axe tuned to an E minor chord. A barré (that the word when you pinch all strings with one straight finger?) plus one finger is major, right? Explains he was in a metal band that got a record contract after they'd thrown him out. best, bert [/quote] yep he's right, I had to learn how to play guitar in 4 weeks years ago so we could play a gig, just tuned it E major and barred the top 3 strings and played the gig, played like that for a while, never had to do an audition though