PaulWarning

if memory serves me right Dee Dee Ramone played in a Ramones tribute for a while, bizzare

of course this all very sensible, but if we all agreed to differ on opinion they'd be very few threads left to comment on

I've got an SMX GP12 and don't use the 'sound management system' much, the valve preamp seems to do absolutely nothing, the preshapes are hopeless for gigging with a band, and the compression doesn't seem to do a lot either (mind you, I do play with a pick and use a bass drive pedal which compresses anyway). Great amps though aren't they? Like I say I do use a bass drive pedal (Zoom B1on) but I have the 30 and 40 Hz sliders right down and the 50Hz one is cut but depends on the room and a little boost at 2.6K depending on the state of my strings and the room

that's why it's best left to the bass drum

yep and me on my Precision, proving the point (I think) that cutting is better than boosting, cut the frequencies you don't want and the ones you do become more prominent

Well I may be the only one of here by the looks of things, but I enjoy playing Wonderwall on my acoustic at open mics. Simplistic, familiar anthems, now I know why Oasis were so popular

low D? I don't even like playing low F

I don't bother about a tone at home, I just plug my bass into my laptop and use headphones because home practice bears no relation to what I need in a band situation, what @skankdelvar says, cut below 100hz, just muddy's the tone, and don't cut the mids, it might sound a bit 'honky' on it's own but live that's what cuts through. I always find it's better to cut rather than boost if you can

Don't think you should bill yourself as a tribute then, just a Tom Petty covers band, nothing wrong with that it's just that I feel disappointed if a tribute doesn't look the part

sort of with you on that, but I think it's the way overly long ending that's the trouble with it, if it faded after 3.30 minutes it would have been ok ish, must have been the drugs. Sting is also guilty of over extending endings as well

well we played our club gig last night, slow start but finished up ok, people up and dancing, the usual half hour break for bingo and sticky 13's, got the end, the usual "Thank you very much we've been Verbal Warning" get the expected encore shouts, then a first, the MC announces over the PA not the expected "Thank you very much Verbal Warning, do we want another one?", no it was "Alright, who wants another game of Bingo then?" we did an encore anyway, then they had another game of bingo while we were packing away

probably reached a deal outside ebay

I've never been close to 'making it' but a guy I used to work with was in a band that got a £100,000 advance from Warner Bros, recorded an album at the Studio in Wales did a couple of years touring with major acts, living the dream, full time musician. Eventually the advance money ran out, the album didn't sell very well and they got dropped, but the best bit of the story is the Manchester Evening News ran a story on their music page with the headline, "Who's going to be the next big thing, The Steamboat Band or Oasis?"

you could always bugger off to the bar and leave the bass part to the acoustic guitar like it should be

thanks for reminding me

works though doesn't it? and if it gets more people into their proper stuff do the ends justify the means?

Fairytale in New York is my favourite Christmas song, because it's not all about what a wonderful time we should be having because it's bloody Christmas bah humbug

nail on the head there, last Saturday we played a pub, full to start with, a few left at the sound check, some more left at half time to check out the band down the road, the ones that were left gave us a great shout for an encore and came up to us at the end saying what a great band we were. You can't please all the people all of the time, but you can please some of the people all of the time (well very nearly) Edit, we are actually playing a working mens club this weekend, a long break in the middle where they do the raffle and sticky 13's

so it's actually Liams whinny vocal delivery that gets on your tits, the world is full of dumbed down songs that drunken people love singing along to, I'd be surprised if most of us haven't been there edit, I have the same problem with Guns and Roses, Axel's voice is like fingernails down a blackboard to me, and when drunks try and sing along to their songs it's even worse, most of them can't get high enough

I suspect this is the reason some folk hate all the output of a successful artist, I have the same feelings for Ed Sheeran for instance, but when I actually sit down and think about it, there's nothing wrong with the songs (nothing special either) it's just I don't understand how he's got so popular

don't really understand this hatred for all Oasis output (or any all encompassing dislike of all of a major artist's output), is it the songs that people despise or the Gallagher brothers?, I thought they made some pretty solid rock songs, nothing particularly groundbreaking, but pleasant enough, there's a lot worse out there, IMO obviously.

Mull of Kintyre, fortunately one song I've never heard anybody else attempt (though no doubt someone will now post a youtube link of a cover version). Last year in a moment of madness I bought a season ticket for the first time in about 20 years, for football team I support, Forest (I know, I know, but my Dad started taking me when I was about 8), won't be doing that again, they play this bloody song twice a game, at the start of each half so the crowd can sing their own lyrics to it (mist rolling in from the Trent etc) hate it hate it. The most twee song McCartney ever wrote, from the master of twee songs.

personally, I'd be very wary about buying a bass from the USA, with delivery possible VAT and customs duty it's not that cheap, plus if anything goes wrong you've got real problems

plenty of decent lefty jazzes about, I've got a perfectly acceptable Squier VM, it's precisions that are the problem

In our area that would probably be advertised as 'Open Mic and Jam session', but hey, if it's successful why change it?