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But Sire get so much grief because people find sweepable mids difficult...

Beat me to it. Reissue the one innovative bass Fender have produced since 1959.

They want to deter people who may cause deliberate damage or use other photos to get a discount. Doesn't mean they think you are being dodgy, but that they've been stung before.

Here's dedication... I just got offered a gig on Sunday and turned it down in favour of the bash!

It seems particularly likely to happen if you create a new post but not at the bottom of the last page of a thread.

I should add, Ms. S. not only comes to some of my gigs, she never complains if I do one far away and don't get in until 3am. But she was specially chosen for being as obsessed with live music as me, in the last ten days we have seen five gigs and been to one open mic...

Ms. S. is incredibly supportive. Because I care for my dad in the week we don't live together, but she tolerates me keeping a bass and amp in her very nice lounge. Asxwell as keeping lots of gear there on gig weekends. Mind you thus us my home office (I also have basses hung up in my bedroom butanaged to limit the living room to one on the wall and, ahem, six in cases... But I am sensible, I keep my 2x12 in the hall.

In case anyone is thinking "Brim full of Asha", this was before then when they sounded like this but with more feedback and less music...

P.S. you are all wrong. The worst gig ever in the history of music was Cornershop supporting Here & Now and Gong. Actually, Here & Now were the tightest prog psychedelic jazz rock I've ever heard. Gong were exactly the same musicians plus Daevid Allen. They were chaotic and random and utterly incredible. The gig would have been sublime, except Cornershop dragged the whole thing down below the level of any performance ever.

As of yesterday I can confirm they are still doing it. Reminded me why I stopped going to see jazz bands. Best bit was the end when some guy who didn't know Jazz Etiquette started chanting "one more song"... mind you I could have chanted "no more songs MUCH louder".

For many years I was under the misapprehension that Eberhard Weber was married to Kaye Bush. This was in the days before yon interweb thingy.

🥁🥁📀 Badum-tish

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We are very lucky that rock music is very popular in south Wales, especially the Valleys, it seems to go with the industrial areas like Birmingham and the Black Country.

Try and put some gig money away so you can save and invest in a class D amp and a neo cab when you need to. They take so much stress out of gigging.

Several venues around here slashing their band budgets, so dropping live bands or cutting the number of gigs - I think it's probably all the same chain. Irony is my club has ten bands on this month (and it would have been 11, but the one ticketed performance had to cancel). They had a jazz quintet doing a matinee (2:30pm) and the room was packed (about 50 people). Followed by the Sunday open mic in the lounge (not included in the gig count) which started slow but ended up doing OK. Sadly, after 10 years the Monday night OM has ground to a close, looks like it will become a once a month jam on Friday aimed at bands.

Ah yes, Willy's compact wah wah pedal... Took me around 40 years from discovering them to seeing them, and lo and behold when we were watching the support we found ourselves sitting next to Mr O. They cheerfully chatted to us in the interval (Willy comprehensively fleeced us for t-shirts and albums).

If I'm not gigging I typically go to see one or two local bands at the weekend. Last night was worthy of mention. Somehow the chap at the club who has taken over bookings from my SO booked an originals band, guitar, sax, bass and a small drumkit. I wasn't expecting a lot, just something mellow. Well the Albino Frogs were brilliant. A strong dose of Steely Dan, strong danceable tunes, excellent musicianship. Bass player had a nice Stingray direct into a well-adjusted Markbass head and BF super twin. He was glued to the drummer and played great jazz-funk lines with plenty of space and groove. But guitar/singern sax and drummer were all excellent too. Despite the main competitor venue having a very good rock & roll band on, it was a busy night, and I think virtually everyone stayed the night. The band really appreciated the reception they got, and it demonstrated how people can be open to music the haven't heard before.

Is there a crèche for drummers? 😁

I was just about to say that!

I've found over the years that a bginner often makes some rapid progress, but then overestimates their capabilities. As a beginner botanist I found many 'rarities', n electronics I found 'new, simpler ways' to do things, and so on. I learnt that the better you get and the more you know, the more you realise your shortcomings and the challenges you face. I tried playing some basslines I thought I knew that were featured in a tutorial... and discovered how badly I was playing most of them. I have briefly attempted double bass a few times; I've come to accept that I would have to learn completely new left and right hand techniques. My preference for one finger per fret and right hand muting technique (using my fingertips) are just utterly wrong. I'm impressed by the progress the OP has made, but I have no illusions of the challenges of playing what is an utterly different instrument.

It's often possible just to let the audience sing it!

Mostly local bands, but in january the guitarist from our blues band is supporting Cardinal Black with his other band (The Rogues) in Cardiff. Just booked tickets for Hawkwind in Birmingham in April.

James is bringing Norman to Barry in November, only ten minutes walk away for me, too.