Count Bassy

Saw them live once, 15 years or so ago. They were polished, but played so like the original tracks that you might as well have listened to the CD (youngsters - ask your parents). When I see someone live I hope for soemthing a bit extra.

To be fair he doesn't usually get his 3 + 3 + others consecutively, but i is still like he gets at least twice as much as anyone else. Apart from this problem the open mike is generally run pretty well. Pehaps I should sing some songs with Mrs CB on piano (what we normally do) and the suggest that Mrs CB playes some piano with me adding in words!!

But could be removed and replaced if you're handy with a soldering iron. Especially as it is likely to be "through hole" mounted.

Our regular open mike has a particular "problem" that is really putting us off going. Basically there is a young lad who plays a piano, sings and composes. He is mostly ok (composing not so good), but not as good as he or his parents think he is. The problem is that people are generally limited to three songs each and stick to that, but by playing with his parents (which is essentially him with some backing), then on his own, and then joining in with some others people have to endure at least 6 songs of his playing, which is just too much.It is noticable that when he is on a lot of audience take a fag/ fresh air break. Three songs would be fine, but this "Playing the system" makes it too much.

Pedant alert: There are multple solution though, e.g. B=1 G=97. you can only get a unique solution if we know the total number of instruments (ie G + B).

If it was a 54p bass for £20 I'd tell them to stuff it. 😄

Or "I 3d printed a clock - you won't believe what happened next!"

As far as I'm aware the Albert Hall only has 5 levels.

Learning a scale is great, but how often do you actually play a scale in a tune, rather than as an exercise. Arpeggios possibly, but even then it surely depends on what you are doing immediately before it?

It has to be at least 30 minutes to earn any money!

The second part of Robin Trower's "Too Rolling Stoned" . From about 3:00

Sorry, it had to be in 20 words or less.

In my other life I play a concertina. I find I can't wear hearing aids (NHS ones) while playing as they introduce a marked tremelo effect to the sound.

A few years ago everything tstarted appearing with "I" in the name, following the lead of Apple. This has now been replaced/suplimented by "AI". As you say marketing BS.

The last band I left I truthfully said that I just wasn't getting the buzz from rehearsals that I should be getting (it hadn't got to the point of gigging), and it was accepted gracefully. Unfortunately in the next few weeks two other members also quit and I think the whole thing collapsed.