Nail Soup

I dread to think what that has done to my YouTube algorithm 🙁

Yes, it seems to be the bigger venues .I manily go to gigs at small venues, so don't suffer as much. Ref the Stranglers example..... don't bands like that have a touring soundman who can prevent that kind of thing?

Did the OP know that when making the OP? Didn't seem like it. In which case: Weird co-incidence, man!

Bands who deliberately choose not to have a bass player - sometimes it works OK (so OK then) sometimes it just sounds like there is something missing (not OK). Having bass on a backing track..... no thanks, I wouldn't attend a gig like that. The whole sub-sonic bass mush thing? Not sure why this has become a thing in recent years, but no thanks. It seems to be a modern incarnation of the old 'bass should be felt and not heard' attitude.

Not gigging at the moment, but I do home recording. So that was how I voted. But here is my history, working backwards: Until recently I gigged in covers band, but that's on hold now. Before that I played solo.... but at open mics and similar, so may not count as 'gigging' Before that was a haitus (raising family) but kept playing in bedroom and home recording Before that I was gigging in originals bands. Just to expand on the open mic thing.... there are ways to play in public that are not exactly gigs: Folk sessions, Jam Sessions, Open Mics, busking

I like to play it cool when selling stuff, but I have to doff my cap on this one.

Careful with those inspirational pictures everyone!

In a way the non Fender/Squier P's bring into even sharper focus what makes a P: What features would a Precision-a-like bass need to have?

Not sure we could even agree on what makes a bass a bass.

Can't even say something good in the "for sale" ad. Probably best not to ask this guy to do your best man's speech 🙂 !

Just a thought..... probably better to grab the audio as .WAV rather than MP3 . MP3 is 'lossy' and the DAW will convert it back to .WAV anyway.

There are a few online sites which do Youtube to MP3 if you google. I've done it a few times, but can't remember which one(s) I used. They did give me the MP3 file, but sure how dodgy they are in terms of any other crap which may have come with it.

Daevid Allen? Is that autocorrect or a pseudonym known only to hardcore Gong-heads?

Around about the time I say "F*** it" usually.

I think that was Malcolm McClaren...... and he did speak a bit like that (but would not describe it as Eton though). Let's see........ it will maybe re-hash all the old cliche's...... but if it actually follows the Steve Jones autobiography on which it claims to be based it would be an interesting new angle.

I notice that the tour posters say it is an, ahem, joint tour:

I'm not a Rush fan. Thought this was OK. Kudos to him for not re-hashing his previous work, and not trying to appeal to his legacy fanbase.

Will be as a four-piece I presume? I get a lot of feeds of them, but just the two sisters. Pretty good stuff though!

Just cross-posting this here in case anyone missed it in the other thread. This is the Floyd era for me.

Good stuff. Reminded me a bit of one of my favourite bands - Goat (from Sweden):

It's difficult to tell, but my best interpretation is that is some contraction of "I expect her" (e.g "Spect'er")... " I expect her mum and daddy know a decent boy like me"

Listening to a couple of recently-purchased albums by Ukrainian folk band DakhaBrakha ("Alambari" and the more down-beat "The Road") I saw them a couple of years ago (one of my best ever gigs) but never got round to getting any recordings. But with the situation in Ukraine it seemed like a good time to remedy that.

I'm still waiting to see the Woodentops. Had tickets pre-covid and got moved a couple of times due to Covid. The date finally came a couple of weeks ago.... turned up to the gig to find it had been cancelled at the last minute due to a local power outage. I also failed to see them at the time the debut album was out....... got to about 5 people from the front of the queue in London when they said "Full up" 😞 .

Bass player in hip-hop cover band...... interesting. What would you say were the top half-dozen or so tracks you did?

From one extreme to the other!