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Similar to what I was thinking....... What is the policy for such as the OP's drummer if for example someone in the support band is smoking weed during the load in?

Another take on Visconti's role

Similar case of audience using the stage as personal storage area..... I saw Robyn Hitchcock recently and a woman marched up to the stage during break between sets and put her large handbag on the bass players pedal board. His face was picture when he got back on stage!

I know what you mean 🙂 But I'm going for............................... BEST!

Another contender (sorry I already put Amyl and the Sniffers) is the new album by Swedish psych band Goat. It is a new release, but the music is unreleased material from before they went on hiatus. So I think it counts!

Exactly- if he had shown some examples where the bass tone was actually off and discussed why then it could have been enlightening. With the obligatory “Hey, but the rules are there to be broken” section of course.

Just thought - I did once go to a works do and a duo was playing called "The Peas" who did covers of popular songs on : double bass/vocals and acoustic guitar/vocals (bass drum). Added instrumentation in the form of Kazoo's, mouth trumpets, melodica, beat box. They were good fun, and sounded good. They are based in south of England by the looks, so not sure if they would travel. Music starts after about a minute. www.trevorgeorge.co.uk/act/the-peas/

Sounds like a good idea for a band..but the punk would be even better 🙂 ! Congratulations and good luck! Only advice I can think of is that such a band may not think of themselves as a "wedding band" so maybe avoid searches for wedding bands and look for R&R or whatever.

I reckon most of those songs could be in a list called "songs where the bass player got the tone spot-on" and it would have made more sense.

Don’t know. If no one else identifies it within 24 hours you probably imagined it. And therefore wrote it 😃👍!

I thought the argument was going to be about the guitarist drinking a can of lager for a few bars cos they had an open tuned guitar

Ahem........ (OK, I know she joined after the classic albums)

I might go for that as my next album purchase👍

Reminds me of old Les Dawson joke, paraphrased below: Bass Player 1: At our last gig three blokes from the audience jumped on stage and beat up our lead singer. Bass Player 2: Didn't you help? Bass Player 1: No, I thought three would be enough!

And awkwardly walked back in a couple of minutes later to pick up your car keys?

Often google is a better search. I searched “basschat sessions” and newfoundfreedoms thread was second.

At the risk of sounding like one of those old Stevie Wonder jokes, visually impaired musicians seem to manage it. But agree it's helpful in general.

That would make a good phrase to have under your user avatar or something 😉!

.....? I guess he was waiting for you to start a thread on Songs you always wanted to play but never did... which you did pretty sharpish to be fair. In fact it’s already on page 2🙁.

You’re only , like, in until you’re out, maan!

I have as actually got a few from this year, although I discover from the the past too. Going with my gut I’m going for Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me:

The fact that they run adverts on TV to say they are a good employer says a lot.

I think my current settings are: settings -> auto lock -> 5 milli-seconds before I'm about to start using the PC again 😃

Without knowing any specialist apps, I'd probably go Excel too. One song per tab.... it easy to drag the tabs into the right order for each gig. But as someone said, maybe good old paper in a folder could work.

I was really lucky with my punk/new-wave covers band as they generally were up for loads of stuff I wanted to do. Often it wasn't even me who suggested it - one of the others would say how about X and I'd be thinking wow I've always wanted to do that! I'd play it cool of course... yeah, I suppose we could squeeze that into the set 😉! But we ceased trading after lockdown, so I'll take this spin on the question... here are three songs I had a big ambition to do, we had gotten gig-ready, but never played to an audience: Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones Goo-Goo Muck - The Cramps Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille Had a blast doing them in rehearsal though!