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Im pretty sure it was in a Ron Carter book, so its probably more jazz than blues. I down loaded it from the internet years ago ..Just an idea.

Try this for fun, kinda jazzy blues

Found two different bands in the last four yrs with JMB. Seems a pretty good site. One for drums, the other bass.

Just chkd out the trio...Nice work all three of you. Great to hear old school power trio rock, thought it had died. How bout some Robin Trower? ...haha Anyway you play the way you want...U prob wont get much pit work but ur having fun thats the main thing.

Guy from around our way I think has got his Cornettos and Corneolis in a muddle. Heard the Godfather theme the other night...haha twas very funny.

Just had a look. That looks very nice indeed if it's the right weight. They were very well made. Looks better than the Fender 71 there in cream. Ive never come across one yet between 71 and 73 that has the bridge like that in the right place....

Those PB-70's are the biz next to the Mex RW which appear to be unobtainum at the mo....no ones selling them...not surpirsed. Also don't disregard the CV70's P either if you can stand the Squire Fender style logo. The only non Fender copy with the thick ole 70's neck. Ive got one..it may well be a keeper.

So now they go out all cuddly and safe playing predictable old blues numbers so as not to offend anyone...yet Brown Sugar has become the Devils anthem and is not to played, or even uttered by anyone, but thats the Stones I love. Young, dangerous and unpredictable. All they are now is a vehicle for cynical Micks bank balance which in itself is pretty obscene seeing as they're all worth gazillions. As for Rodders...dear oh dear, bu them Im still stuck listening to the glorious Maggie Mae/Wear It Well...brilliant

Some weird existential strangeness going here. If this carries on bands will gradually become less and less of the performers and performance their supposed to be and judging by the current trend for crowds to seemingly put on the usual ..me, me, me, show at festivals Ive seen recently, tis the crowd which are becoming the performance. 

Wrong thread..ooops

All sat here now waiting for the obligatory pics.. which of course you did take....didnt you?

On 24/06/2023 at 08:24, Burns-bass said:

Most bands at Glasto are on backing tracks. Royal Blood being a good case in point. Makes sense.

So Glastonbury is just one big Karaoke event. You could not make it up. Be cheaper and easier to have holograms of ur favourite bands, save a whole lot of hassle and money ...Oh sorry its marketed as a "live music event", silly me.

In the nicest possible way I can think of I actually wish they'd just go away. Grew up with them, love everything with a passion up until about 84 and have absolutely no desire to hear them hacking thru the blues catalogue just because they can...And without Charlie, well..whats the point anyway.  

Whole clutch of chart pop from summer of 76  when I was strawberry picking. Brothers Johnston in particular....Places me right there like it was yesterday. Then a couple years later hearing Powerage for the first time....again I'm straight back there with my first band as we try to learn Deni Deni...Haha grt stuff.

19 hours ago, TimR said:

@greavesbass what were the circumstances of you leaving and why were you covering bass.

The dep was to cover for his bassist who was on holiday.  I left to pursue drums which I'd packed in years ago..It was perfectly amicable, in fact they tried to hang on to me.

So at rehearsals he was hugely welcoming and chatty. However he and his wife go back a long way with my recent long term ex and I turned up at gig with my new woman in tow...Maybe it finally dawned on him that he felt some weird conflict....

11 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Possibly, but it depends on what he was wondering off to do with the two female backing vox...

Haha...should have said one was his daughter the other her friend. But I've known him for years on and off, real friendly guy....There you go.

Depped last summer for one outdoor gig in a band I'd played with before but hadn't seen them for four years. They seemed pleased to see me again and rehearsals went well and the gig was a non event. The vid play back, I sounded pretty good, maybe over played a bit but hey.....and (I'm old but move around a lot too, smiling...I find it easy, but hey)

Anyway played the last song, everyone gradually said thanks during the breakdown but the singer kinda avoided me and just wandered off with the two female bk vox. No "cheers for helping us out X..nice playing etc, grt to see you again, must do this again etc"...None of it. Beats me, maybe he got a call or something. Just a bit weird.

11 hours ago, Beedster said:

A different age 😕

Thats right. Wet wild and crazy, totally un-sanitised and here's the best bit and its a bit radical. What you heard out front was exactly what they were playing on stage....Its true but it used to be that way.

Im sorry but that thing by 'The Ministry'? above should have been put down at birth.  Get just a tad annoyed when those with no talent at all muck around with great works from the great and the good. Its like punking up a Bach Minuet....why would you do it, what is the cover artist trying to prove?  Show the tune and the creator the respect it deserves.

Anyway that Manfred Mann version sounds good, never heard it before...Nice nod to the original vibe.

iMazing...works on everything.

Easy, it represents the 70's, the greatest era of music ever. TV Ads aimed at young people playing 70's music, loops, samples..its all 70's. When I got my 120 bass amp in 1978 and 2x15 parabolic bin it was just so flippin cool, and that little funny logo...brilliant.

Lets un-pack this. Bass guitar apart from bongos is about the easiest instrument to play, so you 'can' teach urself up to a point....A lot of peeps have enjoyed a lifetime playing 2/4 down the greasy end, bit of 12 bar and not much else.. and thats absolutely fine and perfectly entertaining. But to learn more and develope you do really need formal lessons which means the teacher must be able to read so as to be able to further the students ability. 

In a nutshell. Dont start taking peoples money unless u can read.

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

An unwelcome touch of knee is just as bad as being bruttally raped

Plse tel me Im not reading this. R u serious? What is happening to the world? Soon you wont be able to even breath the same air as the opposite sex....think about that....your in a small environment with the opp sex, you wont know what to do......Madness...utter flippin madness. 

2 hours ago, Danny P said:

Never done a panto but everyone seems to be mentioning them so might look into it as long as they don't require lots of sight-reading.

Sorry to disappoint but the vast majority of pantos are sight read Im afraid. Theatre work is way too involved to be left to memory.

'A career in music'. Are we talking about being a musician or just working in the industry. To be a pro 'musician' has to be a 100% vocation. It has to be something you cannot live without. I did a lot back in the 80's but even as a younger guy the constant out all night every other nite started to wear on me.....It's a big decision to give up all other opportunities and to do it full time.