SteveXFR

Although I made the point about bands not getting paid at Glastonbury, all the artist's get a weekend pass for the festival which is around £250 these days and the big bands get TV coverage, posh hotel, helicopter in to site and I'm sure they all sell a ton of records off the back of it. There is a risk of bumping in to Kanye or Chris Martin back stage and that's not a risk I'd take

It's unlike a farmer to not want to pay for something. Their wallets are normally wide open. 😕 Evercreech is just up the road from Glastonbury, they've heard that farmer Eavis doesn't pay bands at his little annual festival.

Mine is struggling a bit to run an amp sim and overdrive while recording but if I record clean then add plugins it's fine

I've just downloaded two really VTS plugins The Ignite bass amp https://www.kvraudio.com/product/shb-1-by-ignite-amps BOD Sansamp clone https://www.tseaudio.com/software/tseBOD The Ignite amp is very metal oriented. Ideal if you want dirt and that clanky metal tone. The BOD is a pretty decent overdrive preamp which seems to work nicely with the Ignite amp. According to one review it's better than a real Sansamp, I cannot confirm.

I've just switched from Ableton Live Lit 10 to Reaper after reading through this thread. The difference is huge. My PC is running so much faster with it, it's nicer to use and just better.

I enjoy pushing the boundaries of incompetence

We're you playing the right wrong notes or the wrong wrong notes?

I was only joking. Beyond knowing I dislike it and don't have the talent to play it, I know very little about jazz other than it seems to have even more sub genres and sub genres of sub genres than metal.

Aren't you supposed to play the wrong notes in jazz? How do you tell its not in time when each member of the band is in a different time signature?

I was talking to the owner of my local music shop recently and this subject came up. He told me the worst bassist he ever played with was in a jazz band and he was actually technically very competent but he couldn't just play the bass part roughly as intended, he had to put in far too many fills and tried turning the guitar solo in to a duet and was just difficult to play with. He said he'd much rather a beginner just playing root notes with solid timing than an over playing virtuoso.

Unlike all other bassists who are failed guitarists, Jamerson was actually a failed accordion player. FACT

Some say that Jamerson once punched a horse to the ground and that he doesn't believe in ducks. All we know is he's called Jamerson

Did you know that everyone who's too cheap to buy new strings uses the excuse "but James Jamerson liked using old strings" James Jamerson played music where a nice bright tone was not desirable and didn't need to cut through a metal band.

Sorry for what may be a simple question but I haven't got a clue! I've got a Ibanez SR300 (similar to the link below) which has had the nut modified to accept heavier strings. Now I want to put normal gauge strings back on I need a new nut but I can't work out what I need to buy. There's too many options available. I don't want anything fancy, just a simple, cheap one. https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/sr300eb_02.html

Singer in our band said that when he wanted me to do backing vocals. He admitted he was very wrong. My singing style sounds like a bull elephant that has just stepped on it's own penis

There's a place for both since they sound different and serve a different purpose.

Sounds like a guitarist I played with for a couple months. He knew power chords and no other chords, I tried showing him bar chords but he "don't need that stinky poo". He would randomly change key and/or time signature when jamming. He claimed to have been playing for 30 years. He was a very, very heavy stoner. We parted ways. He still texts randomly asking if I want to meet up for a jam.

Hives are brilliant live. I've seen them a few times and from the second they step on stage to the end of the last song, they're giving it everything they've got.

In recent years a lot of bands seem to be doing album anniversary tours, playing a 25 year old classic album in full then their newer stuff. I can see why they want to play a lot of new stuff. A tour is normally to promote a new album and the band probably think its their best ever work and they want to play it for their fans. If the name of the tour is the title of the new album, you've got to expect a lot of new songs.

This afternoon I watched the BBC coverage of the Stooges at Glastonbury in 2007. They really aren't acting their age! Dirt was my favourite song. Such a sleazy bass line

You see the advantage of a mosh pit is no one can hold there phone up in a really lively pit. I've seen people try. I saw one dude try during Touch Me I'm Sick at a Mudhoney gig, he nearly lost his arm as well as his phone.

Last time I saw Doyle live he played probably around 50mins but that was most of his bands songs. They didn't have any more material to play. It was a double headliner with Life of Agony who played around an hour and a half. I thought I got my money worth for £30

I hope we can all agree that anyone who holds up their phone to video the show deserves a slow and painful death under a randy bull elephant. Who are they filming it for? Who wants to watch an hour and a half show recorded on a phone with a microphone that can't handle the volume?

You don't have to, of course not but that's what happens at metal and punk shows. It's all friendly, everyone is having a good time, if someone falls down they get helped up. It's been normal for decades and it's not going away any time soon. There are genres of metal where it doesn't happen such as black metal and doom.

That applies to anyone selling a product. If they're selling a good product, people will keep buying it. I really disagree about owing their fans.