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[quote name='vmaxblues' post='382505' date='Jan 16 2009, 03:23 PM']1) What do you look for in a music shop? 2) What would you ideally like to see in a music shop? 3) How far would you travel? 4) Am I mad to consider this?[/quote] 1) something that ebay killed off - the second hand instrument market. I used to love going in to a music shop and trying out all the weird and wonderful guitars and basses, and at a decent price. It's all new epiphones, squires, fenders and cheap sh*te now generally. 2) same as point 1. 3) 20 miles 4) Right at this current second, probably yes. Maybe if you wanted to do it, now would be a good time to get the stock cheap and wait for the market to pick up, could make a killing

[quote name='Golchen' post='380982' date='Jan 15 2009, 08:58 AM']Yup - totally illegal. Infringement of copyright. So be sure to not do it, and when you have finally got around to not doing it be sure to send me a copy of what you haven't done. This conversation did not happen.[/quote] +1 I concur wholeheartedly with the right honourable gentleman's statement

[quote name='westoneblah' post='380277' date='Jan 14 2009, 02:22 PM']The other mind-game trick is to remember what it's like to be in the audience. From the stage they're a huge mass - but in reality its just a whole lot of individuals. None of them knows what the other is thinking, and may not even know them at all - so it isn't really a mass - it's just like playing to lots and lots of isolated people who happen to be in the same place. If you get what I mean? The final thing is not to worry about 'letting anyone down'. It's too late to change things, and there will ALWAYS be mistakes - so laugh about it. The audience will laugh with you, but they don't like angry frowns. Practice is over, this is about Performance - and that means just letting it happen - and enjoying it![/quote] good points them. I've been in a band where we've had to stop a song because the guitarist arsed up, and instead of continuing, he just stopped. So, I just made a few comments down the mic about guitarists, the audience laughed and we started again. Plus it gave us a bit of fodder for the audience through the gig. I think it's if you cock up, and then all stand there like rabbits in headlights it looks awful from an audience point of view. An audience will actually be more endeared to you, and I am when I'm in the audience, if you appear more human on stage I think. As for nerves, I go between riding them like an extreme sport, or feeling sick. Either way I just know it's going to happen so accept it because I know that the second I get off the stage the buzz will give me that high that nothing else can give you, so it's a reward to look forward to. I'd also say, the bigger the gig, the easier it seems to get. Did a festival to a few thousand people last year and it was easier then the pub gig we did a week later!

Great stuff, but I'd agree on the mix. The first track, the guitar is killing everything else in the mix, and on most the tracks, needs some good low end punch as they are sounding a bit thin, and maybe running through a nice ssl compressor and a bit of analogue tape to give it a bit more of a saturated sound, then they'd sound fab But if they are live recordings, depending on how many tracks you have it may not be possible.

[quote name='joe_bass' post='380372' date='Jan 14 2009, 04:11 PM']I had one of these, loved it. If you feel the same then i recommend just "upgrading" to an actual Warwick. £500 should get you one second hand.[/quote] kind of what I was thinking myself, just wondered if anybody had any hidden alternatives..... <dives in to classifieds section>

[quote name='yorick' post='380094' date='Jan 14 2009, 11:06 AM']The new Warwick RockBasses. Look just like the real thing now, two piece bridge etc. Look excellent!! Yamaha BB series basses. Excellent build quality and parts. Sounds great. And a neck to die for. Not well up on newer Ibanezs, but they seem to get good reviews. Secondhand MIJ/CIJ Fender jazz basses......[/quote] thing is, for 500quid I could get a second hand warwick full fat, not the rockbass, so that's quite appealing... I'll have to investigate the yammy bb's. I suppose another thing is that there's been a few laklands kicking about in that kind of pricerange, so just wondering how they fare?

[quote name='ped' post='377672' date='Jan 12 2009, 01:42 PM']You might not be Bi but do you bum frogs? ;0)[/quote] ooooo, now that would be telling....

ow do all Ok, so i'm looking at getting me a new (well second hand preferably) bass. I've been using my rockbass streamer (double soapbar) for the last two years. I like the neck size and I'm one of them people who likes to anchor his thumb on the neck pickup. I do play various styles so versatility would good. So, what would people recommend up to say 500 sheets? Sorry it's all a bit vague, but none of the local music shops have anything worth bothering with, so thought i'd ask y'all.....

[quote name='High score' post='375411' date='Jan 9 2009, 05:10 PM']It does not matter whether or not it becomes the law of the land because local authorities are pretty much applying these conditions now. If a venue is applying for an entertainments license and it has complaints against it from the local residents, then these are considered and invariably a monitoring device will become part of the license condition.[/quote] I agree wholeheartidly with what you say, however some venues don't help themselves at all. As has been said, sound engineers who insist on turning things up full, and later licensing hours mean that in some cases loud music does go on past agreeable times. I used to live behind a pub who in summer had really crap bands on, but would open the windows because it was too hot inside the pub. Their licence was only till 11, but often this would go on till past 12. Even after complaining they still did it, however enough complaints later they actually lost their ents license. There was a local rehearsal room set up as well, but it was catering for younger people and the council insisted that they put limiters in the rehearsal rooms before they would be allowed to operate. A bit of common sense on both sides goes a long way I'd say, just a shame it seems to increasingly becoming polar opposites.

I thought the whole thing was just to do with protection of staff, just like the whole no smoking thing. The way most places got around this was just to supply ear plugs free of charge. The only places I've ever played with a limiter are older and more respectable buildings. If it was brought in as law then surely all gigs would become a thing of the past???

[quote name='Merton' post='375140' date='Jan 9 2009, 02:07 PM']Oooh, I used to gig there when I were a student type And Fibbers. And other places I've totally forgotten the names of. Plus the university, of course. Ahem. Say hello to the City Screen for me![/quote] ahh cool, will do. Fibbers is still there, but the guy who used to run it now run the duchess - much bigger venue, and more amusingly, it's practically next door [url="http://www.theduchessyork.co.uk/"]http://www.theduchessyork.co.uk/[/url]

i'm in ye olde york Actually, has a pretty thriving music scene considering the size of the place....

hello! 15th - arsebiscuits, think I'm playing that night.... I need to stop looking in the for sale section as well, could become costly

now then to all ye yorkshire peeps. Nice forums these, a lot less ego then the gu!tar players forums I've frequented in the past So if I play both does that make me bi???

hallo Thought I'd try touting my band, worst that can happen is nowt. So, anybody in and around York next week, the band what I is in, Captains of Industry can be found warbling away at the City Screen in York. Fun packed evening with 4 acts on, so the £5 isn't too shabby I don't think (£4 with a flyer). If anybody does turn up after reading this, come and say hi, I might even buy you a drink All the best James - Currently spanking my plank for Captains of Industry [url="http://www.myspace.com/captainsuk"]http://www.myspace.com/captainsuk[/url]