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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1483567645' post='3208412'] There's a place for everything , I love playing alternate versions but my main band does it's best to recreate 80s songs as best we can, I enjoy that process and the performing , and so do the crowds we play to. [/quote] I think if you have the manpower and technology and can do it well, that's great. My point is more that you shouldn't feel limited to certain songs just because you cannot recreate the original recording on the instruments you do have.

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1483567000' post='3208404'] I remember being 20 in the mid 90s when pub gigs and drinking was at its height. There was always a band on at a certain pub - youd stay and watch, have a drink and enjoy it, but the onus was being out with your mates. Apart from one band who played all the current indie stuff, who were like a breath of fresh air, and people deliberately went to watch them and stayed the night watching. Thats because they were relevant to the age group in the pub, stood out by playing something different, and were lucky enough to have a current genre of music that suited a band/guitar set up and had countless future classics within it. I dont want to sound old, but i dont see x2 sets worth of current music or chart that would inspire a guitar band to play them, entertain the crowd and sound amazing. Id struggle to name 10 current bands! [/quote] That's because you're nearly 50 years old. My kids are always playing tunes that would work in a live situation if you stripped out all the needless production. I just need to find some people approaching 50 who aren't jaded and cynical.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1483555148' post='3208232'] I'm not on Facebook and I haven't got a cat or children or a football [/quote] What about an old car?

Yes. 2 2x10s sacked vertically. This has the added bonus of the top speaker being high enough up to be close to ear level so you can turn down and hear more clearly.

You don't even have to play all recent music. Even if only 25% is recent it freshens everything up a bit.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1483542409' post='3208076'] TBH I wouldn't use Facebook at all. If I was answering a band ad, I'd let them know what I'd done musically in the past, and send some links where they could hear some recent and maybe some musically appropriate songs I'd done previously. I was assuming that someone was then looking me up on Facebook from name and location. [/quote] I think the point was that a musician on Facebook had joined a group of musicians using his own persona. If he was a musician he'd either have lots of public photos of him playing (all my playing photos are public) or he'd have a separate musician page.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1483476395' post='3207546'] If you looked at my Facebook page all you'd find is interior design ideas and some cat stuff posted by my girlfriend. All my music posts are on a separate Terrortones persona page. [/quote] Wouldn't you use that page to sign up to a musicians wanted page?

Never forget that music and entertainment are not the same thing.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1483528505' post='3207867'] That's because so much of the "music" of the 80s-00s was either pressing the occasional button on a pre-programmed sequencer or simple re-treads of great original music from the 60s and 70s. Next? [/quote] If it has a melody and lyric then it can be played on guitar.

There's a lot of laziness within musicians and a surprising lack of imagination. How many of us have heard the 'but we don't have keyboards/drum machine/strings/brass so we can't play that song'? Complete lack of imagination. I played on Boxing Night at our local in our annual jam session. It was rammed with people of all ages and musicians of all ages played. It's a lot easier to play three chord guitar band tunes from the 60s and 70s than it is to play anything from to 80s-00s. (And you'd have to pay me an awful lot of money to play Oasis!) The originals circuit is still full of 17 yo in bands seeking fame. .

There are bass players with no transport, no decent gear, that play badly, turn up late, miss rehearsals, get drunk... But none that are deaf.

The entertainment business is (probably) the only industry that can pick it's actors based entirely on looks. It's pretty important that it can. You can hide the 'age' thing to a certain extent by sorting out the style of clothes you wear and looking after your weight, but most of all your attitude and body language are a dead giveaway. Then there's the type of music you listen to and what influences you. Try and stay current. .

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1483443210' post='3207114'] In Blue's example, post #2 a lot of folk would weed themselves out anyway. Touring US and Europe, well, it has to be goodbye to any day job. That should lead to a premise of requiring an experienced professional imo. One of the things I KNOW I bring to a band is experience. Even though I'm a grumpy fat old git, I can make suggestions about song arrangements that can make a difference. Just one example, from one band and one song. Bryan Adams, Summer of 69. I suggested doubling the length of the lead break, with both guitars doing tapped harmonies. It always went down very well and people nearly always kinda went "wow". Experience helps with arrangements and pleasing crowds IMO. [/quote] Yes. In my experience messing with well known arrangements can get you into deep water when you need new members or a dep at short notice.

[b]Relevant[/b] experience. There's some crossover between different gigs but someone who is used to playing 30numbers at pub gigs in jeans may be a great player and know what's expected in that environment but expect them to put on a pair of shoes and trousers and prepare 50 numbers for a wedding gig, and I've seen a lot of musicians fall down spectacularly. Some will take some direction but for those where 'smart' means best jeans and trainers they'll never cross over. .

Just don't put your fingers in your mouth. Skin is pretty impervious to bacteria etc.

Gold plated oxygen free kettle leads with 3A fuses.

If the guitar is too loud for you and you're off-axis to the speaker, imagine how punishing it is for the audience standing in front of it. My guess is it's pointing at his knees. Get it raised up and pointing at his ears. He'll turn it down then!

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1483016174' post='3204126'] I don't see anyone [i]telling[/i] anyone else what to do. What I see, are people giving their opinions on whether or not they agree that certain "accessaries" are to be used on stage. [/quote] There's loads of people who think everything is aimed at them and they're being told what to do. These are people who can't just ignore things that don't apply to them. That's what causes the arguments.

It depends on the type of performance whether you're using stands or music and we've ha that debate over and over again. Whether to use tablets or sheet is an interesting debate. If you use the Fake Book, I'm told there are 1000 jazz tunes in it. I haven't memorised any Jazz tunes, let alone be able to transpose them in the fly. The electronic version has automatic transposition. However, I don't know if you can write on the pages, when doing pit work it's important to make performance notes and queues. So if you can make notes that's good as well.

Ooh. Is it McFly?

Nice. 60seconds of each song is probably long enough, put up as separate short videos. A long medley risks people clicking off the video if they don't like the first tune. People are quite fickle. You can split it easily if tou wanted to do that. You could also have added some dynamic video (someone moving around using a smartphone) as it feels a bit static using fixed cameras even tough you have lots of angles. (but that's just me being overly critical ) Good work.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1482607172' post='3201891'] ... [/quote] Well, it started off ok.

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[quote name='thebigyin' timestamp='1482310904' post='3199344'] Hi Folks Contemplating venturing into the world of reading Would i be right in asking if I was looking at a piece of music that was in a certain Key Signature that the piece would use notes of the said Key? For instance if the Key was say E major that most of the notes within the E major scale would be used i know there may be a possibility that there might be some chromatic runs or passing notes ect. I can't read music so was just wondering if the Key Signature determines the majority of the notes. Does my question make sense as i find it difficult to word what i'm asking cheers Bob [/quote] Yes. Look at the circle of 5ths chart posed above. You won't need to work out which key it is by examining which individual sharps and flats are notated. Simply learn that C has no accidentals and F is the one with one flat (Bb). G is the one with one sharp (F#) etc. It takes a lot of the work out of it if, when you see 1 flat, you know it's a Bb and the piece is in F major.

I suspect the problem is having a wide range of instruments. I think that's already been alluded to. My Ibanez was £400 in 2002. It has an awesome sound possibly because it has PJ pickups and not the later ones. If you put two Ibanez' side by side they're fairly indistinguishable. Why pay 4x the one on the left for the one on the right?