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[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1490315707' post='3264318'] We've never told people "there and then", because we want to have a chat among ourselves first. But we always contact them within a day or so. If it's the right person, then why wait. If it's not the right person, why delay? Once you find someone who fits, that's it. [/quote] In that case you just ask the person to wait while you chat. When you're negotiating contracts at work that's perfectly acceptable to have private chats before sealing any deals.

You need to charge the going rate. If you have to drop out at the last minute or one of your band members gets sick you will have serious problems. The whole band will probably have to arrange their summer holidays around the gig and any other wedding gigs you have; and commit several months in advance. It's not a pub gig where you call up the landlord Saturday morning and tell them you won't be there. We don't do wedding gigs but if we did we'd do them for free just for the exposure.

I'd expect to be told there and then if I fitted. Whenever I've auditioned people I've taken the first person who ticked enough of the boxes that matter. Another audition in 3 weeks? The other guy must be really keen and available then

What kind of battery was it?

[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1490096325' post='3262090'] thanks for all the responses I think a lot of he touring thing is im petrified of flying as well as the playing to no-one.plus u get back knackered and need a holiday.I can do that and have done that hear multiple times I love nothing better then at the weekend driving up north in a sh*tty van playing in a dingy club then crashing on a hotel floor. But spending money paying for an album to sit on my shelf when I could have a week in the county with the mrs just aint for me Im either getting old or im turning into a miserable old git lol [/quote] Hanging around this forum will turn you into a grumpy old git if you're not careful. I think you're in the wrong band. If you're not building a fan base in the U.K. with the touring and current marketing that you're doing then someone needs to look at what you're doing wrong rather than throwing money at it and randomly expanding into Europe. Work smarter not harder. .

The problem with with trying to find a way of holding strings without ball ends, is it brings in an added complexity. You need a pair of cutters to cut off the ball end. You need an Allen key to undo and retighten the grub screw. Anything goes wrong with a string at a gig and instead of restringing in 30 seconds while the singer chats you have a minor engineering exercise on your hands. .

Either pop in or phone them. I've found emailing pubs is always a bit hit and miss, although I didn't know about the Hope.

Are you just looking for a way to hold the ball end so that you can't see the ball? Some kind of bar with recesses for each string. The only problem with recessing the ball is getting it out after it has been sitting there for several weeks/months/years under tension. You need some kind of slot as opposed to a hole. There are lots of small engineering companies locally who might be able to machine you a prototype. .

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1489489670' post='3257312'] IME you would need to set up a separate Spotify account on each virtual machine, and they would have to be full paid-for accounts as the free version will stop playing without user intervention every couple of hours. [/quote] Yes. I'm sure there is some way to make it unviable. Reading on the BBC website it's weighted so 150 streams=1 download anyway.

Yep. Set up a server with 100 virtual machines streaming the same song over and over again. You could increase the figures by 300,000 a week. Would be fairly easy to do at home in your bedroom, assuming Spotify isn't watching for this kind of behaviour.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1489479588' post='3257198'] I entirely agree ... except ... what makes the number of physical 45rpm singles sold a better answer? As a teenager I bought loads of 45s. Some got played twice and then never again, some were still being played regularly years later. The charts of my yoof didn't detect any of that. A 1973 Top 20 chart based purely on the number of plays each song got on UK radio would look different from a chart based on sales, but would be equally valid or invalid depending on your point of view. Streaming is just radio-on-demand. [/quote] It's a measure of how many people like what you produce rather than a measure of how much those people like you. Spotify works on a monthly fee basis, not a per play basis. So commercially they're more interested in someone who sells to a wide fan base rather than someone who has a small fanatical fan base. Downloads are similar. No one really cares how many times the download is played. It's irrelevant. What's important is how many sales the artist makes. It's what drives revenue and advertising.

They shouldn't include streaming, only downloads. My daughter has been streaming one song several times a journey every time she gets in the car. One person could be responsible for maybe 100plays in one week. To me that's not really a true measure of 'popularity' of a song. .

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1489421156' post='3256767'] When I pointed this out to my guitarist all I got was a blank look and 'it's a 12bar isn't it?' [/quote] Yep. That's usual. Shortly followed by "Well, let's just play it as a 12 bar it'll be simpler to remember."

I agree, but that Jonny B Goode turnaround is a nightmare to get anyone to agree on. I've played in bands where we're all playing off the same page at one rehearsal but come the next rehearsal or the gig, it's like we had never agreed how to play it.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1489273765' post='3255733'] :like: [/quote] Thanks. See. Some people get it. Some people don't. I like to see who gets it. And who doesn't.

If you look in Account settings you can block anyone from sending you friend requests, stop people from looking you up via email or phone number and hide your profile information. Your name will still come up in a search but that's as far as anyone will get.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1489169043' post='3254972'] You lost me at bin update? Photos of stuff in your bin? [/quote] No I just post what colour bin I'm putting out. Along with some other nonsense. Something like: It's Friday February 14th, can only mean one thing.. Black Bin today. Or It's the second Friday after the the first bank holiday in May, must be Brown bin today. Some people get it. Some don't. My wife doesn't understand it... I might do it as a deeply philosophical comment about the dull existence of a middle aged man, or maybe I just do it to make people smile, or puzzle them. It's up to the reader to decide. .

You can set it so that no one can find you.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1489009920' post='3253775'] Geddy playing Roundabout!!! He'll not need his Jazz. [/quote] Knowing the Rush sense of humour I bet he uses his Jazz but puts his Rick on a stand in a prominent place on stage. And EQs it to sound exactly like the Rick.

Facebook is not a place for people who take themselves or life too seriously. It will drive them mad. My weekly bin update gets a huge number of likes and comments. Some people get it and some don't. I don't think people should slam it as a terrible thing just because they don't partake in it. I moderate a huge social group, I don't want to be close friends with 540 people as I only see some of them occasionally but I do need to exchange information and ideas with all of them on a regular basis. Some of those 540 people don't get Facebook either and are constantly complaining about the background noise. It's like going to a pub and complaining that someone at the table next to you is talking about Eastenders but you're talking about Football.

Nice. It's a shame both bands weren't inducted sooner. They're both very niche though.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1488885107' post='3252586'] Subs only reproduce the frequencies below the cut off point where the mid/high units can't effectively and efficiently recreate them. In a gig, "All the bass" doesn't go through the subs. They just reproduce the extreme low end (generally around 100Hz and below). The presence of subs aren't to blame for a below-par mix. [/quote] Harmonic Enhancement. It's supposed to be used a low volume to enhance the bass or treble. Use it at high volume and you just break the mix.

Someone pasted a load of junk and it got bumped. It's been removed now.

I like it. Would work really well for us as our singer has just started a new job which means he is busy during wedding season.