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There's a 'vintage' Marlin Sidewinder for sale in Hobgoblin music. £249!

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1488574737' post='3250275'] I thought I'd share this with you all. I recently acquired a 4x10 combo that weighs more than a collapsed star and was thinking of ways to easily transfer it to my car. I found this, less than £20 and it fits exactly the footprint of the combo. It's good for 150kg and I'm absolutely made up with it! (So is my back...) http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/transport-helper-hand-truck-376979 [/quote] Get yourself some ratchet straps too. Then when it comes to lifting it the whole lot moves together. There's nothing worse then lifting the cab to get it over a threshold only to have the wheels rolling off in the opposite direction.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1488543922' post='3249838'] It [i]can[/i] work with two similar sounding instruments and setups, but in that case the roles of the two guitars need to be carefully thought out, like Television for instance. [/quote] Yes. You need them to think about their arrangements. Which requires them to think musically rather than with their ego...

EQ mixing. It's why when you have a two guitar band you often get the volume wars where neither can hear themselves or each other.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1488496699' post='3249560'] You can edit the patches and then save them to the "user" section. Setting your amp flat will then give you least colour but if you like your amp's usual settings, edit the patches to suit. [/quote] I read this a couple of times and think it needs some expansion. Once you have the patches in the user area you can edit the actual eq setting within that patch. I've not used the B1 but have the old zoom506. The built in effects tend to have things like eq and reverb added that make it sound really good through headphones but don't work very well in a band setting. I would copy across, make a note of all the values and then delete things like reverb and eq (if you can) then rest in a band situation. YMMV.

Classic Passive-aggressive behaviour. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

I always paid deps what they wanted. Usually that was more than anyone else in the band. I would expect to be paid the same as the others but it depends on how appreciative the band members are. Are they in it for the money, or do they just want to be out playing for fun? .

I still have my Marlin Sidewinder. I think the neck was designed by Robin Hood.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1488352732' post='3248071'] I don't know how litigious American society actually is but media (mainly film and TV) tends to paint a picture of a society where lawyers are the "go to" first step in many disputes. Whether or not that is the case it seems to be going that way here. Solicitors are the only winners in any given dispute. I think greed has become a greater driving force here in the UK than ever before. Everyone wants a cut but no one wants to pay for their slice of pie. Sad. [/quote] That's just the media though. Those no win no fee solicitors are quite particular who they take on. Real solicitors usually outline exactly how much a case is likely to cost and the likelihood of winning during the first (paid) consultation. A solicitors letter is cheap, following up on your threats isn't. Try and sort out any problems amicably.

Totally agree there.

Wonder if he's using it as a cursory illegal worker check.

[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1488227856' post='3247075'] Not really seeing what laptop DJ's have to do with a thread about electronic music. [/quote] It's about what constitutes a musical performance. If you're running a preprogrammed sequencer, is that a performance, even if you originally played the sequence in live to record it or could play that part live? At what point does a backing track stop being a creative performance and become just a rendition of a preprepared song. And does it matter. We didn't go to watch a DJ perform, he seemed to think we did. .

I went to a dinner and dance on Saturday night. They had a disco. Standard stuff. Play the tunes, not chat between tracks, no introductions to tunes. At the end of the evening the DJ thanked us "for being a great audience." The mind boggles.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1487930802' post='3244196'] Anyway, after last night's vocal rehearsal and subsequent discussion, it is apparent that I can use whatever I like. She just wanted to have an image of a new, modern prog band, fronted up with old style guitars. But as it turns out, the guitarist who has a PRS is also preferring to use that so it's kind of a moot point now... [/quote] Excellent. Sorry I missed that part.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1487931981' post='3244219'] This is actually a very good point. Did actually use my '75 Jazz for the video we did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GF_MENE7lY [/quote] Well that's very odd. They're happy with the guitarist playing a guitar that looks like it's been attacked with a grinder?

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1487776566' post='3242750'] I think it's the fact that it's Sonic Blue. The comment was that it looks like a 'toy' bass, compared to a Fender. [/quote] I would say that's the problem. What colour guitars do they have? It might look a bit odd in photos and detract from a cohesive band look. Playing live under light it'll not notice. I would suggest to them that you will use one of your other basses for photo shoots and publicity stuff. I played (still have it) an '87 Jackson Charvel bass compete with 80s Hair Metal style pointy headstock in a function band. It looked really odd, and out of place, even to me. I changed it and although people said how nice my new bass was they didn't qualify that with 'compared to your old one'. So I'm guessing no one minded.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1487923622' post='3244107'] My audition for a ceilidh band consisted of turning up to a gig and playing (they did ask me to). No chord chart, just got told the key for each tune, and not only was it a genre I'd never played before, I'd never heard any of the tunes before either. They decided to keep me. However, the rock covers band I've just joined is of the same mind that I am - get the songs polished with me in, get gigging (target is 20-30 gigs a year), rehearse if there are things wrong and to bring new material in. steantval said 45 songs seems like overkill. My covers band that has just folded had around 50 songs, and we wanted to increase that a little more. It means we could choose the 25-30 songs we fancied doing for that gig, rather than (like a club band I used to be with) playing an identical set at every gig for over ten years. [/quote] Function bands are a different kettle of fish entirely. I used to have a pad of 100+ tunes that we could call on depending on the audience demographic. Pub Rock, I have memorised about 50 fairly basic, mostly 3 chord wonders. There are a few that needed some rehearsing to get to a good standard but I think if we had put our minds to it we could have learned 3 songs to gig standard in one rehearsal. The problem is getting everyone to put their minds to it. In previous bands it's easier if the client has requested a specific tune, it focuses the whole band, although usually we would read the music for a one off and do a couple of run throughs at sound check. .

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1487881606' post='3243913'] but that's not really about rehearsing or not... I don't expect you are a telepath! If you're not even told exactly what it is that you'r supposed to be playing you cannot really rehearse it either. What you're doing is preparing to increase your chances at guessing right on the day. And that, while it can be fun, is not a serious way to operate. [/quote] You should play some jazz gigs. I've played gigs where I've never heard the tune before. Chord chart, watch, listen and pray.

Many people just like the idea of being in a band. They're not actually interested in gigging. These are the bands that just rehearse and always find something not quite right. They'll say they want to gig and discuss endlessly how to get them but no one ever goes out and gets one. I've learned to spot them quickly avoid them now. I suppose there's the opposite end of the spectrum where no one wants to practice and only want to gig. I've depped in bands like that, it's a bit disconcerting when they don't even provide you with a set list to prepare for, there's no way they're going to meet up beforehand to run through the set. "It's all standards, you'll be fine."... I guess if that's not for you then move on. I'm not playing with drummers who "play like it's the last time they're going to get their leg over" either.

You have the perfect scenario then.

[quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1487768178' post='3242592'] Happy to rehearse if there's something that needs sorting. In that situation I want to see a proper plan for the session and it needs to be focused and productive. Rehearsal on a weekly basis is, in my experience, rarely beneficial. If drummer and bass player are good then being tight should be possible after very limited time together. If you have to rehearse week in week out to get tight then there's a limiting factor at play somewhere. [/quote] I ageee. If you're playing gigs regularly, rehearsals aren't necessary and if you're not gigging regularly then targeted rehearsals on the lead up to gigs are beneficial. There's a balance. I'd also call a rehearsal if a number of tunes that you've been playing for a long time start to fall apart. Sometimes parts of tunes just disappear from your memory for no real reason and get replaced with something that doesn't quite work. Then you're in a situation where everyone on the band starts questioning what they're playing and the trainwreck occurs. If the same tune train wrecks in the same place twice then it's time for a rehearsal.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1487730452' post='3242273'] All bands are different. We have a band leader, so there's no " we suggest " option. The BL picks what songs we play and the version. Makes life a lot easier. Blue [/quote] Is your band leader the singer? I can't see any band working unless the singer has a big say in the songs. However, the B/L and singer need to have a very close understanding of exactly what direction the band is going in. I'm not sure that our singer asked exactly the right question when he joined the band, and seems to want to pull in a different direction to the rest of us. Which does keep it fairly fresh and away from 'the usual suspects' when it comes to song choices but it can become a chore choosing new songs. Although, he was already there when I joined. Like you, I just turn up and play and make the odd suggestions, whether or not they're taken on board doesn't bother me as long as the leader has an idea of direction. It does make suggesting songs that will work a lot easier.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1487695261' post='3241923'] In my case the alternative versions were by the same band but the album versions that they played had whole extra sections with completely different chords that never appeared anywhere in the single version that I had learnt. [/quote] Ha. Yes. What's the point in that? Our singer is a bit odd when it comes to that sort of thing. We suggest a well known song by an artist, he'll then say no, he prefers X obscure version or some completely different tune by the same artist form an obscure album that no one will ever have heard before. It's hard work. Just choose a well known song. Learn it. Play it. It's not rocket science.

No. Learn the verse, chorus and midsection and listen to the vocals!