TimR

The stereo image for the audience is created when they move their heads. The source may be 'mono', but the band are in front of you and reverb from the walls adds to the stereo image. If you wear headphones/IEMs and turn your head, the band 'moves' but the sound doesn't, and there's no natural reverb. You are literally separated from the surroundings. Even when using backline, the amps are in different locations on the stage.

I'll paraphrase it. They played lots of people a 30sec clip of each song from a selection of songs from the last few decades. People had to rate them as tonehetehr they liked the songs or not. Study was done in 2010. My guess is that since then radio has stopped playing the 'latest hits' and teenagers are consuming music from different sources. However, the age at which you are introduced to songs and in particular the events in your life that coincide with you first hearing those songs will be reinforced as music, emotion and memory forming are all very closely related. As are smells and tastes. Teenagers may well be listening to ABBA and other 80s songs more nowadays, possibly due to a lack of quality new music or maybe those songs are being used in films and advertising by 40 somethings because they remind them of their youth. Are we reaching peak music saturation, and hence music becoming more bland or having to have greater shock value to grab peoples attention? Either way, in my experience, the pub crowd and party crowd don't want to listen to classic rock anymore. It's been done to death by various quality pub bands.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360136919_The_power_of_nostalgia_Age_and_preference_for_popular_music

Yes. We had a clumsy message from one member. He asked what time we were on as the poster said x o'clock. The member who organised the gig took it as a dig. I thought it was an odd thing to message. If the poster says x o'clock then usually we are on some time shortly after. Most bands have a 'doors open time' and a 'show starts at' time. Pubs are very loose in my experience. It was hardly something to even message about, let alone start a long exchange over. People just seem to be very edgy and sensitive at the moment. Then they complain that no one answers their messages.

I have been playing in bands for over 40 years and have yet to be given a list of songs we are not allowed to play at a gig. 🤷‍♂️ What gigs are you playing where they're telling you what not to play?

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I would expect a fan of classic rock to be in their 50s or 60s. Jazz in their late 60s unless they're musicians. Classic and Opera wouldn't figure on that list would it. It would be well down the left hand side.

Books have always been edited. The dictionary is changed every year. Words added and removed. Check out the revisions and versions of the Bible. No one has removed Brown Sugar. You can still buy it, listen to it, play it. Last time I played it at a gig, along with some other Stones numbers, we were asked if we could play some modern music. 5 years on we have a completely different set of material. Brown Sugar was written in 1960s. It's nearly 60 years old. It's a bit like expecting me to have been listening to songs recorded in the 1920s when I was a teenager.

Irony?

The drummer/singer/'gig getter' moved out of the area. I realised that the 2 guitarists were not talented enough nor motivated enough to find another singer and drummer, and get gigs. So I made my excuses and left as well. No great loss, as in 3 years we'd probably done less than 10 gigs and gone through 2 singers.

The modern narrative is to accept the world moves on, regularly, unending, and to try and grasp on to the past is futile and leaves you bitter, old and resentful.

Not even the Stones play it anymore. Jagger said he wasn't even sure what he was thinking when he wrote it and certainly wouldn't have written it today. The world moves on, there are better songs. Some even have more than 3 chords.

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With Instagram (and facebook) you can have the Business Suite. Every band member can be an (anonymous) contributor. That way you don't have to be on Instagram yourself. You can also enlist your pet teenager (fan or army of them) as content creators to help.

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0062327

My warwick WCA 211 Pros are front ported.

KLF set fire to £1m cash and deleted their entire back catalogue. So they still have a way to go to match that.

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There's a lot of odd comments about the value of school music lessons Nd lack of music in schools given this thread: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/439085-did-music-lessons-at-school-help-with-your-musical-life/

That's about 3% of people given there's around 740k people for each year group. They're probably now the equivalent of the old degrees.

Saved me a bit of typing.

Kind of. Mixing speakers causes all sorts of interesting things. The impedance of a speaker depends on the frequency so each speaker will be handling the output differently on each note. Adding an 18" to 2x10"s probably won't do what you're expecting. Also need to check the phasing of the speakers. Many years ago I added a Warwick 2x10" to a Trace Elliot 15", there was a massive hole in some frequencies and a massive boost in others. I ended up getting rid of the 15" and adding another 2x10" and stacking them vertically. Sounds absolutely awesome.

Great thread and photos. Mine (from my teenage years) have already been posted several times now. John Deacon Geddy Lee Billy Sheehan

Classic rock tends to be album tracks that everyone has heard but no one ever really remembers who the band is or what the song is called. Plus Sweet Home Alabama.