TimR

Wow. Booking a table 2 years ahead is kind of pushing it a bit. 😂

Read the second paragraph you quoted. What's wrong with you guys tonight?

No. My original comment wasn't to the OP. It was to the Greek, who wanted to flood social media.

If they're good musicians they won't be expecting you to be perfect on a jam night with no rehearsal and they'll support and help you. If they do expect that and you get no support then they're not good musicians and don't be intimidated by that kind of behaviour, they're the imposters.

I've never heard the Sex Pistols version of Kumbaya.

That's what I said didn't I? If the OP wants to write something that's true, that's fine. If someone else wants to repeat something that they have no evidence other than the OP's version of events then how do they know it's true or flase. Hence, I'd be very wary of repeating things you heard or read. Especially as the Internet magnifies untruths very quickly and damages businesses and reputations.

Maybe, but it's still Libel.

If it happened to you and you have evidence. Then complain and use the proper channels. If it happened to 'someone you know', you are just joining the social media inevitable pile on and 'cancel' that may or may not be deserved. It's happened to me with an event I organised. One person out of 450 wrote on a different page about their perceived slight negative experience, and a bunch of Karen's jumped on and basically tore the event to shreds, even though the original poster protested that it was only a comment. Social media at its worst. An event that has been running for nearly 30 years in the same format with full explanation of what the event entails. If it had taken down my business and I'd lost income (it's not a business) I would have probably sued those involved. The resultant pile on was completely unwarranted from the original comment, as often happens on social media.

Great thread. I have ordered one to 'replace' my Warwick ProFet 5.1. Nothing wrong with it other that it weighs close on 15kg in the flight case. It's due back in stock 28th April. I may or may not have it in time for May 5th gig where I'll give it a spin. I have 2x Warwick Pro 211 cabs which are 250w per cab, and 25kg each!, so hoping for some great volume from this. Will report back. Then maybe looking at some barefaced cabs...

Good post. Simple bodyweight exercises like planks and mountain climbers will strengthen your back and shoulders without too much impact.

Travelled 80 miles to a gig to find the place had shutdown and was boarded up. This was pre-mobile phones so not only had each of the band driven there but so also had a group of hard-core supporters.

Played a gig once where the locals were calling their mates to come down to see 'the band' while we were playing. The place was rammed by the end of the night. We got £500 instead of the £350. Never happened since. 😂

I'd avoid doing that. Legally you're on shaky grounds. If a business suffers from something you wrote, you'd better be able to defend your words. Plus when the place changes hands as they do regularly, the new owner is saddled with a bad reputation. So you've achieved nothing other than sending another potential live music venue down the tubes.

@solo4652 Might be worth a read.

Red light fever?

Intelligence measurement is normalised so that its an evenly distributed bell curve. Exactly half the population are below average intelligence. But it's like driving - some people are better than others, we set a lower limit and test, those that don't make the lower limit can't drive. Unfortunately there's nothing like this test for using social media.

I don't understand the question. What is 'home practice'? 😉

Actually to be fair when we do a cover version we do it in the style, rather than someone's version. We have guitar, bass and drums. So many songs are just what arrangements we come up with to approximate something recognisable. I tend to prefer our versions and I suspect that's what must of us do, even if we won't admit it. Going back and listening to the 'original' after we have been playing something a while is quite odd and can often lead to some confusion as to how 'our version' goes.

I'm not sure anyone is supposed to 'enjoy' it. It's done to serve a function.

YouTube is all about bringing attention to yourself. You won't get millions of people subscribing to a chanel where players are just playing roots or doing stuff anyone can do at home themselves.

That doesn't matter. As long as 80% of people can understand the basics. It's when they can't understand the basics and then question them you have trouble.

Doesn't matter. Popular is right. If you have a qualitative statement you want people to agree to you need weight of opinion to agree it. That's why education is so important. If the uneducated outnumber the uneducated you have a serious issue.

Pretty much all unsigned bands will be producing themselves. The engineer is just there to capture the noise. Then there's the mix and mastering stages... In my experience just leave the engineer to do the mix. Letting the band have any input will lead to everything being louder than everything else. As per my post of several pages back, the band must be fully rehearsed and know 100% what they're playing and have agreed what everyone is playing fits. Hearing the separate parts for the first time in a studio and finding out the guitarist is playing a minor chord instead of a major chord is too late. Especially when it then descends into an hour of studio time while everyone works out who is right and who is wrong.

The great thing about democracy is if you can find enough people to believe you are right, then you are right. The popular opinion is always correct.

Well I suppose as it's the Internet you can either only ever play root notes or be a flashy show off. I'm obviously one of those flashy show offs as I have been known to quite often play as many as 4 notes in a bar... I once played 8!