TimR

Sounds good to me. Accept his choice and use another drummer for those gigs.

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That was my first thought. VII and vii etc

Start your own band. Write a set list. Set out what musicians you want and what level of commitment you want. How often you rehearse and gig.

That requires a thread of it's own. 😆

@Boodang I don't understand some people, other that they're so wrapped up in their own little world that anything that doesn't fit with their ambitions just gets set aside. Thing is scenes are quite small, people get a reputation and they'll find it harder to get members to join projects once word gets around.

If the punters are different each night it doesn't matter. We used to play a club Friday and Saturday night. Same musicians, same set, same band name. We had enough material to play two nights of different songs and could have called ourselves something different, no one would have noticed.

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Of course Galliano!

Superb playing. 3 Mile Island is a great track.

Andrew McKinney is/was a member ofnthe forum. I briefly said hello when JTQ played The Boathouse in Southend. I've seen JTQ at least 5 times now. Jazz Cafe favourites and when they played the 100 club right at the end of lockdown.

Richard Street continued the Temptations 'Sound of Motown' for a few years, up to his death in 2013, as 'the last surviving member' although he wasn't on early records other than a few as a backing singer. Some friends went to see the show and weren't impressed. A lot of these shows wouldn't be out of place at holiday camps.

Yes. But they're not pretending to be Pink Floyd. Likewise the Austrailian Pink Floyd are clear they're not Pink Floyd.

I think some posters are missing the context here. Bands like Iron Maiden and Deep Purple have and continue to evolve. They're still releasing new material and gigging. Bands that have long ceased recording material and are just out performing material that in some cases is decades old, are essentially just authourised tribute acts.

The 9v on an active bass should be out of circuit when its lead is unplugged. Active bass batteries last months. Although I'd agree, modifying the bass to fit a plug seems a bit OTT. Why not just buy two batteries and modify the bass to have a quick release compartment for the battery. It's not like you'll be charging it every day/week/month.

Yep. But you wont be able to buy a ready made lead like that. He now just needs an inline USB C plug and solder it on to the two wires. The difficult part (panel mount) is done there for him.

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To summarise the video - Two guys are trying to pick songs for their set list. We've all been there, hundreds of songs are suggested but each time the song is discounted because; they don't have a keyboard player, the drum part is too difficult, the singer can't do the high parts, the backing singer plays bass so cant do anything complex... In the end, the only song suitable for the band is...

Mobilesheets. You can set it to use the cloud for your sheets so any markups you make on songs sync across your devices and also with band mates if they're also using the app and syncing those songs. I have several set lists.

Judging by the replies so far, I think I'm the only person to watch the video. I think I've been in that band. Several times. 🤣🙈 In Bb...

This was the standard when we did the RBL social clubs. They'd stop for bingo and then for fish and chips.

I don't think the audience know what bass guitar is. He may know what 'bass' is, and lots of people probably equate bass as that unpleasant floor vibrating hum that you get in clubs rather than what a bass guitar should actually sound like.

For me, it's the same as the music stand effect. Anything that creates a physical barrier that prevents the audience from seeing the whole band is to be avoided.

London prices. Still cheap, was less than 4 pints of beer.