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  1. TimR
    At gigs? Why? Maybe audition first and let someone neutral decide if she makes the grade - ie not you or the drummer. 😆 But yeah, agree with earlier posters, if she's playing bass on those tunes, you play keys on them.
  2. TimR
    I'd have been waiting a long time then. Must have read Bassassin's post.
  3. TimR
    I'm watching gear4music for when it gets re-listed. I'll have it. 👍😎
  4. TimR
    It's all about expectation. If you're expecting an immaculate instrument then it's disappointing not to receive one. The only worry I'd have is resale value, would the marks be acceptable wear and tear if I wanted to sell it after a few months because its not exactly what I wanted? Buying it online you're buying blind and untried. I had a ding in the neck of my bass from new, I didn't notice it while playing it in the shop. It was quite distracting when playing. But took the edges off with some very fine sandpaper and it was OK.
  5. TimR
    Seems there's a lot of people on this site who don't understand satire. Many of them take me at face value. Which is ironic really. It keeps me amused anyway.
  6. TimR
    You do know that NASA didn't spend any money developing the space pen?
  7. TimR
    According to legend NASA spend billions of dollars developing it. The Russians just used 3 in 1.
  8. TimR
    @Happy Jack that's brilliant.
  9. TimR
    Oh yes. I've used Servisol for years - which I believe is now rebranded as Kontakt? Which means searching for Servisol won't get you the results you might be after. 🤣The problem is finding it in the shops. I have 3 cans of it - with no straws. 🤣 The thread I saw had a few people suggesting using WD-40 with others saying NEVER use WD-40.
  10. TimR
    There was a recent zombie thread where someone was looking for straws... Which prompted me to search to try and fix my crackly pots.
  11. TimR
    So WD now do electrical contact, switch, potentiometer cleaner, whatever you want to call it. Available at Amazon, Halfords, Screwfix etc. Not sure if I'm late to the party. Just cleaned my amp and bass pots. Maybe there's a more suitable forum to put this in but probably crosses a few of them. https://www.wd40.com/products/contact-cleaner/
  12. TimR
    Don't encourage them. It'd be like one of those pub bands who come back on for an encore when the audience was actually just clapping politely.
  13. TimR
    So did NikyNaker buy a WikyWaker?
  14. TimR
    Shopping is one thing. It's when you go to complain to the manager. That's when things get interesting.
  15. TimR
    I was done. Not sure now as my main bass needs a new volume pot, which is circuit board mounted so I'm having trouble sourcing one. So have been looking for a replacement while I put this one to backup or get it fixed...
  16. TimR
    Sure. I had a break from bands between about 1992 and 1996. I was still doing gigs but just not in a permanant band. That worked really well. But I did come back and have been in 6 or 7 bands over the last 25 years.
  17. TimR
    Had a singer for years. Would turn up 10minutes before we were due to start. Park as close to the pub as possible, if he blocked someone in - no care. Give me his music stand to put up and mic to plug in. Go to the bar while I put them up and signal checked his mic. Then at the end, leave as soon as he had his money.
  18. TimR
    Yes. General. But my dad is 84, still playing, but not the later night gigs a 20 year old plays, the all day function gigs a 40 year old plays or even the moderate pub gigs a 65 year old plays. My Uncle in his 70s is playing guitar with musical mates he has known for years. I'd find it surprising if a lifetime musician gave up playing just because the band they're gigging in, folds. You just find different people and places to play.
  19. TimR
    Usually they bring their own groupies...
  20. TimR
    I think it's more about building contacts for the future than actually playing with them full time, and realising that while you may well be happy in the band you're in, it only takes one member to decide they're moving to the Isle of Wight and all that work you've all done is on the edge.
  21. TimR
    It's still likely to be a morning or a day for the whole band.
  22. TimR
    Surely it shows more respect if you say you're going to leave the control room so that X can concentrate on their part without the rest of the band (critising) distracting them? But I agree, either be involved or go outside into the breakout area. Don't be semi-engaged. After all. Everyone has already agreed and practiced their parts and overdubs so when you hear the final mix there shouldn't be anything unexpectedly added while you were away. 😆
  23. TimR
    Usually get this with recording. Hence my reluctance to spend loads of money on recordings. There's no financial sense in getting photographs done now if you're not gigging next year or getting a dep in for the majority of the gigs. Unless the dep is in the photographs and your singer steps aside while he sorts his personal life out. If he's preventing everyone gigging at the level they want to then everyone else either has to make a difficult decision, or find alternate outlets.
  24. TimR
    Was that a Heaven 17 album?
  25. TimR
    What's more scary is there may only be 300 bass players in the UK...
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