TimR

Contrary to how I probably appear here, I real life, I'm a very laid back person, easy to get along with and probably too keen to please people. Which means I end up getting involved in projects to help people out. I should probably be more up front and leave earlier when I see that a project doesn't have legs. But I don't want to be that guy. Have been 'stuck' in a couple of bands that were going nowhere for longer than I should have been. Including a 'rehearsal' band who were only playing in the studio for fun. Conversely, in hindsight, I also stood in for a few gigs for an originals band while they found a new bass player, when I should have actually agreed to join them. But wasn't the right time of my life. So maybe my failure is a need to have a big turnover of new tunes and gigs, with a 'thats good enough let's get out and play', and an aversion to spending hours picking over minutiae in rehearsal rooms. Although I think 2 of the bands I'm in are pretty much that.

We played a gig where one of the Kink's ex-bassists was attending. Someone managed to persuade him to come up and play. So the band leader suggested they played the only Kinks number the band knew. To which he said "I don't know that one, how about I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles". Anyway I think Toyah is playing a few covers from the 80s at her gigs.

One of the funniest things I heard - "Soundgarden have released a great version of Black Hole Sun. It's so much better than the original Steve and Eydie version."

I was talking to my dad about this on Monday, he'd been watching the Proms - Northern Soul, and said he'd not recognised any of the tracks apart from one by the Trammps. Who he thought were a one hit wonder, so I googled them and found 3 other tracks, one of them Zing Went the Strings of My Heart - which he identified as a cover of a song from the 50s. Essentially a lot of songs from the 50s were modernised versions of 20s and 30s numbers. His dad used to point out this to him. My dad would then point out to me the 80s tracks that were covers of songs from the 50s and 60s. A tradition I continue to this day with my kids. 😆 There's a lot more songs around that are covers than anyone realises.

Marc Almond - Days of Pearly Spencer

I think it's that nature of any business. Unless you're recommended you're just another CV on someone's desk. The last guy who contacted me wore me down with his persistence. I'm still not convinced the band has legs. I have the most experience, have patience and am happy to go along for the ride for a bit. I'm not sure what the aim of the band is. Life is an adventure...

I gave the video a watch and saw you had 19k subscribers so watched some of your other content. This video is quite a bit different to the other videos you have done, my comment would be if you are going to do any more long pieces to camera that you script a bit more of it out. Maybe not the actual words, but more of the subject matter and theme. Just felt it was difficult to follow as it jumped about a bit. Anyway, most people ignore comments in YouTube videos don't they? Mostly inhabited by trolls who've never created any content or done anything of note themselves.

It's not a yes or no poll. It's to gauge how many are interested. Presumably if enough are interested it happens.

Technically you couldn't actively contribute to a forum without reading it - although I do wonder sometimes. But you can read without contributing. Hence the 'or' choices. Would be useful to have all the PA questions in one place. If you search PA you get hundreds of replies to one thread at a time as they often run to several pages.

Unfortunately, as others have said. A small amount of wood glue and some wood (matchstick or other), and start again is the way to go. It's what everyone does.

This was a good thread before it went off on a tangent about communism...

Have you talked to him about narrowing down a genre and working on some specific songs with the aim of getting a drummer in. Unless he doesn't sing, in which case, I would be looking for a singer to determine which direction to head in next.

Don't forget we are bass players. There's a high demand for good players. If you write your bio well and honestly you'll be contacted. I'm not sure I'd be writing to guitarists, certainly the fact that there are 23 that look suitable would suggest a bunch of people out there who want to play guitar but aren't in bands. I'd be looking for bands that have already formed and are gigging.

Bandmix has been good to me. Currently playing in 3 bands all found me through Bandmix. You don't need to pay, I can't remember what advantage paying gets you.

The key is to get a Facebook \vanity instagram and twitter @, and Web url all exactly the same wording.

I'm not sure why you'd have the different extensions pointing to different redirects. I'd just have them all redirecting to the .com and have the twitter, Instagram, ticktock, and Facebook logos on top of that landing page for people to click on. Make .com your website and the others don't need to feature anywhere. They're just there to stop other people stealing them and help anyone who mistyped it. Seems a lot of work for little return.

Yes. Totally agree. But it's still not cool. Which was the original question. Should the band look cool? Is a different thread.

I think being cool, and advertising the band are separate things. It ain't cool to be selling your band. But you have to do it some way. Subtle product placement like your (hero) bass player wearing the official tour t-shirt is great for established bands, but your cover band logo shirts just aren't cool, they're 'corporate wear' no matter how you dress it up. I wear corporate wear for my job and I am treated like Staff, even though my pay, qualifiactions, and experience are far greater than those who believe otherwise just because I'm not wearing a suit* which would be totally impractical. *don't wear a suit. We did that at a Dinner and Dance and someone said we looked like a bunch of merchant bankers. And they didn't mean as a euphemism.

In that situation, as has said earlier, try not let things build to the point where someone is dropped from a height. A few friendly reminders when their absence is preventing the band from playing. Continually saying, it's fine, there's no problem, doesn't make anything easy for anyone in the long run. Suggesting to him that you may be better getting a dep in to cover his absences might have helped.

Right guys - band uniform. Any back or white top, and baseball cap. Conspicuous gold chain, to be worn wrist or neck. No smiling in any press releases. OK?

@greavesbass what were the circumstances of you leaving and why were you covering bass. I know one band I left were struggling to find a bass player for a big gig but one of the members refused to ask me to cover. Giving the reason that their setlist had changed and I'd have to learn all the songs. 😆 I'm not sure what any other bass player would have had to do. People can hold a grudge over nothing for a long time without vocalising it.

Sounds like a bigger issue somewhere then. How did you measure the current?

You need to find NiMH 9v batteries which come as 8.4v or 9.6v. Lithium Ions are only 7.2v or 7.6v. Alkaline batteries are 9v when you test them under no load but will drop quite a bit depending on load. Most applications requiring a 9v battery will still work happily down to 7v. Probably not an active bass though. 😆

You'd never gain entry to an Iron Maiden concert with an attitude like that.

I'm sorry but Robot Wars is not cool. Especially if you're an engineer in a team. It's just basically advanced train spotting.