TimR

You'll always get phase difference between monitor speakers and main speakers and your in-ears just due to the physical positioning of the speakers and the in-ears. Although the monitors should be louder to you than the mains and if your in-ears make a good seal then that should be blocking out the monitors and mains. You'll even get phase issues if the bass amp is too far from the back wall and reflections off the back wall can cancel some of the frequencies that are direct from the speaker. Whether or not you notice them will depend on lots of factors. Is that what you're asking?

Thoman also sell a plate.

Unscrew the plate and turn it upside down.

How have I missed that story? That's an even more amazing story.

I suspect many people who buy them will loan them to collections. Maybe actually play the piano. There's an interesting story about 'Greeney' told by Kirk Hammett. Originally broken by Peter Green, then smashed up in a car accident with Gary Moore and more recently dropped by Kirk, and repaired again. Estimated to be worth £2m but Kirk doesn't say how much he paid for it. He actually plays it on the Metallica tours.

And dying of AIDS? https://www.mercuryphoenixtrust.org/site/post_Freddie Mercury - A World Of His Own - Sotheby’s Exhibition and Auction_12004

Plus 13% buyers premium and 20% Vat. £1.7m.

More tommorow evening by the looks of it.

Yes. Piano went for £1.4m. Record for a piano at Sotheby's. Possibly world.

Jukebox. Estimate £15-25k. Gone at £320k.

Currently on lot 35, 44 is the piano. Likely to make £1-2m.

Watching live on tictok via Yahoo UK. Some high bids going on. A dress ring just went for £95k.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/483087-have-you-ever-been-tempted-to-learn-a-song-just-in-case/

Not a lot of love for Live and Let die. This for me is the best cover- probably better than the original. James Last Orchestra with Benny Bendorff.

Metallica's version of Am I Evil, is a straight copy of the original, but somehow much better. I suspect if Diamond Head had the production equipment available to them, the Metallica version is what they would have produced. Although the drumming on the original doesn't have the hindsight of 30 years of rock*. *even if it is Lars. 😆

Does anyone have any insight as to why the original S&G number doesn't convey or reflect any of the anger the lyrics contain? Its almost like they're completely given up and resigned to apathy, while the lyrics get more and more angry. 🙄 Is it a 60s hippy thing?

That's awful. At least Disturbed appear to have read and understood what the lyrics are about. "Faux emotion".? That's what every actor and singer does and has done since the dawn of time. That's what they get paid for.

The Disturbed version of Sound of Silence is a better rendition of the words. They're very powerful words and the original S&G version has either been got at by the film producers or sung deliberately like that for some reason. I'm not up with 60s protest songs and that part of US history is a bit difficult to understand. Although I think the Disturbed version is trying too hard to be different. A lot of the phrasing and some tuning has been changed in an effort to make it different. Probably didn't need to do that.

It's probably more to the fact that as musicians we are used to hearing raw music as its supposed to sound in real life. Most people are used to hearing overproduced final versions of recordings. It's similar effect to seeing people as they are in the street vs photos they put up on social media.

Yes. Too much else going on.

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