TimR

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.

Genius. I just put them on before moving gear. 🙄😆

How many of us wear gloves while setting up at gigs? Never gave it a thought until about 15 years ago I met a guitarist who said I should be wearing them to load in. Since then I've had numerous finger and hand nips from hands between speaker cabs and door frames, and the awful moment when the speaker or lighting stand slides down while your still trying to get the pin in having pushed the pole up with the speaker/lights already on it. 😆 None of them stopped me playing but each time I've done it, I've thought - idiot! Anyway - a pair now reside permanently in the boot of my car although I seem to be at the tip more regularly than gigs at the moment. £2-3 well spent at the local hardware store.

I think we need more context. Covers band wearing same colour polo-shirts or tshirts with logo on breast? Definitely not cool. I was in a band in the early 2000s who did this. I had agreed to wear them to turn up and set up in as it identified us as 'the band', but once on stage I thought we should wear proper clothes depending on gig - I was overruled (not outvoted, you do what the band leader asks)... Originals band with different printed t-shirts as has been shown quite a bit since far looks great. In fact I'd go as far as to say if you all have different styles of print and they're available to buy - it's a great advertising spin. Slightly cool depending on execution.

I suspect that's survivorship bias. Doesn't matter how good you are, if you don't turn up to rehearsals sober and ready to play or even not turn up at all, you'll lose the gig. Even the most patient of bandmates realise this eventually. No one is going to continue to pay out for rehearsal rooms that are abandoned 30mins into a session because of a no show. I've played with some guitarists who were very limited in musical knowledge and ability, but they practiced and they turned up and I knew they'd be able to reproduce that at gigs.

My policy is always drums bring snare and cymbals and guitar amp and pedals. Everyone else use backline provided. The key is that the guitarist understands he has the same amount of time to set up as the drummer. No faffing. I don't understand any musician who takes more than 5minutes setting up. It's literally 6 plugs and tune up.