TimR

#tracethebass https://www.beatlesstory.com/news/2019/10/14/trace-the-bass-paul-mccartney-s-lost-hofner-guitar

Right handed.

Digital mixer. Or maybe a Little Mark. Should have some change for some new strings.

Depends if your neighbours say something about your behaviour based on half truths and misinformation and as a result people stop buying your art.

Except that we aren't talking about people not playing a song because they don't like it. We are taking about people not playing any of an artist's songs because of something the artist has been accused of doing. And not just in our bands, on the radio, not including them in shows, on TV. The artist (and the rest of their band in some cases) loses royalties etc. And the key thing here is 'accused', they've not actually been found guilty in any court of law. It's a social media thing, where rumours and misinformation can bring down someone and the person who started it hides behind anonymity and there's no possibility of legal recourse.

My grandad was working in the mines aged 14. That's just a little bit over 100 years ago.

That's exactly what Cancelling is. Boycotting something simply because you don't agree with it. You're not interested in discussing it to come to a compromise or reach an agreement. There are different levels and can get to extremes when a mob mentality can exist. Simply refusing to play a song isn't as extreme but it's still a boycot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture

That's because I didn't say they were. They aren't playing them themselves. It's the same as not booking a band because you think their politics would damage your brand. You're not preventing them from playing next door or in the next town, but if enough bookers decide their brand would be damaged... However they're effectively telling their band mates not to play the tune. I guess their band mates could disagree and get a new bass player in. But guess that begs the question of how do you explain why your bass player left the band. Musical differences?

I avoid Twitter at all costs precisely due to that kind of behaviour from people. Not reactionary on my behalf I can assure you. Read the comments above from people who won't play tunes from certain musicians who have never been found guilty of anything, but the poster thinks they probably are guilty becasue they read a rumour about them once. Some people won't play tunes because their own interpretation of the content leads them to believe something different to what the writer intended. People are very odd.

The venues stop booking people who they perceive attract negative publicity and would affect their brand. It's not about a one night booking for a band who has a single fan base, it's about the other 6 nights that month and bands who they'd share a stage with. Look at the fuss over JK Rowling for trying to promote women's rights. That's how cancelling works. Sure no one is actually stopping you play, or saying you can't play anywhere and you fans may well want to see you. But if venues can find alternative acts to book that avoids controversy, they will. That's exactly the same as people are doing in this thread with songs they feel are a bit borderline or acts who they don't agree with.

Personally, I'd just not play it anymore. As soon as you try to make ammendments some SJW with an agenda who had never even heard of that song up to that moment will have you cancelled. There are a lot of people who don't care what your motives are, they'll just use it as a platform to make as much noise as possible.

Had a look at the custom shop and downloaded order sheet to look at the options. There's no PJ option so I would probably go for a modded player series, but then they still have a limited choice of bodies.

There are plenty of tunes better than SHA anyway. 3 guitars in a band is 2 too many anyway.

Isn't 'Does your Mother Know' a reference to groupies who used to dress up to look older to attract rock stars. The US has different ages of consent in different states, many of them higher than the UK (and Sweden).

Paid £39 for 2 hours last week. But very good space. And few years ago paid a lot more for a massive space in Camden, but had grand piano etc in it. So depends if it's a room you can fit a drum kit and 3 people standing, or a large jazz band.

Are you including electricity and business rates?

Like any business, you need to diversify and spot other opportunities amd work really hard, I don't think just having a space for bands to practice in will cut it. https://www.thepracticeroomz.info/ in Stevenage have a wide range of services, from rehearsal rooms, recording, providing live PA services, organising multiple line up gigs, plus being all round really nice guys. I think Farm Factory at Welwyn and Apollo Audio at Hertford, make money during the day for recording pro acts etc.

Certainly would make anyone doubly cautious about borrowing any amps that looked on their last legs. Cue lots of tech savvy bass players with remote control self destruct timers fitted to decrepit amps. 😆

They started at Wapping in 1984, then in the mid 90s, moved to just around the corner from Brick Lane. That's the same area as Liverpool St Station and Spitalfields, but Wapping is walking distance from Brick Lane. The whole area has since been redeveloped and gentrified. They used to have small gigs downstairs.

I was always taught to treat other people's possessions better than you'd treat your own. Unfortunately the standard some people treat their own things is so low that doesn't make any difference. Have just remembered lending someone a book. Wasn't an expensive book, but when they returned it they told me they'd been reading it in the bath and dropped it in. Honestly, don't bother returning it, apologise and offer to buy a new one. I'd probably have said not to worry. I threw it in the bin anyway. I'm not sure I know anyone who would practice bass in the bath...

There's a whole lot more people who have absolutely no interest and just want to play music. Repeatedly dragging up things from the past, that only you are interested in, will not change that, it's pointless and boring.

I don't see it as being nuanced at all. If we are to live in a civilised society, we need to try and follow the laws as they are, not set up our own imagined punishments for crimes that may (and often weren't) committed. That way lies madness, as @Greg Edwards69 points out. This isn't about music and society changing and not being relevant. This is about the musician being targeted for something disparate from the music. And possibly in the OP's case a bunch of people controlling the music that the rest of the band find perfectly acceptable, and for actually no good reason other than what they've been told by the media. It's exactly the same as no platforming someone because you don't agree with their political views. I have no interest in seeing Billy Bragg or Paul Young, mainly because I imagine there's a fair chunk of their concerts that will be political speeches and statements. I'm happy to go and see U2, because the music is good, and while it has a message in most of the lyrics, the message doesn't seem to be divisive. But I'm not telling Billy Brag or the guys in my band, or my local radio station not to play his music.

We have a justice system that decides guilt and a proportionate punishment to avoid this kind of lynch mob and vigilantism, even if it is virtual. The idea is that the people who are in full possession of the facts, and hear the evidence first hand make the decisions, not a bunch of people who read second hand badly reported events, often sensationalised to sell whatever media they're published on. Then the offender does the punishment and is rehabilitated back into society when appropriate. Otherwise you will get more of this cancel culture and the world will spiral into a big mess where anyone can potentially lose their reputation, job, house and family, just becasue someone starts a rumour or wants to further their own agenda.

Didn't even know that was Gary Glitter.

I don't see any issues with playing Micheal Jackson's songs. Harris and Glitter weren't particularly producing long lived songs that were mainstays of any radio station playlists.