TimR

Yep. Singing protest songs about the bad treatment of animals while wearing leather shoes won't work very well.

It's the same one as how do you know if someone ran a marathon. It's because rather than quietly getting on with being vegan, they are usually very boastful and evangelical about it and tell everyone even if theyre not interested and don't need to know. They want everyone to join the cause, as is the case in the OP advert. BTW - did I tell you I've run a marathon...

I have added to my post. Seems some songs have been licensed to YouTube to play.

It's because some publishers recognise that you're advertising their music for them. In a lot of cases people will see your performance and go looking for the original. Some don't understand how social media works and just block them. Rick Beato has covered this lots of times. Sometimes the publishers are so aggressive they will argue against the 'fair use' policy. I made a film and put an entire Kasabian track as backing music. YouTube just said they'd picked up, but as it was currently publicly available on YouTube that it would be OK and even added this to the description.

People have built up, misplaced, anger. They do short sighted things. Dangerous times. A lot of it will be directed at people trying to help them.

It's bizarre. You either picked the wrong photo or something else is going on. There's hundreds of gifs of Noddy Holder and slade. Do a search. They must be making a small fortune. Did you take legal advice?

It would if you were the drummer or the keyboard player. It's a real world example. I've seen plenty of band owned PAs with earths removed to prevent ground hum loops...

Except when you're outside taking a break and your keyboard player's 13amp plug or drummer's extension lead finally shorts out and bursts onto flame. I have seen both aforementioned keyboard player's plug and the drummer's extension lead, and worse. So at least get someone with electrical knowledge to look over your gear before your keyboard player and drummer electrocute each other.

Some artists/labels understand how you're helping promoting their material and others think you're ripping them off. It's a bit of a ballache. Have a look at Leyland Sklar's YouTube. He gets stuff taken down where he played on the original but there's still hundreds of examples of his material up.

How did you get 'stung', usually you're asked to remove it and so long as you do that all is OK. It's quite common for YouTube and Facebook to take down versions of covers by certain artists. Other artists are less predatory. Get some kind of extra insurance unless you're house owners and already have protection. That's wise for anyone with assets they need to protect. You can't get sued it you don't have any assets, but you can get fined so insurance would give you legal cover for defending yourself. And helps if someone makes a spurious claim, you just pass them to your 'legal team'. PAT is minimum I'd expect unless someone in your band is electrical and can have a look at your gear and check for visual problems. Some hotels will require it. Some may ask for a risk assessment as well. PRS is venue.

I've been double jabbed and will be going out. The advice is to do a lateral flow test and pick events that are more important to you. Live music is near the top of the tree for me along with running races. I'll be at home off work for 11 days anyway. Not everyone has loads of elderly relatives and big family dinners.

Our guitarist decided not to attend a Boxing night jam a while back because his wife is still suffering serious complications from sepsis after catching flu 2 years ago. I'm still planning on going but no rehearsals and think it's going to be pretty likely to catch it there if anyone's going to catch it. Aren't we supposed to be at 1m cases a day by then anyway? I'll probably already be isolating.

Played in a Porshe showroom once. Granite flooring, very high ceiling, and floor to ceiling glass walls. Luckily the drummer played at his normal volume, so no one would have had a chance to hear how bad the acoustics were for rest of the band.

I organised a race in July. I had 3 of my organisational staff isolate 2 days before. And my inbox was getting 2 or 3 daily requests to defer to next year because they'd tested positive.

You can't separate them. If I haven't cut my fingernails, the root of the noise sounds awful. Even worse if I've put brand new strings on and am playing through a 4" transistor radio speaker. Especially if I'm playing on the bathroom. Whichever has the most influence is usually the one you have least control over. Cut your fingernails and that may make a noticeable change but you still have that 4" speaker problem and bathroom issue.

Music is all about feel. It's an essential part of being a good musician. Feeling the rhythm would be a good place to start.

That's just reminded me of an incident that happened to me. We'd all agreed a song and a version. There was a tricky phase in the middle that I knew was going to be tricky and spent far too long working on it, even to the point of writing out the dots. Came to the practice, hit the phrase, drummer and myself play it perfectly. Guitarist all over the place, and the song crashes. So we ask what he's playing and he shows us. "Play it again, I'm not sure you've got the timing right." "Oh, you can't count it, you've got to feel it." Exchange glances with drummer who has now folded his arms. So guitarist plays it again louder. Drummer and I watch intensly. So he pays it again even louder. Me: "OK. I can't get that from what you're playing. I'll go away and work on it" - in the vein hope he'll actually take that as a clue to go away and work on the phrase himself. "It's easy,it's just:" - plays phrase badly even louder.

@garethonly in that it makes compelling viewing and makes him look like a bully. I'd even go as far as to say the women are being used in order to boost ratings.

This interview demonstrates exactly how people, especially the press, have a desire or need to stereotype and generalise. Everytime he makes a statement she tries to strawman him and generalise something, he then has to point out he is describing specific behaviours by people in specific situations. This is akin to having a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail. Say something has female qualities and you're being sexist... And say something is masculine and you're excluding women from being able to do it. Which is plainly nonsense. Sometimes you need to look in your toolbox and decide whether you should be using a hammer to bang in screws.

Indeed. Many women in the bass and baritone sections? I'm sure we can all name some very famous tennors and sopranos?

It means quicker recognition of targets and threats and less human soldiers in the line of fire.

It could, but it's entirely down to context. The problem is you throw the baby out with the bathwater. Those are examples where those terms are used in a pejorative context. Look at any choir and tell me which are the male parts and which are the female parts.

Presumably your company pay you a wage. Are they responsible for the tunes you play at gigs?

Birds of prey live solo, and occasionally in pairs. Humans live in a structured society. Part of what gives that structure is we have stereotypes. If people try to conform to stereotypes (they can't, and some people are desperate to), or other people try to pigeonhole people according to stereotypes, then you have serious issues. Language and stereotypes are not the issue. Knee jerk solutions to perceived problems by well meaning people are not going to fix those problems in the way they think they will.

Except that he doesn't. And neither did I. As Lozz says. That was one point I made since we are taking about that aspect of masculinity in this thread. But you'll find that is exactly what his detractors want you to think.