TimR

You should have a good listen to some talking heads tracks. Tina Weymouth is a monster player. Their tracks have incredible groove and the interplay with the drums is what makes it more complicated than it initially sounds.

I'm just wondering how the mechanic will react when I next take my car to a service. "Have you got the key to your locking wheel nuts sir?" "Well actually, I think youll find they're locking wheel set screws." I'm just writing to VAG right now to ask them to update their owners manual...

There's no unthreaded portion.

Seems you can't generalise between screws and bolts because there are so many types. I would have said bolts go into nuts and set screws and machine screws are specific variations of bolts that go into already threaded material. With a normal 'screw' like a self tapping screw, wood screw, plasterboard screw, etc screwing directly into unthreaded material. The machine 'screws' that hold my wheels onto the hubs on my car, are somewhat confusingly commonly known as wheel nuts. It's odd for engineers to be so loose with definitions.

Machine screws.

You'd struggle to find an M8 screw.

@AndyTravis you can play any tune that has chords, a melody (and a vocal line), with any ensemble of musicians. I will never understand 'musicians' who won't play a song because the band doesn't have the same instrumentation as the 'original'.

Probably a blessing in disguise.

No straw man you specifically stated a peanut was a nut. And you said you'd seen 'may contain peanuts on a bag of peanuts'. The wording of a packet of peanuts says 'warning may contain nuts'. It may also contain warnings about oils used in the production like sesame seed oils. It's irrelevant what the technical class of nut is. If the general public buy a bag of mixed nuts to eat, they won't be expecting acorns and conkers.

It doesn't matter what you do for a living. If you are allergic to nuts you are not necessarily allergic to peanuts and vice versa. Which is why the labelling is very specific on packets of peanuts and certain cakes and menus. I had a friend who was allergic to pecans but not peanuts. He died when someone used a cake slice used for a pecan pie to serve him cake. I have a friend who is allergic to walnuts but not peanuts. As the article says, they have different proteins that trigger your immune system.

You may have a problem that frequency mixing can fix. A lot of sound engineers and musicains don't understand that instruments each have their own frequency spectrum that they stand out in and cutting frequencies on some instruments will allow others to come through. For example guitarists like to have their tone and bass players like to have their tone. Which may sound great when they're playing at home but tread all over each other in a live mix if the bass isn't cut on the guitar and certain frequencies aren't cut from the bass. If the guitar frequencies are overriding the sax you won't be heard. I had the same problem in a 9 piece band I played in, the saxophonist wanted to sound more rounded with loads of reverb - which is OK solo'd in a room but live needed loads of top end, mid cut and no reverb otherwise she was just buried in the mix. This also meant more eq cut on the guitar and keys where they conflicted. Mixing is an art and not just 'turn everything up so it's louder than everything else' - volume wars.

When it comes to allergies. Peanuts and nuts are different. First link I found: https://www.allergy.org.au/patients/food-allergy/peanut-tree-nut-and-seed-allergy

Why thank you. My work here is done. 😁 You can probably play the same bass line to Linving Next Door to Alice. A song I'd never heard before having to play it on the fly in a working man's club about 20 years ago. They went absolutely crazy over it. Guess we must have played 20 verses and an encore. Never played it since. Maybe I should learn it properly.

Buy a shelf and velcro it in. Shelves have or used to have slots for ventilation. Velcro through the slots in the shelf. That should hold it.

They generally do on the back if you look.

Which is why it's a strange thing to put on the package. I could understand if it was something to make sure it was disposed of properly, otherwise what's the point?

A product that has a latent danger to someone when it is used in the normal way. I don't know how it works in other counties but if you sell something in the UK that you know is dangerous, you have to design out the danger. eg I do know that in the US PPE is the first thing you do to protect people, in the UK it's the last thing you do.

You don't have that labelling on peanuts. Peanuts are not nuts, you will have a warning on peanuts that says may contain nuts because they are prepared in a factory that prepares nuts. People who are allergic to nuts are not necessarily allergic to peanuts and people who are allergic to peanuts are not necessarily allergic to nuts.

It's a crazy country. You wouldn't be able to sell a product like that in the UK, let alone absolve yourself of any legal obligations. Imagine trying to sell brake pads with 'warning: contains asbestos'

I'd hazard a guess that those bands never heard of dynamics internal or external. If you're playing with good musicians that should never happen. Songs evolving is why covers bands are popular. Otherwise just put a CD on.

Technically when it comes to music, the only thing you learn is which parts you need to practice.

Some wild assumptions made there. If you're learning 6 new songs a week then sure you need to practice every week, if only to get the arrangements sorted. Although being the best you can be with an hour or so set aside to sort an arrangement and practice it to be whatever high quality you seem to aspire to, seems to be at odds with your assertion that you need to practice every other week to keep the songs you know up to speed. The issue is, when you have 4 people who are company directors/owners it becomes increasingly difficult to find a day that all 4 are available. I have other hobbies besides playing bass guitar. I'm busy 2 days a week doing other things not sitting at home watching TV waiting to be called for a band rehearsal. And who practices on a Friday night?

We also have 2 directors and one company owner in our band. One is a single mother of two children under 5. Rehearsing and practicing just to hang out together is a luxury none of us can afford. Playing live with one's chums is much more rewarding than going over and over tunes we can already play backwards. We haven't rehearsed for 2 months now as our last gig was the middle of September and we have nothing on the radar at the moment.

Which is why endless rehearsals perfecting tunes that bomb can be soul destroying.

Depends on whether it's a rehearsal or a practice. A gig is worth 1000 rehearsals. I'm not interested in being in a rehearsal band along with a bunch of people who want to be able to say they're in a band, but don't actually want to gig. Practice is for working out new tune arrangements. Rehearsal is the last couple of practices before a gig. If you're gigging regularly you don't need rehearsals, just practices to learn new material. Assuming your band is made up of competent and experienced musicians.