Beedster

Agreed 👍

👍

Close 👍

All’s well that ends well 👍

This is really cheeky because it's not my rig, yet.......... I had the same cab with a 400+ about 10 years back. I do about two gigs per year on electric, but if you're gonna gig electric, bring out the big guns I say

Feels like the old days 👍

Anyone know what to do now?

Well, that was fun 👍

I was starting to suspect Scando Underbridge 🧌

The situation in which Jaco found himself, sadly

In all seriousness and with the best of intentions, I suspect you don't need a band, you need a YouTube channel 👍

I learned a nice lesson from Howard aka the bass doctor on here; ahead of an audition put on some heavy strings and set high action, you have to think twice before you get flash because every time to get flash it hurts

Ouch.... Well I wouldn't hire you for your attitude, and neither would many r not most of the bands I've worked with, irrespective of your undoubted skills. I stepped off bass about 10 years ago with the intention of playing another instrument in the band, and the guys auditioned several bass players, some of them (then) members on this forum (I did not attend the auditions). Their summary was that all of the candidates played too much, some of them played way way way too much, and some of them didn't seem to realise there were other musicians in the room at all. The guys had assumed that finding a bassist who could do what I do, support the song, would be easy. But no, they couldn't find a bass player to fill my shoes, which is kinda funny 'cos I'm pretty crap. But I know what to play and when, I listen to the whole mix not just me, I look at the other musicians, I look at the audience, and there are all the clues I need. Just occasionally I get the chance to shine, for example on Diamonds, and then I shine(ish). But otherwise, I'm happy to play three notes if that's what the song and the band needs, because the oldest rule in the book is that it's not the notes you play, it's how you play them.

All the best to Steve 👍

I did several auditions on fretless and only one musician and in only one of the bands - amazingly the drummer - even noticed. If you play in tune, in time and what the track needs, no-one will notice you're on fretless unless you want them to.

And let’s face it, there’s always the potential for a band to actually get worse through rehearsal 🤔

….or he knew just how necessary it was so was desperately trying to avoid it, and then pull the old ‘Hey, this is the first time we’ve ever played together’ routine at the gig. It’s a lot easier for an unrehearsed clown to hide in an unrehearsed band after all 🤔

A mate of mine runs a shop and, following a 'stinky poo customer service' rant from me about a music shop a while back, he told me in no uncertain terms how difficult it can be to hire, motivate and keep staff. In his case he sometimes has to employ a very poor candidate who he knows to be a very poor candidate or be forced to shut up shop until he finds a good candidate. But on the subject what makes a good candidate in contemporary retail, he was pretty clear with me; entitlement culture is a big part of his problem, everyone expects to be treated as if they're buying a Ferrari when they'r actually buying a coffee, and they expect a kid on relatively low salary to be able to deliver that level of service 24/7. I was suitably humbled having often been the customer in question too often.

Agree 100%, have fun mate, we've all been on stages with awful singers (and memorably in my case), audiences aren't stupid 👍

I dare you to go on stage as Henry VIII

This is all simply a promo exercise

Yeh, in so many walks of life the big mistake is the result of too confidence, people mistaking the lack of response from people as stupidity, agreement or permission. Until of course you go that little step too far and you find out it was that they were just waiting for you to go that little step too far. I'm reminded of the glorious Python Piranha Brothers sketch.... Presenter: And so on Feb 22nd 1966, Dinsdale blew up Luton. Even the police began to sit up and take notice.

We should probably start a thread about it 😀