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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1509004024' post='3395869'] Are you certain there are no bass players out there who never stop practising their slap chops through every minor break in the action? Thankfully we don't get to meet them too often. [/quote] I was sacked by a band a few years ago, largely 'cos the guitarist said I wasn't putting in enough effort. He owned the van, the PA, the singer's expensive mic, and therefore the band. The catalyst to the sacking was my repeatedly playing one note in an Eagles track at odds with the recorded version, no joke. I kept doing it because I preferred it, he got really wound up every gig. Amusingly, I was asked back once they realised that 'lack of effort' equated to "generally playing what the song needed" as opposed to "riffing the f**k out of every song", which was apparently what every other bassist did at audition. I politely declined Key point is that I know one of the bassists that auditioned and he was pretty furious to be knocked back, saying with a straight face that he was a much better bassist than the band were were guitarist/drummer/singer, which was probably true.

50 mins by train

Love it, great stuff, I will catch you live one day for sure, even if I have to get to Leeds. And of course, 'We Are Not Devo' is the only name a self respecting Devo tribute could use

It reassures me hugely that a DEVO tribute act not only exists, but thrives. The world can't be all bad after all

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1508437349' post='3392249'] Shame but think they could have found another band who look and sound the same...? [/quote] You'd have thought they'd have the condition under control?

To be honest, there's probably a few relatively non-criminal types who'd half-inch a double bass for the pure comedy value alone. I won't point fingers or name names but many such wags are to be found in our higher education system

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1508492830' post='3392520'] Pssh 'do we dress up'? This isn't amateur hour, spud. [/quote] Absolutely brilliant. Do you do weddings?

[quote name='borntohang' timestamp='1507800217' post='3387998'] Can report from personal experience the DEVO tribute is a better runner than you might expect. On the other hand, we don't need the competition so actually it's a terrible gig and you shouldn't even think about it! [/quote] Made my day Would love to see you lot at my local on a Friday night, do you dress up also?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1508433215' post='3392201'] My thoughts exactly... Welcome from Herts [/quote] Could have been worse, could have been called 'drummist'

Welcome from Canterbury. Hell of a brave username for a bass forum BTW

We put up with it for years and learned to play with a slack drummer, simply because he was also a mate. Think The Who did the same according to an interview I read with Entwhistle

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1507824326' post='3388240'] Or it could be the old trick of when you play a bum note always play it again so people think it's an "arrangement". [/quote] Damn, I thought that was my secret. Did pretty much a whole gig doing exactly that on DB, and was offered a Jazz gig immediately afterwards

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1507809851' post='3388094'] Ahh.. it's jarring to me. I've just checked and he does it on the original, too. It must just be me.. [/quote] Ha ha, there's a track on Street Legal by Dylan where the bass player plays a howler, it drives me crazy, but no-one else can hear it. Which of course means everyone else is just not as discerning as us

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1507801446' post='3388008'] I think there's a difference, 'rehearsing' means doing something in order to prepare it for performance, playing with mates for the pleasure of it is an end in itself. Both equally valid, but to my mind, a rehearsal is playing with gigging as the goal. [/quote] Which was exactly my point Dave, although perhaps not as clearly made

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1507796936' post='3387960'] Rehearsing is fun partly because it is intended to lead to a performance; rehearsing for its own sake would get very stale very quickly. [/quote] One man's 'rehearsing' is another man's 'playing music with mates for the pleasure of it'

[quote name='Lysdexia' timestamp='1507760590' post='3387858'] It's a load of fun. Which is a tremendous value - playing for the joy of it. [/quote] +1

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1507751280' post='3387790'] Again, personally I don't see that and I don't get the sense anyone here is suggesting anyone is any less of a musician if their not gigging. We all gig and don't gig for different reasons. One of the primary reason I gig is to bring a little happiness to people when the work week is done and they merely want to relax, have fun and a good time. We had a marginal crowd at best Saturday night. But there was this one older women who looked like she hadn't been out for a while. She was smiling, totally focused on the band rocking in her seat. Just watching her puts why I gig into perspective. Blue [/quote] Nicely put Blue. Wish that was my experience