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    Scott Whitley's Bass Vlog #3 - Playing covers isn't cool!!! Or is it?

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    21 hours ago, thebigyin said:

    in my experience if you don't play covers on the local pub/club circuit you would soon be twiddling your thumbs at home with no gigs

    Funnily enough, all the bands I've been in since 1983 have never really done covers. And we had no trouble getting more gigs than we actually wanted!

    Currently we do just one cover - it's a punk classic mashed up with a funk classic- with 10 songs of our own, and we've got gigs booked up till November. Though we are putting together a slap bass version of a Misfits song as possible 2nd encore (wishful thinking?). Admittedly we've got very little in our own  small town, but then there's no venues here bar tiny pubs where you've got room for the band plus 10 punters. They put on occasional open mic nights and covers bands but we don't want to play to audiences who aren't there for the music... 

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    Eurovision 2019

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    12 minutes ago, Davo-London said:

    Here's my plan for minimal embarrassment:

    Or alternatively, get someone who knows something about music to choose the song and artist, not just stick the 1st X Factor wannabe up there!

    Writing songs on the bass.

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    4 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

    you're really f***ing good. 😎

    Aw shucks!

    Though the best stuff on there is with the rest of 80s Leeds supergroup, The Weeds, like Bedtime, Hammer Riff, Angels 1-5 which has the joy of New Fads vocalist, Mr. Pointy, ex-Utahs Drums Party-boy Keith and the Death Twins on guitars... (though they're all live)

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    Eurovision 2019

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    It would have all been a lot better if Australia had been represented by King Gizzard, Germany by Rammstein, UK by Fat White Family, Ireland by Girlband etc.

    That would have freaked out all those people who actually like the exceptionally square wail-fest that it is!

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    Writing songs on the bass.

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    Luckily with us melodies are few and far between...

    So I nail together a number of riffs in funky prog-punk style, guitarist puts some feedback over the top, drummer does an over-complicated pattern that speeds up by at least 10bpm over the song, then the singer shouts some lefty-stuff. Tom's yer uncle!

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    Gig cancelled - the start of a flurry i think ;-)

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    I don't really understand how anybody could actually support a team - especially a premier league one. After all, they don't represent a town or city - I mean it's not just local lads from the pub playing on a Sunday morning. It's really only about money - supporting Manchester United is like having a favourite corporate entity; imagine the trouble if the Goldman Sachs Crew ran into the Rio Tinto Zinc Mob!

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    Gig cancelled - the start of a flurry i think ;-)

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    It's always amazed me, the obsession with football...

    If you put on a gig round here with 4 bands - all of them of decent quality - and charge £3 folks will say "it's too expensive" and you'll be lucky to get 50 people.

    However, if someone arranges a coach to see Hereford Town playing Forest Green Rovers at £20 for the coach each plus entrance fee it will fill up in seconds. Watching 22 blokes running round a field chasing a ball is obviously much more exciting than rock'n'roll - though as anybody should know from their schooldays, the cool guys were never the jocks...

    Demise of the town music store.

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    13 hours ago, 3below said:

    Mid Wales Music, Newtown. 

    I bought a lovely Sandberg there a few years ago. They're very helpful and always have interesting stock.

    We've got an excellent local music shop, though much better for guitarists. There's an enormous room full of handmade acoustics, ancient Fenders and Gibsons at £000s plus handbuilt crazy stuff. They survive by selling online as there's not enough musos in Powys!

    https://www.knightonmusiccentre.com/

    Garden party licensing

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    1 hour ago, Paul S said:

    different ball game

    Possibly!

    However, our roadie had a large dog with a very fluffy tail he held up like a flag at all times... While the Super was remonstrating with our guitarist, Merlin the dog ran through the policeman's legs, his tail brushing the chap's truncheon very gently and furrily. The copper looked around, saw no-one who could possibly have caressed him so tenderly, and left very quickly. His sergeant sniggered and told us to keep it down a bit, then they all drove off.

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    Always There Albums......

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    I've got 5 cds that live in my car cd player, almost to the exclusion of all else...

    Jacques Loussier - Play Bach

    Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal For Life

    Parliament - Mothership Connection

    Praxis - Transmutation Transmutandis

    Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Dreamscape

    (Though Dutch progboy's Sky Architect latest cd - "Nomad" has been sneaking in recently)

    Garden party licensing

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    On ‎06‎/‎05‎/‎2019 at 20:33, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    Noise nuisance is fairly low on the Police priority list.

    When we lived in a housing co-operative in a very swish square in Pimlico in the early 90s we had a party featuring our band...

    First we heard about any complaints (we were loud, to be fair, though the square was also very large, having a cricket pitch in the middle!) was an entire van-full of police who insisted we ceased and desisted with the racket there and then... And the cop in charge was a super, not just a lowly sarge. So it depends on who's being nuisanced!

    Powerful cover suggestions

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    2 hours ago, operative451 said:

    have you anything on YouTube?

    Here's our one and only cover, recorded on a mobile phone at our 3rd gig... Next gig is in Hereford, June 6th, at Speakeasy,then at Funk In The Forest near Welshpool July 26th.

     

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