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[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1376656302' post='2177446'] Sorry to heat it . I hope you feel better soon . I am suffering badly today . It's like a hangover without the fun the night before . Women may go through the pain of childbirth , but could they withstand the relentless misery of man flu ? I doubt it . I have made that point to Mrs Dingus in the last couple of days. She seems unmoved . [/quote] Women just don't understand man flu. [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/johnbell/song/17147195-man-flu"]http://www.reverbnation.com/johnbell/song/17147195-man-flu[/url]

We could hear Deep Purple play Knebworth from about 5 miles away.

Just let the blood dry to a scab and then pick it off.

Cows kill more people in the UK than spiders, so you should be afraid of them. Very afraid. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/hoofed-and-dangerous-britains-killer-cows-1776775.html

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1376554345' post='2175743'] It's clear from reading this thread that a majority of bassists don't know what "irrational" means ;-) [/quote] It always amuses me when people freak out when they see a spider and other people try to calm them down by saying things like 'it can't hurt you' ** and 'you're much bigger that it is'. Irrational fear of spiders is just that - irrational. [size=3]** a pretty safe assumption in the UK. May not apply in other countries. [/size]

Enjoy!

LEDs in a bass. if I wanted a Christmas tree I'd have gone to a garden centre.

"A" bass? You mean you have more on the way?

So all those recent threads where we've been all self-congratulatory about what an easy-going liberal bunch we BCers all are was a load of old b*ll*cks then?

Are the strings heavily discounted because of all the free advertising they're getting through the tee shirts?

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1376200127' post='2170678'] It all cost about £300. The amp is a bit crackly and getting worse, so if anyone has any recommendations. Ideally up to £90 used [/quote] if you mean the amp has 'crackly' volume and/or tone controls, my recommendation would be to buy a can of Servisol Super 10 from Maplin or similar, open up the amp (usual warnings about unplugging from the mains etc etc apply) and give each pot a quick squirt and a bit of twist action. http://www.maplin.co.uk/contact-cleaner-4153

Why did you leave it with him for THREE years?

Can't help, I'm afraid, but I can feel your pain because 'Thomas The Vance' was essential listening for me around that time (along with Alexis Korner's blues show that went out after Fluff's 'Pick of the Pops' show on a Sunday evening). Have you posted anywahere else as well? At least you can get such a request out to thousands, perhaps even millions, of people these days. Good luck! Meanwhile . . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2UCPKj-zw

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376071157' post='2169421'] I thought the person with the [s]best[/s] most gear was best? [/quote] Fixed

XLR inputs are usually the domain of semi-pro equipment or what used to be called 'prosumer'. It's all out there, but move away from true consumer gear and it quickly becomes very expensive. Largely a manufacturing volume related thing I guess. I only mentioned the underlying editing complexity because it might help to understand why there is such a wide range of pricing. The cheaper end of the market (perhaps even freeware) can make things easier for the software by only allowing editing cuts to be made [u]between[/u] GOPs rather than [u]within[/u] them. For the average home movie it would make little difference if there was, say 1/4 or even 1/2 second inaccuracy in the cut, but for a tightly synchronised music video it could make a lot of difference. But PCs are more powerful these days and multi-core CPUs lend themselves to things like background rendering when editing, so things may have moved on - but these are some of the things to ask about when choosing a package. I've not heard about any music vibration-related problems with hard drive camcorders, but I suspect that most new equipment would be using memory cards these days, so probably not a big deal nowadays. Edit: interesting link and probably a better source of info. Good points about stage lighting causing all sorts of problems for camcorders that only have automatic focusing and white balancing as they struggle to adjust to ever changing stage conditions. Basically the same issue for video as I mentioned above with auto-level audio recording. You really need manual controls for best results.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1376052497' post='2169049'] Thebrig has been playing in function bands for 7 years and claims to know no theory? How on earth can that be possible? How do you rehearse when you can't identify a chorus from a verse, or that the mid section has 8, 16 or 32 bars, you don't know why the drummer counts to 4 at the beginning of the song, or the singer wants to change the key? All this knowing no theory as if it's a badge to wear proudly is nonsense. [/quote] There are plenty of 'non musical' people who can tell a chorus from a verse and sing along to their favourite songs. They can also count a 1,2,3,4 intro as well. Now, whether we call that natural musical instinct or suggest that they understand musical theory is a moot point. At the risk of getting into bongobongo territory, how much musical theory would 'primitive' native people have understood? Yet they somehow managed to develop a rich musical culture. We can then come along and analyse what they have created out of thin air and describe their music in terms of notes and chords and timings and we can then write it all down for posterity, all of which is a good thing, but it wasn't necessary that the originators understood it all was it? They did it by instinct and they passed their songs down the generations by simply playing them for the next generation to learn So, you can teach someone to play a song by showing them what to do on the instrument and how to sing the melody and they'll not know what notes or chords they are playing. Or, you can give them some sheet music and teach them how to interpret it. I can't really see than one method is particularly superior to the other. And it's not so much a case of knowing no theory as a 'badge of honour', just accepting the reality of things.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1376047617' post='2168980'] You [b]need[/b] to learn what the notes are called and the quality of chords, the major and minor scales, together with what a 'bar' is and how time works as a bare minimum as far as theory goes before you're not a beginner. [/quote] Need? What about all the self-taught players (of all instruments) out there who manage to create their own music? Sure, someone can come along later and write it all down with notes and chords and time signatures, but the originator must have somehow managed without all that knowledge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_GCvApODg

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1375958837' post='2167838'] Wouldn't bank on this. WWF (wrestling) were forced to change their name to WWE by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). ! [/quote] True, but it was probably because there was big money involved rather than any possibility of confusion or 'passing off'. So two bands on different continents share the same name - if they both remains smallish provincial outfits then thre'll likely be no problem. If one, or both, become the 'next big thing' in global rock 'n' roll then the lawyers will jump in and do their thing because there will be money involved.

For a basic record of a band, almost anything will do a half-decent job in a 'home movie' sense. But for any sort of demo/promo work I reckon you'd need to record the sound separately because most 'affordable' camcorders have pretty limited audio capability and 'auto-level' inputs can result in very poor results, especially if the music has a lot of dynamics. Video-wise, a big quality issue is their performance in low light conditions, although a noisy/grainy picture can sometime look good, again depending on the type of music. As for editing software, I'm a bit out of date these days but the biggest issue when I was more into such things was the emergence of HD video and the complications arising when trying to do really accurate cuts in time to music. it's complicated to explain why but it's all to do with the fact that HD video is so highly compressed that each 'frame' of video doesn't contain all the data for that frame and it relies on knowing some of the previous data, or a 'group of pictures' or GOP. DVDs (mpeg) use GOP compression but HD video need more compression so it uses longer GOPs. If you make a cut in the middle of a GOP the editing software has to do a lot of reprocessing of the video data and can reduce the video quality. Different video editing software handles long GOPs in different ways. Depends how finicky you are. Edit: Some background here: [url="http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/editing-long-gop-video"]http://broadcastengi...-long-gop-video[/url] and some discussion here: http://www.djiguys.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=708

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1376043339' post='2168885'] What are you talking about? Of course the English language has rules. It has rules for grammar, punctuation and many other things. [/quote] Yes, it has loadsa rool's butt broken they can be yet be still understood and appreciated clearly, init.

I'd also agree that 'professional' is not a measure of ability. There are plenty of professional people in all walks of life earning a living from what they do, even though they have wildly different abilities. There are plenty of cowboy builders that earn a good living from their profession. The problem is that words such as 'good' etc are very subjective and wide-ranging. I'm 'good' enough to play in a couple of bands and people seem to enjoy what we play, but I wouldn't say we're a particularly 'good' band and we don't play anything particularly complicated because we're not 'good' enough to do so. So, really, what's the point of all this classification? I suppose the best way to quantify how 'good' we are is to take some musical exams, for which we'd be graded accordingly. But, again, what's the point for most players?

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[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1375955948' post='2167791'] Just be careful with your logo (think Apple vs Apple). [/quote] The Apple vs Apple thing was settled fairly early on with an agreement that Apple Computer would not move into music. Fast forward to the iPod and iTunes and it all kicked off again with Apple Computer ending up paying several hundred million dollars to Apple Corps in a final settlement.

Ditto ditto. There's only person who needs to be happy with a bass. No one else matters.

OK, perhaps I should have clarified my point . . . . which was air-drumming along to a drawing of a drum kit.