Rich

[quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437728292' post='2828503'] So I should just let people make a point and eschew my right to reply? [/quote] I wasn't speaking specifically to you, I was addressing the whole seemingly interminable side-argument of what constitues a disagreement and whether or not something is rude etc etc etc etc. You've had the last word on the subject, twice now in fact, can we please just let the whole thing go now and get back to the set lists?

Oh, enough already. The thread has moved on.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1437584440' post='2827319'] I made the initial quip about putting it into perspective thinking I was being light hearted but you seem to think a friend making a noise on his guitar when you want him to stop, isn't a real friend! I find this a bit unnerving to be honest [/quote] You and he disagree on something concerning the concept of mateness. I assume you're not bandmates or meatspace buddies, so you're not talking about each other. Essentially, you just have a difference of opinion. Why is that unnerving?

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1437550358' post='2826876'] [size=5][size=4]it's the same between numbers when we want to discuss something, and nobody can hear whats being said due to the bloody guitard playing away![/size][/size] [/quote] In that situation, I'd be more than likely to stick a hand in the air or wave in front of his face and yell over the din, "HOLD ON, WE'RE TRYING TO TALK HERE AND I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF F**KING THINK" or something along those lines. Subsequent occurrences would see varying degrees of rag being lost. If he wants to widdle aimlessly, he can do it at home.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1437565804' post='2827069'] much like the constant rotation of music in pubs and on radio2 [/quote] Many years ago when I left school, my first job was in a pharmaceutical warehouse in Reading. We had the radio on while we worked, and it was tuned to the local independent radio station (Radio 210, as it was then known). I don't know if they were skint or what, but it seemed to me that they had about a dozen records on constant rotation, and you could guarantee hearing them all at least 7 or 8 times a day. I can't remember them all, but some standout ones were 'Wrap Your Arms Around Me' by Agnetha Fältskog, 'Busy Doing Nothing' by [font=Arial]Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin[/font], and 'Give It Up' by KC and the Sunshine Band. To this day, I cannot stand hearing any of them.

And I bet they gig it first so you end up looking like the copycats, right?

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1437508487' post='2826695'] We just introduced Back of My Hand by the Jags into our set, probably quite a left field song but it goes down a storm....I am pleased because I actually like the song as well....hopefully this has not offended anyone [/quote] Excellent I love that. And yes, very unusual, never heard anyone cover it before.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1437498106' post='2826597'] I have never heard a band doing boys of summer. [/quote] Have you heard the Show Of Hands version? It's gorgeous. [media]http://youtu.be/0B0iJTFXAR8[/media]

I was going to respond to this -- especially after being told not to say another word -- but I've realised life is too short. So there you go, the last word on the subject was yours. Hope it makes you happy. Many years ago I was in a blues rock trio and we played a lot of pubs etc. Our set consisted of all the sort of stuff you'd expect from a blues rock trio -- lots of Hendrix, some Gary Moore, early ZZ, some Rory & SRV. We surprised people with a Dream Theater tune and Comfortably Numb, but aside from that it was standard fare. We didn't mind, and neither did the punters.

[quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437498831' post='2826608'] So unless someone specifically addresses a comment toward me or they quote a previous post of mine [b]I am not allowed to respond [/b]?[/quote]Where, precisely, did I or anyone else say that? [quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437498831' post='2826608'] As for your interpretation of what he meant, if you're not going to share it then how can anyone even be interested, never mind respond.[/quote]I would share my interpretation if I wanted. I didn't ask you to respond it, and I couldn't give a monkeys if you're interested in it or not. [quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437498831' post='2826608'] And I responded to his assertion that people who play in standard covers band put no thought or effort into what they do and [i]he [/i]hasn't responded but [i]you[/i] did. [/quote]Well with the best will in the world, I'm not a mindreader so I can't tell you exactly what he meant. As I said, I've got my own interpretation and it is precisely that -- mine. As far as I am aware, I'm under no obligation to voice it. Still can't work out why you're so defensive about it, especially when nobody else seems to have taken the same umbrage. Totally bored with this now.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1437494758' post='2826541'] Yup, I have a 5-way and a 3-way of these, and my slide guitarist (who swops between three guitars during gigs) liked it so much that he bought one to use at said gigs. The only thing to watch is that neoprene isn't the toughest material, and a year or two of thumping 4Kg basses onto it will wear through the padding on the bottom rails, especially the one at the back. I just wrapped some heavy foam around it and gaffa'd it in place. Sorted. [/quote] I have one of these also, and yes the neoprene wore out on mine too. I replaced it with this foam pipe lagging stuff. [url="http://www.screwfix.com/p/economy-pipe-insulation-15mm-x-1m/72357"]http://www.screwfix.com/p/economy-pipe-insulation-15mm-x-1m/72357[/url] Other DIY stores are available.

Well for starters, there is nothing whatsoever to suggest that he was speaking to you specifically, given that he didn't quote you and his post did not follow one of yours. As for precisely what he was saying... well I know what [i]my[/i] interpretation is, but why don't you ask [i]him[/i]? This is quickly becoming ridiculous.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1437496736' post='2826566'] Disco songs tend to need a horn section or at least a keyboard. We have neither, so a lot of songs are not accessible to us. If someone says you can still do a version , fair enough, but it would be thin and we couldn't do it justice. [/quote] This is true. Rock bands are definitely easier to populate -- good guitarists are ten a penny in comparison to good ivorytinklers.

[quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437493800' post='2826520'] So what your saying is that for the past 30 years or so I've put no thought or effort into what I've been doing on most Friday and Saturday nights? [/quote] That's not what he said at all. From what I can see, nobody has accused you of that or anything like it. Why so defensive?

[quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437488656' post='2826450'] The usual pompous, condescending twaddle we've come to expect from this...individual. [/quote] 1. Unnecessarily harsh. By all means challenge, but there's no need to be rude. 2. With all due respect, you've been here for 19 days. How can you have 'come to expect' anything?

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1437481918' post='2826340'] Cheers.... can you forward it on to all my band mates too.... I'll send you our dates list for editing laters ;o) [/quote] Yup, no problem. My rates are very reasonable

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1437411483' post='2825774'] Old people don't like change... [/quote] Or ageism.

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1437465263' post='2826128'] I just copied from my set.... couldn't be arsed to remove every details when posting [/quote] I have done it for you, as the hugeness was verging on unreadable. Chaps, if you're going to post setlists, can you make sure they are just lists of tunes rather than every single detail, as otherwise it can make them monstrously long and hard to read. Ta.

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1437331924' post='2825140'] Can't stand these types who say "I play jazz, therefore I'm a better musician than you pop/rock simpletons". [/quote] I can't remember the last time I either heard or read of somebody making such a statement.

Makes me cry. I have no idea why, but it does. Every time. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnMd1Jl7SA[/media]

Still does. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjUkjpJa6bY[/media]

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1436878563' post='2821592'] The old saying comes to mind; "If you want to earn a large fortune playing music..... ...... start out with a large one!" [/quote] I thought it was, "If you want to make a small fortune playing music, start out with a large one"? PS. to the OP... do it. Just do it. At 22, you are easily young enough to pick up 'real life' and carry on if things don't work out. I had similar opportunities when I was your age -- I was in a great band which broke up, and the drummer went off to study at a music school in London. He called me up a number of times and begged me to come and join him, but I had a job which paid well and was still living at home so I had security, and didn't want to give all that up. So I sat there slowly dying of boredom at my desk job for the next umpteen years, while he toured Japan, Asia, Europe and Scandinavia with the James Taylor Quartet...

I was 15 in 1980. It was the decade in which I really got properly seriously into music (having been hooked by 2-Tone in '79), discovered girls in a meaningful fashion , picked up a bass for the first time, did my A levels, got a job and a car and a band, and then a really good band and a Wal, built a following and spent every weekend playing in London at the Brentford Red Lion (RIP), 100 Club, T&C, Rock Garden... loving life and loving music and the whole thrill of being young with the world as my oyster. GOD, I F**KING LOVED THE EIGHTIES.