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Hi there and welcome from another Devonian.

Yes, I wonder what else is in Peter Duncan's personal album?

£250 is the usual payment for pub cover bands down our way in South Devon.

We played at the Apple and Parrot in Torquay last night. Its been quite a few years since we were there. Now they have a house PA and always give bands a great sound. Its run by the bar manager who is an old friend of our eldest son, and they are in a band together. We played well and had a great crowd who enjoyed it as much as we did. Lots of compliments about our sound and songs. The on stage sound was a bit odd. My bass sound didn't carry that well due to the stage configuration but with the amp cranked up and plenty of bass in the monitors it was ok. There was an added bonus as bands are entitled to free entry to the strip club upstairs! I had to pass as i didn't have my wallet on me, only had a fiver in my pocket and payment was by bank transfer, so no gig earnings to blow!

Waster of the Universe - Hawkwind. Probably more apt!

Correct. We were offered a similar 'repair but luckily found someone to fix the circuit board.

Good detective work.

Yeah, looks like a US model alright. Worth a load more if genuine. Someone will get a bargain at £200!

We were lucky after our EV ZLX15P blew up. We found a guy who repaired the board for £60! A new amp module was just over £300.

As we are a 4 piece of vocals, guitar, bass and drums we only need vocals (including my backing) and guitar in the monitors so it's kept and easy to adjust for each venue.

This happens with a lot of songs to me. One on particular is Walking on Sunshine (yes really). Early 90's I living in Hong Kong and one if the band's I was in was playing an outdoor gig for a few hundred people. When we played the song the seemed whole crowd got into it and were literally bouncing about dancing to it and singing along. It was quite a spectacle from our viewpoint.

Last night we were back at the coach house in Paignton. Last time out 1 of our powered PA speakers packed up and we used the old house old Vox PA one side. We used the same this time as we haven't sorted out a fix or replacement for our amp module. All was well until 2/3rds through the first set when there was a burning smell followed by smoke coming out of the Vox head! It was turned off and I swiftly placed our drummers monitor on top of the speakers and that got us through and sounded ok. I had to replace my monitor so our drummer could hear it too and turned it up a bit.

Hi There Rosie. Welcome to BC. Nice Intro.

Where he teaches you stage moves, assisted by @Bluewine

My 2 band Ray doesn't.

On my Stingray 2 band eq I max the bass and have about 80% treble. Then adjust input and amp eq to suit. Seems to work for me.

Back at one of our regular pub gigs in Brixham. A bit quieter than usual as it wasn't advertised, but with some of our regulars and the rest it was ok crowd wise. Got complimented on my playing by some old boy who chatted to myself and our drummer when packing up. A big surprise was getting asked out by a lovely lady, a friend of one of our regulars, who I was chatting to in the break. She was a bit embarrassed she hadn't seen my wedding ring! Still, it's good to know I've still got it, although it wasn't my bass playing that got her attention.

Plus a slap bass solo in Never gonna give you up, so 80's.

Elton kicking off in style with a great band. First Stingray I've seen, and he's wearing a hat too.

Back to the coach house in Paignton, our favourite venue. The power cut when were setting up. It transpired that one of our powered PA speakers internal fuse blew. We tried a spare and that blew too. Luckily the pub has its own old Vox PA in the corner. We rigged it up as a stack to one side and connected it to one of our desk outputs. A bit of tweeking and we got a good sound. We had to cut a couple of songs from the first set and played well. Next problem us getting it fixed as it's a class D powered. On the way out there was an incident just up the road from the pub with the police and ambulance in attendance. When I got home the air ambulances flew over and apparently flew the person to Plymouth.

Not sure what this is supposed to be about? This is where the link takes me.

Most of these can go in the basses on settle thread!