Jackroadkill

Cool t-shirt, and the secenery's above average, too!

I love that song but I don't think I'd play it at a gig, probably for the reason given by @Bassfinger. I find it hard to separate what I love from what an audience - mostly of non-musos - are going to enjoy, but it has to be done to some degree. It's a shame your singer was so insistent.

Before I came to my senses and moved to four strings I was a Telecaster man.

This is the lesser spotted Jackroadkill in his natural habitat.

Yeah, I didn't get into this to play things I don't like. I don't like golf, so I don't play that, either.

A bit late to the party here, because the gig was on Tuesday, but hey.... We played a tiny little pub in Shrewsbury called The Yorkshire House. The other band brought the PA; well, sone powered speakers and a desk, but no monitoring. They also brought instruments and drum breakables but nowt else, so we lent them our amps (the smallest ones we own, to save space), mics, mic stands etc and were good to go. It was very hot and sweaty, the sound was crap and we had to do the best we could to hear what was going on, but other than that it was great! We went down really well, received lots of compliments from the surprisingly large crowd, and have the landlady wants us back later in the year. What topped it off for me was some friends coming down from Manchester to see us play and really enjoying themselves. Obligatory glory shot: My gear was my usual three basses (2x Player P and nasty Squier plywood J-type), pedals and the big Eden was substituted for my Ampeg PF500. Cheers, JRK

Wow, that's a superb set - I'd love to see you play it one day.

We don't do much at all in the way of standards. We could, and we'd get more gigs, but there are countless other bands out there who can take care of that. We always get complimented on our song choice, but behind the scenes a lot of hard work and argument goes into choosing what we're going to play, because you have to give the audience something, even if the venue/promoter knows that they're booking a band who isn't going to play Hi Ho Silver Lining, Dakota and Proud Mary (nothing wrong with the bands who do, by the way - it's just not our thing). So, what to do? We tend to do songs that were big one hit wonders, songs by big artists that weren't their biggest hits, alternative versions (or covers of covers), or songs that people might not expect us to play. One recent set went as followed: 1. I Fought the Law 2. Everything About You 3. Whiskey in the Jar 4. Breaking the Law 5. No-one Knows 6. Die, Die My Darling 7. Kick Out The Jams (Monster Magnet's version) 8. Fight For Your Right 9. Crazy Horses (Blackstar Riders version) 10. Immigrant Song 11. Word Up (Gun's version) 12. Pet Semetary 13. Electric Worry 14. Inside 15. Holiday in Cambodia 16. We Will Rock You (the 1977? "fast" version) 17. Fortunate Son (Clutch's version) 18. For Whom the Bell Tolls 19. Los Angeles is Burning 20. Rocking In the Free World Much argument, reasoning and blackmail goes into choosing the songs and each member has a veto; this can be infuriating, but it tends to mean that the songs that make it to the set work, and punters often say it's refreshing to hear some different songs from a band. Admittedly, we do get that pissed guy shouting for Wonderwall, and requests from groups of post-bingo hen partiers for Mustang Sally, but we knew that would be the case. If choosing covers to play was easy.... Well, let's just say the short version is that it's not!

Ours is something like 1x2.5m. Big enough but not too big.

Judging by the state of some of the punters at tonight's gig they'd still remember two weeks later.

Kirsty wrote a song about him, didn't she?

That's a real shame; those gigs are the hardest to stomach.

Rocking In the Free World (sorry!) The Dave Jackson Five Dukefest Fender Player P

Same here, although the waters can muddy when instruments are mic'd, I suppose. My band is currently debating whether or not to invest in a PA, and after that there will come the who-pays-for-what discussion.

How about when you get back you call the other guys and see if they fancy forming a band with you? All you'd need was to find a lead guitarist who can play your set.

I'd go with the consensus here. If it were me I'd agree a price for your slice of the gear with the rest of the band and then give them a reasonable time to pay it. Other than that, I'd just try and let it all go as smoothly as possible. Years ago I quit a band, offered to play the two gigs we had booked and was told that if I was out, I was out. This was fair enough, so I took my gear (which included instruments and amps used by other members of the band) and left without any hard feelings.

@StingRayBoy42 It sounds like you and I played the same gig!

Song: Holiday in Cambodia (by the Dead Kennedys) Band: The Dave Jackson Five Venue: Newtown football club Bass: Fender Player P

Ie, mae'n wych!

AI is about to break; Chat GPT is teaching itself to speak Welsh!

When I'm not teaching, I work on a farm doing menial jobs. They pay's not great but it keeps me in spending money. If an item will cost me X hours of sh*t shovelling I ask myself am I prepared to put those hours in. If it's a yes, then I buy the item; if not, I don't. Should a BC seller say that offers are welcome then I might make one, but other than that I wouldn't. I've never sold anything on BC but if I were to, I'd state a firm price.

Two for us yesterday. The first was at a beer festival in a local town at 3.45pm, and the venue was the engine shed of a narrow gauge railway. It was approx 6m wide, 7.5m high, 100m long and had a shiny concrete floor. The entirety of the structure was steel. Can anyone see where I'm going with this?! We were about 25m from the back wall, so when the drummer hit a skin you heard it immediately, then again as it came off the back wall and then again what seemed like minutes later as it made its' way back from the far end. We knew the acoustics would be shocking, but what didn't help was that the guys running the PA had the volume set way beyond 'stun' (possibly into 'bludgeon'), so when in full flow none of us could hear much at all. I, for example, could only hear my bass, which for some reason was pumping deafeningly out of the singer's monitor but not mine, and the snare drum. Unfortunately this didn't make for a particularly enjoyable gig; we hung on rather than ripped the venue a new one, if you catch my drift. Mistakes were many and varied, and one member's temper frayed afterwards. However, we went down well and the punters enjoyed us, and we got paid in actual money rather than exposure. The band that were on after us annoyed me a bit as they started bringing their gear on before we'd cleared the stage, which is an absolute no-no in my book. Anyway, here's evidence that we were there, even if I couldn't have stated with any great honesty if we sounded very good: So, after my head had stopped reverberating (think Steve Earle's spoken word bit at the beginning of Snake Oil), it was on to the next one, a private party at the studio we rehearse at (this being also on the farm that I work on when not teaching). Two sets, the first one a bit more staid and the second one much more punchy. We debuted our version of Crazy Horses to general approval, brought the roof down with For Whom The Bell Tolls and finished with an extended Rocking In The Free World. We all played better as we could hear what we were doing, and mistakes were few and far between. Far more enjoyable all round. No money, but we were fed well and it was for friends, so no worries. In the interests of fairness I should say that our rhythm guitarist (stage right) doesn't normally look like Josef Goebbels, it's just an unfortunate picture. At both gigs my gear was my usual; two Precision Basses and a nasty plywood Squier Jazz Bass into the Strobostomp, then the Cali76, Ampeg Scrambler, Bass Clone, Digbeth pre-amp and then into my amp, which was the Eden WTX500 and Eden 2x15. We're next playing on this coming Saturday night, at Bryn Goebbels's birthday party. Cheers, JRK

How about the great Carter USM? For me it's the latter version that's best, but I do like both.

100%. TM nails it on that version.