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Just leave a key under the mat......lol All the best Dave hope all is well!

Just having a look at some of the artists he had played with....The Who,Toyah,Mick Jagger,Elton John,Randy Crawford,Robbie Williams and many more! Loved his bass line on Toyahs single I Want To Be Free and the cheesy Right Said Fred....I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt!

Just heard Phil Spalding passed away today...another sad loss.

Can you refer to anything as ''she'' now? It's a bit of a ''pc'' minefield......

Tonerider TRP 1 Precision plus! Just fitted a set to my Fender Vintera bass and it's brought it to life!! Cost me £42 off e bay!

Don't listen to Radio 2 during the day......You won't find anything decent at all!

Did that gig many times over the years and was offered gigs by the venue including last night! But our drummer refuses point blank to do it due to the load in and parking situation. I don't find it too bad and have alaways found a parking space. The trick is to get a barrow or borrow the pubs barrow!.You are lucky you were the only band on last night usually there is two and the changeover can be a bit of a pain! That's why my last band only played on the Sunday night!

Seen him in Glasgow tonight! The band blew the roof off the place! He was fantastic!

Going on Thursday night..

Yet another dealing with Will at Bass Bros. Recently purchased a Sandberg Electra bass from the website which I love!.Great service and pleasant transaction. So I decided to move on one of my Fender Precision guitars. Sent details to Will and he came back with a very fair offer. Money now in my account today! I must just say I had already spent it last week anyway! But again big shout out to Will and Bass Bros. Fantastic folk to deal with!

It's a bit of give and take.But it seems to be sticking a bit at the moment with the keys guy who is using excuses to avoid learning new stuff...

A dear Jake letter....best thing is to wait outside his house and ambush him! He might feel differently then! Then again.......

It's nice to know your input is valued in the band lol. I am well aware of my input as it got me fired from the last band. Who needs hearing anyway lol....

Played Fortunate Son in two bands. It went down a storm.Years back in the 90's I used to DJ. Playing in a pub one night I was playing some chart type rave/techno and a bit of Blur,Oasis,Ocean Colour Scene....Lad comes over and say's ''Mate have you got any decent tunes? Play something by the Monkees!''

In the past I would have been a bit miffed...well to be honest I am a bit. But trying to learn from past mistakes. I did play in a punk covers band for a couple of years and we all agreed the set was great as it was. No need to change and the songs great to play.Some bands feel that the punters notice if you play the same songs all the time but maybe that's why they like the band. I'm sure if they see other bands though they won't really notice new songs being added to our set list! It's really the band that sometimes get bored playing the same old stuff but as i said sometimes that's the way it is!

Not in the pubs we play in. Its mainly middle age folk that come to see the bands and none of the bands I have been in recently,classic rock,punk etc are playing anything current.Its things from 30 and 40 years ago! I suppose it's an age thing but I couldn't give a hoot about anything from the charts! But that said horses for courses! We are covering Genesis,ELO,Supertramp,The Killers,The Cult etc...pretty old hat! lol

Is it heavy? I have heard that these weigh a fair bit? Nice looking bass!

The band do around 30 to 40 gigs a year and have been going for about 7 years. I think we have a decent set of songs all known stuff but I believe it really centres around the keyboard player not having the confidence or skills for certain songs which is fine as none of us are tip top! I think we will be able to get a couple of new songs in the set at some point. It's not as much as I would like but I have learned to step back a bit from this kind of thing. Either that or find another band and at this stage of the game for me is not something I fancy! Yip...sometimes it just doesn't go 100% your way! Anyway,there is nothing stopping me getting in to a wee side project or at least pushing my playing in the house!!

I agree with playing the crowd pleasers stuff to a point. Everyone thinks that their band is the only ones doing certain songs. Been in a few bands and been told ''We do such and such a song.No one else covers it!'' When I mention I played the songs in the last two bands they just say ''Well I have never heard anybody else do it!'' Also get a lot of folk asking if we do AC/DC and I say no. Why not? Well I say did the band play AC/DC last week....and the week before that?

Been there...All the hard ones!

I agree. In our case or shall I say in my case being the last man in I picked songs that are similar to what we play now. One or two knocked back right away,which is only to be expected. It came down to myself and the other members having to explain to the keys guy that even with a great set that works we still need to bring in stuff to keep it fresh for us as well as the punters. I have had it in other bands...''Don't try and reinvent the wheel...we have managed up to know with the current set'' Also was in a band that learned new songs nearly every week and dropped them weeks later...Aye! It's hard!

Joined a covers band about 6 months ago and the usual run of learning the set,breaking and so on. Come the New Year we have spoken about bringing some new songs in to the set. The band have settled in to a set of songs going back about 5 years so it will be nice to have some new blood! Putting forward some songs and one by one getting them knocked back we have got it down to two. Fair enough not everyone has the same musical taste! After a few conversations on whatsapp and in person at last nights gig I put it that to make it fair we all get one song to try out at a practise to see what makes it to the set list. After knocking back most of the suggestions and failing to come up with any of his own,the keyboard player now thinks that we have a great set already and new songs have to be better than the ones we are taking out! Plus he is put off by listening to our suggestions as he feels he can't play all the parts thats on the recordings! I did try to say check out some live versions on you tube lol....Anyway I think we are making progress and I know that time,family work and all sorts get in the way of learning new tunes but can't help feeling he just can't be arsed learning anything new! Anyone had similar issues with band members just wanting to coast...

Is this some sort of a scam?...Why would you do this??