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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1492534716' post='3281040'] I ain't hiding by Black Crowes: http://youtu.be/3IqllAhBKdM [/quote] I love that band and always forget about that record, thanks for posting.

Went in there for the first time last week- totally agree with the too cool for school analogy and I didn't try a single thing, couldn't get out there fast enough. Bought a bass off Drew at the Manchester Bass lounge a month ago, struggled to put the phone down even after he had my money.

It's a real tough one if you're getting paid. If the client has splashed out £600 for a gig say, they won't see it as the guitarist started Uptown Funk in C# minor, 'I'll dock him a tenner', the client thinks 'This band cost me months of saving for this party and they sound shi*' And the guitarist can't go 'I'm only getting £75 for this, I've been here all day and my kit cost thousands' the client's forked out £600 and wants value, and quite rightly.

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1492010746' post='3277179'] Has anybody put an Audi badge on their Skoda? [/quote] Nope but they've put M badges on their old 318 or Porsche wheels on their vintage bug. The car market is even more guilty of this than the music instrument industry!

Not a difficult gig. All he's got to do is make it sound like typewriters being molested by Optimus Prime.

You can't go far wrong with these- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harmonized-Chorales-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/0793525748 https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL749DDF4746E2FE81&v=wGWdCzh2Oxc These chorales more or less (in a very broad sense) laid down the rules for modern harmony. Astonishing to think he'd improvise this stuff, like a lot of his fugues, sit through the service, go home and write them out. Like Elgar and Mozart I believe there's no evidence of mistakes in his original scores. Even if you only get one or two things from these, which are astonishingly beautiful in their simplicity, it's worth it. I still use the contramotion idea working with original artists, that is, the melody goes up, bass goes down and vice versa. Stupidly effective for such a simple idea.

Kudos for the post.

First ever gig I did we packed the place out. Turns out the drummer was selling herbage without our knowledge.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1491334537' post='3272253'] How do you know from looking at a couple of pictures which bits are the same and which are different? [/quote] Just the impression I got from reading the blurb.

That's a crazy price, especially when the value of the ag500s has plummeted. It's pretty much the same front end I believe and what's 200 watts between friends? Now if they reissued the db680 I'd feel more lenient.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1491029830' post='3269908'] G&L are now producing an amazing array of basses. The only gap I can see is the 5 string SB/P bass ASAT's , L series, M series, The MJ's, JB's, LB, Kiliton and SB's Loks like they have most "basses" covered http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/USA/basses/index.asp [/quote] I normally open that page in private view mode.

Scott's video had me running to my new P making sure everything would meet his requirements!

[quote name='Tee' timestamp='1490892710' post='3268903'] It's a shame they can't make the L1000 again, with the pickup in the correct position. [/quote] Excuse my ignorance, why not?

It's one of life's greatest pleasures, meeting a muso at a band call, probably not even being introduced, conductor starts, bang, there's a piece of music you know is going to be played to x amount of people that evening/ next day. Reading does that for you and I for one love it.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490821357' post='3268394'] £1500!!! No thanks, I'll wait for the Tribute model. [/quote] Fit and finish on an American job is quite remarkable, loads of options on necks and colours and they feel worth totally worth it. However, I have heard that G&L are moving their American distribution at the moment, so getting one may be an issue.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1490688998' post='3266975'] I have found, over the years, that we always start at a decent enough volume, but as the night goes on, I feel as if I'm listening to a wall of noise. The desire to turn up to be heard is almost unbearable. I have asked the others have they turned up and they are adamant that they haven't. I've since found out that our ears, when faced with prolonged loud noise, will try to protect themselves by blocking out certain frequencies. This makes for a weird sensation of mud in your hearing, which is hard to play through. I have concluded that A, we are too loud to start with and 2 , monitors are a must! [/quote] This is called temporary threshold shift.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1490634113' post='3266658'] Celebration - Kool & The Gang. I could play the G in the verses forever. [/quote] Depends if the rest of the band are playing it in the original key I suppose!

Superstition Psycho Killer

My wife comes to about 50% of my gigs, as she's one of the singers. She comes to some other gigs, but is normally devastatingly accurate in her assessment so I don't mind too much if she doesn't!

Thread hijack- and really dumb question, could somebody post an image of the ti flats packaging please! I'm after some for my p but am not convinced my searching via google is pointing me in the right direction- having proper brain fade! Thank you!

We've worked hard on being a good wedding band and do the outfits, first dance, disco, lights etc etc. Not at the any song out of a hat stage yet, but we're working on it. Where we are though, if you go over a grand people want the earth. Also having 8 people in the band seems to go over punters heads, they struggle to understand why that would be more expensive.

One of the things that gets me when these greats go is it isn't the degree of complexity that they produce it's how eloquent they are. Who comes up with 'It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well'? What an insight in one line. The other is just how fertile their influence is, when they inspire other people. Prince/ Bowie/ Chuck can spawn whole sub genres where rafts of intelligent people create all sorts of incredible music, in chuck's case off pretty much one kind of song. I think it's that ability to have clarity, and be so articulate to say so much with so little, both musically and lyrically I admire the most.

Being able to have a band groove without a drummer/ percussionist is a mark of class, particularly for us bassists.