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If I'm gigging in London then I do whatever I can to avoid the house rig but as said above, parking and loading can be a nightmare. We played in shoreditch a while back and the bouncer had a go at the drummer for parking outside the venue in the other side of the road! No need! I don't fully understand why it is recommended drummers use their own breakables by sound engineers but bassists have to use the provided rig because of time constraints. Again, we played a festival and looked at the provided gk rig, thought I don't even know how to turn that on. I told the stroppy stage hand I'd use my own, she went off in a huff. In the time the drummer had swopped pedals I'd set up my rig onstage and plugged in the di. Quick line check I get a resounding thumbs up from the engineer and we're good to go. It does seem like we get short changed as a breed.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1434637637' post='2801426'] I used to go to music festivals when I was single. [/quote] +1!

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As Bill says above, your ears adjust at high volume, to protect themselves, called temporary threshold shift. Which means you're too loud. No one wants to admit it, but if people are having to shout in each other's ears to place an order at the bar or decide to go for a fag then you've become too loud.

No need for a spreadsheet, one bass since 2000, G&L ASAT.

You should practice without the drummer as a matter of course. Everybody in the band should be able to keep time, moreover be able to groove and get the song going without one. No machines, no shortcuts. Makes a huge difference to how tight your band is.

Some fruit and veg?

15/15 for me, although I should have seeing as I teach music.... I'll admit to having a head start on the intervals between clefs too as the music department I went to used a similar exercise to work out the code for the keypad to enter!

Performers will get ppl if they've signed up for it. Can't remember what ppl stands for. I'm owed about £5 for a small thing that got used on television but there was a £80 admin fee for signing up. Doh!

As an aside, I've got an old takamine semi acoustic at work. Really useful if I get chance to play it!

These aren't my favourites but the most significant. O Fortuna, Carmina Burana. Much over played now but when I was a 5/6 year old in the early 80s my mum put it on and I simply found it terrifying- an early realisation of the power of music. Hey Jude/ The Beatles. I was about 10 and had left a Beatles tape running whilst I had a bath. I walked back into my bedroom as this song started, and it just went straight to my heart. Plant/ Page- Misty Mountain Hop at Knebworth 90. Never heard Led Zep, 13 years old in a crowd of 125000 people, that happened. Still coming down! Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana. Again much over played but at the time it was first rock song that felt like it totally belonged to me and my friends. Resulted in an ill advised undercut hair do. Massive Attack- Safe From Harm. After years of an almost allergic reaction to synths and drum machines a record that swept all that to one side by being human, funky and electronic.

A +1 for billie Jean, it totally depends with us on the singers getting it right. Personally, a band I dep for does Pretty Woman and the bridge always does my nut. It's not hard but I just always have a total mental block.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4ICwJF5EM Try this guy, lovely player.

You can get great opportunities by making no fuss (if your clients understand you won't be part of any drama), being 100% reliable and by always saying yes.

The wife and I went to see seasick Steve at the Apollo in Hammersmith. He does his fair share of story telling between songs and got annoyed with a small group of people talking whilst he was. He went "you must have f***ing interesting jobs to pay for an evening out and still talk about them." They jeered back at him, so he reached down behind his monitor and produced a baseball bat, then tried to climb into the audience. Much to the respect of the rest of the venue!

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1432377739' post='2780957'] Our guitarist uses a very old Traynor 2x12 80w valve combo. I'm led to believe that they are a copy essentially of the Fender. Is that correct? [/quote] Old traynors are great! Our guitarist has a 410 that's essentially a bassman, very close sounding to the original. He's bit of a fender nut and has a 58 bassman that is crap with bass. The poodles plums if you plug a strat in though. Then there's the early 70s bassman 410 combo that's great for rehearsals guitar or bass, bet it would record brilliantly too.

Bet it was great, would have loved to be there.

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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1431367860' post='2770597'] I know a great drum tutor in New Malden. Do they really have to be a she? [/quote] Ditto- a friend of mine and world class drummer is in Kingston, just a bloke.... (Throughly top bloke too)

Ellie Goulding/ Florence and the Machine The guy shouting in the video above isn't being anything less than sincere although judging by the party being replicated in the film I wouldn't want to be his neighbour. Ol' Flo and Ellie though are insincere and are trying to pass off lack of talent as a singing style- and that rubs me up the wrong way.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1430928876' post='2766079'] Thread titles like this one are another good excuse to play this track - with the ricketiest, rickiety, Rick sound you ever heard [media]http://youtu.be/RzZNaSik4Ic[/media] [/quote] Sounds like his amp decided to turn it down for him! Bands do play too loud though in my view. If you are watching punters at the back of the room having to shout in each other's ears then you're just entertaining your own ego not your audience.