Big_Stu

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1434484138' post='2800115'] I'm sorry in advance if I'm going to offend some of you..... This is a classic Rolling Stones rock'n'roll song and it is part of music history as the subject matter is part of our worlds history. Like it or lump it, do not allow the PC brigade to rewrite history. My opinion is - play it - if people listen to the lyrics they may understand a bit of that history which shouldn't be buried under the dross of todays pop music. [/quote]

Saw them about 8 years ago at the punk Rebellion festival in Blackpool. Excellent gig - though I'm not sure whether it's sales pitch or not, but tour blurb is that they keep playing even though they hate each other.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1433263032' post='2789549'] I played in a covers band once in which the singer would often change the lyrics in songs to 'soundalikes' that gave the song a completely different meaning. On the downside, people at our regular gigs started to expect it and we would sometimes get a bit of flak for playing songs as per the original lyrics. [/quote] Excellent when done well, such as Lionel Ritchie's "Hello" - "are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone feeling you?" Even during the last Royal Wedding I couldn't believe how many radio and club DJs, bands etc hadn't actually listened to the actual lyrics of Billy Idol's "White Wedding". How do I know? The wife of a mate of mine, after 20 years, STILL isn't speaking to me.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1433185018' post='2788711'] This all sounds a little familiar. My day job is working on a travel website and we allow people to contact the owners of properties directly. There are a lot of scams going around at the moment that start off with a request (in our case to book a place for a large group for 2 weeks) that seems almost legit, but smacks of the odd nuances such as using "vacation" when they're trying to be English. I've been looking into these scams a fair bit and I noticed that some of them will look up the name of a real person - in one case a uni lecturer - and reference the name and job post to make it sound like a real person. So it was the reference to the real number for the real bass player that got me thinking. They're all quite convincing sometimes although they start off less er, "spiritual" than this one! I reckon there's an organised group doing the rounds of all sorts of scams. They've changed their tactics a few times once we worked out what they were up to. I'd dare say they're not restricting themselves to the travel industry. Did they include any links in their email to you? [i]One of the tactics is for them to email the owner of a property with a link to some details. This link actually goes to a page that matches the login page for their email account with a message saying that you've been logged out. So you then of course proceed to log in and you give them your email account details. Then, they'll set up a redirection rule to catch any emails about bookings and forward them to their own email address and deleting the original. This does two things. 1: gives them access to all enquiries so they can get potential guests to transfer deposits to them and 2: doesn't alert the owner of the property as the owner can still log into their email ok.[/i] So, thinking about this a bit more, that bizarre opening email is likely to make you click on a link and that made me think of that most recent scam. If you did click on a link and saw a logout page for your email, then check your email filters and change your password. [/quote] I've read about this (italicised) in a few consumer advice pages. It sounds like a very real possibility in this case.

[quote name='bluesparky' timestamp='1432931522' post='2786434'] Ok, that's enough for me. I'll use this personal advice as evidence to the wife that they need to stay indoors! [/quote] Put them in the back of your largest cupboard, put a white sheet over them and then pile any shoes or handbags that you can find on top of it. Worked for me.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1433072338' post='2787486']Alan Price was clever enough to know this and had his name put on the credit, which meant he got the royalties, even though it was Hilton Valentine who found the number and arranged it for the band.[/quote] It was still a major bone of contention within the band many years later - and came up for heated "discussion" (in the Geordie style) many times.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1432658857' post='2783690'] ..............he said he was still working because he had to, not because he wanted to. Blue [/quote] ^this - 11 children by several different partners etc all with lawyers, all with $ in their minds-eye.

How very dare you!

[quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1430998376' post='2766681'] Re. Sweet. Didn't they do a B-side called Burning? That was a lot heavier than their singles. [/quote] Heavily influenced by Immigrant Song, but "Burning" was my first hearing of the "real" Sweet. If you look for the live version on YT you'll hear why Sweet were banned from many venues after just one appearance.

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]

Summer of '73, my first concert was seeing this mob & I wanted one. Took me 6 six years to get one but it was my first bass.

9000 watts of backline, a custom bass with high output pickups and an onboard overdrive just in case. Well it was the 1980s - and their last ever UK gig - not that they knew at the time. @2:50 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJePz9A958"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJePz9A958 [/url]

[quote name='Fisheth' timestamp='1430138561' post='2758266']He's got a habit of coming a long to everyone to support his top son[/quote] I used to do that for my lad's band, until after one gig I went into the "dressing room" to find his band with a case of Bud and more than one girl each. Daddy wasn't needed no more.

Ask what's so special about a hat for it to cost £11k.

A friend of mine in NYC occasionally sends me aerosols of Gibson wax polish, vastly different and far superior to the lemon based pump they sell here. AFAIK you still can't get the aerosol here. Two cans lasts me years - and the smell reminds me of my first Gibson bass when I was 18.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1428042202' post='2737285'] Interesting point about Jagger's tax arrangements; happy to reside abroad for tax breaks but happy to take your ticket money when he's here. But they're all the same, I shouldn't single him out. [/quote] I should stress that was only the story I was told when I called the ticket office when the gig was was postponed. Whether it was actually true or not I couldn't say. I know Keef still has Redlands but splits his time all over the world in various gaffs, whether that's for tax reasons

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1428005850' post='2737054']Was the [i]"No Security"[/i] show in 2005? Because I think saw The Stone in Milwaukee that year and I think it was the same tour. Blue [/quote] No Blue, it was 1999. IIRC the story was that if they'd finished the "Bridges To Babylon" tour as planned, they'd have been in the UK long enough to pay tax & Mick didn't want that. That was the story I was told when the gig was postponed, but the tickets were still valid for the new gig a few months - and a new tax year later.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1427927056' post='2736079']Outside of Paul McCartney, I can think of any other existing British bands with the magnitude of their body of work or legacy, IMO. And now that I think about it, Paul is not a band. Blue [/quote] I've seen them only once on the "No Security" tour at Edinburgh's Murrayfield stadium, the rehashed tail end of the "Bridges" tour. Tickets were £65 & I went at 9:00 am to get a good spot, there was only one other guy waiting at that time . I would have loved to have seen them on one of the smaller gigs they recorded for "Stripped" Hours later the gates opened and we ran to the very front. Minutes after starting Mick Jagger ran along the front row doing hand shakes/slaps, while Keef prowled the stage about 10ft in front of me, grinning like an ape the whole time, so so cool. One of the best gigs I ever saw.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1427812195' post='2734526'] I have a mate who was a navigator in a USAF helicopter for years. He was telling me that his hearing damage manifests itself as; not being able to separate sound sources as in, being on the phone when somebody in the room talks to you and the whole thing turns into an unintelligible mush. The damage was done by long term exposure to low frequency noise and it described precisely what I suffer from. [/quote] A guy I got talking to - turned out he was lip-reading the whole time - was the gun aligner on the Lightning jets. No wussy pansy ear-protection in his day!

Oh yes, I started it at 17 by plugging headphones into the back of my Marshall while forgetting to turn it down first. I was young & thick and knew no better. Then 36 Slade concerts and over a dozen Motorhead did the rest, followed by sticking my ear next to a Hiwatt cab when I thought a driver had died then some wag hammered an open A through it. Every time I've flown though, after my ears "pop", my tinnitus disappears for a few hours, so I'm convinced there is a cure - eventually.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1427711635' post='2733222']I have been asked by BGM editor and fellow BCer Joel McIver to write a monthly column about the most interesting goings-on in Basschat-land.[/quote] Is this the same Joel McIver who approaching his third anniversary on BC is averaging less than a post a month? The majority of which I would imagine revolve around BGM rather than contributions to discussions? While I fully appreciate any attempt at upping the BC profile & improving post content quality it doesn't sound like Joel is one who leads from the front. Sounds more to me like an easy way to fill a gap with very little effort on his part, in a magazine that has been hammered on here, with talk of multiple cancellations of late.

[quote name='geoham' timestamp='1427640104' post='2732558'] We're not exactly the youngest band. I'd probably have been a million times keener if I was ten or fifteen years younger minus the wife, kids and job! I'm 33 and the band range from 28 to 44.[/quote] [quote name='mike257' timestamp='1427642358' post='2732598']The other thing to consider, unpleasant as it may be, is even if they are there, are they going to consider a group of thirty/forty somethings with careers, families and mortgages to pay a viable business investment in terms of breaking you as a new band. From what I see (I'm a sound engineer and occasional tour manager in the "day job ") everyone is looking for bands that are already doing it on their own steam to invest in. If you're not already up and down the country pulling good crowds into 200 cap venues across their the UK, and your personal circumstances mean you can't really go out and may the groundwork to do that, is it worth investing (probably, after all your expenses) the best part of four or five hundred quid on the off chance that a gig in a little run down Camden venue will be the catalyst you need? Apologies if that's a bit presumptuous as I don't know your band and circumstances, but that's pretty much the reality of it at this level of gigging. [/quote] This - you have to be brutally honest with yourselves and ask, "Even if ITB did turn up on the night, what audience would they pitch your band at, once the polishing was done? Who would your target mainstream/profitable audience be?" Then bear in mind the logisitics for family and life etc due to your location. Maybe hire a decent van and do it for kicks if you want to, but go in with your eyes open & you may just enjoy it. Many, many years ago I used to call ITB on occasion to get tour dates for a couple of bands in advance. They were always very helpful, friendly & chatty. If they're the same now I would imagine they'd answer directly a lot of the questions you have.

See if you have a good woodyard or joiners near you that has some wood veneer offcuts. Though I had a Tele once that had been shimmed with the strip off sandpaper off a matchbox.

Ask who it is from ITB that's going & whether you can make direct contact with promo stuff beforehand. Sounds more like one step removed from pay-to-play.

Is 13th Note still going? Or is it under a new name now? Many years ago I had a few drinks in the Cat Hoose when Motorhead were in, after they'd last played the Barrowlands.