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He hadn't got the hair for it. Guitar and bass straight through the top at the end of the songs..

I've just watched it with the sound off and hummed a random melody and spat some random lyrics. Certainly puts a different slant on it.

beyer DT770s!

I remember all this from my maths lessons when I was a kid. Not that I've ever really had a real world application in which to make use of what I'd learned. I've never been a gambler - my only flutter being on the lottery. But I don't think anybody plays that based on odds...

Paintbrush!

We get dredged down, but we get up again, no dredge is gonna keep us down...

Where is Dianne Abbot when you need her?

Just to clear things up... On a coin toss, the odds of an outcome are 1/1 The probability is 1/2. ...right?

Because depending upon the gig, it could be the difference between ruining a wedding night entertainment... or not. All depends upon the gig of course.

Nope.

Gosh, times were a lot simpler when 50 quid would buy you a second hand Argos Encore bass from the local newspaper classifieds.

This one seems a little (oo-er) because it's a lottery as opposed to a "prize draw" with an element of skill involved. These things tend to come accompanied with a question to answer so there's an element of "skill" involved in the process. There's quite a notable youtube raffling off a Golf R at the moment in such a manner. (https://planetofdreams.co.uk/product/the-youtube-famous-560bhp-golf-r/) There was a similar business idea presented to Dragon's Den and they laboured the point about being a prize draw with an element of skill to remain on the proper side of the law... Anyway, I did a little googling and this turned up - Legal problems Raffles risk being shut down if they breach the Gambling Act 2005. Only charities and not-for-profits are legally allowed to sell prize tickets where the result is based on chance. To avoid being classified as an illegal lottery, a prize competition must involve an element of skill. So a raffle must ask entrants a quiz question that is tricky enough that a significant proportion will get it wrong and won’t be eligible for the prize draw. The Gambling Commission has clamped down on raffles, taking action against 42 competitions in 2017 and 2018. PayPal and Eventbrite have stopped their services being used for house raffles, making it difficult to set up a secure payment method. Another obstacle is HMRC, which may regard the proceeds from raffle ticket sales as income subject to income tax and capital gains tax. (from https://www.moneywise.co.uk/property/buy-sell/moneywise-investigation-are-dream-home-raffles-turning-nightmare) Can't see Marcus keeping this one up for long...

Man alive. My vocalists don't even have mics, let alone a mic stand (with or without clip).

It's like 90s grunge all over again though.

Remember, if you're miming, mic up your nose.

So what's been determined then? Legal... or illegal?

Difficult question to answer... as I guess you only get caught out when you get caught out by something you haven't thought of. My PA has a certain amount of redundancy built in. One side of the PA (top and sub) is enough to support the band. I have a monitoring and foh mixing desk... so could afford to lose one. Both have routers attached to them although I only use one at a time... so I have redundancy there. I also have a hard wired kit for connecting to the mixing desk... so have a fall back plan if there venue is not wifi friendly. I have two iPads. I have more XLRs than I need. I have jack to jack leads. Spare batteries. Spare headphone amps. I have spare mics. I have spare mic stands. I have spare mic clips. I have spare power cons, I have spare IEC.... err... I have spare multigang plugs. I have spare DIs. I carry around a soldering iron and solder. I think I have everything that would ensure that the show would always go on. So what last caught me out? The big to little adapter for the IEM monitor for the drummer went missing on the gig before. Did I have a spare? Of course not. But then again, I'm thinking for the whole band when really the drummer should be thinking about their own setup and have such things spare.

BBNE2 - just because it's an awesome bass. There's nothing really Nathan embedded on it - apart from the 12 fret inlay. Which isn't cheesy, so I guess it passes ok.

Mine looked a bit like this -

There’s less cable length to pick up EM interference. (If you are looking at a bug system, we are probably talking a few cm at most)

I love the amount of monitor wedges they have... you know, just so they can hear themselves well enough to perform well.

Oh, that's sh1tty news. Get back to DR and say that the UK distributor aren't responding. I'm sure a message from DR would shake the distributor up a bit, afterall, nobody wants to use strings where the distributor is flakey.

Oh. Woojers are tough too. Backbeat has functional tough look though I guess... but both are up to the rigours of gigging, no problem.

I wear it under clothes so you can’t see it anyway.

Great mate of mine and listens to a lot of what I have to say - if you notice he has a tiny kit, including 16 inch bass drum. Small kits are great to mic up and process at the desk. Quieter, less ring, less flab and less problematic overtones and drones - and super tight sounding - let the PA do the work as I say. The drummer loves the sound of his kit through the PA rig - and despite the kits size, it sounds huge. You don't need a massive kit to sound massive, you just need a bit of PA know-how.