Just Been Insulted (I Think)...!

[JTUK]

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No website or anything?
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yep.. all that.

I just don't feel the need to promote it here.... which is why I don't bother with anything at all in my signature.
If I do invites here, it will be local 'friends' via PM but to my knowledge no one here has been to any of the shows, so
it doesn't seem worth doing anymore than that on here.. ( The nearest is a members drummer who came last week to a rehearsal gig for new drummer , ha ha !! )
Altho we are out every week until mid-sep, IIRC, there are only a few open dates and only 2 that I'd push.
I haven't got the stage time for the Hop festival main stage yet..but I am assuming we will get one as we have been on it for the last 3 years.
Those two days would be worth checking out as there must be about 70 band slots all over the town over 2 days and if the weather is good you'll get
20,000 through the town, they say.

[iconic]

Hop festival wouldnt be the hop farm at paddock wood? Ahh memories

[JTUK]

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Hop festival wouldnt be the hop farm at paddock wood? Ahh memories
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No, not sure what happened to that..they might have had difficulties...??
This Hop festival is in Faversham and it is to celebrate the gathering in of
the hops as the town is a major Brewery town for the south.

As these town fests go, it is massive but altho people will come from all over and even internationally,
it isn't recognised locally much... but then it can't get much bigger,...???? the pubs are rammed and the brewery can't produce
much more beer, it doesn't need any more promo.
Heard one or two pubs took £25000 plus per day so it was like 3 xmases at once for them..

[fyeahkieran]

As Stanley Clarke once said, "Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it."

[TimR]

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The "Theory and Technique" forum can be scrapped so....
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That's exactly what I was thinking.

Like any players you can get good bass players and bad bass players. I've played with guitarists who don't know what a G# is and would argue there was no such thing.

There are also lots of (bass?) players who've spent years copying records and playing by ear who don't even know the names of the notes.

It's a kind of back handed compliment.

I had the same open mouthed response from my band when I told them that one chord should be a sus4 chord. The two guitarists had to get their chord books out. Then there were the discussions I got into when I wanted to play a G on a Em chord that they were insisting was a major and why was I trying to play a G, I should be playing E!

I blame it on the previous bass players he's played with...

[Prime_BASS]

Guitarist in my band continuosly seme jokes I should play guitar instead of bass, my reply is always something like "just because I can play both doesnt mean you can play bass as well as you pay guitar, and you're sh*t at that.'


Spent an hour arguing with a singer who doesnt play an instrument about how I was still in key when I played a G in an Em chord(same as above) no matter how much I explained and showed him how it was right, he always came back and said a G is not an Em.
It ended with me shouting the guy saying 'I don't tell you how to sing so don't tell me how to play bass.'

[BassTractor]

But he's right - a G is not an Em! You should just have played that demm Em tone he wanted.

But seriously: did he state what he thought was correct, and why? I mean: surely he didn't believe only roots are correct?


best,
bert

[Chris2112]

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PS I didn't get either job.
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Never show up the Prima Donnas if you want the job!