Leaving a band

[Bluewine]

11 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm assuming its not continuous playing for 4 hrs and you take regular breaks for tea and scones kind of thing 

We take 2 ten minute breaks. 

Blue

[Bluewine]

10 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

While we're talking about them, how do Americans eat their scones?  Does the cream go on first or the jam jelly?

Although this is a link from 2014, the debate goes much further back than that.

I'm not sure, me I haven't had a scone in years.

Blue

[Al Krow]

21 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

We take 2 ten minute breaks. 

Blue

That's pretty full on for a FOUR hour set - particularly if it's just one vocalist!

[dmccombe7]

33 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

We take 2 ten minute breaks. 

Blue

I'm impressed Blue. That's hard going in my book.

 

[Bluewine]

58 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

That's pretty full on for a FOUR hour set - particularly if it's just one vocalist!

Our BL shares vocals with our other guitarist.

Blue

[dmccombe7]

14 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Our BL shares vocals with our other guitarist.

Blue

Is that Dwayne Johnson playing bass there 

Whats BL ?

Edited March 23, 2018 by dmccombe7

[Dad3353]

BL = Band Leader

[Al Krow]

49 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Our BL shares vocals with our other guitarist.

Blue

You can't leave us hanging like that! Go on post a clip of you guys playing  

[Woodinblack]

13 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Are there any guys in UK doing long extended gigs. I'm kinda curious now to be honest.

 

Its pretty rare that we do a set that is noticeably less than 3 hours

[musicbassman]

I played on the USAF bases in Spain in the late '70s

We did 6 nights a week, 6 x 45 minute sets per night.

Jeez, that was hard, not just for the band but for the equipment too.

......and as for the poor vocalist.....................

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, Al Krow said:

You can't leave us hanging like that! Go on post a clip of you guys playing  

We're not good at video clips. We really don't have a good ones. Hopefully we'll have something professional done.

Blue

[SpondonBassed]

9 hours ago, musicbassman said:

I played on the USAF bases in Spain in the late '70s

We did 6 nights a week, 6 x 45 minute sets per night.

Jeez, that was hard, not just for the band but for the equipment too.

......and as for the poor vocalist.....................

Four and a half hours?

You are a machine.  Heeheehee

[SpondonBassed]

7 hours ago, Bluewine said:

We're not good at video clips. We really don't have a good ones. Hopefully we'll have something professional done.

Blue

Can't you post that festival clip off of YT?  We're all used to amateur movies here.

It wasn't great on quality but I enjoyed it anyway.  It's a pity that I didn't keep the link.

I hope you do get some of your set recorded for promos.  If only for posterity, it's worth it.

[dmccombe7]

11 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Its pretty rare that we do a set that is noticeably less than 3 hours

What kind of gig is it. ? 

[dmccombe7]

12 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

BL = Band Leader

DOH sorry must have been a senior moment there 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, SpondonBassed said:

Four and a half hours?

You are a machine.  Heeheehee

Robobass 

[Al Krow]

40 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

DOH sorry must have been a senior moment there 

At a push BL could be bloody long (set)...

but actually BL = British Leyland - anyone over 50 remember them?

Now that would be a truly senior moment.

 

[SpondonBassed]

23 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

At a push BL could be bloody long (set)...

but actually BL = British Leyland - anyone over 50 remember them?

Now that would be a truly senior moment.

 

Yes.

I remember them for crappy TV adverts mainly.

(My one and only senior moment has not actually ended yet.)

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

What kind of gig is it. ? 

Pubs. The drummer is convinced all bands need to do 3 hours because <big local band> do.

 

[SpondonBassed]

6 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Pubs. The drummer is convinced all bands need to do 3 hours because <big local band> do.

 

Does it pay?

[Al Krow]

2 x 1 hour sets are very much the norm for my two crews in the Big Smoke both for pubs and functions. Sometimes 2 x 45 mins. Very occasionally up to 2 1/2 hours.

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, SpondonBassed said:

Does it pay?

We get £50 more than in my last group that barely scraped 2 hours, so as there are 4 of us in this and 3 of us in the last band, I guess not!

[SpondonBassed]

3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

We get £50 more than in my last group that barely scraped 2 hours, so as there are 4 of us in this and 3 of us in the last band, I guess not!

What about unseen benefits like more bookings than for the shorter gigs?

[Woodinblack]

58 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

What about unseen benefits like more bookings than for the shorter gigs?

I think there were those benifits, in that there are a couple of places that call us first when there is a cancelation (which always surprised me as we are not that good), but as the rest of the group (who are all younger than me) are now into that baby thing, it is a bit cancelled out.

Edited March 24, 2018 by Woodinblack

[SpondonBassed]

35 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

I think there were those benifits, in that there are a couple of places that call us first when there is a calculation (which always surprised me as we are not that good), but as the rest of the group (who are all younger than me) are now into that baby thing, it is a bit cancelled out.

That is worth remembering.  Thank you.