SICbass Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 A buddy of mine experienced almost the exact opposite many years ago. It must have been in the late 70s or early 80s. He was playing with his band in a bar when, in between songs, a guy walks up to the bandstand and says, “OK guys here’s your money. At the end of this set you can pack up and go home I’ve just bought the place”. The new owner didn’t want to have live music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 44 minutes ago, Bluewine said: Interesting stories about owners that have questionable policies regarding pay. We are usually paid our fee prior to playing. Here we are always paid after for a pub gig, or before for a party or wedding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 10 minutes ago, SICbass said: A buddy of mine experienced almost the exact opposite many years ago. It must have been in the late 70s or early 80s. He was playing with his band in a bar when, in between songs, a guy walks up to the bandstand and says, “OK guys here’s your money. At the end of this set you can pack up and go home I’ve just bought the place”. The new owner didn’t want to have live music. My opinion, don't be blind sided by ownership changes. Some time it can't be helped. It's always a good idea to keep a good relationship with the owner. In most cases we've been given advance notice on ownership changes. Some time it helps and some time it doesn't matter. Choosing to abandon live music is not uncommon. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 3 minutes ago, Bluewine said: My opinion, don't be blind sided by ownership changes. Some time it can't be helped. It's always a good idea to keep a good relationship with the owner. In most cases we've been given advance notice on ownership changes. Some time it helps and some time it doesn't matter. Choosing to abandon live music is not uncommon. Blue One of our gigs last weekend was at a pub whose landlord, Phil, used to own a different pub. We used to play regularly for Phil at his previous pub but the new owners cancelled all the bookings when they took over. At last Saturdays gig two minibuses turned up full of locals from Phil's previous pub who'd come especially to see us, a thirty mile round trip. Money in Phil's till and two fingers up to the new landlord at his previous pub. We were delighted to see them 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBike Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 On 16/07/2018 at 13:05, Muzz said: There's a wedding venue up in t'th'hills round these parts that we're not going back to: it's a big wooden barn conversion with gaps in the walls you can see through, and 'actively negative' neighbours on the volume front* - none of them are particularly close, but it's quiet up there and I guess the sound carries. Anyway, they have the most aggressive sound limiter I've ever encountered - our dep drummer at the time set her kit up, hit her snare once, not too hard, and off it went. We found it actually onstage. She then tried a rimshot...ping, off it went again. I walked up to it and clapped my hands...it went off. So we moved the kit to the far side of the makeshift stage, and started off at suuuuper low volume. There's nothing more depressing than being able to hear everyone's feet shuffling on the dancefloor, and people coughing, over the music. Still wasn't enough for the woman running the show - she was constantly on our case. The couple who'd booked us were desperately disappointed; ultimately, it's not a venue that can cope with amplified music, and really shouldn't have been advertised (or sold) as such. To add insult to injury, it was early in the year, and the wind was blowing through the walls (see 'gaps you could see through', above) - there were four of those big tube heat blowers going full blast, but it was still freezing anywhere not in a direct line with them. All in all, a nightmare of a venue... * Can't really blame them, as they've been there long before the owners decided to make it a music venue. Did a wedding reception yesterday. On Friday the guitarist sent a link to the venue, a barn in the hills, hmmmm methinks. Drummer and guitarist get there before me and the singer and send a message that there's a sound limiter that triggered at the slightest sound. On arrival I can see daylight shining through holes in the walls! To cut a long story short we just turned everything down as much as we could and blagged a table cloth that we stuffed inside the bass drum which did the trick. I sincerely hope that we never have to play there again. At least it was a nice warm day for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 15 hours ago, SICbass said: A buddy of mine experienced almost the exact opposite many years ago. It must have been in the late 70s or early 80s. He was playing with his band in a bar when, in between songs, a guy walks up to the bandstand and says, “OK guys here’s your money. At the end of this set you can pack up and go home I’ve just bought the place”. The new owner didn’t want to have live music. That happened to a band I was in a while back, new owner, no promotion for the gig, halfway through the set offered us a £100 to stop and go home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 hour ago, Lozz196 said: That happened to a band I was in a while back, new owner, no promotion for the gig, halfway through the set offered us a £100 to stop and go home. I have heard about this happening to some friends of mine without any sudden change of owner! I happened to end up talking to a guy who'd organised an event, and told me he'd booked a band for it, but they were so awful that he'd decided to pay them off after their first set and mumble some excuse about messed-up scheduling so as not to hurt their feelings. As if I hadn't been cringing hard enough as he told me this tale, he then told me the name of the band - I decided to bite my tongue and not mention that they were friends of mine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 the drummer in one of my bands does not venues that are 'too far away'. He's done that stinky poo before and can do without the hassle now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 cor, that filter's good innit? I used numbers for letters and it still kicked in! 😮 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 55 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: cor, that filter's good innit? I used numbers for letters and it still kicked in! 😮 No stinky poo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 10 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said: No stinky poo! none at all! 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Evolution, innit..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 We bought the profanity filter from Cyberdyne Systems Inc, apparently it's very smart and learns as it goes along. We are told that there's only a very small chance of it becoming self-aware and stsrting a nuclear war against mankind. So that's ok. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 9 hours ago, MacDaddy said: cor, that filter's good innit? I used numbers for letters and it still kicked in! 😮 Numbers for letters is easy. That's why pa55w0rd is not a safe password. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz666 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 On 20/07/2018 at 21:24, MacDaddy said: We call them 'paid rehearsals' Posh Practise we call it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 9 hours ago, josie said: Numbers for letters is easy. That's why pa55w0rd is not a safe password. what about p455w0rd? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 2 hours ago, MacDaddy said: what about p455w0rd? I thought the password was 'Valid'. Is that not so..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Dad3353 said: I thought the password was 'Valid'. Is that not so..? No the password is 'not recognised' 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The59Sound Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Harry's Bar in Hinckley was pretty bad. Typical 'let's fleece all the bands and put them in a tiny corner' pub. A bloke came in and started dancing with a chair on his head was the highlight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just found this photo of the St Moritz on an old phone back up. It was about this full when we played there as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 3 hours ago, NancyJohnson said: Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just found this photo of the St Moritz on an old phone back up. It was about this full when we played there as well. Sad Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 7 minutes ago, Bluewine said: Sad Blue Blue, it's a toilet. Our singer thought it would look good on our CV as the place had history. Wrong. We played to three or four people; it's a dank basement, the place reeked of cheese (there's a cheese restaurant upstairs), old beer, old sweat and old smoke. It's the type of place you'd never know was there unless you needed to go there. I've actually walked past the place dozens of times in the past and didn't know about it. P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said: Blue, it's a toilet. Our singer thought it would look good on our CV as the place had history. Wrong. We played to three or four people; it's a dank basement, the place reeked of cheese (there's a cheese restaurant upstairs), old beer, old sweat and old smoke. It's the type of place you'd never know was there unless you needed to go there. I've actually walked past the place dozens of times in the past and didn't know about it. P A lot of our local toilets have closed and for good reason. Unfortunately many of the decent places that provided live local bands have also closed. Not many of the local bands can draw crowds that can make the nights economics. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 London in the 70s used to boast a number of this type of 'venue' - usually small basement areas with no fire escapes, no ventilation & occasionally, no toilets. Unsafe doesn't even begin to describe this sort of opportunist carp............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The59Sound Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 6 hours ago, NancyJohnson said: Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just found this photo of the St Moritz on an old phone back up. It was about this full when we played there as well. Our rehearsal space is nicer than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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