Woodinblack Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 16 minutes ago, steantval said: Personally, I think bands practicing is a no no in the current situation. Yeh, we had a little issue with our band because of this. There are a lot of people that think that isolating doesn't apply to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 29 minutes ago, steantval said: Personally, I think bands practicing is a no no in the current situation. interesting, I was only thinking today that to break the boredom maybe I should suggest a practice, we have access to a large practice room where we can easily keep 2 metres apart, take our own mics, surely the risk is minimal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mep Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 It's not worth it. Just agree to all learn some new songs and practice later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 20 minutes ago, PaulWarning said: interesting, I was only thinking today that to break the boredom maybe I should suggest a practice, we have access to a large practice room where we can easily keep 2 metres apart, take our own mics, surely the risk is minimal? If you want to practice, hire a generator and do it in a field, standing 20 ft apart.. That should be safe enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steantval Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) There are four of us in our band, all have different professions and mix with lots of people through work on a daily basis. We have the luxury of our own very spacious rehearsal studio (no one else uses it), but there is still no way, even though we are all good mates, would we even consider rehearsing together. Edited March 22, 2020 by steantval 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) I wanted our group to send tracks out so we could work on them isolated. My wife is asthmatic - if there is a 1 in 100 chance of her dying if she gets it, and there is a 1 in 100 chance of catching at a practice and passing it on, then that is still massively way too high a risk for just a practice. Edited March 22, 2020 by Woodinblack 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 I didn't think that it would be considered a good idea, but to me practice isn't just about learning new songs, we do that before we get together, it's about playing in a band. I suppose it depends on attitude to risk, if everybody was sensible and used a bit of common sense there wouldn't be a problem, when you see the rugby scrums round the bog rolls in the supermarkets or the dog walkers huddle together chatting away on the park, or the people sitting the pub garden being handed pints out of the widow as takeaways I think that's the real problem not 4 guys standing in a big room well over 2 metres apart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) I agree - it is about playing in a band, and maybe even being mates. Make an assumption that you have it. Would you then be happy practicing with your mates even if they were 2 meters apart? Would you be happy if one of them got it afterwards, or one of their parents, and had a bad outcome, such as death or permanent injury, even if you couldn't know whether that was down to you or not? Would you be happy never knowing if it was your fault? I wouldn't, so I couldn't do it. I agree, part of the problem is people sitting in the park or scrums about bog rolls. The other part of the problem is people thinking that other people are part of the problem and they aren't. Edited March 22, 2020 by Woodinblack 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, PaulWarning said: interesting, I was only thinking today that to break the boredom maybe I should suggest a practice, we have access to a large practice room where we can easily keep 2 metres apart, take our own mics, surely the risk is minimal? What would happen if next week you come down with it, followed a week later by one of your band mates, who then gives it to an elderly relative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 End of the day, music for most on here is a hobby. Is it worth you or an at-risk relative dying because you wanted to do your hobby? Change direction, send each other tracks, work on them, jam by recording. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeystrange Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 8 hours ago, ambient said: What would happen if next week you come down with it, followed a week later by one of your band mates, who then gives it to an elderly relative? We rehearse at our drummer’s house. He lives with his mum, who is elderly. We won’t be rehearsing for a good while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 8 hours ago, Woodinblack said: I agree - it is about playing in a band, and maybe even being mates. Make an assumption that you have it. Would you then be happy practicing with your mates even if they were 2 meters apart? Would you be happy if one of them got it afterwards, or one of their parents, and had a bad outcome, such as death or permanent injury, even if you couldn't know whether that was down to you or not? Would you be happy never knowing if it was your fault? I wouldn't, so I couldn't do it. I agree, part of the problem is people sitting in the park or scrums about bog rolls. The other part of the problem is people thinking that other people are part of the problem and they aren't. I suppose it's down to an individual's attitude to risk, some are very risk averse, taken to extremes you'd never get in a car or on a plane, I'm a calculated risk sort of person, having said that with the talk this morning of a total lock down I'll abandon the idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c60 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Being a "calculated risk person" is fine if the risk is yours. If you get it wrong, it only affects you. If the risk is to others and you get it wrong that's a whole different ball game. We won't be rehearsing any time soon. We'll work on some new songs at home, then put the parts together when we can. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trueno Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Our drummer is over 70, therefore tecnically at risk. The guitarist's wife has MS (she's poddling on ok, but doesn't need the virus). I'm sort of at risk because I've had Crohn's disease for 50 years. It's a shame, but rehearsing ain't gonna happen. We're investigating rehearsing online via JamKazam, but I think the technological input is too much for our addled brains. I've urged everyone to practise, practise, practise... and to learn those really hard songs we've been avoiding up to now. I'm a cynical, curmudgeonly, old git and I resent this stuff... but I have a genetic predisposition to doing what I'm told. The quicker we stick to the rules, the quicker we will emerge out of the other side of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 9 hours ago, ambient said: End of the day, music for most on here is a hobby. Is it worth you or an at-risk relative dying because you wanted to do your hobby? Change direction, send each other tracks, work on them, jam by recording. Even though music is my living, my band has acknowledged early on in this pandemic that our gigs and rehearsals will not be happening for some time. Watching the news now with scenes of people over the weekend blatantly ignoring guidelines on dealing with the situation because they don’t care about others or think it doesn’t apply to them makes me both sad and angry. We have to accept that things will not be the same for a long time ( if ever ) and change our behaviour accordingly. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 53 minutes ago, casapete said: Even though music is my living, my band has acknowledged early on in this pandemic that our gigs and rehearsals will not be happening for some time. Watching the news now with scenes of people over the weekend blatantly ignoring guidelines on dealing with the situation because they don’t care about others or think it doesn’t apply to them makes me both sad and angry. We have to accept that things will not be the same for a long time ( if ever ) and change our behaviour accordingly. I think you’re right, it’s going to be a very long time. I can’t see travel restrictions being relaxed until well into the autumn. Social distancing they reckon could be for a year. If that’s how long it takes, then so be it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 In one of the bands I'm in the guitarists wife is due a baby in May, I'd be mortified if I thought I might be a silent carrier and pass it on. We've knocked all band activity on the head until further notice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt4ever Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Yep both my bands have been put on simmer til life returns to normal again, whatever normal is or will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Who else should have been gigging tonight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: Who else should have been gigging tonight? We should have been supporting Headsticks in Nottingham! Then we were meant to play Hereford next Thursday and the Dementia Aware benefit at the Dolls House on Easter Sunday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeystrange Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 47 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: Who else should have been gigging tonight? Yep. Should have been in Bilston with pink torpedo Sparrer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 hour ago, MacDaddy said: Who else should have been gigging tonight? Not tonight, would have had a private party tomorrow, that would have been pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.young Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 hour ago, joeystrange said: Yep. Should have been in Bilston with pink torpedo Sparrer. pink torpedo Sparrer? Oh good grief. Time to get rid of this fscking useless profanity filter once and for all. Next one in our diary is 10th April, looking pretty unlikely but who knows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 15 hours ago, MacDaddy said: Who else should have been gigging tonight? Yep, and tonight. We've not played for 3 weeks now, feels very strange when each cancelled booking passes. I think we're looking at the realistic prospect of not playing for at least 3 or 4 months... On the plus side there's been plenty of time to play my fingers raw to all the Dimitri From Paris mixes of Chic 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Dubs said: On the plus side there's been plenty of time to play my fingers raw to all the Dimitri From Paris mixes of Chic 😎 Bernard's line are great. Do you play them like him, finger style, but often using the finger like a pick? Could be wrong, I haven't watched any tuition bids, but that looks like what he's doing when playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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