Lights were on

[bass_ferret]

Anyone see McFly tonight on the dance show. Nice LED job on the bass boys Ray but mysteriously no lights at all on the Ashdown stack behing him

[ped]

Probably blew up

[Buzz]

Tis an Ashdown, probably broken

[elom]

My 7 year old is heavily into McFly at the moment so I am not unfamiliar with their stuff. Am I the only one who thinks that sound more than a little like the Bay City Rollers? (who were popular with 7 year olds 30 years ago)

[Mike]

Ha had LEDs on his bass? What was he playing?

[Mickeyboro]

A Stingray, isn't it?

Guy Pratt in his book admits to having been their studio bassist...

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='83830' date='Nov 5 2007, 07:47 AM']A Stingray, isn't it?

Guy Pratt in his book admits to having been their studio bassist...[/quote]


Nice choice of words... [i]Admits[/i]...

[Paul Cooke]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='83830' date='Nov 5 2007, 07:47 AM']A Stingray, isn't it?

Guy Pratt in his book admits to having been their studio bassist...[/quote]

so who plays bass when they're on the road then? is there someone behind the stage playing or is it a tape?

Funny how the lights weren't on on the amp...

have you noticed how many of these "acts" state on the tickets (and other promotional material for the "shows") "performing their hits" or similar wording... never "playing their hits"... wonder why?

I hate miming...

[SJA]

I saw on Ashdown's site an endorsee James Bailes credited with bass for Busted.
apparently someone also played live behind the stage while Matt Willis mimed badly out front.

[Merton]

Yep, my mate's band supported Busted once and saw exactly that happening.

As for McFly, I'm embarrassed to admit to auditioning for them. Well, it was an open audition with no band name mentioned so I popped along, thought "ug, pretty boys" and played [i]terribly[/i] for 30 seconds (some people got less than that!). Needless to say 6 months later I spat out my coffee when I saw them on TotP for the first time. Close shave.

[SMART]

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='83729' date='Nov 4 2007, 10:36 PM']Anyone see McFly tonight on the dance show. Nice LED job on the bass boys Ray but mysteriously no lights at all on the Ashdown stack behing him [/quote]


Probably SimS again!!

Ciao

Ian

[EBS_freak]

I would have thought that "Guy Pratt in his book omits to having been their studio bassist..." would have been a better move...

[metalmaniac]

They played at my Uni, i dont think theyll be coming back.

[theosd]

[quote name='metalmaniac' post='90887' date='Nov 19 2007, 03:28 PM']They played at my Uni, i dont think theyll be coming back.[/quote]

No, you must mean 'performed'

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='SJA' post='83882' date='Nov 5 2007, 10:51 AM']apparently someone also played live behind the stage while Matt Willis mimed badly out front.[/quote]
So is there a whole band playing behind the stage cloth? I'm intrigued now.

[cheddatom]

What's the point? You think they'd just do a backing track.

[theosd]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='90912' date='Nov 19 2007, 04:06 PM']What's the point? You think they'd just do a backing track.[/quote]

Well i spose they must wanna make it seem live... but not even having your amp turned on is a wee bit of a giveaway

[MB1]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='90900' date='Nov 19 2007, 03:54 PM']So is there a whole band playing behind the stage cloth? I'm intrigued now.[/quote]

MB1.

The Band behind the stage cloth are all over 22 years of age, and are visually unpleasant on the eye ,and somewhat frightening to prepubescent young ladies!...............a bit like Mick Hucknall I think!

[MB1]

[quote name='bass_ferret' date='Nov 4 2007, 10:36 PM' post='83729']
Anyone see McFly tonight on the dance show. Nice LED job on the bass boys Ray but mysteriously no lights at all on the Ashdown stack behing him

MB1.

Youre not supposed to notice this! Your supposed to be so visually blown away by the pretty lights on the stingray that you dont notice the bassist isnt actually plugged in or indeed playing anything on it!.This however does not work with musicians,bassists or anyone over the age of sixteen!.

MARTIN SIM....Go and stand in the corner,facing the wall, and no dinner for you laddie!.

[Mobius]

To be fair, it could be that the stage amp was for show and the real amp was behind the curtains so the tech could adjust it.

Not that I like McFly anyway...

[NJW]

Im sorry to spoil the fun...

I worked on crew for a McFly concert and there were no additional musicians... and they were quite good! They had a lot of dummy amps though, but they do play live (perhaps not on telly though!).

[bremen]

[quote name='BeLow' post='91996' date='Nov 21 2007, 09:14 AM']Was just thinking they could have it all coming back through the monitors, then sticking amps on stage so it didn't look like they were miming.

Perhaps they ought to power up the amps next time though![/quote]

Or at least load up a few washing machines...

[SJA]

[quote name='NJW' post='91956' date='Nov 21 2007, 04:22 AM']Im sorry to spoil the fun...

I worked on crew for a McFly concert and there were no additional musicians... and they were quite good! They had a lot of dummy amps though, but they do play live (perhaps not on telly though!).[/quote]


it did surprise me to hear suggestions that McFly might be miming, as the bassist looks like he's playing the right notes-
however, the guy in Busted made it look like he had some very strange tuning on his bass....

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='NJW' post='91956' date='Nov 21 2007, 04:22 AM']Im sorry to spoil the fun... I worked on crew for a McFly concert and there were no additional musicians... and they were quite good! They had a lot of dummy amps though, but they do play live (perhaps not on telly though!).[/quote]
Spoilsport! I had visions of some old duffers knocking out the tunes from a pit under the stage.

[paul, the]

I blame capitalism as ever.

They do it because that's what makes money. It makes money because that's what the audience want to see (believe). Who controls what we want want to see/believe...?

Communism. It's the only way.