Monk Rocker

Any ideas on what you are looking for as a trade?

Brother Lucifer is the only logical/insane(delete as applicable) choice:up:

About time too I say! I've long been of the belief that tab on the net is directly responsible for the declining standard of musicianship that we are seeing these days. People only build up a narrow repertoire of coarse approximations to songs by their favorite groups:up:

points off for living in inverness though

Yeah, it's a pity as if I was still in Aberdeen I would have offered my services:down:

top of the shortlist!

CV includes Gotham City Night Life, Headbiter, General Zod, Coriolis, Subsistence, Electric Tibet, Art Fuck, Spinal Pap and The Leonard Jones Potential. I came to a RATAMS practise onceo_O

I also played in a band with Dave Nicholson and Mike Hyland before our drummer fucked off and Men Lie turned indie and stole Dave.

What more could you want?

So do I get the job then?

Please accept this as way of application for the position of bass player:

1. Bassist must be willing to travel for gigs where at all possible.

I could play via video conferencing facilities?

2. Bassist must be prepared to take to the stage frequently with no rehersal or soundcheck - i.e. the ability to teach yourself the songs would be useful here.

Teach myself the songs? Is that because you lot don't know them.

3. Bassist must be unafraid of rock music, with an appreciation of metal, stoner, grunge, etc.

Rock music is afraid of me.

4. Bassist must NOT play funk bass. We spent years trying to ditch a funk bassist, we're not going back there in a hurry.

If Subsisty can put up with it, then so can you. I almost managed to get a jazz-funk slap bass line into Kitty Lover.

5. Bassist must be aware that 'stage antics' could involve stuff being thrown at him, beer being sprayed in his general direction, his (or her) being pushed over the lip of the stage, and/or a right good piley-on style kicking at the end of the set.

Being hit with a bass will hurt more than being pushed off stage.

6. Bassist must sing backing vocals, probably.

Not a good idea.

7. Bassist must be 18 or over.

Comfortably.

8. Bassist must NOT be shite.

9. Bassist must be willing to rehearse in random locations (aberdeen/dundee/edinburgh) when at all possible. Rehersals will occur only once or twice a year (see point 2)

If I'd be expected to risk myself going to Dundee, then I'd be expecting the rest of the band to travel to Inverness to practise (even though there are no rehersal venues in Inverness, and you's are not playing in my garage(even though I don't have a garage))

11. bassist should preferably have car.

I have three.

12. bassist should preferably have a bass guitar, and maybe even a bass amp.

I have several of each.

13. bassist should be able to play the bass.

I am actually a failed guitar player, but how easy can it be to play one note at a time.

we were thinking of posting up a 'bassist application form' .........

Aye, go on. That would be a laugh:up:

Thanks for that:up:

Sounds like your set up is a wee bit bigger than I'd thought. The main problems that the band have are that the double bass, drums, keys and guitar just can't be heard over the 20 odd horns, and the wee vocal PA that they use just sounds rubbish. I'd thought of a 16 channel mixer, two power amps, two subs, two full range speakers and I'd priced up a Peavey set up at around 3000 including all the cables etc. I hadn't considered eq or effects. I'd thought about a couple of active monitors as the wee desk had a monitor feed. Obviously that price didn't include cases which I strongly recommended they buy too.

I believe that they are appying for a grant from the Scottish Arts Council to help fund the system and the band are chipping in a fair bit themselves, so they'd really like something semi-decent that one of them can set it up, bearing in mind the average age of the band is about 80!!!

I can guarentee you're not as shite as me!

what like is Stonehaven? Never played it - usually just play Hazelhead or the courses back home (Buckpool / Strathlene).

Tiger Woods on the Playstation is great but it's nothign like the real thing.

Stonehaven is a good course. One of the "must play" courses in Scotland - sloping fairways, gully holes, and a some great cliff top views:up:

Need to price up a PA for the rhythm section of a 25 piece swing band - ie drums, double bass(amp has balanced out), guitar, keyboard and vocals. Was thinking of a passive mixer and stereo biamped set up? Ideally would like the ability to upgrade to be able to mic the horns.

What all will be needed. Mostly play in village/church hall size venues, but do the odd outdoors performance.....

Why don't more bands have names that sound hard like Guitar Wolf? Sounds well harder than Necrophasic Arachnoplasty:up:

Although it looks pretty cool, I can't see the point in LEDs where you have them. You're not going to get the full effect from them when you are playing. LED fret markers are a different matter now, but cost big bucks....

He has become famous through the media's interest in his antics. I can't imagine that if he were a clean living chap then any of his musical ventures would have been at all successful.

He's robbed his best mate's house on, IIRC, more than one occaision, and that stunt with the blood was just plain disgusting.

I too have both Libertines albums and the Babyshambles album, and as much as I try to like them, I can find no redeeming fearures about them.

Not everybody likes Trace Elliot stuff. Personally, I love it. I can't seem to get on Warwick amps......

Happened to my mother just off the coast of Largs while she was in a rowing boato_O

Les paul standards' date=' Go for it, beautiful guitars. I have a few of them and some customs and a premium classic plus and an SG

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I hate you Kenny.

This is simply the funniest programme ever made!! How many times did they excecute Chapman Baxter?!!

Best sketch - Bomb dogs:up:

Aye, but you still didn't answer the question. What point are you trying to make?

And the point of this thread is?

Run a small drill down the hole to smoth it out' date=' find a piece of scrap wood (hardwood is best) and cut a bit off, whittle this down to a size that will snugly fit the hole, smere generously with good wood glue, insert in hole and leave to set. Saw off flush with guitar body (be careful) drill small guide hole in middle of new wood then re-fix strap button....easy.

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The man speaks the truth. Dropped guitars can cost alot more than a new jack and lead. The Thunderbird is pretty heavy, and would imagine it'll fall straight on the headstock:down:

*enables musical obsessive mode*

One of the first recorded incidences of the use of the word "punk" in popular music was in The Mothers Of Invention song "Flower Punk"' date=' which appears on their 1968 album "We're Only In It For The Money". A pastiche of "Hey Joe", the lyrics featured lines such as

"Hey, punk, where you going with those flowers in your hand, I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band". It also features a faux-stoned monologue by Zappa at the end;

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*Engages pedant mode*

Aye, but the use of the word punk can be used interchangabley with dude, ie Flower dude, "hey, dude, where you going with those flower in your hand". However "I wish I was a dude rocker, with flowers in my hair" makes no sense whatsoever8)

She's like a cross between Corrine Bailey Ray and Katie Melua. And that is not a good thing. And when have punk rockers worn fucking flowers in their hair?

Doesn't even appear to have a camera.

How much for the 4x10 on it's own?