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CH quiz question........ What is Bapu hiding under his shirt?

If the letters used in the title of the video were to be re-arranged and also have some added and some removed they could form a sentence that might cause offence to people who can't read if someone were to read it to them. For this reason alone this thread should be deleted.

Love the Louis Armstrong quote I guess we better let the OP have his thread back now or it might get deleted for being OT.

We had a couple of places likes that, but others wanted everything out before you left as they had other stuff going on the next day. For the out of town stuff it didn't really make any sense to have to go all the way back over there again the next day.

Very true. Good times for sure although I didn't always enjoy the having to take all the gear back to the farm-based rehearsal room afterwards. Bit of a comedown - one minute you're getting free drinks for being in the band, two hours later you're a nobody carting PA speakers in the dark trying not to stand in cow pats.😀

Absolutely. Makes me feel like I was ahead of my time......😀

We actually had one song that we often had to play twice because one guy who came to all local gigs always demanded an encore. For "artistic" reasons we deemed it a set opener, but after we were done he wasn't gonna go home until he had heard it again. We changed it up a bit for the reprise version. Nobody seemed to mind.

No, not at all, but many would throw a cover version (usually with a twist) into a set somewhere just for fun. Sometimes it was a useful tool to get the atmosphere going a bit if it was too quiet.

Or will we see the emergence of guitar playing dogs?

The thing that killed the live thing for the pub band scene where I lived was the change in the alcohol licensing laws that for whatever reason restricted live entertainment in pubs to duos/maybe a trio at best. The four/five man band was no longer welcome. Inevitably this mostly resulted in a singer and someone with a keyboard essentially doing karaoke being the only thing on offer. One band trimmed down to a three specifically for this reason with the bass player taking over vocals. Let's just say that there was probably a good reason why he took up playing bass. Prior to this, despite being something of a rural backwater there was a very lively local scene, born mostly out of boredom really, but enough happening to mean that every week there would be 2/3 bands to see somewhere within walking distance. In honesty, some were not up to much, but the general feeling was that we'd rather watch someone at least having a go than a sterile rendition of a "classic" from the keyboard duo. Some were so bad that they were almost good and who couldn't enjoy seeing the quiet little guy who by day worked the counter at the post office transformed into a shirtless frenzy as he banged a tin tray on his head in time to a Ramones style cover of The Wild Rover ? A few of us found a way around the new rules when someone discovered a clause in the licensing laws that allowed a bar to be set up and operated in village halls as long as the event was in aid of charity, so we started with our own version of Live aid. The local pub was happy to provide the bar facility (why wouldn't they be? ) and the charity angle was covered by donating the money raised by the nominal door charge. Not a fantastic amount by any means, a few hundred, but it was never really about charity. Other events followed, but eventually, a local busybody objected to the amount of money the pub was clearly making out of a "charity" event and that was that. The hall was always "fully booked" when further requests were made.

Pfft. Amateur hour....... You haven't even got any made-up perma-warnings yet! 😁

I understand why they did that, but yeah, given the very low forum traffic I think it probably fragmented the conversation too much.

Probably not. Whatever you want to call those who aspire to be pro, it's never really been that viable an option for most of them anyway.

But whatever you do, don't ask craigb..........😀 As for the question.......Has it ever really been a viable option for most "wannabes" ? Social distancing doesn't help, but it's not the reason why most won't ever make a decent living from just making music.

How ironic - a song about polarisation that only some people are permitted to listen to !

Only on Tuesdays apparently.

Try taking the banana out of the other ear.😀

Not a Belieber then?

A great shame that they didn't recognise this and then went on to make the same mistake all over again. Not sure what those other guys are laughing at. I think they must be somehow misreading what I said in a way that makes it funny to their twisted minds. 😉

Thank you for sharing the contents of your folder. Not everyone would have done that.

Quite a lot if someone puts them in charge.😀

I wonder if this is one of the pies that craigb can remember ? He remembers a lot of pies.

As I said, it might be something that I do without realising. I watched X1/X2 from the sidelines only as it didn't seem to be going well. Bought back in at X3 mainly because of Melodyne ARA integration which justified the offered upgrade price all by itself.

There is definitely room for improvement with the logic surrounding which track is in focus. One of my pet hates is that if I select to unfreeze a synth by pressing the freeze/unfreeze button, once it has done it' s thing it will revert to whatever the last track I had selected as the "focused" one and show me that. If I've unfrozen a track there's a fairly good chance that it's because I want to work on it, so the focus should automatically become that one. I can't think of a reason why I would unfreeze a track and then want to immediately go back to the previous track.