Recent content by brucebass300

OP: i listened to your links. Given the talk of busking and the lack of self-confidence in your first posts, i was half expecting your music not to be good. On the contrary, it was GREAT. Not really traditional "bass guitar" at all, more of a hyper Stu Hamm/Marcus Miller type thing. For...

Otis: amazing studio set up you have there ... and its not getting much use?!? Perhaps i should move to Indianapolis!

Bigsack your situation sounds kind of similar to my last original band. In that group we had a VERY talented singer and a guitarist with lots of original ideas (plus myself on bass and a really solid and reliable drummer). It was definitely the most enjoyable and musically satisfying band i...

To the OP: it sounds inevitable that your current band will be out of action for a good long while once they have their baby ... especially since both parents are in the band and you can't really work without both of them. If everyone is amenable, try to hook up a gig or 2 in the next few...

My recent experience has been that, when somebody is not happy/committed in a band, once the decision to quit has been made then relations tend to improve - probably because the pressure is off. "Last gigs" with a departing person mostly turn out well for this reason. Though, perhaps i've just...

Love your description! At that kind of volume level, either you'll have to wear some very attenuating ear-plugs, or your ears will be self-compressing ... either way it will sound like toneless mud. How hard does the drummer play when on his own (check him out when warming up etc?) Is he...

Hi Dray, first time i've posted at this site in ages. I read "the tour from hell part 1" some time ago and it was an amazing (and disconcerting) story ;) Reminds me of a situation quite some years ago when i was studying Engineering - we had a lecturer for a "heat and mass transfer" subject...