Recent content by dead_presidents

Thanks everybody for taking the time to reply, we have just got the poster back from the graphic designer. I like the bank robber idea, and if it's not too expensive I'm going to look into the the beer mats. Erotically yours Matt

You can always do both, covers pay for my originals

MMMMM they are very very lucrative, but at what cost, you are drinking from the poisoned chalice. A Tribute band is like a wedding band there are usually time constraints involved, you've gotta form, and learn a song and get a gig, and you will play for little money. Over time a year or two...

Hey everyone, I play in a Belfast based funk-rock band called the Dead Presidents. As a band we are in the process of organising our own night on the 29th of next month in a club in the centre of town. We picked this date because it falls on the week that everybody goes back to university, and...

We're not reinventing the wheel, we play funky soulful rock music, but as a band we do it well, we're the sum of our equal parts. I think our songs are good and really that's all that should matter. Link Removed

This is the genre I feel most comfortable in and to me the Groove is where it's at when it comes to funk rock. Your bass lines can be very busy, or they can be simple undulating affairs, the most important thing is that it's in the groove. This means that you and the drummer have to form a...

Must be an Irish thing haha

thanks for taking the time to reply. Funky, soulful stuff I suppose would be my preferred genre, but that's the thing say I was playing in a country style, or a slow drippy ballad, I would filter it through that . Maybe the question is I'm finding it hard to increase my tonal palette. Here's...

Hey everyone, basically i've been playing for about five years, and in any band I have been in I have always sang, in this respect my bass playing has been an after thought. In the same token, I love playing bass (it has got so bad that I feel naked without it when I'm just singing), and I would...

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've had a stroke of luck, the drummer in my band is the on call drummer for the ulster youth jazz orchestra, and ulster youth classical, basically he has made a few enquiries and i'm eligible to apply for a bass free of charge, I just have to show me love...

Hey everybody, I was wondering if you could help shed some light on a few things for me? I've been playing the electric for going on five years, and after recently getting into jazz, I think taking on the upright is the next logical step. Even if I don't set the world ablaze, it will give me...

Tough one, I prefer the Dubby stuff, but i'd say the hardcore show would be more intense, more memorable.

Hi i'm Matt, i'm 21 and from Belfast. I have been playing the bass for a few years and at the moment I divide my time between my own original band Link Removed as well as two cover bands. I've found my playing has plateaued and I am looking to expand my bass vocabulary. Also one last...