Recent content by jaywa

Livin on a Prayer - prolly gonna lose whatever street cred I have for saying this, but back in my cover band days I really enjoyed playing that song. When you're locking that line in with a solid drummer and the dance floor is packed, it's good times. As a whole I never struggled with it, BUT...

If I lost arguably the best hard rock rhythm guitarist who has ever strapped one on as my bandmate (Malcolm) and then had to deal with Axl on tour, I'd call it a day too. On a side note, it astounds me that they are pulling $250 a ticket. I remember seeing them on the For Those About to Rock...

I had a 404 (I think) for awhile as my backup bass. The extra inch of scale is nice if you play in drop D as I was at the time. Definitely could tell the difference feel wise between that and my Precision but was not unmanageable at all, and I have pretty short fingers. If the sweepable...

You do know that you'll be expected to help move that beast, right? I would say run away but it sounds like you're in so, good luck. Bring ear plugs always and a back brace to gigs.

By never playing I mean for other reasons than investment value. Please give your reasons why the appeal and again, investment value doesn't count. I am a lifelong P-Bass player but I would love to have a vintage Gibson Thunderbird and a 70s Rickenbacker 4001. I know they'd never get played...

To the OP: I can so relate. I was downsized out of my day job just a few months shy of 17 years in, and as a result I had to move 7 hours away for new employment, which meant giving up our family home and my spot in the 4 bands I was in at the time. Between settling into the new day job, dealing...

"Just in time" inventory management is all the rage. I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more, and not just with Sweetwater.

I have a rep of being a "nice guy" and it has never cost me a band gig but I'm sure it has held me back in my professional career and I've definitely missed out on quite a few hot women because of it. Taking a few classes in being an a-hole probably would have been advised at some point but I'm...

I have never totally lost interest in playing music but for whatever reason I listen to very little of it any more. Which I'm sure is to my detriment as a player but the stuff I've always liked is old by now and the new stuff coming out, with very very few exceptions, triggers responses...

I really like his line in Round and Round and I love his line on Lay It Down. Root notes only but that rhythm is just so unique it drives the whole song. I've always wondered if he came up with his own bass lines or was basically told what to play by Crosby and/or Beau Hill. Saw them back in...

My favorite scene of his in Blues Brothers is when he's doing the Holiday Inn gig with Murph and the Magitones.

Stewart Copeland is an amazingly creative drummer but a horrific timekeeper. Most of the rushing issues that the Police are notorious for live, I hang on him. At times it seems like he and Sting are in a race to see who gets to the end of the song first.

Hang em high.

+1 to all of this. I'm not anti-drums, I'm anti-bad sounding drums that swamp the entire mix in thud and low-midrange howl. In the self-mixed band I used to be in we would get drum kit levels, then bass level solo, then the drummer and I would run down an entire verse and chorus just as a duo...

Yup, band members changing their levels on stage and/or FOH tech mixing on the gains will pretty much negate any control one supposedly has over his/her self-controlled IEM mix.