Recent content by Jazz Hands

Maybe it's just randomness but I figure I'd ask this question anyway. So I played out a week ago & the sound guy didn't get a signal from the XLR out on my Ampeg SVT Pro 3 head......so I used a DI. This week at practice I ran the head into our mixer - no problems! Then yesterday afternoon I...

Thursday night I played out & the sound guy wasn't getting any feed out of my XLR out on my amp head so I had to go through a DI. When I got home I ran an XLR out and it worked fine - so being paranoid I figured a good investment would be a new SansAmp Tech 21 DI. So tonight we play again & I...

So today I noticed the club this happened at has karaoke on Thursday nights..... to me that seems like it wouldn't be acceptable?

I'll admit I'm a noob to this aspect of the gigging. I went to ASCAP's website and get a little lost on what I need to register for. Can you provide some instruction on what type license I should get, links, etc etc. For 40 bucks it seems well worth it, plus I also play in a cover band which...

My original band that I'm gigging with has one cover song in our set as many original bands do. Friday night we had a gig at this great new venue in town and upon load in asked to sign a form stating we would not play any cover songs; then told they would pull the plug if we did. We politely...

I'm looking to get a new head & historically I've always been Ampeg on Ampeg, but I've been hearing a lot of people saying that GK on Ampeg is the way to go. GK gear seems to be a little lower priced so I always get a tad bit apprehensive buying cheaper. I can play both @ the store "but at...

I'm trying to find a tab for Queen's Radio Ga Ga. I can only find this one post (@ several sites), which is a good start, but not dead on. I'm on a bit of a time crunch so hashing out the entire song myself isn't ideal. http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/q/queen/radio_ga_ga-btab.shtml

Yeah I definitely think things ran smoother when we had our old lead singer who was the decision maker. The problem we have now is when we have that 3 vs. 2 vote on something & getting that minority to comply w/out a leader enforcing it. One of the guitarists I can tell is trying to step up as...

It sounds nice to run a band like a voting democracy but even in a democratic society there's a president w/ superior voting power. So I've noticed since replacing our lead singer (musically the best move) we've lost that executive decision maker in our old singer & we have a lot of 3:2 votes...

The crackhouse analogy is great, but if you got questions about crack where else ya going go?

So about 2yrs I've converted from being a guitarist to a bassist & loving it. I've worked out how I like my rig, basses, etc. but the 1 thing I'm a bit in the dark on still are pedals. Currently I'm not using any, nor do I really see a need (we play just standard rock mostly)....but @ the same...

This probably will come off as a basic question for some, but I have a Korg rackmount tuner & an Ampeg rackmount head, what's the proper chain of connections & inputs/outputs? Thanks in advance!

The band I play w/ likes to bounce around rough ideas for songs via email between practices & I was thinking about picking up this Lightsnake cable to run right from my XLR out to my laptop. Anyone use this or see probz w/ this setup idea. *Please note: Sound quality is not really important...

What's everyone's view on lead singers who don't play an instrument (guitar, keyboard, anything)? We're currently auditioning lead singers for an original band & song writing is crucial so we're a little skeptical of a guy who doesn't play anything. It's not that we expect our singer to play...

So I've been trying to hash out this song "Looking For" by the band Stir but having some issues w/ it. A little help would be greatly appreciated (& if you wanna kill a Saturday & tab it all even more power to ya!, but I'm fine w/ the progression). Here's what I got so far: Main verse riff...