Recent content by Rugbass

the fee is 3% of annual ticket receipts. Paid by the entity charging for the tickets. if you sell tickets at your show, you pay the fees. Socan has pretty good online calculators for this. the actual fees for club owners is a lot smaller than 3%. I guess I was concerned about this and the...

If you are a gigging tribute/cover act are you paying royalties to the publishing company for the original songwriters? how do you market yourselves as tributes to a band and not get nabbed for royalties? I'm curious to everyone's approach. we are being asked to perform as a tribute for a short...

we are playing a full night of wacky material, the most 'out there' material is Gentle Giant and UK and B side Yes. Anyone else out there on the edges ??

Dave Myles - Max Webster Rick Anderson - The Tubes Chas Cronk - The Strawbs Roger Newell - Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

i come from a family of musicians, now I'm 46 and I've always only done paying gigs with any band I've been in. My uncle played played in Big Band. he played about 50 New Years; Eve galas in a row. I asked him about being a lifelong musician. He was in the Army orchestra in WW2 , he played...

I've been playing a Ric since 1980 and people come up to me all the time to talk about it. It is a genuine curiosity amongst most musicians. I can't think of another piece of gear that raises so much opinion. Look at this thread argument about a busted up instrument. Really?.. I recently added...

I have a 76 4001, bought it in 1980 when I was in University and I play it hard every week. It comes out of the case in tune. I play Fenders more, but my old black and white Rick always gets a cheer when I strap it on for a Rush covet.

FM- Black Noise Phasors on Stun is tremendous and any band that has a guy dressed like the invisible man ( Nash the Slash ) is tops in my books. Anything by Budgie.

Thanks Guys, I tried some of these suggestions and it's a little better. I think I will use it as a live back up for my SVT. It's small and light enough that it's not a hassle to drag along. I'm experimenting with a Line 6 LiveXT pedal board with the bass amp models as a front end as a possible...

http://i781.photobucket.com/albums/yy91/mcsmagnet/Music/76Rickenbacker4001.jpg Count me in the club... from Oakville Ontario Canada. This is my well worn '76 which i've had since 83.. Also has dead spots, which, depending on the night, the temperature and my volume seems to come and go...

The song 'Hey Joe' by Hendrix made me want to play bass at about 12 or 13. that little walking pattern at the turnaround was so funky and cool and sinister sounding i just knew I had to play bass. My first interests were the big bands of the day, Yes, ELP, Rush had just hit here at home ( in...

Sasquatch

Thanks - have you been happy with the amp?

I picked up a LH500 head to use as a backup to my SVT. I have a decent 1X15, 2X10 cab I also drag around for smaller live shows. I am really having issues with getting a good sound out of this head. I have really only fooled with it for a month and now starting to add some outboard stuff ( POD -...

I actually own a business that sells magnets, here's the lowdown. It's true that vibration can demag Alnico materials, the heat required to demag it is very high and will not be part of the usual atmosphere a bass could live through, the same applies to the ceramics. Neo has a fairly low curie...