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Whatever it is, monitors, hearing damage, voice damage, he needs to seek help. Makes you wonder if he has Alzheimers or similar.

For Pete’s sake! Talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

DITCH HIM NOW. No matter how “good” you think he is he not only can’t control his volume, he’s refusing to try. That doubling down on having no consideration for band mates. Plus he’s wearing the bloody earmuffs to insulate him against his own poor conduct. No amount of history or perceived...

I’m sure other people have said this before, but the emergence of Grunge was in many ways no different to the emergence of Punk. In the same way Prog Rock and Classic Rock had become lengthy and self indulgent, 80s Rock and Hair Metal was bombastic, mysoginistic and technically focused and...

1600…….. Let’s be honest. Everyone thinks the next generations of music are horrendous. Thankfully social media platforms are giving people the sort of publicity they wouldn’t normally have and they can stream with out record companies stealing their royalties……not that streaming companies are...

For the record, my wife said “What the bloody hell is that. Sounds like 2 cats on a fence.” All I’m going to say is there’s a reason that woman is lonely.

Maybe someone else has already posted this......:(

1975. The year “A Chorus Line” opened. It was all down hill from there.

If you’re in a covers band, harden up. The only time I’ve said no to “Sweet Home Alabama” was when I played on Australia Day at a local pub. We played for 4 hours and only played Australian music. Yes, easily. But a drunk 20 yr old kept coming up and asking for “Sweet Home” and other overseas...

Alternatively start from scratch. You just don’t know if your drummer wasn’t part of the issue, deep down.

Your rehearsal space is about twice the size of mine. I've played with loud drummers and the last band I was in our drummer was pretty loud, but with IEMs that was usually ok. And his snare was also a bitch. But my son, who I play with often, is an exceptional drummer and he doesn't hit hard. He...

And virtually anything by Reeves Gabrels, especially “Heaven’s In Here” from Tin Machine.

Surely someone has said “Simply Irresistible”?

I’m 48 in about a week. I just left one band but I started solo gigging during COVID because that’s all I could do. Just vocals, guitar and backing tracks. The last band I was in we had a shocker gig, but my solo gear doesn’t include any speakers except the powered PA speakers. I use IEMs, a...

I almost made an explanatory response but giving the OP reasons for lesson prices is like educating a catfish in nuclear physics. Didn’t we go through this about a guitar tech recently? I’m a school teacher and I once said to a high school student: “It’s better to be thought a fool and remain...

I’m still using my BOSS CE-2 and PH-1r pedals and they are going strong.

By categories one and two I’m a hack. But then, like many of us, I have a family and day job and mortgage and, if like me, you have an 80 song set list and have to sing as well, I guess you’d not want to play with me. And I might add that I’ve dropped serious coin on gear.....only to have band...

Sorta. I’m Australian and I supported Hoodoo Gurus and The Break (a surf band who are most of Midnight Oil) a few years back. But last year my son (on vibraphone) and I (guitar) jammed with Richard Ploog (formerly drummer for The Church) which was great. Then out of the blue he emailed me and...

A lot of people say CC DeVille has bad tone. But then I wouldn’t call him a great player.

I was more or less asking that question.

We spend tons of time, effort and expense on the pursuit of “good tone”. It means so many different things to so many different people and yet, we all agree that for most amazing guitarists the tone is “in the fingers”. One thing is for sure, we can all define “bad tone” when we hear it. So, in...

Here's the situation. My son has been playing drums for about 5 or 6 years now and he's very good. He can sight read straight through most stuff and is playing for musicals here in town. However, acoustic drums are difficult for music theatre. They're too loud and it's problematic to drag them...

Oh, sure, which is fine if your band has that sort of feel. I just can't think that "Blowfish" has any good connotations. But I'm off topic now.

Yeah, but it could be worse, like Phish or Hootie & The Blowfish. :rolleyes: