Blogs | The Music Shed

Nov 03

New Site updates

The "Members" menu tab has been renamed "Community" to save any confusion with "The Members Area" which is hosted on a different site.

Also the link to the members area from the community page now opens in a new window so one can return to the page on the main site by simply closing it.

The avitars in the members area are still not displaying, apart from latest members.You could try re uploading your profile picture and that might solve it.

I would be happy to know it anybody can actually upload a blog or event,if you do manage to add a blog then please say something about yourself band or any other news.

if you cant log into the members areause the new "Comments" box on the Community page to leave a message.

Thanks Dave

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davesidley

Oct 29

Grou.ps site stripped back to bare minimum

As the main Music Shed site has now been re-hosted several menus of the grou.ps site have been redirected to the new site at www.music-shed.com or disabled.

DETAILS

HOME - No Changes.

GROUPS- Ceol mor Jam,Music shed users and gear junkies have been deleted.

MY PROFILE- No Changes

WIKI- Deleted

RATES- Redirected

BOOKINGS- Redirected

SUB MENU - CALENDAR - Deleted

SUB MENU - BOOKING FORM - Deleted

MEMBERS - No changes as yet but may delete members who are not music shed customers OR recreate a new Music Shed users Group.

EVENTS- No changes but handy for info to post on new site IF MEMBERS POST EVENTS on grou.ps site

FORUM - Nobody has used it but I think its worth retaining

MUSIC - Deleted as it hasn't worked for some time !

ASK- No Changes .I think this is a rather useful yet unused part of the site

REPAIRS- redirected to new site

CONTACT - redirected to new site

FILES- Very useful but not used as yet .Handy for sharing content between members eg.posters,mp3s(for me to add to promo section of new site) pdf files eg circuit diagrams ,user manuals and of course program files but BEWARE of exe files from members you don't know ;) Because there weren't t any files there I've uploaded an mp3 of one of my songs :)

LINKS- Still active and I will add any useful links to resources for musicians or places to buy equipment at good prices.

Comments welcome and I apologise for folks who had uploaded music.

If you have any problems with any aspects of this stripped down version please let me know so i can try and fix it eg. you can't upload a file or picture,post a blog or post in forum.

if I know I may be able to fix it ;) if i don't know then its likely to remain broken ;)

If you read all this then thanks for your time :)

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davesidley

Aug 16

Last Jam at Ceol Mor for a while

From a musicians point of view, it was another great jam night at Ceol Mor last night with guest appearances including, Stevie Smith - harmonica/vocals and Ross McEwan, Cliff Maffia and Terry O'Connell on guitars.

Some of the funky jams worked really well with 3 guitars, generating some interesting rhythms and memorable moments

The house band was Josh MacKensie- Bass, Garry Munro - Drums and myself on vocals and guitar..there was also a bass player who came along with Ross who was really good(but I dont recall his name ) and a mystery drummer - "John "

However although we all had a great time,there wasn't a lot of customers compared to last weeks session, so the Sunday jam nights wont be continuing for a while,which is sad but inevitable.

Many thanks to those who did attend the jams, both musicians ,punters and of course Terry.

Hope we can do it again in the near future.

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davesidley

Aug 09

Last nights Jam in the Ceol Mor

Was a good jam session at the Ceol Mor last night and it was a lot busier than the first one,which is surprising considering it was belladrum festival weekend..

musicians who played were,

Josh Mackensie,who was on bass most of the night . some shit hot funky jams on guitar and a few numbers on drums.

Garry Monro(ex Federals and voyeurs) who stirred up some nice grooves on drums

Chris Maffia newcomer to this site and a great guitar player

Maria Hall along with her guitarist Hamish, who played quite a few of her own songs and will be playing a gig at Ceol mor in a few weeks

Stevie Smith who delivered his usual amazing harp playing.

Other folk included Ross McEwan on guitar,Daniel ? a great drummer who's style reminded me of Keith Moon a lot .and a guy called Simon? who played a lot of good Hendrix covers .

Hope I haven't forgotten anybody

Oh yeah and myself or course :)

There still weren't enough punters though, so lets hope that we can drum up a few more for the next jam on the 15th Aug, to make it worthwhile continuing.

Please Spread the word.

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davesidley

Aug 05

Tribute L-2500 Bass pick up rewind

Thought I'd a 1/2 hr job checking wiring on a Tribute L-2500 5 sting bass.It was suspected that someone had tampered with it after returning it from an ebay sale.as the coil tap switch wasn't working on the bridge pick up.

The guy i was repairing it for gave me a diagram,but it had completely different wire colours and so I had to trace out the circuit only to find it was wired OK but one of the bridge pick up coils was open circuit.

I removed the pick up covers and found a broken winding and had to hand wind about 100 turns of the thinner than human hair wire, to repair it..

4 hrs later its fixed :)

Nice bass to play but the wiring is like a mass of spaggetti ,you'd think the manufacturers would have cut the wires to a sensible length for each connection rather than cramming them into the space and the circuit board is just floating about wrapped in some rubber foam.

also the pick up windings aren't laquered so serious vibration is likely to cause a failure.

oh well that's today's rant :)

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davesidley

Jul 26

First jam at Ceol Mor

The first jam at the Ceol Mor last night went very well and the standard of musicians was excellent.

I was well bowled over by terry's guitar playing.

The only negative point was there wasn't enough punters this time around.Maybe there were a lot of other things on in town that evening?Anyway hopefully the next jam scheduled for the 8th August will be better attended and perhaps we might start at the later time of 8 or even 9pm.

Anyway thanks to those who did make it

I had a great time :)