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Kashmir is one of my favourite Zep tracks. I saw an amazing guitarist play an acoustic version at a festival a few months ago - incredible!!!! Jack.

I charge the same hourly rate regardless of the duration of the gig. Makes life simple. Jack.

Well I eventually bought a pair of Etymotic Research ER-6i in-ear earphones and I have to say I'm impressed. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er6i.aspx I used them at a gig for the first time last night and I really liked them. The attenuation is stated as 34 - 36db and it certainly felt that way. I swapped the flanged tips for the foam ones and the sensation is exactly like wearing those little scrunch up plugs you get in factories. They block out a huge amount of the sound from the PA but the audio from the cue channel on the mixer is nice and clear. I could also hear people when they aske

That's more like it - I think I need a SPL meter LOL

This week, I have mostly been listening to: Alabama 3 - Outlaw (love it to bits) Athlete - Tourist The Frames - Burn the Maps Jeff Buckley - Grace (have to bring it out every so often) Cheers, Jack.

I completely agree with Paul on the value of Adwords advertising. While it does drive large volumes of traffic to your site, the number of people who go on to do whatever it is you want them to do can be very small. We have seen our traffic drop back to a much higher level after we stop a campaign, suggesting that at least some of the people who clicked through come back, but whether they are a good ROI for the future is still to be established. I see Eskie is running Adwords at the moment - how's it working for you? (I saved you some money by not clicking on your link BTW) Cheers, Ja

http://www.dj-forum.co.uk/html//emoticons/oops.gif Shows you how much I know about search engines ROFLMAO. What also strikes me as weird is that your search "funky house dj" (without the inverted commas) has you at number 2, but "funky house dj woking" has you outside the top 500. You would have thought that making the search term even more specific by adding a word from your Home Page would have increased your ranking. I can only assume the spider isn't seeing certain parts of the text due to the way the pages are built. I'll go back and sit in the corner now http://www.dj-forum.co

I agree with the points made above. I wouldn't concentrate so much on the price as what this person has created for others. As we all know - we can build our own sites for next to nothing. I'd encourage you to look at their previous work, see how these sites have fared with search engines and make your decision from there. Graphic design, layout and content are worth paying for and I'd say that was a cheap price. Cheers, Jack.

Good idea Gary! My situation has been covered above. Cheers, Jack.

I think the ones at the top are just the No1 or No2 - I'm running a Google Adwords campaign at work at the moment and we appear at the top of the page for quite a few searches where we score highly. Either that or they rotate the top scoring sites. The minimum cost per click is 5p, so it needn't cost a fortune. of course, depending on what the competition are bidding, 5p might get you listed at No 20. There is a tool that will estimate your adwords ranking depending on the cost per click and the search terms - you can use this to tweak your ad so you pay very little and show in the top 5.

No offense Paul, but Google only has 5 pages in its index linking to your site and only your Home Page is indexed. As both links in and number of pages indexed affect your page rank it looks like Google ain't doing you any favours. This is borne out by the fact that typing in the query "paul velocity woking" (which no-one looking for a DJ will do, but it gives the engines something to look for) finds you at No.1 in Yahoo (well done) but nowhere to be found in the top 500 in Google or MSN. Cheers, Jack.

Good points Ian, As you suggest, I'm using a laptop to save ME hassle, time, effort. Sure, I could justify some sort of cost increase if I had 10 times more songs available than someone using CDs, but I doubt that's true at the moment. However, there are plenty of Djs on this forum using CDs who are charging far more than I am - so I don't think the two things can be linked that closely. The prices we all charge are governed by lots of things, but the gear we use is probably way down the list - we use the gear we use for mostly personal reasons. The extra license is just another cost to be

QUOTE (DJF @ Sep 13 2005, 12:21 PM) putting police on petrol stations and limiting the amount of fuel. last time sum stations where £10 and some £20 I think they should do the opposite - it's people filling up when they don't need to that are causing the queues. I filled up this morning 'cos my tank was empty - it cost over £50. If they introduce a £35 minimum, then people with half a tank wouldn't be able to fill up and, hey presto, the queue disappears :) But, of course, they will ration it and limit it to £10 and people who have 3/4 of a tank will squeeze another £10 in even though th

QUOTE (ian @ Sep 13 2005, 01:52 PM) But I don't see any reason why a band can't release a CD which doesn't have that stipulation on it. For example if a band write a piece of music and then make a CD of it, they own all the IPR so they can introduce any rules about it being for domestic use only or they can choose not to. You are correct. I have written songs that have showed up on CDs that are available for sale on the Internet. As I'm not signed to a label or publisher I can decide on what people can do with these songs. You can play them, copy them, do what you like with them (altho

Just paid 94.9p in Perthshire - 92.9p at Tesco

My understanding is that ALL music you buy in ANY format is for domestic use only. It's just the same as buying a CD - you can play it at home but if you want to play it in public then you have to make sure you comply with the law. In this case it means that you don't need a special license to play it at a private event, but you would need a license to play it in a club where people have paid to get in. My understanding is that the digital license just gives you the right to move the recording from the CD to your computer - it doesn't mean you can then play it in a club without the appropri

Rural Fife was mad around 5.30pm yesterday. I stopped into the local Tesco for some milk and there was a huge queue at the pumps preventing people getting off the main road into the supermarket car park. However, I went to the local petrol station this morning and it was only slightly busier than usual. One of the mechanics was filling cars and said he was there "in case it gets too bad." Cheers, Jack.

QUOTE (Rendezvous @ Sep 11 2005, 07:47 PM) I'm curious. Does 'Queen - Don't Stop Me Now' have some special relevance that I don't know about? I don't think I even know the song. It's certainly not one of the big Queen tracks I have played over the years. Not sure if this is relevant, but it's just been voted the best ever driving song on BBC's "Top Gear". http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/driving_song/ Cheers, Jack.

groan...........bad Eskie...................very, very bad LOL

QUOTE (stevemarshall @ Sep 8 2005, 12:49 PM) Saying that(and this is from a total non football fan) better stay away from the other thread then ;)

Pretty hard to disagree with much of what you've said Eskie. Just a few points though, 1. The Faroes are a mighty team - remember Scotland had an open top bus procession through Edinburgh after returning from their famous 2-2 comeback triumph ;) 2. Judging by what I saw from the touchline last night, Steve McLaren IS managing them. 3. Your point about the Dutch players being used to playing anywhere on the pitch is a good one. I don't think the UK produces players who are capable of doing this (England's recent problems seem to back this up), however, you can't really blame Sven fo

Eskie's thread reminded me of this from a few years ago - still seems kind of apt ;) As you may recall, the person who gave Sven-Goran Ericsson his job was Adam Crozier - a Scot. When Crozier left his job at the FA, this coded message was found on his PC. *********************************************** Message to Scottish Football Association from Agent Crozier - January 2001 Location: Enemy Base Camp, somewhere in the far East. All going well. Of the original mission I have accomplished:- 1) Closure of Wembley - they are now homeless with no solution in sight. 2)Loss o

QUOTE (spinner @ Sep 7 2005, 11:12 PM) A bit like the request I had recently - Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrissey. Now I've got this vision of Morrisey singing "Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came" arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggg

Much as enjoy the schadenfreude I wouldn't get too upset about one result. NI played really well. Also, losing one qualifier in the four years he's been in charge is an exceptional effort. I remember the "good old days" of the 70's when Scotland qualified time after time and England couldn't get through. Do you want to return to those days? You have world class players now and will qualify easily IMHO, unlike Scotland who won't and NI and Wales who can't. OK, Sven has a knack of making them look like part-timers, but at the end of the day he isn't on the pitch. England were looking OK until

Although I am a huge fan of early Genesis, I have to say I agree with the Gallaghers' opinion of Phil Collins. Leaving his solo stuff aside (which after his 1st album is awful IMHO) it's his inflated view of himself I dislike - so in that regard he is very like the Gallaghers. One minute he's writing a song about the plight of the homeless (and making a fortune from it) and with the next breath he's telling people to vote Tory to keep their 18 year reign going (with the "threat" that he'll leave the country if Labour get in). Always seemed a little incongrous to me. Or was he simply worried