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        <title>The Music Shed Blogs</title>
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            <title>New Site updates</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/new-site-updates</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The "Members" menu tab has been renamed "Community" to save any confusion with
"The Members Area" which is hosted on a different site.
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>if you cant log into the members areause the new "Comments" box on the
Community page to leave a message.</div>
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<div>Thanks Dave</div>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:16:17 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Grou.ps site stripped back to bare minimum</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/groups-site-stripped-back-to-bare-minimum</link>
            <description><![CDATA[<strong>As the main Music Shed site has now been re-hosted several menus of the
grou.ps site &nbsp;have been redirected to the new site at <a href=
"http://www.music-shed.com" rel="nofollow" target=
"_blank">www.music-shed.com</a>&nbsp;or disabled.</strong>
<div><strong>DETAILS</strong></div>
<div>HOME - No Changes.</div>
<div>GROUPS- &nbsp;Ceol mor Jam,Music shed users and gear junkies have been
deleted.</div>
<div>MY PROFILE- No Changes</div>
<div>WIKI- Deleted</div>
<div>RATES- Redirected</div>
<div>BOOKINGS- Redirected</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;SUB MENU - CALENDAR - Deleted</div>
<div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SUB MENU - BOOKING FORM - Deleted</div>
<div>MEMBERS - No changes as yet but may delete members who are not music shed
customers OR recreate a new Music Shed users Group.</div>
<div>EVENTS- No changes but handy for info to post on new site IF MEMBERS POST
EVENTS on grou.ps site</div>
<div>FORUM - Nobody has used it but I think its worth retaining</div>
<div>MUSIC - Deleted as it hasn't worked for some time !</div>
<div>ASK- No Changes .I think this is a rather useful yet unused part of the
site</div>
<div>REPAIRS- redirected to new site</div>
<div>CONTACT - redirected to new site</div>
<div>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 :)&nbsp;</div>
<div>LINKS- Still active and &nbsp;I will add any useful links to resources for
musicians or places to buy equipment at good prices.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Comments welcome and I apologise for folks who had uploaded music.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>if I know I may be able to fix it ;) if i don't know then its likely to
remain broken ;)</div>
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<div>If you read all this then thanks for your time :)</div>
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<div>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:27:53 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Last Jam at Ceol Mor for a while</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/last-jam-at-ceol-mor-for-a-while</link>
            <description><![CDATA[From a musicians &nbsp;point of view, it was another great jam night at Ceol
Mor last night with guest appearances including, Stevie Smith -
harmonica/vocals and &nbsp; Ross McEwan, Cliff Maffia and Terry O'Connell on
guitars.
<div>Some of the funky jams worked really well with 3 guitars, generating some
interesting rhythms and memorable moments&nbsp;</div>
<div>The house band was Josh MacKensie- &nbsp;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 "&nbsp;</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>However although we all had a great time,there wasn't a lot of customers
compared to last weeks session, so the Sunday &nbsp;jam nights wont be
continuing for a while,which is sad but inevitable.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Many thanks to those who did attend the jams, both musicians ,punters and
of course Terry.</div>
<div>Hope we can do it again in the near future.</div>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:32:22 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Last nights Jam in the Ceol Mor</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/last-nights-jam-in-the-ceol-mor</link>
            <description><![CDATA[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..
<div><br />
<div>musicians who played were,</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Josh Mackensie,who was on bass most of the night . some shit hot funky
jams on guitar and a few numbers on drums.</div>
<div>Garry Monro(ex Federals and voyeurs) who stirred up some nice grooves on
drums&nbsp;</div>
<div>Chris Maffia newcomer to this site and a great guitar player&nbsp;</div>
<div>Maria Hall&nbsp;along with her guitarist Hamish,&nbsp;who played quite a
few of her own songs and will be playing a gig at Ceol mor in a few
weeks&nbsp;</div>
<div>Stevie Smith who delivered his usual amazing harp playing.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Other folk included Ross McEwan &nbsp;on guitar,Daniel ? a great drummer
who's style &nbsp;reminded me of Keith Moon a lot .and a guy called Simon? who
played a lot of good Hendrix covers .</div>
<div>Hope I haven't forgotten anybody&nbsp;</div>
<div>Oh yeah and myself or course :)</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Please Spread the word.</div>
<div><br /></div>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:17:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tribute L-2500 Bass pick up rewind</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/tribute-l-2500-bass-pick-up-rewind</link>
            <description><![CDATA[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.
<div><br />
<div>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.</div>
<div>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, &nbsp;to repair
it..</div>
<div>4 hrs later its fixed :)</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>also the pick up windings aren't laquered so serious vibration is likely
to cause a failure.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>oh well that's today's rant :)</div>
</div>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:51:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>First jam at Ceol Mor</title>
            <link>http://grou.ps/musicshed/blogs/item/first-jam-at-ceol-mor</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The first jam at the Ceol Mor last night went very well and the standard of
musicians was excellent.
<div>I was well bowled over by terry's guitar playing.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br /></div>
<div>Anyway thanks to those who did make it&nbsp;</div>
<div>I had a great time :)</div>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:59:07 +0100</pubDate>
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