In my experience, micing up a drumkit takes a fair few inputs (minimum 4). Add in backing vocals and you're looking at 8+ channels which isn't really a small PA.
I'm 18 years older than the next oldest in my band and 26 years older than the youngest.
I'd check out some jam nights if I was you. There are quite often good people from the same area looking to start something up.
When I'm playing it feels like I move about a fair bit and smile a lot. When I see a video of it, it looks like I'm rooted to the spot and have just lost everything. Strange.
You could pick up a Zoom B3 for the price of most decent drive pedals. The available patches would give you a lot of information on any pedals you might want to try with the added bonus of loads of other effects + tuner + looper in a giggable and very versatile unit. Don't write this piece of kit off because it is a 'multi' unit - it's really very good and fantastic value for the money.
This always gets me. The lyrics seem to be written for this man in this condition and is a brutal reminder of everybody's mortality no matter who they are or what they've done.
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I use an SKB board which I got from Bass Direct. It comes with a power supply and 8 or 9 9v power outlets. Have used it for 4 years without a single problem. It has a covering which takes Velcro on the underneath of pedals too. Think I paid around £80 but probably dearer by now. Good piece of kit and also has a gig bag.
I play through the chords on a 6 string and learn the sequences. I write tricky bits down because I can recall a picture of what I've written much of the time. The rest is mainly patterns on the fretboard to get the left hand position right.
Not impressed with the TC Head - fair enough. That should have been the title of the thread. There are dozens of class D heads about that are way better than the BH250.
2 I can think of which I played at jam nights were a Hohner violin and a Gibson Thunderbird. Both horrible. One tiny and boomy and the other one enormous, uncomfortable, dull and ugly to boot.
I was at Led Zep at Earls Court but got so pissed I missed the entire thing crumpled in a heap by one of the pillars. You don't want to be hearing Moby Dick in that state.