stuckinthepod

Hi all, Been thinking about getting a thumb rest for my Overwater Tanglewood as I'm not comfortable with anchoring my thumb on the pickups. I tend to catch myself anchoring on the top edge of the pickguard. Any pointers on finding the optimum position for a thumb rest as I tend to move position depending on the song. Anyone who has been there and done that retrofitting a thumb rest- your views please.

We are plugging away at the low end of the "pub vertical" having only started gigging the band last August and did 5 gigs in 2014. We have six booked so far for this year. We are happy to play where we can get gigs that play hard/classic rock. Getting the gigs is proving difficult as many pubs are booked up and seem to rebook the same old faithful bands over trying our new acts. Our best gig last year was a biker oriented pub and we played to crowd of 200 and went down well and the worse was playing to approximately 20 disinterest punters in a dodgy place we wont be returning to. Many of the pubs seem to think promoting the bands they have on is writing the bands name on a chalk board on the night! We are more interested in playing rock/music orientated venues over the standard boozers but this year will be mainly learning and getting our name about so we'll have to take what we can get. Good news is we are playing a decent biker/rock bar next weekend.

I'd just started playing some Maiden with the band. Now the fingers hurt!

I'm fairly new to bass and gigging and for the first few gigs was very happy plugging in and playing directly to my TC BG500 Combo. It's a great amp and the tubetone gives it a valve type flavour that I love. However, the inaccurate built in tuner led me to getting a Snark floor tuner and I also had a Behringer BDI preamp as a backup. I've now go a small pedal board (Snark/BDI/Digitech Bass Wah) now using the Behringer on most of the time for added tubey type tone and adjusting eq song by song on the bass (Ibanez SRX530). I think using the BDI just add a bit more character/presence and helps the tone cut a bit more in the band. We cover everything from Stones to Maiden so I need everything from a muddy thump to a growling precision type tone.

[b]Asphalt or drop a few well known stoner numbers into the set and call it Hashfault[/b]

Used to like this back in the day. I think the guitars were tuned to drop B or something equally silly.

Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love

The [i]Not that anyone at Glastonbury really cares about the music, if they did they wouldn't all buy their tickets before the line-up is announced. This part. Not the LR part [/i]

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1417428283' post='2620106'] I'd rather watch LR than Arcade Fire, Kasabian or Metallica. Not that anyone at Glastonbury really cares about the music, if they did they wouldn't all buy their tickets before the line-up is announced. [/quote] A second this A THOUSAND TIMES!

Cheers for the heads up. There was cracking little doc on BBC about Vox a few years ago . The bit where Iain Lee is watching Brian May play in front of him made me chuckle as he can barely contain his excitement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54s3386KZVI

Gig at a pub in Walkden at the weekend. We played well and had plenty of friends up to support us, but the audience were super glued to the bar. We played to a 1/4 filled room but got some applause drifting in from the drinkers. First outing of GNR "You could be mine" went down a storm..

He is superb isn't he, got in to his stuff in recent months. Check out Shovell and Rope if you like new Americana. I'm hankering for a resonator myself at the mo.

Thanks Coilte. I didn't make it past those first ten minutes.

Love Jack's playing and voice but too much Ginger Baker for my patience to withstand, the guy is a total £&^%$ *&*&** £!*&^$& ..... &%$"£^(

Joinmyband has always worked for me but you have to be prepared to wade through a lot of rubbish ads and wait a while for the right people to come along. Spend a bit of time on there an your b*llsh*t detector will become finely tuned.

I'm currently building a pedal board but have until now been gigging a TC BG500 combo as is. Tuner is a bit sharp so I replaced with a snark. Onboard compression and tube tone works great for everything from GNR to David Bowie.

RE: The gym mat. I look at Auralex pads to decouple the amp from wooden stages but put it on the backburner as they are £70-80. At a classic car show I found a stall selling hard foam mechanics pads (for kneeling on and the like). £3.50 and works really well isolating the amp and cutting down on the boom.

I'm surprised so many people have found their TC's to be quiet. My BG500 is ridiculously loud, I've never had it past 3 (9.30pm on the volume at pub gigs and no need to DI it. I'm really enjoying using it.

Not even a mention of Smashing Pumpkins in the Chicago episode, I take it Mr Grohl and Mr Corgan are not friends.

Snark pedal tuner. I have the clip on one which is fine at home but picks up the rest of the band at practice or live. You can see the floor one lit up from space! Its also about a third of the price of the pitchblack or TC.

Great gig with Stormkings on Sat night at the Flying Horse in Rochdale. Played to our biggest ever crowd on our third gig. Crowd seemed to really enjoy the set and was great to get lots of positive feedback post show. It's a good lark this playing live.

I have backups for everything including an exact clone of myself in a backup pod. Only problem, he's sh*t on bass.

Bad luck. Keep going, you'll get there once everyone has recovered. I've only just started gigging and I'm 35. Gig number 3 is next weekend.

Perhaps because most technical guitar players seem to have backing bands that sound as flat a total guitar backing track? It's usually just a bed for the guitarist to W**k over the top off. I love Satriani but the band is held back so much it just kills any natural vibe and groove a song might have had. I guess you can say that about any stunt or lead guitar led outfit- blues included.

TC BG500. Never had it up past 3.5 at a pub gig yet.