niceguyhomer

I am. My broad mind and narrow waist have definitely changed places.

There we were up on stage on Sunday night hammering out soul classics dressed in our usual groanworthy Blues Brother's outfits, and someone comes up and asks if we do any Arctic Monkeys. What [b]was[/b][i][/i] he drinking?

I think we're going to make it band policy not to play anywhere with sound limiters in future and also make it a condition that if they wanna see a live band, we wanna see a living audience.

It's an age thing MB1

Did a horrible gig last night in Heysham near Morecambe. It was a venue we've never done before - we'd been recommended by another regular venue just up the road. I asked the manager why he hadn't put the posters up I'd sent him and he said that the dog (more likely one of the bar staff) had chewed them. Fair enough, he did put one of his home-made ones up I sent but instead of "fantastic soul band" he'd written "fantastic blues band". Lovely. Anyways, we set up on a cramped stage and started to soundcheck. The sound in the room was appauling - it was long and narrow with big oak beams and partitioning - the sound 15-20ft from the stage was awful but try as we may, we couldn't do anything about it. We played a couple of songs to set levels and then sat down for a beer. We went on stage at 9.15 and did about 8 bars of the first song and...phut...silence. We stood around scratching our arses for the next 10 minutes trying to find what the problem was when somebody in the audience perked up and said it was the sound limiter. It would have been nice to have been told. The manager then came up and told his he had a single socket that by-passed the circuit so..."put everything through that lads".. Now - I'm not an electrician, but I find the idea of putting all that gear through one plug socket a bit disturbing. After more arse scratching, we agree to give it a go after he reassured us that ".. all the other bands do it". A quick look at the forthcoming events poster kinda indicated that all they ever have on is bloody duos and karaoke. So - we reconnect and power up again and with that, the guitarist's amp screams like a banshee feeding back to the point where everyone in the room sat cringing with their hands over their ears thinking a plane was about to crash into the pub. Then the guitarist loses it big time and chucks his Telecaster across the stage saying "that's it, we're not doing it". More arse scratching followed and so I pulled all my leads out of everything and went outside to cool off cos by now it was getting very warm in there in more ways than one. Twenty more minutes passed, eventually the other band members decide to do it after all and by now there was a room full of disgruntled people. Ten o' clock had passed but we went on and did the gig and amazingly, we played really well in the circumstances but I don't know whether it was the kafuffle at the start or not, but we went down like whale sh1t. It was like playing to a room full of people condemned to a slow death. Another one like that and I'll definitely be taking up golf.

Remind me will ya?

I've had a 1001RBII for about 9 months now and I've done about 60 gigs with it in that time. Mine started blowing fuses on power up a couple of months ago so I sent it back for a warranty repair and it's been fine ever since. I had a Little Mark II before the GK and that was really good but the GK is better in my opinion. It's louder, fatter, punchier and it's a doddle to use. [u]Plus points[/u] Loud and punchy Versatile - good range of tones Well made Easy to use Runs cool Not too heavy Value for money Fits nicely in a shallow rack (mine's an SKB 4u) [u]Negatives[/u] The fan is on the top so if you rack mount it, it'll need some space to breath Connections are on the front so you have to route cables from back to front (if that makes sense) I used to put it through an Epifani UL310 and it was fantastic and like a complete tit I changed to a Schroeder 410R which sounds better again but it's too heavy for me. If I actually manage to sell my cab, I'll be buying 2 Aguilar DB112's cos I used to have GS112s but they were a bit mid-scooped and apparently the DBs are better in the mid department. I spoke to Mike at the Bass Merchant about the Aggies and also the GK NEO212, which I was also interested in and he didn't rate the GK neo cabs at all.

[quote name='JPJ' post='43197' date='Aug 9 2007, 11:16 AM']If you are in the market for a relatively small but powerful cab for a single cab setup, I recommend you try a Schroeder.[/quote] ..or buy my 410R for a very reasonable price [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3744"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3744[/url]

Should've brought mine last night Tom - that would really have got you going

They seem to have had a few reliability issues but then again what doesn't...