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It's a Presonus, but it belongs to the singer/BL and it's racked up with the wireless receivers, his Helix, etc, and it's in a big(ish) rack which he doesn't like to bring to this particular venue. It should be a simple setup (it's a very busy city centre bar, so soundchecks aren't really a thing; it's squeeze in and get on with it) using the venue mixer/PA, and it is, barring the bass monitoring... 😕

Yeah, I went into PMT for an hour or so to try out the FRFR options, and went for the Headrush first, and it really struggled with a low E at volume - much more than the Rumble 100 did. I ended up buying the Rumble off the back of that experience (secondhand, obv...) - I'd run a Stomp into the Headrush, which was the store's unit, I'm wondering now whether there was something in the Stomp that may have been pushing too many lows or something like that, but it was definitely flapping...I might go back with my own Stomp and try it all again, tho the chap in the store stood and shook his head as sadly as I did, and said "Well, they are primarily designed for guitar..." I should add I'd be looking for it to cover small bar gigs (think acoustic and vocals through 2 x Bose S1s, no sub, small kit with Hotrods) as backline, too...my gear's gotta earn its' keep 🙂

We tried that, but it's racked in a fairly large rack box, and the stage area really is cramped (they love us there because our drummer uses a tiny triggered kit, and we're pretty much the only band they can get on with a drummer) - the PA is well forward of the playing area, too so there's no chance of hearing much clearly from there. The guitarist/singer uses one of his Bose S1s (which double as PA tops for small acoustic gigs) to monitor, and we can all hear that, it's just the bass definition that gets completely lost without some kind of monitoring.

The band I gig with most often with dispensed with backline a while back, and it's a revelation. Unfortunately, we have a residency at a place with an in-house PA we struggle to use the inears with, for various reasons, and we need some stage monitoring (the venue is far from ideal in physical shape), so I use a small Rumble onstage. Unfortunately, this has introduced more issues (DI out is Post only, my Stomp presets need new versions to cope with the Rumble pre, etc) so I'm thinking a small FRFR would be the thing in these circumstances. The Rumble really is very small and light, tho (did I mention the venue's a nightmare?) - I tried a Headrush, but it really struggled to reproduce the low E, so I'm thinking an Alto 312 would struggle, too, which kinda pushes me up into QSC territory, and they ain't cheap for what I need...

I'm not sure they'd actually go 'down' enough to get through a 30 in doorway...possibly sideways, but even then...

Bet he couldn't walk through a doorway carrying it, tho...or not carrying it, for that matter...

Just watched that: Glenn is astonishing; "Sit down, Bruce: the bassist's got this..." 😁

Oh, it was all off and mostly disassembled (hence the XLR-coiling)...not that they noticed...

With the function/covers band neither, just how many bookings we have in the diary. With the originals band(s), I'd take either as long as they showed up... 🙂

Loved this, bought the EP...it pretty much disappeared without trace...

Anyone encroaching in the band area gets firmly and immediately directed back where they came. I stop playing to do it if necessary. Having said that, we were mid-packdown on Satdy night when we had two idiots at the mic; "Switch it back on, we want to do song." Singer put down the half-coiled XLR, walked up to the stand, disconnected the mic and put it in the case... 🙂

We go out as a trio of 40s-50s blokes, and regularly get asked for ‘Tina Turner stuff’: I now point at the 18st singest and say ‘We used to, but he insists on putting on his leather mini dress to do it’. That usually sorts it. Oh, and we played a do at an Italian restaurant last night and got asked for Rammstein. ‘We would do, but I forgot the flamethrowers and foam cannons. Sorry.’

Will do if it's out and snappable 😀 The whole thing with Jon reminds me of that great dedication by PG Wodehouse in one of his books: 'To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.'

Good luck getting a tune out of the Limp Bizkit one...

Yeah, it's the price you pay (sort of) for a busy one-man artisan: he generally responds to the second email I've sent him rather than the first, and I (probably like yourself) don't want to mither, but sometimes that's what it takes. In this case, though, I know he's stacked out, so I've told him I can wait for mine... I'll mention this tomorrow - I'm going to see him to pick up the bass he's used as a neck template for my new one.

It’s OK, I’ve told him not to rush with mine...I can wait. Just about. 😀

Does the landlord ring the Time bell to kick this off? 'Come on now gentlemen, let's be having your best fisticuffs please...'

As someone who, like many of us, spends a lot of time sober in pubs and other venues people-watching (while playing), I'll just say this once: the reason things have become more lairy is the fairly recent proliferation of a cheap, cut version of a certain Class A drug, which has become as normalised for a night out as lager...

Yep... 🙂

He's also busy with something for me, too... 😁

One of the lairiest weddings we've ever played was at The Mere Golf Resort in Cheshire, haunt of the very rich...what a bunch of entitled derrières they were... Generally, we don't get much mither from wedding punters: certainly nothing like MoJoKe's above...we're probably a lot uglier, though, which wards off even the most pisht enthusiasts... 🙂

I know it's a dark scary corridor, but look at it from my point of view: I've got to walk back along here on my own later...ooops.

I'm more a No Hit No Wonder...

That's really strange, because it's the opposite of my experience. Probably down to band approach. We used to do a thing where we'd get the groom up, give him a spare 'stunt' guitar and a wig and get him playing with us. It was good fun for a while, (the brides always loved seeing the new husband look a bit of a berk) but we got bored with it. We always get them singing to the bride and groom, though, in the acoustic bit: we get them to form a large circle with the B&G in the middle. Other than that, people of all ages get up to dance with each other. In my clubbing days no-one ever faced the DJ, you always danced with your mates, it's only the last couple of decades when the DJ became the star that the kids face a DJ like people (we) used to face a band at a gig...it's even specifically identified as a phenomenon in 24 Hour Party People, with reference to the Hacienda...IIRC the term used is 'The Beatification Of The Beat'...

One with a TV tie-in: Nantucket Sleigh Ride by Mountain...