Too many redundancies

[jimmyb625]

If it's quite an "important" or big gig/festival, I'll take a spare bass, but apart from that I'll use whatever. Nowadays, I'm not even taking one amp, never mind two.

Having said that, if I was in a smaller line-up, or reliant on specific effects/sounds, I may have a different approach.

[Nail Soup]

6 hours ago, chris_b said:

I get the comments, but I have 2 #1 amps. Doesn't everyone?

 

I take both to every gig and use the one that sounds best on that stage.

You might be in the minority.

 

But based on this comment, it does sound like a good idea to regularly use both your amp and back-up amp:

7 hours ago, BigRedX said:

When The Terrortones were gigging at least once a week I had a spare amp that lived permanently in the band van. I never had the need to use it. However, when we had to stop doing gigs and I got it back, I discovered that a some point over the 2 years since I had last tried it out, it had stopped working.

 

 

[dclaassen]

Funny, I remember the first time I gigged with a solid state amp. We were all paranoid that it would just go poof and die. Valve amps always seem to give you fair warning before they die.