How was your gig last night?

[warwickhunt]

Glastonbudget for INXS (UK) yesterday; cracking gig and I'd highly recommend it.

 

 

[Paddy777]

Looks a great gig! Is that Mark on sax? Played with him when I depped in his Madness tribute, great player 

[borntohang]

Sat in with a friend's band over the weekend and between wireless guitar systems and cheap IEMs there was so much crappy signal firing around onstage that my wired IEMs started to pick up interference even when not plugged into the XLR. Hard work and not a problem I've ever had before, but luckily only a one shot gig. 

[warwickhunt]

5 minutes ago, Paddy777 said:

Looks a great gig! Is that Mark on sax? Played with him when I depped in his Madness tribute, great player 

 

That's the man!    

 

Great lad and a cracking player.

[ezbass]

In addition to the first set of keyboards not working, yesterday, the guitarist forgot his pedalboard, resulting in an hour's round trip to retrieve it. Then, halfway through the second set my strap gave out and was hanging by a single, impossibly strong, thread. What a palaver! Still, get all the niggles out of the way in one swoop. They don't make that strap design in black anymore and I really like it, so this morning was spent ransacking an identical one in red, that I don't use anymore, for parts. Good as new, even if the sewing isn't the neatest.

 

Action pic from yesterday.

[dmccombe7]

23 hours ago, Desbass said:

Played the inaugural Lanark Country Music Festival yesterday. One of five acts we arrived at Midday for setup and soundcheck. As usual the soundchecks were in reverse order from performance so first up was the fantastic Eagles tribute band, Hotel Caledonia. Due to some technical problems with the PA this took way longer than expected and we had a very short soundcheck. We had brought our own setup so we provided our own in-ear monitor mix and provided separate feeds for all our instruments and vocals with our XR 32 and splitters. Great organisation from the promoters with an entertainers “green room” with a fridge stocked with drinks (including beer and low alcohol verities) and trays of sandwiches. Every band had a their own take on country and Americana music and the whole event was a great success.

Japanese Fender Precision, wireless to various pedals and Sansamp into the aforementioned XR 32. In-ear monitoring with X-Live and Behringer PM-16s.

Footwear handmade Portuguese cowboy boots! (What else can you wear in a country band?)

Horrendous weather on the journey home on the same roads and probably just a few hours before dmccombe7 (see earlier how was your gig posts) travelled on them. A few photos and a bit of phone clip from the back of the room.

 

Would love to have been there. I'm just 6 miles along the road plus my mate Eddie is bassist with Hotel Caledonia. Unfortunately we had a booking at Dundee. Great venue for a band. I've seen quite a few band nights in there including our very own @cetera with Dressed to Kill. 

Happy Days.

Sounding good. Looks like a good night was had as the camera operator must have had a few. 😂

Dave

Edited Monday at 21:21 by dmccombe7

[dmccombe7]

7 minutes ago, ezbass said:

In addition to the first set of keyboards not working, yesterday, the guitarist forgot his pedalboard, resulting in an hour's round trip to retrieve it. Then, halfway through the second set my strap gave out and was hanging by a single, impossibly strong, thread. What a palaver! Still, get all the niggles out of the way in one swoop. They don't make that strap design in black anymore and I really like it, so this morning was spent ransacking an identical one in red, that I don't use anymore, for parts. Good as new, even if the sewing isn't the neatest.

 

Action pic from yesterday.

Oddly enough i even keep a spare strap in my kit. I have a spare everything from bass, amp, until recent Barefaced cab i even had 2 cabs, even spare stage clothes. Nice to be prepared.

Dave 

[ezbass]

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Oddly enough i even keep a spare strap in my kit. I have a spare everything from bass, amp, until recent Barefaced cab i even had 2 cabs, even spare stage clothes. Nice to be prepared.

Dave 

Oh, as do I. Well, normally. I opened the bag with the spare bass in it, no strap! 

[Obrienp]

10 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Oh, as do I. Well, normally. I opened the bag with the spare bass in it, no strap! 

You just know, the day your strap fails, is the day you forgot to bring a spare. I’ve never had a strap fail but I have had Schaller strap lock buttons unscrew themselves at a gig mid-song with catastrophic results. I’ve now gone over to Loxx, as there is less chance of the two parts binding and unscrewing.

[dmccombe7]

1 minute ago, Obrienp said:

You just know, the day your strap fails, is the day you forgot to bring a spare. I’ve never had a strap fail but I have had Schaller strap lock buttons unscrew themselves at a gig mid-song with catastrophic results. I’ve now gone over to Loxx, as there is less chance of the two parts binding and unscrewing.

I'll need to have a look at the Loxx ones as i've had a few schaller ones loosen off altho i noticed it during sound check so managed to tighten up. I now regularly check the strap locks and bass buttons as i've had them loosen too.

Dave

[mikebass456]

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'll need to have a look at the Loxx ones as i've had a few schaller ones loosen off altho i noticed it during sound check so managed to tighten up. I now regularly check the strap locks and bass buttons as i've had them loosen too.

Dave

I used to use the schaller ones, but always put a blob of thread lock on them, just in case! Only ever had one come away, and it was the bottom one from being bashed on the floor earlier that evening 😲🤬

[ezbass]

6 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I have had Schaller strap lock buttons unscrew themselves at a gig mid-song

Yep, me too. Not keen on Dunlop's either. I've gone back to Grolsch bottle washers. Trouble here was that I couldn't see the wear behind the rubber. 

[dmccombe7]

From what i can see the Loxx straplocks look similar design to the Dunlop ones i had few yrs back but couldn't really take to the Dunlop ones.

Dave

[pete.young]

3 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

I used to use the schaller ones, but always put a blob of thread lock on them,

 

There's no need to fix the straplock to the strap. Just put the strap end over the button on the guitar, then clip the straplock on top of it.

[neepheid]

Saturday night, playing with Nine Lives at Wilsons in Aberdeen.  Some context for you non-football following types, Wilsons is a football bar.  That afternoon, Aberdeen FC won the Scottish Cup for the first time in 35 years.  So we were expecting busy times, and so it turned out to be - especially in the second half when people either came in from other bars or had made their way back from Glasgow (where the match was played).  It was loud - in most breaks between songs an Aberdeen FC football chant would erupt - we politely let them complete the first few, then we kinda ignored them and just cracked on regardless of what they were singing, lol. 

 

So, the gig was going great but unfortunately, as is so often the case at these kind of affairs, one person (there's always one) had overindulged and had a massive navigation fail on the way to the bogs, stumbled over - past the front of me and taking out the singer (who ended up on her backside) and landing in amongst the drums!  FFS!  I grabbed his arm as he went past, but he was a hefty bloke and there wasn't much I could do versus the inevitablility of gravity

 

So there was a break in the proceedings as we checked on our poor singer (who thankfully was OK, just a bit shaken up) and then the drummer rearranged his kit back into some semblance of order.  The guy was steamin' - super apologetic, in that annoying, insistent drunk way - we politely but firmly instructed him to just go to the bog as originally intended.

 

Thankfully, the rest of the gig went without a hitch, I played pretty well - couple of bloops when I was more concerned with protecting my pedalboard from being accidentally stood on, but decent all the same.  Roastin' though!  I was absolutely disgustingly damp by the end of it.  Still managed to do a wireless walkabout during the last song, difficult at times though it was to get through folk - guitarist was soloing his fingers off and beginning to wonder if I was ever coming back!

 

All in all, great night though.  Bit of a bummer at the end though - it had been raining during the gig and while we were unloading stuff and packing cars, the singer, having already been poleaxed by a large, drunk guy missed the kerb outside and ended up falling on the pavement, skinning her knees!  Talk about being in the wars!  She's OK though, bit bruised and battered but unbowed!

 

Gear was the Burny LSB-80 followed by the SGC Nanyo into the usual Markbass cubes.

 

[WalMan]

19 hours ago, Merton said:

First night of the Katy Hurt album release tour tonight, at the gorgeous Square Tower in Portsmouth.

An almost packed room, my first ever guitar and bass teacher in attendance and the second gig I’ve had with my gorgeous new ACG bass.

All in all it was a cracking way to kick off the tour, roll on Bath on Friday 😎

 

 

 

White leather Converse, pristine at the beginning of the evening but now bearing their first (minor) battle scars.

Dammit. I’d been planning to come down, then we had a couple of nights in London at the last minute. Glad it went well 

[dmccombe7]

5 hours ago, pete.young said:

 

There's no need to fix the straplock to the strap. Just put the strap end over the button on the guitar, then clip the straplock on top of it.

My strap is quite thick, not sure i could get the straplock on over the strap but its worth a look tomorrow. 

I use the straplocks for quick changes if need be plus i can't slip a bass and strap over my head when wearing the Glam gear because of the long hair. It catches the hair under the strap. I need to put the strap over my shoulder and under the hair and then clip the bass to the strap.

Dave

[Desbass]

10 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Would love to have been there. I'm just 6 miles along the road plus my mate Eddie is bassist with Hotel Caledonia. Unfortunately we had a booking at Dundee. Great venue for a band. I've seen quite a few band nights in there including our very own @Cetera with Dressed to Kill. 

Happy Days.

Sounding good. Looks like a good night was had as the camera operator must have had a few. 😂

Dave

Wow. What is it they say about six degrees of separation? I was talking to Eddie because I'd gone to see Hotel Caledonia a while back at the R.O.F. club in Bishopton , which is only a few miles away from my place, then I realised you had played the same place with Blockbustarz not to long ago!

[Muzz]

Not a gig review as such, but a quick addendum to my using the QSC in a pub last week and it being completely overwhelming, I had a sit down yesterday to actually work with the thing (yeah, I've had it a year, I really should've done this before) and found it was set to No Sub i.e. it was boosting all the bass, and no HPF set, which would explain the sound. Ten minutes with the manual and some EQ curves that an enthusiastic geek in the States had recorded from the various presets, and with the preset and HPF set appropriately it's now sounding much more like a traditional backline amp. Phew.

[Acebassmusic]

27 minutes ago, Muzz said:

Not a gig review as such, but a quick addendum to my using the QSC in a pub last week and it being completely overwhelming, I had a sit down yesterday to actually work with the thing (yeah, I've had it a year, I really should've done this before) and found it was set to No Sub i.e. it was boosting all the bass, and no HPF set, which would explain the sound. Ten minutes with the manual and some EQ curves that an enthusiastic geek in the States had recorded from the various presets, and with the preset and HPF set appropriately it's now sounding much more like a traditional backline amp. Phew.

 

After many years of working with engineering / techy stuff / comuters / phones / music gear etc. I formulated a reminder for myself for when stuff isnt working as it should......"If all else fails.....read the manual! "  lol 🤣🤣

Edited Tuesday at 14:06 by Acebassmusic

[mikebass456]

20 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

 

After many years of working with engineering / techy stuff / comuters / phones / music gear etc. I formulated a reminder for myself for when stuff isnt working as it should......"If all else fails.....read the manual! "  lol 🤣🤣

I did the same with my Ashdown acoustic pre-amp pedal this weekend. Think I've managed to suss out the notch filter on it now (ranges between 60 and 300Hz on a rotary control, but no graded markings around it to give a rough idea of where you are on it!).

Was getting some feedback at the gig I did on Saturday evening with my Uke basses - on the subsequent recording it looked to be about 227Hz.......

[okusman]

First festival of the year. The rain stayed away, and good fun was had by all.

[Staggering on]

Another concert with my teacher's Young Artists Orchestra, kids from 6 to late teens and a few adults to fill out some sections since many of the kids are too small to play full size cello and bass, total about 35 musicians. The bass section was the same as our Christmas concert with my teacher's 16 year old daughter and a wonderful 9 year old girl playing a half size bass and me, at 79 I am 70 years older than the young bassist! I am so lucky to be playing with these kids, they are all students who started at age 3 or 4 with my teacher's program and are unbelievably good musicians and absolutely professional in their attitude towards playing music and have huge respect for music and their teacher.

This concert was mostly movie music (Jurassic Park, Hobbit and others) with lots of dramatic bits and a lot of dynamics to deal with. There was also a string quartet selection but the highlight was the 16 year old playing the Gavotte by Lorenziti with a string quartet on the Thomas Martin bass that her father found for her. She was brilliant on a difficult piece and the audience loved it. Martin basses are rare on this side of the Atlantic but I can see why they have such a good reputation, this is a BASS that can just thunder out those low notes but sounded great when she was off the end of the fingerboard. This is my fifth concert with this group and it is so different from my jazz and bluegrass gigs and makes me practice with the bow which is real challenge. Still taking lessons and hoping for another concert with the kids.😊

Edit: The place was packed for the concert, the action photo was taken during rehearsal just before the doors opened.

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Staggering on

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, Staggering on said:

... at 79 I am 70 years older than the young bassist! ...

 

 

My my,  you're looking sprightly, bowing away in that photo..! 

 

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[Staggering on]

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

My my,  you're looking sprightly, bowing away in that photo..! 

 

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Yeah, if only I was 16 again. I figure I'm lucky just to be playing at all!😊