How was your gig last night?

[Dad3353]

28 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

I should probably share the invisible bear story for new members that haven't heard it...

 

You might prefer to keep a little mystique, no..? 

Edited Thursday at 22:18 by Dad3353

[Bluewine]

10 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

You might prefer to keep a little mystique, no..? 

 

Good idea. I'm sure there are other members that have had an experience with an invisible bear.

 

Daryl

[Dad3353]

Just now, Bluewine said:

Good idea. I'm sure there are other members that have had an experience with an invisible bear...

 

Certainly; shades of 'What goes on in Fight Club stays in Fight Club'. 

[Merton]

Just sitting at a car charger outside Cardiff (before my onward journey back to Surrey…) following a lovely little Katy Hurt gig at Acapella Studios. What a lovely venue!

First gig of the tour where we’ve had Cris join us on lap steel, guitar and mandolin, and Basschat royalty @Rich in attendance.

We had a blast (common theme on this run of shows I’m pleased to say!) and made a lot of new friends I think. I still can’t sing in tune for more than about 3 notes.

Shoes were black leather Chelsea boots today, v comfy but a bit slippy on the stage carpet 😀

[Geek99]

I went to an OM. It was totally dead. The host was nowhere in sight so I hung around for ten minutes and gave up. The landlady told me it hadn’t gone well.  As I was leaving a young lady at a table near the door said she’d wished I’d got to play (she obviously hasn’t heard me or she wouldn’t make such a ridiculous claim).
 

I said that sadly bass is not a solo instrument and other people are needed, unfortunately not the case tonight.
Her blank look at the word “bass” told me everything I needed to know about perceptions of our instrument but it was nice that she said it. 
 

someone I presumed to be the host scuttled into view at that moment and headed for the om area, he didn’t see me though he passed within a metre or so. I hope the landlady had a word about not deserting his post  

[MGB]

First of three gigs with this guy 😃.

We have a Billy Joel tribute band in Holland and we got our stamp of approval from original drummer Liberty DeVitto. He agreed on coming over from the US to do these gigs with us.

Needless to say we are over the moon with him agreeing to play with us.

Had a blast on the first and looking forward to number two and three.

 

[Rich]

15 hours ago, Merton said:

Just sitting at a car charger outside Cardiff (before my onward journey back to Surrey…) following a lovely little Katy Hurt gig at Acapella Studios. What a lovely venue!

First gig of the tour where we’ve had Cris join us on lap steel, guitar and mandolin, and Basschat royalty @Rich in attendance.

We had a blast (common theme on this run of shows I’m pleased to say!) and made a lot of new friends I think. I still can’t sing in tune for more than about 3 notes.

Shoes were black leather Chelsea boots today, v comfy but a bit slippy on the stage carpet 😀

 

You folks were in fine form. Very obvious that you were having a great time up there, and it showed in all your performances. It was particularly good to hear such a well-played pedal steel, his less is more approach was perfect. And oh my word, your ACG sounded droolworthy, especially down low. That B string is a thing of beauty. I will definitely be looking out for you lot in the future. Thanks for a great night. 

 

Apologies for the terrible photo

Edited 13 hours ago by Rich

[dmccombe7]

10 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I should probably share the invisible bear story for new members that haven't heard it.

 

Daryl

Think a reminder would be good Daryl. I've probably seen it but cant recall it.

Dave

[Merton]

1 hour ago, Rich said:

You folks were in fine form. Very obvious that you were having a great time up there, and it showed in all your performances. It was particularly good to hear such a well-played pedal steel, his less is more approach was perfect. And oh my word, your ACG sounded droolworthy, especially down low. That B string is a thing of beauty. I will definitely be looking out for you lot in the future. Thanks for a great night. 

 

Apologise for the terrible photo

❤️ It’s a great pic!

Cris’ playing is spot on, really adds a healthy dimension to the songs and lets Gab do the guitar god thing without worrying so much about how he’s orchestrating his parts around the sparser songs. 
And yes the B on this ACG is quite the thing*, in fact the whole bass is quite special. Proper good craftsmanship from @skelf
 

*(I’ve said to Alan that it’s the best B I’ve ever had on a bass - it’s so well balanced with the rest of the strings and just seems to sing better than any I’ve had before. None of the others have been *bad*, they just haven’t been *this good* 🤓

Edited 18 hours ago by Merton
Smelling pistake. I got home at 3.30am and my fingers aren’t working

[MichaelDean]

Just got back from playing The Pit at McCann's in Newport. An interesting night. 

 

Soundcheck was annoying. We went to go do it and one of the guitarists decided to just go to the hotel he was staying at and have a shave. Not the best timing 🙄 never mind, we eventually got it sorted. The first band had pulled out a couple of days ago, so there was plenty of time. 

 

Probably our smallest crowd yet of about 6. That might just be what happens when you play a metal gig on the same weekend as Download Festival 🤷 We played well though and were well received by the people there. The supplied cab sounds like it's on the way out though. Really didn't have a nice high end. 

 

Usual gear of Dingwall Combustion -> GX-100 -> Bass Big Muff/Mojo Mojo in the loop -> Laney Digbeth.

 

Footwear for this evening was some Hobibear barefoot trainers. Still undecided about barefoot shoes...

 

No photos, sorry. I'll update if anything surfaces on the socials!

[Norris]

Gig 1 of 3 this weekend. We don't normally do 3 in a weekend but tonight's gig got moved from next week.

 

Last time we played here we decided it was such a small, noisy area to set up in that we would do it "acoustically" because of the smaller footprint and lower volume. Of course none of us remembered that, so we shoehorned in the full kit again.

 

 

The pub was rather quiet though with not many in. That lead us to a bit of musical silliness, which always helps a slower night go faster, plus engages the people that are there. So it ended up a good, if hot (I remembered the fan!) night. Best of all only 15 minutes away from my house and home by half past midnight.

 

Cheap "stingish" bass into the usual Rumble. Converse feet.