How was your gig last night?

[Bluewine]

26 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Nice bass there blue, and who is the pretty lady ?

That's our band leader, lead guitarist and lead vocalist.

 

The bass is my 2000 MIJ Fender 1951 Precision reissue. 

 

Forget about the pretty lady. What  about my white jacket. Don't I look

" Dandy " ? Lol

 

Daryl

Edited yesterday at 18:19 by Bluewine

[neepheid]

Last night, played with Nine Lives at Wilsons in Aberdeen.  Honestly, it was merely an OK gig - it wasn't very busy, but the few folk who were there were into it, including a hilariously incoherent guy who was sitting in his chair, fist pumping the air and occasionally shouting out incomprehensible things.  Well, he seemed to be enjoying himself and not harming anyone so it's all good.  My best mate came down to the gig as well, so cheers for the support, brother from another mother!  As long as you're getting something back from the folk who are there, it makes it worthwhile.

 

It was a "weird MIJ LP shaped bass" kind of night, with the Burny LSB-80 followed by the Greco LGB-700 into a couple of yellow and black boxes.

 

 

 

[Bluewine]

4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Last night, played with Nine Lives at Wilsons in Aberdeen.  Honestly, it was merely an OK gig - it wasn't very busy, but the few folk who were there were into it, including a hilariously incoherent guy who was sitting in his chair, fist pumping the air and occasionally shouting out incomprehensible things.  Well, he seemed to be enjoying himself and not harming anyone so it's all good.  My best mate came down to the gig as well, so cheers for the support, brother from another mother!  As long as you're getting something back from the folk who are there, it makes it worthwhile.

 

It was a "weird MIJ LP shaped bass" kind of night, with the Burny LSB-80 followed by the Greco LGB-700 into a couple of yellow and black boxes.

 

 

 

 

Lovely bass guitars.

 

Daryl

[Stub Mandrel]

Funny moment from last night. Songer asks 'is anyone into Deep Purple?'

 

One audience member gets the raptures but we launch into Devil Woman...

 

Black Night was next though...

[Geek99]

48 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

That's our band leader, lead guitarist and lead vocalist.

 

The bass is my 2000 MIJ Fender 1951 Precision reissue. 

 

Forget about the pretty lady. What  about my white jacket. Don't I look

" Dandy " ? Lol

 

Daryl

You do, but I wouldn’t take it to a winery just in case someone slips with their drink . 

[dmccombe7]

4 hours ago, Bluewine said:

We had a great 4 piece acoustic show at The Ziegler Winery yesterday.  We had a very good guest blues harp player. I played sitting down because of my ankle.

 

The 3 hour gig went fast and we were sounding really good to me. I was approached by several people after the show. I love that. It makes me feel famous.  Lol

 

The Ziegler Winery is a beautiful venue and they feature live music 3 days a week.

 

Super nice crowd with lots of dancing.  Perfect weather.  

 

Next week we have Summerfest in Milwaukee. 

 

Daryl

Looking good there Daryl. Another nice looking venue and a decent sized audience too. Did you get any free vino 😂🍷

Dave

[Norris]

Final gig of the weekend was a nice "acoustic" session this afternoon in the garden of another pub in Ashby. Not a huge crowd but still very enjoyable, and they were wearing more clothing this time 😂

 

I forgot to take any photos earlier so here's our guitarist

 

I love playing the EUB but in the second set it turned a bit grey and windy, so we kept on playing - for nearly 2 hours in the end! Needless to say I was pretty glad when we finished the last number

 

 

Sunglasses throughout and burgundy suede Vans

[Geek99]

Is that the bowling green @Norris?

[Norris]

11 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Is that the bowling green @Norris?

The Plough

[WalMan]

8 hours ago, AlexDelores said:

Another cracking weekend of weddings for us just gone. All complimented by a daytime and early set yesterday which meant I was home by 9.30pm

 

Only downside is some idiot decided to try and balance a pint on a speaker on Friday nights Which of course didn’t end well. Seemed to continue to work for the remainder of the night. But we didn’t need both yesterday so I’ll dig it out this week and check it over before next weekend.
 

People. 

 

Had that happen to our sound guy a while back and it killed the cab 😡 he built some pitched roof covers for them so it was impossible 

[Stub Mandrel]

 

[dmccombe7]

18 minutes ago, WalMan said:

Had that happen to our sound guy a while back and it killed the cab 😡 he built some pitched roof covers for them so it was impossible 

We put domed lights on top of our cabs to stop people putting drinks down.

Dave

[Simon C]

I depped for “Matt Guntrip and the Roadsters” at the inaugural “Epsom Square Festival”.  We did 10 or so songs: 8 OGs and a couple of covers.  I played 2 of the songs a couple of weeks ago, so it was only 8 to learn 😀.  I really enjoyed the gig.  A few highlights / lowlights:

 

• 2 of the band couldn’t find the car park they’d parked in, so we were without the stage piano.  I (the Epsom local in the band) eventually worked out which one it was (almost directly underneath us) and showed them how to get there.  When we got to the car we couldn’t get stuff out of the boot.  Then we couldn’t work out how to turn on the ignition or where the handbrake was, or maybe wasn’t (it was another band members car).😂
• We were sat at the stage we we were going to play on, then saw my mates band go on who were on a different stage to us.  Quick panic to find the organiser and then our stage.🤔
• One of guitarists snapped a string in the 1st song and couldn’t see to get a new one on.🤷‍♂️
• A gig of 3 halves. Ist half we had a good number watching, who all left after about 3 songs that we’d played well (broken string faff not withstanding); we later found out it was at least 2 groups leaving for restaurant bookings. 2nd half playing to 2 tables who looked like they’d just stopped for a beer. 3rd half a load of people piled out of the indoor stage for the last 4 songs or so.
• I used my wireless system for the 1st time at a gig.  I went for the odd wander in the 1st and 3rd halves (I.e. the ones for which we had an audience).  I think it helped engage the audience.
• Saw a few people I hadn’t seen for a while, so good to catch up with them.  Chatting to one of them was responsible for me leaving my wireless stuff on top of a wall.  Luckily I realised before I drove off and they were recovered successfully.
• Bass G&L L2000
• Outfit: Hawaian shirt, shorts, cap (for reasons of sun and bald patch), neon blue trainers.  And glasses, which I thought were so I could see, but I’ve found they also help guitarists change strings on the fly 🤣.

Edited 23 hours ago by Simon C

[tauzero]

I was quite recently recruited to be house bassist for a couple of local open mics, and then the organiser asked me to dep for their bassist for a gig. This then turned into two gigs on successive days as their bassist had had a gig in Wales (hence the first dep) but had also written his car off (hence the second one as he couldn't get back in time). After a couple of rehearsals, we went ahead - I haven't depped for a few years and then it was for bands that I'd played with before.

 

First gig was a bikers' pub in Old Arley, near Coventry. The stage area was shared with a T140V Bonneville and a Triton (can't say more than that except it was a pre-unit Bonnie engine). Used the Sei Flamboyant 5 through my trusty Zoom MS-60B to the Tecamp Puma 900 and GR Bass AT212 cab. Footwear was the usual Caravelle memory foam trainers (a bit past their best now, but I have a couple of new pairs waiting). I noticed partway through the first set that the Sei was choking out on notes below the fifth fret, so took the opportunity between two songs to grab an allen key and quickly adjust the truss rod. Quarter turn looser and everything was fine - saved me swapping to the Cort Space 5 I had as a backup. Didn't make too many mistakes, just buggered up Gangsters in the guitar solo.

 

 

 

The second gig was a Fathers' Day barbecue at the pub where one of the open mics is held (and that was thoroughly slagged off by one BC member a little while back). Same equipment and footwear, same buggering up of Gangsters.

 

 

Evidence of dancing being perpetrated:

 

[Bluewine]

18 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Well done the new singer at her first full gig.

We're also seeing numbers down in various venues and owners telling us they've put on free bands but still not busy. At least you guys had a decent audience so that's all good news.

Think folks simply don't have the money to go out as much at moment.

Dave

 

It's expensive in my neck of the woods.  Especially these high end  "snooty" Winery's. When I was going out with Connie last year she was always broke. I'd take her to a gig and I had to pay for everything.  I'd end up spending half of my pay on drinks and meals.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

7 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Looking good there Daryl. Another nice looking venue and a decent sized audience too. Did you get any free vino 😂🍷

Dave

Thanks Dave,

 

It's one of those venues where the owners put in a lot of effort to take care of the bands. You can drink for free. Plus these folks have live music booked for 3 nights a week in the summer.  Friday,  Saturday and Sunday. 

 

Very cool vibe, money people, no " riff raff". Lol

 

Daryl

[Agent 00Soul]

17 hours ago, Staggering on said:

A bit of a time warp gig last night, an old fashioned dinner/dance evening with a "Gatsby to Casablanca" theme, just perfect for our 7 piece swing/Dixie band with a guest vocalist. It was a dress up affair with costumes from 20's flappers to gangster outfits and the crowd of just under 50 were up for a good time. As you can imagine most were older but there were some much younger folks there as well.

 

Are you familiar with this gent?  I saw him with his "radio orchestra" a few weeks back in Liverpool.

 

https://www.bdsentertainments.co.uk/

 

I have to say that they were hands down the best 20s/30s act I've ever seen and I've seen lots.  The audience was, as you said, mostly people over 50, but there were also lots of young people who are on the retro circuit who were dressed so perfectly, that I felt I was in a costume drama.

[Woodinblack]

19 hours ago, AlexDelores said:

Only downside is some idiot decided to try and balance a pint on a speaker on Friday nights Which of course didn’t end well. Seemed to continue to work for the remainder of the night. But we didn’t need both yesterday so I’ll dig it out this week and check it over before next weekend.

 

I had the same a few times. I have one of the old Evox which is wood and flat that you can put a pint on, and one of the new, that is not flat, and you can't. So I put the wood one near me so I can tell people not to do it (and I put stuff on it(). I never bother with the other one as it is clearly not flat. But at a gig on new years some woman put a full pint on it, the slopey surface, that is vibrating like mad. Clearly it fell straight off, mostly into the guitarists pedalboard. In her defence I guess she was so drunk I am not sure how she was still upright. 

[police squad]

had a cracking gig on Saturday at The Hertford Corn exchange with U2 Tribe. Great sound and a great turnout and apart from completely messing The Fly up, I had a really good gig

[Burns-bass]

Nice outdoor acoustic session. 
 

Unfortunately, the high heat caused the finish on the bass to crack. Doesn’t really bother me but probably impacts sale value!

[Staggering on]

4 hours ago, Agent 00Soul said:

 

Are you familiar with this gent?  I saw him with his "radio orchestra" a few weeks back in Liverpool.

 

https://www.bdsentertainments.co.uk/

 

I have to say that they were hands down the best 20s/30s act I've ever seen and I've seen lots.  The audience was, as you said, mostly people over 50, but there were also lots of young people who are on the retro circuit who were dressed so perfectly, that I felt I was in a costume drama.

 

Wow, that's great! I watched the video and he and his band have nailed it, music and costumes are perfect, I'd love to play in a band like that. I hadn't heard of the band but I can see why they would appeal to a certain crowd. Same instrumentation as our band but their arrangements are much more period correct than ours, great stuff and fun to play. Thanks for the link, I will pass that on to the band members.

Our gig was a lot of fun last Saturday but this week I am going in a very different musical direction as I get ready to head out of town and play with my bluegrass band at a two day festival on Friday and Saturday and a concert on Sunday... variety is the spice of life as they say.😊 

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Thanks Dave,

 

It's one of those venues where the owners put in a lot of effort to take care of the bands. You can drink for free. Plus these folks have live music booked for 3 nights a week in the summer.  Friday,  Saturday and Sunday. 

 

Very cool vibe, money people, no " riff raff". Lol

 

Daryl

Oh well,  no chance of me getting in there then 😂

I'd be more comfortable at HD Museum venue.

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

21 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

Nice outdoor acoustic session. 
 

Unfortunately, the high heat caused the finish on the bass to crack. Doesn’t really bother me but probably impacts sale value!

 

 

Mojo!

[Linus27]

Had an absolutely amazing gig last Wednesday playing in Guildford at part of the very busy GT Session weekly gigs. We were headlining out of 4 acts with a 30 minute slot. We weren't quite sure what type of set to play as each act was different and we originally decided to play a more uplifting choice of songs. The act before us was very chilled and laid back so we mixed it up and played some chilled songs and a few upbeat songs to lift the vibe and pick the listeners up.

 

I can say we played an absolute blinder and went down a storm. I play fretless and the sound was incredible, so I decided to have a bit of fun by really bringing out the fretless tone, emphasising the slides and the use of my chorus and octave pedal, so much so that our singer gave me a nod and gesture to take a bit of a lead bass part as it was just sounding so good. After the gig, another bassist came up to me and said I saw you were playing so I had to come down and listen as you are my favourite fretless bass player and you sounded incredible 😲 Another bassist came up to me and was fascinated by the pedals I was using and what strings I was used and a few other people came up after and complimented me. 

 

Absolutely awesome gig and makes it all worthwhile.

[Bluewine]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Oh well,  no chance of me getting in there then 😂

I'd be more comfortable at HD Museum venue.

Dave

 

If I wasn't in the band I would have been escorted off the premises.  Lol

 

Daryl