How was your gig last night?

[Simon C]

A bit late,  but Thursday's Jam Night was good. We were on shortly after 9 followed by the band I depped for the previous Saturday (Matt Guntrip and the Roadsters). Matt and said Roadsters hadn't heard us play before.  A few of my mates also came down, some of them for the 1st time

 

The pub manager told the guitarist he'd had a few people asking about us and offered us a Friday slot if we want one. So I guess we either played well,  or played songs people liked,  or both. 

 

My 1st Granddaughter (and also the neice of the drummer), was born on 4th May. Hence I managed to get this one on the set list.  Intro to the song was along the lines of "Can you guess her name. No. No. No. Well there's a clue in this song".

 

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[Beedster]

Singist hits some loud shit in our Odelay gig, went great, could have been better, could have been worse, Beck has said the same about his own gigs

 

[peteb]

On 20/06/2025 at 10:06, dmccombe7 said:

What a coincidence. Nice one. Hopefully we'll get some gig pics of each others band from you both. 😂

Dave

 

So, played the Farmyard Party at the weekend - pics above on @casapete's post a couple of pages ago. 

 

The Friday was very hot and sticky. As we were staying over, I had to put up a large tent pretty much on my own (the missus is recovering from an operation on her hands) in rock hard ground - hence me managing to look sweaty, pasty and sunburnt all at the same time in the picture of me and Pete above. Great to meet Pete before the gig - I was obviously pretty busy trying to get everything ready for our show, so I only managed to see a couple of songs from his band, but he is obviously a very tidy bass player. There was a bit of a groan from backstage as they played a song on our setlist, but fortunately that seemed to be the only one, so we managed to avoid too many duplicate songs! 

 

The gig itself was a bit hit and miss. We had a (very good) dep guitarist and it had been sounding brilliant in the three rehearsals we managed to get in before. However, live there were a few adventures starting and (particularly) ending songs and a fair few missed cues. Endings became a bit of a negotiation between me, the guitarist and the drummer, with the poor keyboard player trying to work out what was happening from the other side of the stage! However, we got a pretty good audience reaction and had a lot of very positive feedback after the show (with a couple of gig offers thrown in), so it can't have been too bad - amazing what you can get away without the audience noticing when playing live sometimes! Gear wise, I was using the 78 P bass and the usual set-up of a Shure GLXD wireless, Thumpinator, Cali76 bass comp and Caveman pre into a Handbox R400 and Berg CN212 cab. 

 

Edited Wednesday at 15:47 by peteb

[Bluewine]

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Bluewine

[dclaassen]

Blu…nice job…love how calm you right hand is. Wish I could look that cool when performing! Don’t personally use a pick, but really like your sound!

[casapete]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Sounds fine Daryl - have you joined the Rumble club or was it just a hired in rig? 😆

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Liking that Daryl. Bass sounds nice with studio headphones on and its actually quite a nice mix. That's a nice wee bass line too.

Maybe vocal could be a touch higher but otherwise its good to me.

How's the ankle now. ?

Dave

[Muzz]

A lesson in How To Be Cool In 100 Degrees...loved it; you can see the fella on the left in the sun's suffering the heat...  Great groove and feel, you're making it look easy...which is the hard bit... 🙂

[knirirr]

Last night I did a dep gig for a U3A jazz band as their usual chap has various health issues and had been advised by his physician to take a rest. He actually turned up to watch and, fortunately, appeared to like what he heard. 

Not many in the audience, but it was a fairly rural venue. Nice building, though: https://thehallevents.org.uk/

 

Gigging again tomorrow:

 

https://www.charlburybeerfestival.org/live-music-and-entertainment/

 

...then a jam on Sunday.

[Obrienp]

5 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

Nice solo Daryl! Thought it sounded great overall. I get what you mean about the guitar sounding a bit out on occasions but probably wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. That’s Strats in a hot environment for you though.

[Staggering on]

Last weekend my bluegrass band played two outdoor sets at the Tottenham (Ontario!) bluegrass festival, the largest one in Ontario in very hot humid weather. Our Friday early evening  set was made more interesting when the PA suddenly cut out part way through the third song. Since we are all playing acoustic instruments and are seasoned players we kept right on playing and singing and the crowd of about 400 loved it and cheered and clapped and we didn't miss a beat. We moved to the very edge of the stage at the end of that song to more applause and started our next song and then amazingly the PA came back so we gracefully moved back to our mics and finished our set. The Saturday morning set had a smaller crowd but we were in fine form and it went well and my twin sister was there, first time she has seen me play since the early '60's when I played guitar in a folk group in high school, yeah, I'm that old.

The next day we played a concert as a trio (guitar, mando, and me) in a lovely old church and changed our set to outline a brief history of bluegrass and it was the best we have ever played. Super sound and the audience who were not very familiar with bluegrass loved it. The reason we were a trio is because one guitar player had to go home for a family event and the banjo player was suffering severe stomach pain due to a reaction to a new medication and had to leave. We have done this trio thing before and it works really well and we play some non bluegrass songs like some Eagles, Gordon Lightfoot, and even Ralph McTell's Streets Of London which always goes over well.

Sorry for the late report but the area where I live, almost six hours from the gig, was hit by a severe storm Saturday night and when I got home at 11PM Sunday there was no power and it didn't come back for another two days and I am still clearing downed trees from my yard.

Bass was my "70's Czech ply through Nux wireless to my Traynor SB112 and DI to PA.

Edited 2 hours ago by Staggering on

[Greg Edwards69]

School Prom gig last night. Mid week ones are always a bit of a challenge, what with having to leave work early etc, but at least I got home at a decent time!

 

Second time we've played this one (our drummer works at the school and his wife is headmistress) and second time we've done it without any of our usual singers. Keen readers may recall that one of our singers dropped out of last week's gig because of his ME. He was supposed to be doing this one with a dep female singer, but he still wasn't feeling fit, so she ended up doing the whole 2 hours pretty much on her own. We had a rehearsal on Tuesday, when we found out he was still unwell, so we hastily put together a new setlist to get through the gig. I ended up singing 4 or 5 songs as well to give her a rest.

 

Under the circumstances, it went much better than I expected it too. Typical "gymnasium sound", but it sounded decent out front. In-ears were another matter. I don't get how the in-ear mix keeps changing from gig to gig, but I was getting pummeled by bass and kick drum and hardly any guitars. We definitely need to do some work with that.

 

Teresa, the dep singer did a fantastic job. She was in a previous band over 20 years ago with the two guitarists, and I depped with them on their last ever gig before forming this band. I quite forgot how good she is with a crowd. It helped for this one that she's also a school teacher herself. You could tell how comfortable she was interacting with the kids.

 

The school itself is a special needs school. It was fantastic to see these children enjoying themselves in a safe, nurturing environment. I feel they wouldn't have had the same opportunity to express themselves the way they did last night in a regular school. It's humbling to see them being encouraged by the staff to be themselves without judgment.

 

So, yes. A good night in the end. Any anxiety I had about not having our usual singers quickly disappeared once we got going. The evening finished at 9.30 and I was home a little after 10.30. More of those, please! Although I was still aching when I got up for work this morning.

 

Next stop, The Cricketers and a wedding both in July, with yet another dep singer that we've yet to rehearse with! It seems like the years of deps!
 

[Staggering on]

And here I am at the church looking for a note....

 

 

 

 

[ezbass]

6 hours ago, Bluewine said:

I found some video from last Saturday.  Not our best. I post the good and the bad.

 

Guitars seem out of tune, it was 100°, sound mix was not great and I played with a healing broken ankle. I'll stop because I can go on forever with making excuses. 

 

I can't hear any bass without earbuds. 

 

Daryl

 

 

That’s how you do a bass solo, holding the groove, whilst stretching out a bit. 👏👏👏

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, dclaassen said:

Blu…nice job…love how calm you right hand is. Wish I could look that cool when performing! Don’t personally use a pick, but really like your sound!

 

Thanks Dclaassen,

 

I put the MIJ 2000 Fender P away for a while.  I'm back with my 1994 G&L.

 

Daryl

Edited 27 minutes ago by Bluewine

[Bluewine]

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

That’s how you do a bass solo, holding the groove, whilst stretching out a bit. 👏👏👏

 

I'm still working on it. We play the song so fast it's hard to come up with something. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

1 hour ago, Staggering on said:

And here I am at the church looking for a note....

 

 

 

 

 

Very cool bass and beard.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

1 hour ago, Obrienp said:

Nice solo Daryl! Thought it sounded great overall. I get what you mean about the guitar sounding a bit out on occasions but probably wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. That’s Strats in a hot environment for you though.

 

Thanks Obrienp,

 

I'm not sure those guitars were properly mixed. Those guys were constantly tuning between songs.

 

I mentioned this before. We had an hour break between sets . It was heaven to have an air conditioned trailer. 

 

Daryl

 

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Liking that Daryl. Bass sounds nice with studio headphones on and its actually quite a nice mix. That's a nice wee bass line too.

Maybe vocal could be a touch higher but otherwise its good to me.

How's the ankle now. ?

Dave

 

Thanks Dave,

 

The ankle is slowly healing. By the time I had taken the EKG and Chemical Stress Test too much healing had occurred and the Podiatrist called off the surgery. 

 

To be honest, I've never been comfortable taking solos. I felt like I had painted myself into a corner and couldn't find a way out. Lol

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, Muzz said:

A lesson in How To Be Cool In 100 Degrees...loved it; you can see the fella on the left in the sun's suffering the heat...  Great groove and feel, you're making it look easy...which is the hard bit... 🙂

 

Thanks Muzz,

 

Like I said, I'm not really a

" take a solo " guy. However, the way Max our drummer lays back makes it tolerable. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

Sounds fine Daryl - have you joined the Rumble club or was it just a hired in rig? 😆

 

Thanks Pete,

 

You noticed the backlined Rumble 500. I've always been critical of Fender Bass amps. However, I was impressed with the Rumble 500. It had a very nice punch.

 

Daryl