How was your gig last night?

[okusman]

Two weekends in a row…air conditioning on stage. 
The gig seems unimportant if you’ve got sweat rolling down your butt crack.

Rock’n’Roll

[bigthumb]

8 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

I played at our self organised Hullabaloo festival yesterday. Apart from being the assistant stage manager for our sound man, I was in a 5 piece band made up of people from our 13 piece main band. With two gigs, one of which lasted a marathon 4 hours, it was a busy day. The 5 piece played in the late afternoon and were the first of the bands that managed to get people up and dancing - seeing folks bopping along is always a moral booster. We hadn't been able to rehearse much and although everyone is a competent player, there was that 'will it all come together' feeling just before we started. Part of the reason for doing the 5 piece splinter band is to give the players a chance to expand on what they do in the main band - so each year we choose a couple of songs that will challenge us and feature the players who would normally be at the back of the stage. This year our Uke/trombone player (who is an accomplished guitarist) chose 'Sultans of Swing' on which she played the lead parts and our sax man picked 'Baker Street'. Both nailed it after shaky rehearsals and Baker Street was one of those performances that you realise early on is something special - everything just clicked - and it was amazing to be playing it. It's those moments that remind me why I love playing gigs. Of course, there were a few dodgy moments, mostly involving my singing ('Sultans' and 'I'm a Believer' and a distinctly off key element to my backing vocals on our opening number, 'Pinball Wizard'). But it was all good and there were some nice compliments for the band and my bass playing.

 

The main band (the Hulla band) went on just after 7pm to a full village green - perhaps 700 people - and we played until just after 11. The festival is a charity event and we raise money for, amongst others, a local homeless drop-in centre. They have a choir and we had them on stage to sing with the band (they had played their own set earlier in the day). I always love the choir and band combination as the voices add an extra level to what were doing. This is the 5th years I've played this gig and it was by far the best performance we've done as a band. I was very happy with my sound - I went through the desk with no backline and using IEM and my Sterling bass was sounding so good that I decided not to swap basses half way through as I had originally planned. 

 

My kit line up for the day was a Sterling 34HH through a Sine Effects HPF (set at 40hz), MS60B for compressor, noise gate and octave/chorus (for one song) and an Ampeg SCI DI (unused back-up bass was my Ibanez 205). For the songs I played guitar on I used a Squire Telecaster that went through a Zoom MS50G+. IEMs came from a Behringer P16 personal monitor mixer fed from our Behringer X32 desk pre-fade so I had my own monitor mix which I was able to adjust (for example, when the singer decided to play his harmonica at full last through his vocal mic!) Footwear was courtesy of Skechers (if I mention them often enough I should get the sponsorship deal I'm after).  

 

As usual no photos have yet emerged of either of the bands I was playing in (as I was the principal photographer on the day). I will amend this post if/when they appear. 

 

Edit: Some photos from the night. 

 

 

 

That looked awesome! 

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, WalMan said:

Hot and very sweaty was the order of the night last night. All good fun with the FrankenJazz sounding lovely, though the Darkglass master seemed to be at a point where it was lovely but a bit too loud, or knock it back the tiniest touch and the heft was lost. We found a happy medium and all good running the sound ourselves as our sound guy was running another gig.

 

Had a girl come up and try to talk to me, mid-song and into the ear with my IEM in, 🤦‍♂️so that got us nowhere 🤣

 

 

I love when the volume is just right where the amp and speakers just gel into the perfect tone without being deafening.

 

Annoys me when people come up to me for some weird reason its always me while i'm on a 3ft high stage wearing platform boots and in the middle of a song and expect me to hear them and to stop playing and focus on them while they ask for a song that isn't Glam Rock even tho they've paid for a ticket for an advertised Glam party night.

Some odd people out there.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

 

Hi Dave,

 

Here's a pic of my 1994 Gibson Thunderbird. It's a great bass. It's a shame I don't gig much with it.

 

Daryl

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

Edited 4 hours ago by dmccombe7

[Bluewine]

46 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

 

Yes, It's neck thru.

 

Daryl

[Geek99]

47 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

Stick some sequins on it ? 

[Bluewine]

49 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

 

Isn't there a bass chat member that has a purple sparkle Thunderbird ?

 

Daryl

[Franticsmurf]

1 hour ago, bigthumb said:

That looked awesome! 

It was - and that's not just me on an ego trip - the band played the best it ever had, the audience created and incredible atmosphere and the singer (who organises the whole event) was at the top of his game. 😀

[Geek99]

52 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

Get a sparkly vinyl wrap 

[woodyratm]

55 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I'm guessing the Gibson is neck thru Daryl ?

I do fancy a white one. Saw the Gene Simmons one for sale in local shop few mths back and was sorely tempted but black basses don't work in a Glam band.

Dave

Always could consider the D-roc from Dingwall! Sparkles!
https://www.andertons.co.uk/d-roc-4-khaya-gloss-metalflake-aquamarine-3-pickups-pau-ferro-standard-head-pr34gmapsh-x-1/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20740064305&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyIPDBhDBARIsAHJyyVhcN5hV5ovyP-c8mdHanR51HO2ePrDSwzyfnR-tmoVZT19Q-ireEV8aAuJREALw_wcB

[Geek99]

12 minutes ago, woodyratm said:

Always could consider the D-roc from Dingwall! Sparkles!
https://www.andertons.co.uk/d-roc-4-khaya-gloss-metalflake-aquamarine-3-pickups-pau-ferro-standard-head-pr34gmapsh-x-1/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20740064305&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyIPDBhDBARIsAHJyyVhcN5hV5ovyP-c8mdHanR51HO2ePrDSwzyfnR-tmoVZT19Q-ireEV8aAuJREALw_wcB

Comes with free mortgage …

[dmccombe7]

45 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

Isn't there a bass chat member that has a purple sparkle Thunderbird ?

 

Daryl

Our very own @neepheid has it and is at this very moment offering me to come over for a visit to try it plus he's dropped me the link to the new ones.

You can't beat BC for helpful friends.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

41 minutes ago, woodyratm said:

Always could consider the D-roc from Dingwall! Sparkles!
https://www.andertons.co.uk/d-roc-4-khaya-gloss-metalflake-aquamarine-3-pickups-pau-ferro-standard-head-pr34gmapsh-x-1/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20740064305&gclid=Cj0KCQjwyIPDBhDBARIsAHJyyVhcN5hV5ovyP-c8mdHanR51HO2ePrDSwzyfnR-tmoVZT19Q-ireEV8aAuJREALw_wcB

I did like my NG2 5 stringer and now sticking with 4 strings that would be nice too but its approx £1k more than the Epi.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

30 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Comes with free mortgage …

The Dingwalls are cracking basses for the money but i'm not spending a lot on any more gigging basses after my VM4 was knocked off its stand by a drunken bum while sitting on stage and i was getting changed after the gig. If i can and have the space i take my bass into changing area when not on stage but not all changing rooms have that amount of space.

Dave

[Stub Mandrel]

4 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Our very own @neepheid has it and is at this very moment offering me to come over for a visit to try it plus he's dropped me the link to the new ones.

You can't beat BC for someone ready to fire up the GAS.

Dave

 

Let me fix that for you 😁

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Let me fix that for you 😁

Aye that's what its all about. I assumed @neepheid was offering to buy it for me. 🤩

Dave

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, okusman said:

Two weekends in a row…air conditioning on stage. 
The gig seems unimportant if you’ve got sweat rolling down your butt crack.

Rock’n’Roll

That's a nice looking bass.

Dave