How was your gig last night?

[HeadlessBassist]

1 minute ago, Geek99 said:

I didn’t realise that you took my Peugeot. 

 

Even a mega comfy and capacious Skoda Superb estate gets torturous after ten hours traveling before the gig, LOL!

[Mickeyboro]

12 hours ago, neepheid said:

Gear was the Greco triple pickup LP then the DeArmond Jet Star (Wonky Boi) into the yellow and black cubes of doom.

 

Looking at these as one pic, I thought someone had spiked my cornflakes!😮

[Geek99]

14 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

I didn’t realise that you took my Peugeot. TWOCker

Partner said yesterday - this needs a good hoovering. I

said “it’s gets used for every single trip to the tip, it’s a very small car, and I have no free time when there is also daylight - what did you think was going to happen?”

[12stringbassist]

We played in Leigh, Lancs last night, to a nice crowd, with a friend sitting in as our dep drummer who did really well.

I'm getting back into the swing of gigging again after an enforced absence due to our old guitarist suddenly opting out. Our drummer has also had some spinal surgery and is going to be out of the game for a while. It does feel a little like the band is limping along, using dep drummers, but it is better than not playing at all. The playing is really enjoyable, but it doesn't feel like the same band. Not entirely a bad thing. Our guitarist has learned a good number of songs and he has done a fine job. We can't really advance the setlist that much until our regular drummer is fit to play again. It will happen, though. He's bought an upgraded electric kit to make it easier for him to transport. It's just a case of persevering at the moment. We are winning at gigs, which is the point.

My rig is raised off the floor here as the place is a bass trap. One particular note can hang around all night like a bad smell.

 

[Woodinblack]

Busy day yesterday. We had the first gig from 2-3 at an outdoor 'festival' like thing in dorset, that we had done 3 years in a row. They had this thing where there were electric bands on the truck in the garden and acoustic bands in the teepee thing next to it between, so 1 hour for each - but it was exactly 1 hour for each, so you got on the stage, set up, plugged in, they did a line check and then you waited for your time to go and there was no gap, so obviously sound wasn't good on stage, and not so great outside as there was no time to setup. But it went down ok - it was raining a little when we were setting up, but by the time we played it was very sunny and well attended. All in all there was a nice atmosphere there and it was a good afternoon. I would have stayed longer but in the evening we had to be back nearer home for a wedding.

The wedding we got to at 6 but they were doing speeches so we had to wait outside and not make noise. We waited for a while, they had finished the speeches but the staff wanted to move all the tables, we waited another half an hour, so finally it was closer to 7 by the time we set up to be ready by 8, for some reason it took a while to get ready as everyone was in each others way. Did the first hour, there was noone in the building, they were all outside in the sun, which sort of makes sense, way of weddings. Then it was time for food so everyone came back in and I put music on on the ipad, we went back on at half 9 to play to 11:15, the guitarist was very grumpy to go past 11. But the second half was dancing all the way through and we went down a storm so that was good. We couldn't play the last encore as it was 11:16 so the guitarist wouldn't play, and he had to be home in 5 minutes after that, so he went, but the singer stayed to help me with the PA

 

Very profitable day all in all and got all the gigs for the weekend over and done with in a day

[Stub Mandrel]

My first gig with the Fortunate Sons and with a neat twist of fate at my 'home venue' of Penarth Ex's.

 

It was also bass player Andy's first gig on keyboards... he did brilliantly and being a bassist he kept out of my octaves

 

Long story short, we had a very good attendance, I made a few flubs - came in late for one song, first bar in wrong key for another and  huge random bang in My Sharona... but no-one seemed to notice, so and and audience very happy. No photos yet.

 

Fender Precision & Jazz, quecha approach shoes, GRBASS cab and orange terror.

[Woodinblack]

I willl also say that I have now noticed that in 8 years of gigging I have had 3 sets of comments about my basses

1) Does your bass have 5 strings? How does that work then - had that twice

2) Is that a bongo bass (it was the wrongo, ironically not mentioned since i had a real bongo) - once

3) Oh thats a fancy bass - it was my checkerboard fireman bass - once

4) Oh your playing a rickenbacker, they sound so good - now at 7 times, including 2 at the day gig. 

 

I have had the rick since december. In fact, there have now been only 4 or 5 gigs with the ric when noone commented about it

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, HeadlessBassist said:

 

Even a mega comfy and capacious Skoda Superb estate gets torturous after ten hours traveling before the gig, LOL!

Any car is uncomfy after 10hrs drive before a gig. 

Dave

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Then it was time for food so everyone came back in and I put music on on the ipad, we went back on at half 9 to play to 11:15, the guitarist was very grumpy to go past 11. But the second half was dancing all the way through and we went down a storm so that was good. We couldn't play the last encore as it was 11:16 so the guitarist wouldn't play, and he had to be home in 5 minutes after that, so he went, but the singer stayed to help me with the PA

Blimey, it sounds like your guitarist is in the wrong band! If he doesn’t appreciate that most weddings rarely

run to schedule then I’d suggest he finds another band rather than holding you all to ransom over a final song.

 

[dmccombe7]

5 minutes ago, casapete said:

Blimey, it sounds like your guitarist is in the wrong band! If he doesn’t appreciate that most weddings rarely

run to schedule then I’d suggest he finds another band rather than holding you all to ransom over a final song.

 

My exact thoughts too but didn't want to mention it and cause more problems for him. 

Most of our gigs run on a little but that's usually because we just put too many songs in the set list but we all enjoy it.

I forgot to mention the Bingo and raffles do tend to run over and our 2nd set invariably starts late. Depending on how nice the club is to us we will either just do the full set or we cut it short and finish dead on time we initially stated.

Dave

Edited 2 hours ago by dmccombe7

[casapete]

Our duo played at a birthday party last night, augmented with a drummer we often work with.

Venue was a large Memorial Hall, with a high stage and about 80 guests attending. There was 

a Martin house PA which annoyingly we weren’t allowed to use, so carried all our stuff in and

then up onto the stage. Room didn’t sound as bad as it looked it would, so no probs there.

Used my Rumble 500 combo and P-Lyte, my go to set up these days. 
 

The booker wanted 3x30 mins sets of dance stuff so we obliged and had a full dance floor

for most of the time. 3 sets is weird for pacing the evening, along with fitting in the buffet and

announcements etc - rock n roll or what? 😆 Still, we managed it and just got packed down by

the 11.30pm curfew. A strange gig, but very well paid and happy punters so all good. 
 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

We played at the Victory in Hereford last night in support of Brazilian hardcore punkers, AntiVirus...

It's funny because we're quite inyerface, but compared to the other 3 bands, we were melodic pop punk! They were all about onslaught with no let-up which a few metallers in the crowd enjoyed and pushed each other about to which was excellent, but we did our psychedlic stonerdoom song (that's meant to be an onslaught too but our drummer keeps playing it really slowly!) but this time we emphasised the different textures and built and collapsed various drones in weird (and perhaps wonderful) ways - after that we seemed to get a far bigger crowd and maybe 100 people had  come in who remained, and even danced about.

We'd re-arranged our set so that I started or gave tempo to most of the others so we were quite varied, ranging from oldskool punk to dance-rock to stoner which I quite like - it means we're quite different to a lot of the other bands we play with  though whether that's a good thing is another matter entirely!

Still, we had the biggest crowd, none of whom lit flaming torches or brandished pitchforks to hasten us on our way. In fact some even said that it was nowhere near as bad as they were expecting despite the now more-numerous bass solos.

I had on a rare-as-hen's-teeth Wigsville Spliffs vest with tight camo trews and 5-10 Guide approach boots. Gear was Sandberg Basic - Helix - BBE pre/DBX compressor - Crown bridged power amp - Markbass 4x10. Post gig dram was a fine Arran barrel reserve.

 

 

[Jack]

4 hours ago, Kev said:

Had a great time at the Rock & Blues Custom Show in Derbyshire yesterday!

 

Funny story, you know that delightful chap who likes to scam old people and Facebook marketplace folk?  His Queen act dropped out last minute and we filled the slot!

 

 

 

What are the low profile xlr connectors? 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

Our duo played at a birthday party last night, augmented with a drummer we often work with.

Venue was a large Memorial Hall, with a high stage and about 80 guests attending. There was 

a Martin house PA which annoyingly we weren’t allowed to use, so carried all our stuff in and

then up onto the stage. Room didn’t sound as bad as it looked it would, so no probs there.

Used my Rumble 500 combo and P-Lyte, my go to set up these days. 
 

The booker wanted 3x30 mins sets of dance stuff so we obliged and had a full dance floor

for most of the time. 3 sets is weird for pacing the evening, along with fitting in the buffet and

announcements etc - rock n roll or what? 😆 Still, we managed it and just got packed down by

the 11.30pm curfew. A strange gig, but very well paid and happy punters so all good. 
 

 

New you couldn't stay away from the big stages Pete 😂

Dave

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

Blimey, it sounds like your guitarist is in the wrong band! If he doesn’t appreciate that most weddings rarely

run to schedule then I’d suggest he finds another band rather than holding you all to ransom over a final song

 

Indeed I don't get it - weddings pay way more than playing the same songs in a pub gig, simply because of a bit of extra fuss and hassle, and frankly, this wasn't much hassle.