How was your gig last night?

[colleya]

19 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Enjoyed those, great singer with a very nice voice.

Dave

Thanks Dave, she's quite a find.

 

I used to do a bit of noodling over the intro to this, but now I resist the temptation to get in the way, stand back and enjoy.

[tauzero]

That's a bit odd, pages 864 and 865 are displaying identical content.

 

Anyroadup, Saturday was another dep for the Bonnevilles, who are still trying to get an answer from their current bassist about his intentions. Back to the Anker Inn in Nuneaton, which was not exactly rammed but it was a pretty good audience. Usual gear and footwear.

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

21 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Anker Inn

 

I've got a mate who used to work for Anchor Housing Trust...

He took great joy in answering the phone with "Hello Anchor".

[Leonard Smalls]

3 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Am getting envious chaps!

I'm going on Thursday morning, dumping my stuff in the hotel then straight in to see MC16 followed by Mannequin Death Squad... 

[Chienmortbb]

On 02/08/2025 at 21:48, police squad said:

First gig with this tonight

The Policed

It sounds amazing and a great crowd

Couldn't be happier

That is all wrong, mixed driver sizes, side by side not stacked and Ampless sorry Ampeg. I bet it sounded grewat. 

[Chienmortbb]

Sorry, no pics as I was still setting up until three (as in the three in 1,2,3,4). The Rebbels had a very good gig at my local Legion, in front of all my friends. People that have seen us many times said we had the sound we ever have, although we had to run without on stage monitoring, due to feedback problems. Legion in the next Village next Saturday.

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, colleya said:

Thanks Dave, she's quite a find.

 

I used to do a bit of noodling over the intro to this, but now I resist the temptation to get in the way, stand back and enjoy.

Nice, so good. I can understand not doodling over that. Nice to let her shine on her own.

Dave

[Bluewine]

On 03/08/2025 at 14:47, dmccombe7 said:

Its quite a good venue but it does have a few issues with sound. Difficulties with drums on a drum riser and a hollow wooden stage was causing a lot of very low droning sounds. SE added a gate of some sort to help but it wasn't there during sound check.

You seem to get a lot of rebound noise which made it sound as if we had a lot of reverb on things but there was very little being used. 

It could do with a bit of a tidy up around the stage area and the changing room but its not the worst we've played by any means. To be fair to them they are trying to upgrade a very old building that i'm guessing was an old theatre come picture house come bingo hall and now being changed over to a proper venue. 

The team working in it last night were pretty good tho and very helpful. 

Give it a couple of years and it should be a decent gigging venue for touring bands.

Dave

 

The room looks big and it looks like you had a good size crowd.

 

I get the hollow wooden stage issue. My issue has always been playing on concrete stages. Very cold and medicinal. 

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

1 minute ago, Bluewine said:

 

The room looks big and it looks like you had a good size crowd.

 

I get the hollow wooden stage issue. My issue has always been playing on concrete stages. Very cold and medicinal. 

 

Daryl

It is a good size Daryl and must be able to hold 200-250 people i reckon. A decent small concert venue. I like playing it because we have plenty of stage space. Twice we've played it and the audience were great both times.

Not sure i've ever played on a concrete stage. To be fair the bass cab was sitting directly on stage with no gramma pad this time and it wasn't boomy in any way at all. I know the drummer was using twin floor toms tuned low and maybe it was down to a lack of damping but not sure why it wasn't noticed at sound check.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

Couple of pics from Sat nights gig with Blockbustarz just appeared from Auld Gambling Hoose in Alloa.

Excuse the wig, it was a new one i was trying out for a friend. 😂

It needs a bit of trimming for the next gig. Couldn't see thru the darn thing.

Dave

 

 

[peteb]

5 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Couple of pics from Sat nights gig with Blockbustarz just appeared from Auld Gambling Hoose in Alloa.

Excuse the wig, it was a new one i was trying out for a friend. 😂

It needs a bit of trimming for the next gig. Couldn't see thru the darn thing.

Dave

 

What's the blueburst bass dude?? 

 

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

What's the blueburst bass dude?? 

 

Its actually an Overwater J4 Contemporary that they put together from spares they had when taking samples to Tanglewood. They only made a few of these so no serial numbers etc. 

Its a decent bass but i was finding it a bit heavy in the 2nd set and moved to my trusty VM4 for last 5 or 6 songs. 

Part of the problem was i hadn't gigged for 4 weeks so my back was feeling it.

It sounded ok but i really need more time to get the best out of it.

I had dropped the string height at the nut and raised the neck pick up by 5mm but still hadn't adjusted the bridge pick up to balance it so it was a bit bass heavy and lacked a bit of mid drive. I'll get that sorted this week and might give it another go.

I like the look of it in the pics.

The other thing was it was a lot hotter than my Sandberg and i had to tweak amp volume a bit at change over. I believe there are gain pots in the control cavity that would drop the gains from the pick ups more in line with my Sandberg.

I think its Kent Armstrong pick ups and pre-amp.

Dave

[Bluewine]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Couple of pics from Sat nights gig with Blockbustarz just appeared from Auld Gambling Hoose in Alloa.

Excuse the wig, it was a new one i was trying out for a friend. 😂

It needs a bit of trimming for the next gig. Couldn't see thru the darn thing.

Dave

 

 

 

Dave ,

 

What color is that bass? It looks like blue burst.

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

10 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Dave ,

 

What color is that bass? It looks like blue burst.

 

Daryl

yep same as yours Daryl, Blue Burst. It needs a bit more work to get it just right tho. Bridge pick up needs to come up a bit and possibly lower the string height at the nut a little more.

I've had it for approx 10 yrs but just used it at home. Recently decided to set it up properly and try gigging it.

Dave

[markbunney]

Played at Kent festival of scouting last night for the 14-17 year olds. The whole event was set up just like a proper music festival, and we were in a huge tent with stage, crowd barrier and pro sound team. The kids there were loving it.

 

Earlier in the week the band had played at the opening ceremony on the main stage( I was on holiday and they had a dep) but apparantly the stage was last used at the Ozzy tribute at Villa Park.

 

Couple of pics below of the venue before they were let in

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[Raslee]

Well it was more like this afternoon, Cider festival. This right here absolutely sang today 😎🏁

[NoRhino]

After last night's gig in a pub in Paisley a random stranger tried to sell me a Vox AC50 that 'used to belong to the bass player in The Animals. He sold it to my dad.  It's huge as f**k and better than yours'

I don't need it I said. 

it's better that yours he said again.

I still don't want it.  I couldn't lift it. Was it Chas Chandler's I asked.

Aye, he's English.

This went on for several minutes before I walked away.

Back on stage I asked my fellow bandmaster why all the idiots always speak to me.  

His answer was brilliant.  "I used to think I attracted them but you're different league"  😄

[EssexBuccaneer]

Just back from Ipswich, where we played Rock Against Leukaemia - it’s ninth year now and they’re doing amazing work. It’s always a fun show, this one had us getting ‘glitter beards’ at the request of our singer’s little girl. (The things you do to keep kids laughing!)

 

We played a truncated set well, plenty of dancers, and it was an opportunity to play a heavier than normal set, with Metallica, Fall Out Boy, Sabbath, Nirvana, Lit and a few others. Great night and can’t wait for next year’s 10th birthday for RAL!

 

edit, I supposed I’d better show off said glitter beard, eh? 

Edited 8 hours ago by EssexBuccaneer

[WalMan]

Two gigs on Saturday. Started with a dep at 12 just down the road from home … just as well as I pulled in and remembered I hadn’t loaded my IEM transmitter, so a quick return home to collect then set up.

 

Early start for a festival gig and next to no one there but fun all the same. Took a little while to get the IEM mix right but the sound guy was new to the desk 24  hours previous but we got there by the end and no stress.

 

I’d spent a while getting the dots sorted and down for Footloose then it got dropped for time and two of us depping - me and drums. Annoying but a good workout for me and I’m sure I’ll get a chance to run it at another dep so no problems 🙂

 

Home for a shower and a nap then out to gig two with my usual band. Small (tiny) venue and we used an electric kit for the first time. Worked great for me on full IEM’s and seemed ok in the room. Good tight night though not a lot in with the heat. Happy with the BV’s and getting properly sorted on those with some of the newer ones that are now working in nicely.

 

Bit of a moment towards the end when guitarists were telling me I was in the wrong key - I wasn’t, sounded fine in ear - and whatever it was apparently sorted itself in the chorus, so no idea what happened there.

[tauzero]

Friday evening was my first gig as an official member of the Bonnevilles, rather than a dep, as efforts to communicate with the previous bassist have proved fruitless.

 

A few days on from playing inside at the Anker Inn, this was an outdoor multi-band charity fundraiser. This was for a local charity, a Nuneaton hospice. Arrived a little after it started, the band on when I arrived featured a couple of the guys who were providing the PA. The bassist was playing a 5-string Ibanez BTB, which was nice to see and hear (I've grown bored of 4-string Fenders and Squiers, almost all one sees on open mic nights with bands).

 

Next up was a country singer and guitarist with backing tracks. He revealed partway through his set that his father had died on Tuesday, and had been cared for in the hospice.

 

Then it was us. We were using supplied backline which was OK but the guitarist's sound was a bit indistinct. I'll use that as an excuse for missing my cue back into the "Light my fire" intro after his solo. Then we got a pissed-up woman who told us it was her birthday and wanted us to play f*cking "Wonderwall" and said she could sing it. We ignored her and continued to the end. After doing an encore, the guitarist and I had got our gear off stage when our singer picked up his acoustic and started playing f*cking "Wonderwall", and the drunken woman sang, in a variety of keys, none of which were correct.

As a bit of a postscript to that, the next act on were a duo - male lead vocals and lead guitar on an SG, female rhythm guitar on a slimline semi-acoustic Tele. They were very good and managed to survive the drunken birthday woman thinking that she could make a positive contribution to "Go your own way" (before someone removed her from the mic and the stage).

 

Gear - Antoniotsai 5-string fretted dragon bass -> Lekato WS-50 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Ashdown combo as on-stage monitor, Caravelle memory foam trainers.

 

Then it was Saturday afternoon. For several years, an open mic player called Rick has hosted an event known as Rickstock in his back garden. This stopped a little while back but he decided to revive it as a charity fundraiser for the charity "I'm homeless get me out of here". Rather than his back garden, it was held at the Shirley British Legion. I had a slot mid afternoon, which I did with my usual crap vocals (Mrs Zero having gone to Bloodstock), and as I finished, Rick said to me "the next act's bassist hasn't turned up, can you do it?". I foolishly said yes (I had played with the guitarist who was on next once before and it was freeform jazz, so I expected to have my boundaries further expanded). Then David the guitarist launched into "Sunshine of your love" and I felt safer. Three more songs - "La grange" which I don't know but bluffed through, and "All right now" and "Black magic woman" which I had no problem with. The personnel were guitarist David (pronounced in a German fashion as he's German), keyboard/vox David (pronounced in an English fashion as he's English), and Phil on drums. Plus me, of course.

 

Gear - Hohner B2AV -> Lekato WS-50 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Red Sub combo, unbranded velcro-fastening trainers.

 

So then I headed off to the Dirty Roses gig in Sutton Coldfield.

 

We were at the Sutton Park Hotel (which I think is probably no longer a hotel). Car park was rather full and I got a space about as far away from the doors as was possible. After doing my cardio for the next couple of months I got loaded in. The usual chaos of setup ensued and we started up at 9. The applause was a bit more enthusiastic than "polite" but fell a bit short of "rapturous". Things did seem to shift up a gear for the second half though - one of the songs is Time Warp and that's a bit of a barometer. There were several dancers, and the guitarist and I went walkabout to check them. Another few crowd pleasers and the usual encores. Afterwards, the manageress said she was really pleased with us, wanted us back, and then as we were about to go, one of the bar staff (who had been videoing us all evening) told us she didn't like bands but we had been really entertaining. And some bloke in the toilet asked me if we were playing anywhere else locally. Which was all very nice.

 

 

Ringing the changes, gear was Sei Flamboyant 5 -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212, and footwear the same unbranded velcro-fastening trainers.

[Bluewine]

On 31/07/2025 at 20:34, Bluewine said:

I've got nothing until next weekend. Not my favorite gig. However, we get an air conditioned trailer.

 

Maple Road

August 9th, 2025

Major Goolsby's Stage
Wisconsin State Fair
West Allis WI.

 

Daryl

 

We played The Major Goolsby stage at Wisconsin State Fair this afternoon. 

 

It was a good gig. We were well received.  The whole thing went over a lot better than last year despite the 100° weather. 

 

We played three 45 minute sets. As usual I couldn't get any decent pics.

 

We

[YellowLedBetterBass]

Had our first gig with the new lineup last night to a packed venue with close to 150 people in this tiny room. And we absolutely smashed it.

 

I went DI for the bass - Tonex One into cheap generic passive DI box into FOH, and wired IEM packs.

 

Struggled to sleep overnight from the adrenaline, but that's about normal for me after a gig.

[Rayman]

First gig back for 7 months for various reasons…..

 

Good warm up, bit rusty, but a fun one..

 

 

Then the following night, a hot one, but I had a great on stage sound, full Ashdown rig on full tilt, a lot of fun…..