How was your gig last night?

[tubbybloke68]

59 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

what bass do you use if not the Wal. ?

Dave

Hi Dave, just lately I’ve been using my GB spitfire 5 or a fairly recently acquired Yamaha trb5 mk1 . I’m very lucky to have such a choice I guess. 
All the best mate x

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, neepheid said:

Last night I played Drummonds in Aberdeen with The Inevitable Teaspoons.  It was a good gig, not super busy but busy enough not to feel empty - Drummonds is a tough room if it's dead.  We played well, and big props to the sound engineer, John - super smooth soundcheck, great FOH sound.

 

After we finished, we got lots of nice comments, saying that we're tight and played well.  A guy came up to me after we finished playing and he said (roughly paraphrasing) "You're a wizard on bass, mate, I play bass too, and you've inspired me".  I was floored, that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me after a gig.

 

Gear was the Greco LGB-700 and the venue's Trace Elliot backline.

 

Was the weather not a bit horrendous up your way last night @neepheid. ?

Dave

[neepheid]

7 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Was the weather not a bit horrendous up your way last night @neepheid. ?

Dave

 

Aye, the wind was fighting me at times on the walk home (thankfully managed to get a bus half way), and today just seen that the garden took a bit of a hiding

 

[ezbass]

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

"You're a wizard on bass, mate, I play bass too, and you've inspired me". 

Wow! That’s has to be a good feeling. I wonder if said bassist is on here at all?

[Bluewine]

6 hours ago, neepheid said:

Last night I played Drummonds in Aberdeen with The Inevitable Teaspoons.  It was a good gig, not super busy but busy enough not to feel empty - Drummonds is a tough room if it's dead.  We played well, and big props to the sound engineer, John - super smooth soundcheck, great FOH sound.

 

After we finished, we got lots of nice comments, saying that we're tight and played well.  A guy came up to me after we finished playing and he said (roughly paraphrasing) "You're a wizard on bass, mate, I play bass too, and you've inspired me".  I was floored, that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me after a gig.

 

Gear was the Greco LGB-700 and the venue's Trace Elliot backline.

 

 

Nice gig!

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 29/09/2025 at 12:03, dmccombe7 said:

That's poor from HD with no advertising. Don't understand that at all. Why spend money on a band and have poor turnout by not advertising it. Its just stupidity especially when HD aint doing so well at the moment.

Onto the next one Daryl.

Dave

 

Dave, I'm not sure you'll be able to access the video clip. I know you use earbuds. You'll be able to hear my " meat and potatoes " bass lines. Nothing fancy.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1K5pZJcYJe/

 

Daryl

[Geek99]

That’s exactly how it should be @Bluewine

serve the song and make the glasses rattle 

 

… and be funky 

Edited yesterday at 18:28 by Geek99

[dmccombe7]

3 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

Dave, I'm not sure you'll be able to access the video clip. I know you use earbuds. You'll be able to hear my " meat and potatoes " bass lines. Nothing fancy.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1K5pZJcYJe/

 

Daryl

Nope can't get it Daryl. Looks like you've only shared to friends on FB. 

Dave

[dmccombe7]

4 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

That’s exactly how it should be @Bluewine

serve the song and make the glasses rattle 

 

… and be funky 

Are you able to see the link ?

Doesn't open for me.

Dave

[bassbiscuits]

Pub beer garden solo gig - yes it was outdoors - for a local Oktoberfest in the village. 
 

Despite the best efforts of Storm Amy all day the rain stayed away although the high winds didn’t do any favours to my sound and I was playing in the dark by the end. 
 

It was also a test of my lyrics knowledge as any paper cheat sheets blew off the stand within the first song and I had to step on them until the tune finished to save them ending up in the stream behind. 
 

Seemed to go down really well to be honest. I was set up a bit away from the main crowd who were busy with German sausages and proper German beer so I can’t fault them for staying where they were. But a few collared me afterwards to say how good they thought it was etc also that’s a bit of a result.
 

The landlord has assured me I will progress next time to the hallowed ground of “indoors.” 

Gear was my Simon and Patrick with the Seymour Duncan woody, my A&H desk, Shure SM58 and a pair of Mackie SRM350s. Effects were a tuner, a compressor and a Boss EQ pedal.

 

Earl Grey Tea was by Twinings.

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by bassbiscuits

[Dad3353]

Mmm... Tea..!

Edited 22 hours ago by Dad3353

[tauzero]

The annual Ride to the Wall happens today, and as the Wall in question is about 15 miles from Tamworth, some people ride up the day before and stay in hotels. One of those hotels was the Liberal House, where one of my bands (appropriately, The Bonnevilles) finished up playing.

 

I started to set up and realised that I'd managed to forget my amp - I'm used to getting all of the gear out of the garage and as I don't do the PA for The Bonnevilles, I'd got distracted by moving the bits I didn't need out of the way. Still, it was only a 15 minute round trip to pick it up. We had to fit into an alcove so tiny that the guitarist finished up outside it, and the drummer was sitting on the bench seat in the alcove, as was my cab (on its side). I'd brought a headed bass - rather stupidly, I didn't think to pick up a headless when I went back for the amp.

 

Audience was mainly bikers ("They like both kinds of music - rhythm AND blues"), a large proportion of whom were wearing fleeces/trackies with RCT RIDERS emblazoned on them - Royal Corps of Transport. Mrs Zero sat and talked with some of them - it was the first time she'd seen me with The Bonnevilles, her hip replacement had rather interfered with coming to see us before. All went well, though because the bikers had to get up early, a lot of them buggered off to bed before we finished at spot on 11.

 

Gear: Antoniotsai 5-string dragon bass -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> supine GR Bass AT212. Footwear as usual but damper than normal.

 

[WalMan]

18:40 tonight sat on the sofa wondering whether to get on with some private work while wifey watched the football or some cr@p horror movie on Amazon.

18:44 Facebook message “are you free tonight our bass player just cried off sick?”

19:15 car loaded and on the road to the gig which was thankfully only a few miles down the road.

 

I depped with the band last probably 8-10 years ago so there were some standards in the set and a few I had heard but not played. I took my iPad and found a few on iReal, the rest it was watching the guitarist or keyboard players left hand and busk it.

No major clangers and a good drummer (also a dep but has been doing a few with them so he was up to speed) who was easy to lock in with.

 

The keyboard player chucked in a final one not discussed but I sort of knew it and it was pretty straightforward so got through ok.

 

We talked through the set before each one, did a quick yes/no/swap out and call keys during and “no one died” 😁 

 

Only a smallish crowd but they were enjoying themselves and dancing so all in all what was going to be a quiet night in became an unexpected night out playing a load of songs I’d not done in a while, or ever.

 

FrankenJazz, Helix Effects, Aguilar Tonehammer 350 and BF BigBaby2

[mep]

Back at The Burton in Brixham last night. Our guitarist daughter and BF, along with his family travelled down from Macclesfield to see us. The first set was a bit loose in places, but we got through ok. Our drummer was using his new Mapex kit with an 18" kick drum for theses small pubs. Last time it was fine, but this time the kick drum was moving so I spent the second set with my left foot on on of the legs. I adjusted my mic stand and had to stand fairly still. Overall a good night, and our next gig there has been moved to NYE. My usual rig and Skechers.

[Stub Mandrel]

Back at the Exchange with Bendricks this time. Still tough to get the sound right in there, and rhythm guitarist said I was too loud, vocalist that I was too quiet... I struggled to hear myself well. First set was very poorly lit and I could barely see my neck dots... that caused a few minor bloopers, especially compounded with mushy sound due to all the hard surfaces. Second set we got the lights over us switched back on. Audience modest, probably because of storm Amy.

 

In the second set drummer ran for the loo! Lead guitarist started jamming Parisienne walkways (which we haven't ever played together) and I joined in and vocalist jumped on the drums. Audience loved it. Drummer recovered and we got on with it. Had a couple of encores which I played with a pick for an experiment , Rock and Roll and War Pig.

[dclaassen]

At the Royal Mail Cart in Spalding. Smallish room, but jammed from the start. Great gig with loads of energy from the crowd. Decided to bring the Pedulla and it sounded great through the TE head. Justin boots as standard country band fare.

 

[bottomfeed]

1st actual gig with the 'A little more Gilmour' band

https://alittlemoregilmour.com

went well, I think....

 

[markbunney]

Played in Maidstone at the weekend. Venue was pretty busy and all there seemed to enjoy it. We normally play as a 4 piece but were a guitarist down last night and played as a  3 piece.

 

Gave my new Markbass combo a run out and I was impressed with the sound & volume it gave out.

 

i am trying to gig with the least & lightest amount of gear possible, and this is definitely  helping with that!

[Geek99]

21 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Are you able to see the link ?

Doesn't open for me.

Dave

No, it wants me to log in on a browser and I don’t recall my password 😊

[BassTool]

The Crook Hotel for us last night in County Durham. It's a great bar venue, small raised area in a window which normally has dining tables during the day becomes the stage area on a night. We put the black backdrops up and front lights truss to create the illusion of a bigger stage.

 

Always a fantastic and very appreciative crowd in here, and we finally got offstage at 11.45 😳

Finally got my voice back after 4 weeks, now thinking I've been victim of the latest Covid variant with a cough that's lasted four weeks coupled with laryngitis symptoms, not exactly ideal 😖

 

New strings on the Vigier sounded nice though 👌🏼