How was your gig last night?

[YellowLedBetterBass]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I lied... they are only £2.62 each and I have two. Photo exaggerated as you'd expect, but worked well considering it was a pub with the lights on.

 

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

It's insane that such cheap stuff is so good. Saw them at a club and couldn't believe how effective they are.

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

Where do they get their power from..? 

[Stub Mandrel]

22 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Where do they get their power from..? 

 

I have a 7 output usb psu.

[Dad3353]

29 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I have a 7 output usb psu.

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

We have 4 of these and just stand them wherever there's space, they work a treat. No specialised stands or anything, just put them on the floor or on an amp or something. Worth every penny.

 

For a second there I thought you were talking about well polished boots.

[tauzero]

26 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

 

You could use a powerblock - admittedly you'd still need a cable between light and powerblock, but you wouldn't need a mains socket for it.

 

I've got five of them incoming for the grand total of £11 (two for £4.50 and a minimum order of £10), so need to think about how to power them.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

Great gig last night. A long long day and all for charity.

7 tribute artists across three back line bands. The event was sold out a couple of hours before doors.

Line up was Bon Jovi (Jon Jovi), Alanis Morissette, Elton John, ABBA, Elvis, David Bowie (ChangesTwoBowie) & Queen (Queenage) - plus encores from 4 of them. I played Bowie and Queen plus the encore set.

It's nice to get paid, but to have an audience go this nuts for the songs they love, I'd do it again tomorrow.

A truly remarkable ensemble who I'm honoured to have as friends.

Not sure what the final total is yet, but I'm expecting it to be lots of thousands.

 

[MichaelDean]

A fun one at The Golden Lion in Bristol last night. Our friends from Motorik Road Trip added us onto the lineup with some other doomy bands, and also brought up our Cornish friends, Tüsk. 

 

The main annoyance of the evening was getting across Bristol. With the massive amount of roadworks across the south, one accident combined with the rugby ending had the city backed up for hours. It took about an hour and a quarter to get my band mates and get to the venue. It should have taken about half that. 

 

We had a few mistakes, but it was a fun gig nonetheless! Gear was my usual Dingwall Combustion, Boss GX-100, Laney Digbeth head and then into a misc 410 bass cab. 

 

The first act was a guy just playing bass and synth into three valve amps (Thunderverb, Matamp 200w hobby, and a big Fender bass tube head in a big cage). Big Sunn((())) vibes. 

 

Knackered now after being woken up by my daughter at 5:50 😴

[Norris]

7 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

I was looking rather for a rechargeable, autonomous version, to be placed freely anywhere, with no cabling. The effect looks good, so I'll keep on looking. 

Not quite as sophisticated, but I have some lights like these which are very cheap, surprisingly effective and are rechargeable via USB. Apologies for the Amazon link...

https://amzn.eu/d/3CG5H8O

[Leonard Smalls]

We (Weeds) played at a small and rather intimate venue in Chester (G21)...

It was our first gig as a full band for nine years so we'd spent a couple of days at my house rehearsing and drinking tequila.

We don't really rely on any guitar solos - guitar is mainly rhythmic noise - and our singer uses a vocal synth to make weirdness. After being fine in rehearsal it packed up, so some improvisation was called for. 

So first song was a false start due to laptop sequence mismanagement, but once we got going it seemed to work reasonably well - cock ups were mainly guitar based which was good as much of the set is drum, bass sequence and vox. And vox coped very well without vocal synth, all was generally groovy and I even managed slap bass plus improvised jazz funk solo.

No cans were thrown so we could take down the chicken wire after the first song, and towards the back I could see our own @lurksalot pogoing about.

It's possible we may be asked back in the spring to play in a larger venue...

Gear was ACG-Helix-BBE& Crown amps- Markbass 4x10 with pedal distortion and autowah.

Shoes were zebra creepers.