Mudpup

Dan Reed - my all time fave band. Saw them many times back in the day including their first ever UK gig at the old Marquee. They'll be great with that line up And I'm off to see Alter Bridge and Shinedown on a few weeks 😊

It's the temptation to fiddle that's my problem...... Less knobs = less temptation 😊😂

I had a Thunderfunk and a BB800 at the same time. Sold the Thunderfunk though....too many knobs :-) .....i also think the Quilter had more slam about it and La Bam has described the ease of dialling in a sound perfectly above.

Little pub gig last night - a new one for us that came in via our Facebook page. Apparently a few locals had seen us somewhere and nagged the manager to book us. Slightly strange set times - they wanted us starting at 9 and finished by 11 (we're normally starting the second set at 11) but hey ho its an early scarper so no problem. We arrived at 7pm to find 10 tanked up late 20's bods playing pool, being generally loud, lairy and uncooperative when we said we needed to move the table to set up. The bar staff were no help and said can we could set up at 8.30pm and be ready to go at 9pm. Errr no sorry, it'll take us an hour to get sorted...... we waited around till 7.45 and then just started bringing gear in until they got the message and closed the table off. The lairy bods were getting worse - can i just have a go on the drums mate i'm really good etc....we were dumb enough to leave the gear unattended once whilst doing van shuttles and i came back to catch the alpha male one just getting off the drum stool and his mates laughing at him. I had a quick word with him - "go anywhere near that stage again and the gigs off and we're telling everyone why, no second chances" and then had the same convo with the bar staff. Just to try and set the ground rules out before we got going as it had the smell of a difficult night. We got going at 9pm dead. Lairy bods were getting worse, spider dancing all over the place, spilling drinks, trying to talk or fist pump while we were playing, standing nose to nose eyeballing with us etc. They kept nipping off to the bogs too so we soon figured out they were full of nose candy too - that would explain why they weren't conking out or falling over from the booze. It was like having the children of Liam Gallagher and the Duracell bunny slam dancing around the room. Not aggressive really but unpleasant and intimidating. I couldn't wait to get out of there. And they're trying to rebook us...

Have a look at a Fender FB620....They're about 50quid and pretty good - quite slim but with decent support and padding.

I had one - fabulous amp! Not too heavy to cart about but loud and with serious booty. and its capable of zing unlike a lot of other older Ashdown ABM's. I would cheerfully have another someday...

Just picked up a load of surplus bits from the Recycling section from Andy. A truly generous guy and a pleasure to deal with. Thank you!

PM'ed Andy

This.....

Yeh that was another factor. The 32mm height didn't quite go under the pedalboard either but the 30mm height cheaper one was fine

I think the finish is called Burnt Apple.....its pretty rare

30mm according to the advert - its stuck under my pedalboard now I looked at this one too but it was bigger and did more than i really needed - its 32mm high https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Fame-DC8-Multi-Power-Supply/art-GIT0038973-000

I recently grabbed one of these Fame ones and it seems pretty good so far - no noise and nice and compact. Oh and a proper kettle lead rather than an adaptor too :-) https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Fame-DC-Junior/art-GIT0040359-000?campaign=PSM_UK/kelkoo&ProgramUUID=MrLAqJarZEUAAAFobL.P7Dz7

Cheers buddy - much appreciated! I never get stressed really in the band - we all know what we're doing from load in to load out and i don't tighten up when i'm playing. My gear isn't heavy either. I had a car crash about 12 years ago and the doc said i would suffer a bit when i'm older so i think its just that along with a job that requires me to be stuck in a car for the large part of a long day. I can just imagine telling the guys that they'll have to unload the van whilst i do my stretches for 30 mins :-) but i'll have a go and see what happens.

I'm 55 and there isn't a single bit of me that doesn't hurt after a gig. I'm ok thru the gig but it usually starts with my lower back during pack down and escalates from there. By the time i arrive home i have to chisel myself out of the car. My thighs, shoulders and more lately my hands will be killing me. And it takes 24hrs to recover. I'm just resigned to being old and broken but will keep at it as long as i can. Getting old is poopy.......

I haven't experienced very many 'bad' gigs but there are 2 that immediately come to mind. One was a new one in a bar in Hertford - the gig was fine but as soon as we finished at midnight it seemed like 300 kids came in and completely blocked any way out. We just physically couldn't get our gear out, the staff were absolutely useless and didn't help in any way. If they had just cleared a small route out we could have been done in 30 minutes. Finally got away at 2am after fighting through rugby scrums with the gear. They were trying to rebook us on the night but we declined their kind offers! The other one was a local to me pub. There were a couple of drunk and aggressive blokes in there when we arrived and they just got worse as the night went on. They were crashing around everywhere knocking punters over and spent plenty of time staring me out too. There was also a drunk girl who kept jumping up onstage and groping the guitarist while he was trying to play. I could feel my temper rising but kept it under wraps until about half an hour from the end. (the landlord just kept filling them up with more drink - he had no interest in sorting the issues out). I just stopped playing mid song, everything ground to a halt and I took the mic and announced nothing more was going to happen until the landlord had kicked the idiots out. Took about 10 more minutes to sort them out but we got there in the end. We cancelled the 4 future gigs there on the way out......

We use an old GoPro Hero and a gorilla clip/mount. Copes with low light well and has built in sound compression to deal with volume fluctuation - it works pretty well for us. And it's beer proof and drop proof in its little plastic case thing. The added bonus is you can stick it pretty much anywhere - on the guitar headstock, PA speaker handles, anywhere in the venue where you can get the gorilla stand to clip to really.... And sometimes we just chuck it out into the crowd for them to go walkabout with - they usually bring it back and we've had some 'interesting' footage from that. Here's a crowd shot video from a low light and loud gig a while ago - I wouldn't trust any of this lot with an iPhone and mic.....

I think they're cut only from wide open