Superfly saves the day!
Friday night,Lion Brewery in Ash, regular gig for us which we thought would be a bit quiet as one if the main locals has her birthday party on the Saturday. How wrong could we be, she and partner turned up and loads of the regular crowd too. So we were looking forward to a good night. A few songs from the end of the first half the PA powered desk goes down. No power, zilch! Do all the checks, fuses etc but nothing. So its panic mode with no back up. Guitard has a spare small amp but we have no jack to mike leads only XLR. Luckily the landlord has a jack to mike for his bingo nights, but the guitard amp is all grunge and grind. Enter Superfly, only one channel is working but with the mike plugged into a reverb pedal and the speakers chained it made a reasonable job of it, cue hugging round the singer for multi harmony bits (ie The Chain) but she's a babe so no problem! The Superfly stays in a bag in my car at all times and now is designated back up bass and PA amp!
Was a cracking gig in the end, threw Halo by Texas in which we hadn't even rehearsed and it got them going well.