How was your gig last night?

[Mudpup]

11 minutes ago, Rich said:

Was that one he'd written? God I'm not surpised he was chuffed. That's a proper result for any song-scribbler.

Did it go 'So here it is Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, Look to the future etc etc....)

 

Cos if it does he's cheating 😂

[martthebass]

14 minutes ago, Rich said:

Was that one he'd written? God I'm not surpised he was chuffed. That's a proper result for any song-scribbler.

It was Rich, we wasn't too sure how it would go down (you know how punters can be with stuff they haven't heard before) but it was well received.

[martthebass]

3 minutes ago, Mudpup said:

Did it go 'So here it is Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, Look to the future etc etc....)

 

Cos if it does he's cheating 😂

Nah but it has plenty of references to Rudolph, Santa...etc.

[Stub Mandrel]

Punter photo from Saturday 🙂 we does like throwing a pose we does  😁

 

 

[musicbassman]

Played a private function at Southampton on Saturday with an 8 piece band.

Venue is called Roddington Forge, which was a new one to me. But a nice place with a decent sized stage - shame it's upstairs so a bit of a haul for equipment.

And the second outing for my newly acquired '96 Stingray - seems to be a good 'un.

Cabaret included a magician who performed seemingly impossible 'mind reading' tricks - audience was....... errr...........spellbound.  😉

 

[dmccombe7]

6 hours ago, Rich said:

The "It's a long story" is a link to the, errm, long story  

TL;DR version: it's a bitsa/butchering job specifically engineered towards ska/bluebeat, only has the one pickup because I found I just wasn't using the bridge pickup

Cheers Rich that never dawned on me that it was a link. Sat was a late night and i was still tired..........honest 

I'm away to read the link story now but thanks for the summarized version LOL

Dave

[Bluewine]

On 04/12/2022 at 04:16, gafbass02 said:

Decent little public/local gig last night, I just really felt like playing bass all day after playing a super boring solo acoustic gig the night before, so an up for it crowd and a great sound in my IEMs just made the whole night a pleasure. 

 

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Nice crowd!

Blue

[Bluewine]

10 hours ago, musicbassman said:

Played a private function at Southampton on Saturday with an 8 piece band.

Venue is called Roddington Forge, which was a new one to me. But a nice place with a decent sized stage - shame it's upstairs so a bit of a haul for equipment.

And the second outing for my newly acquired '96 Stingray - seems to be a good 'un.

Cabaret included a magician who performed seemingly impossible 'mind reading' tricks - audience was....... errr...........spellbound.  😉

 

 

 

Good looking band.

 

Blue

[Cat Burrito]

Two shows over the weekend, Sheffield and Newcastle. We'd recently lost our drummer, which in a three piece is a sizeable dent. I've travelled and roomed with him but he obviously hadn't been happy for a while (more with the other guy, I assume rooming with me is an absolute charm!). The new guy seems to have injected a huge amount of enthusiam into things and it made me realise how unhappy I had been things over the last few months. Both shows were great fun and we also had a great time in the downtime, exploring a few old haunts of the North East (my Mum's family were all from around there and the guitarist / singer also has family connections). After a misfire I had been trying to ignore, we're back!

 

[dmccombe7]

22 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

Two shows over the weekend, Sheffield and Newcastle. We'd recently lost our drummer, which in a three piece is a sizeable dent. I've travelled and roomed with him but he obviously hadn't been happy for a while (more with the other guy, I assume rooming with me is an absolute charm!). The new guy seems to have injected a huge amount of enthusiam into things and it made me realise how unhappy I had been things over the last few months. Both shows were great fun and we also had a great time in the downtime, exploring a few old haunts of the North East (my Mum's family were all from around there and the guitarist / singer also has family connections). After a misfire I had been trying to ignore, we're back!

 

Its amazing how a new member can uplift and invigorate a band. 

Well done.

Dave

[Lozz196]

7 hours ago, Cat Burrito said:

Two shows over the weekend, Sheffield and Newcastle. We'd recently lost our drummer, which in a three piece is a sizeable dent. I've travelled and roomed with him but he obviously hadn't been happy for a while (more with the other guy, I assume rooming with me is an absolute charm!). The new guy seems to have injected a huge amount of enthusiam into things and it made me realise how unhappy I had been things over the last few months. Both shows were great fun and we also had a great time in the downtime, exploring a few old haunts of the North East (my Mum's family were all from around there and the guitarist / singer also has family connections). After a misfire I had been trying to ignore, we're back!

 

Cool pic, Tim, and even cooler looking bass!

[Cat Burrito]

15 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Cool pic, Tim, and even cooler looking bass!

It's just a bitsa. I bought the body on here and it's all cheap parts. Sounds great though. 

[Jack]

On 06/12/2022 at 09:31, Cat Burrito said:

Two shows over the weekend, Sheffield and Newcastle. We'd recently lost our drummer, which in a three piece is a sizeable dent. I've travelled and roomed with him but he obviously hadn't been happy for a while (more with the other guy, I assume rooming with me is an absolute charm!). The new guy seems to have injected a huge amount of enthusiam into things and it made me realise how unhappy I had been things over the last few months. Both shows were great fun and we also had a great time in the downtime, exploring a few old haunts of the North East (my Mum's family were all from around there and the guitarist / singer also has family connections). After a misfire I had been trying to ignore, we're back!

 

Argh, where abouts in Newcastle did you play?

[Cat Burrito]

2 hours ago, Jack said:

Argh, where abouts in Newcastle did you play?

A return to Trillians. I've also played Think Tank in Newcastle too.

 

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, Jack said:

Argh, where abouts in Newcastle did you play?

 

Nice pic and very cool vintage P reissue Is it Fender MIJ ?

 

Blue

[woodyratm]

I played a gig this Friday past. 
 

IT WAS AMAZING.

 

I’ve never sounded better, I could hear everything. Crowd was loving it. Actually had someone come up and say my bass tone was the best he’d ever heard 😂😂😂, the band after were dumbfounded that we were on before them and apparently crapping it following us. 
Even had someone ask for my setlist… like, we’re a crap band from Aberdeen! But sure - go wild!

 

My singer posted on his channel (we need to do more with our YT): 

 

[Downunderwonder]

6 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Nice pic and very cool vintage P reissue Is it Fender MIJ ?

 

Blue

 

On 07/12/2022 at 21:26, Cat Burrito said:

It's just a bitsa. I bought the body on here and it's all cheap parts. Sounds great though. 

Answered already already!

[Bluewine]

4 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

 

Answered already already!

 

I dropped mine face down on asphalt in a parking lot. Couple of dings but know other issues. I gig mine allot.

 

Blue

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, woodyratm said:

I played a gig this Friday past. 
 

IT WAS AMAZING.

 

I’ve never sounded better, I could hear everything. Crowd was loving it. Actually had someone come up and say my bass tone was the best he’d ever heard 😂😂😂, the band after were dumbfounded that we were on before them and apparently crapping it following us. 
Even had someone ask for my setlist… like, we’re a crap band from Aberdeen! But sure - go wild!

 

My singer posted on his channel (we need to do more with our YT): 

 

 

Cool pics and huge sound.👍

 

Blue

[dclaassen]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I dropped mine face down on asphalt in a parking lot. Couple of dings but know other issues. I gig mine allot.

 

Blue

My Pedulla did a face plant off of my guitar stand the other day....no (extra) known issues....

[Bluewine]

1 hour ago, dclaassen said:

My Pedulla did a face plant off of my guitar stand the other day....no (extra) known issues....

 

Keeping my fingers crossed that no issues arise.

 

Blue

[dclaassen]

6 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

Keeping my fingers crossed that no issues arise.

 

Blue

She’s a tough old bird…seen some hard use in a previous life…

[moley6knipe]

17 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

I dropped mine face down on asphalt in a parking lot. Couple of dings but know other issues. I gig mine allot.

 

Blue

Lots to like in this photo. GK rules. And a sunburst strat with a bridge humbucker into a Mesa? Shut up and take my money already!!

Edited December 9, 2022 by moley6knipe

[knirirr]

Last night's gig was a local fundraiser. Inoffensive background straight-ahead jazz required, so we prepared a set list full of ballads &c. and invited a vocalist to join us for them, thinking our clarinetist could play the heads of any instrumentals, take various solos etc. The usual pianist was unavailable so we had a dep. guitarist. He sounded like a proper jazz guitarist but was inexperienced (2nd time playing in public) so was only willing to take solos on two tunes.

A mere 15 minutes before starting we got a message from the clarinetist that he hadn't felt well during the day and thought that he wasn't up to it. But, by padding things out with bass solos and the vocalist playing a baritone horn (almost left behind as she thought it wouldn't be needed) for heads/solos we managed to get away with it. The audience were pleased, so it must have been a success.

[gafbass02]

Quite a drive to a barn in Somerset last night, rather nippy as you can imagine, and challenging acoustically too, but all in all a decent enough night, glad we decided not to play tonight tbh.