How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

9 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

 

Dave,

I have to come up with a good hobby. I need something to do after my band days are over.

 

Its the driving thats a concern for me. A few nights ago I was driving to Wal Mart and I made a wrong left turn into oncoming traffic.  I've had several of these driving incidents over the last few months. Fortunately I didn't hit anyone. 

 

Daryl

Slow down and take your time. Thinking about where you're going at all times certainly helps me Daryl.

Dave

Edited Sunday at 01:49 by dmccombe7

[peteb]

I've gotta say that i just bumped into an old drummer mate of mine at a pub gig tonight and he was saying that we ought to appreciate that we're in our late fifties / early  sixties and we're both lucky enough to be still gigging regularly. 

 

Make the most of it while you still can, I'm still looking for more gigs. @petergales of this parish has just turned 79 and is still gigging and I have every intention of doing the same! 

[dmccombe7]

First gig since 2nd Jan with the Glam band at a fantastic venue Dalkeith Miners Club.

No pics as yet but here's the stage pic from last time we played here.

Sound guy was saying ticket sales in general have been low and some are just paying on the night. He said 100 tickets sold plus they expect 30-50 paying at door.

Looked a bit empty when i went in to get changed for the set but it got busier after the first few songs and was a decent crowd for the 2nd set. Dancers on most of the songs tonight which was good. Audience reaction was good and a few T shirts sold too.

Club aren't advertising the gigs so thats not helping fill the place. They put an advert up on their FB page an hour before the doors opened and that was the first advert since start of January for our gig tonight. 

All in all it turned out a good wee night altho the guy that paid us said the treasurer didn't want to pay the full amount because it wasn't full. The other committee guys over-ruled him. Not our fault they didn't advertise the gig at all. What do they expect. Shame as its a cracking big club that can hold 500-600 at a push. Typically we get 200-300 at our shows but tonight i reckon 150.

This was the decider for me whether i would stay with the band a bit longer and i have to admit i had a great time and i think i will miss it so i'm now really struggling to make up my mind. Band have said if i have doubts about leaving to just take my time and have a decent think about it.

Anyways my gear tonight was my usual Sandberg VM4 into Shure Wireless, Keeley Comp, Mesa TT800 Boogie channel, Mesa 210/115 cabs with my fav bass Fender Geddy Jazz as a back up. Was gonna use it but i changed the strings to Elixirs yesterday and i found the neck had bowed a little so i need to straighten that out. Meant the string height in middle of the neck felt high even tho it wasn't a lot. Maybe it was just in my head. LOL

Outfit first set was a nice sparkly purple jacket with matching satin trousers and platform boots. 2nd set was a matching light blue and silver jacket and trousers with my trusty platform boots. 

Dave

[Bluewine]

23 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

First gig since 2nd Jan with the Glam band at a fantastic venue Dalkeith Miners Club.

No pics as yet but here's the stage pic from last time we played here.

Sound guy was saying ticket sales in general have been low and some are just paying on the night. He said 100 tickets sold plus they expect 30-50 paying at door.

Looked a bit empty when i went in to get changed for the set but it got busier after the first few songs and was a decent crowd for the 2nd set. Dancers on most of the songs tonight which was good. Audience reaction was good and a few T shirts sold too.

Club aren't advertising the gigs so thats not helping fill the place. They put an advert up on their FB page an hour before the doors opened and that was the first advert since start of January for our gig tonight. 

All in all it turned out a good wee night altho the guy that paid us said the treasurer didn't want to pay the full amount because it wasn't full. The other committee guys over-ruled him. Not our fault they didn't advertise the gig at all. What do they expect. Shame as its a cracking big club that can hold 500-600 at a push. Typically we get 200-300 at our shows but tonight i reckon 150.

This was the decider for me whether i would stay with the band a bit longer and i have to admit i had a great time and i think i will miss it so i'm now really struggling to make up my mind. Band have said if i have doubts about leaving to just take my time and have a decent think about it.

Anyways my gear tonight was my usual Sandberg VM4 into Shure Wireless, Keeley Comp, Mesa TT800 Boogie channel, Mesa 210/115 cabs with my fav bass Fender Geddy Jazz as a back up. Was gonna use it but i changed the strings to Elixirs yesterday and i found the neck had bowed a little so i need to straighten that out. Meant the string height in middle of the neck felt high even tho it wasn't a lot. Maybe it was just in my head. LOL

Outfit first set was a nice sparkly purple jacket with matching satin trousers and platform boots. 2nd set was a matching light blue and silver jacket and trousers with my trusty platform boots. 

Dave

 

 

Dave,

 

Do you always play wireless,  if yes how long have you been doing it? I've been playing wireless for over 15 years.

 

Daryl

[Norris]

7 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Club aren't advertising the gigs so thats not helping fill the place. They put an advert up on their FB page an hour before the doors opened and that was the first advert since start of January for our gig tonight.

That's not good. There's no excuse for not advertising an event, as it costs nothing apart from time and effort

[ezbass]

Part 2.

 

Second set was just as good, if not better, although the guitarist/lead singer was feeling ‘not right’ so we cut 2 songs that give him trouble in terms of breath. Lots more leaping around from the crowd and apparently someone even mentioned my sound and playing to the aforementioned guitar player, which was nice (probably another bass player). Really quick tear down for me and I was home by one, despite the patchy fog threatening to make the journey longer.

 

On that performance, I can’t see us not playing there again.  Next weekend, March of the Mods in Dundee (multi band lineup, charity gig). First on, so early finish.

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, Bluewine said:

 

 

Dave,

 

Do you always play wireless,  if yes how long have you been doing it? I've been playing wireless for over 15 years.

 

Daryl

Had the Shure wireless for a couple of years now and had a SmoothHound before  that for few yrs. Probably about 5-6 yrs Daryl. Wearing platform boots on stage is hard enough and tripping over leads on stage was an issue at the start of the Glam thing so decided to try wireless and love it. The Shure GLXD is an amazing bit of kit. Never had any issues with it at all.

Having the built in tuner as a floor pedal makes it very handy. If the transmitter ever fails at a gig you just plug a lead into the receiver and its just like any other foot pedal which is a good back up.

Its probably the one bit of kit i would most recommend these days. Very impressed with Shure quality. 

Dave

Edited Sunday at 11:12 by dmccombe7

[peteb]

14 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Had the Shure wireless for a couple of years now and had a SmoothHound before  that for few yrs. Probably about 5-6 yrs Daryl. Wearing platform boots on stage is hard enough and tripping over leads on stage was an issue at the start of the Glam thing so decided to try wireless and love it. The Shure GLXD is an amazing bit of kit. Never had any issues at all with it.

Having the built in tuner as a floor pedal makes it very handy. If the transmitter ever fails at a gig you just plug a lead into the receiver and its just like any other foot pedal which is a good back up.

Its probably the one bit of kit i would most recommend these days. Very impressed with Shure quality. 

Dave

 

I've been using a Shure GLXD for years now and it is by far the best wireless system that I have come across (and I've had loads over the years, going back to the first Nady systems i the 80s that used to pick up taxi companies in the middle of a gig)! 

 

My GLXD is one of the older ones that you can't plug a lead into, so I have a separate tuner on my board as well. 

 

[dmccombe7]

36 minutes ago, peteb said:

 

I've been using a Shure GLXD for years now and it is by far the best wireless system that I have come across (and I've had loads over the years, going back to the first Nady systems i the 80s that used to pick up taxi companies in the middle of a gig)! 

 

My GLXD is one of the older ones that you can't plug a lead into, so I have a separate tuner on my board as well. 

 

Its nice when you come across a bit of kit that just does what its supposed to do with no fuss. 👍

Dave

[WalMan]

Dep reasonably close to home. Small venue with an odd layout with us off in one room off the main bar playing through an arch. All seemed to go ok. A few flubs and nowhere to hide as the second guitar I have played with depping with them in the past was not there so just guitar, drums, Vox and bass.

 

All good fun and generally got through ok with a good bunch of guys that it’s easy to work with with knowing nods 🙂

Having used the old skool (and heavy) Hartke LH500 last week it was back to Class D this week and I do find that the latter always seems to start sounding great but after a prolonged group of songs they ‘go off’ and need a break between songs to get their puff back, whereas the LH500 ‘seems’ to be more consistent. Maybe that’s just my ears ‘going off’ and needing the break, but it’s odd.

 

Still living the FrankenJazz and the S2 didn’t get a look in.

 

Still working out the new IEM’s and despite working through menus and setup in the week I was still only getting signal on one plug which I don’t understand, so more to do there.

Edited Sunday at 13:07 by WalMan
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[scalpy]

Been waaay too long since posting here and to be honest, my gig rustiness showed, having a few numbers where I just made stupid mistakes. But the rest of the time was ok, at the Playhouse Cheltenham. Very difficult to sell tickets at the moment, especially for an out of town band doing its 1st gig in the city but we got about 70 in a 190ish capacity venue, so enough for a party. 

 

Tenor sax player went down ill the day before but fortunately the trumpet 2 player lives a member of the RSC orchestra so she slotted in just fine. Took our own FBT Pa, great quality stuff and the foh and in ears sound was great, plus the drummer turned up with his dad’s DW kit so we sounded fruity. Played much better as the gig went on and the audience were good fun. Much less time to wait until the next one.

[dmccombe7]

4 hours ago, WalMan said:

Having used the old skool (and heavy) Hartke LH500 last week it was back to Class D this week and I do find that the latter always seems to start sounding great but after a prolonged group of songs they ‘go off’ and need a break between songs to get their puff back, whereas the LH500 ‘seems’ to be more consistent. Maybe that’s just my ears ‘going off’ and needing the break, but it’s odd.

 

 

That's a good description as i think i have noted that too with some D Class amps altho my Mesa seems to be ok. Our drummer reckons its more down to your ears getting used to the tone that you don't notice it so much until you take a break and come back to it. As a night develops i find myself wanting tweak things a bit even tho the sound check and start of the gig itself sounded great. Not sure if its maybe down to drummer playing harder during the gig and others tweak their volumes to match whereas i tend to set my volume and leave it if possible but sometimes i do have to turn up a bit and all of a sudden my tone returns to normal.

Its all very weird.

I played thru a Hartke stack with an LH500 and 2off 15" cabs and i was very impressive with it. Really nice clear tone with a touch of growl that i really liked.

Dave

Edited Sunday at 17:08 by dmccombe7

[Salt on your Bass?]

Played effectively a home town show last night at club 85, hitchin. 

Really cool line up and first gig since November for me and Gévaudan. Outed a new song, new drummers second gig and it all went off really well. One of those gigs where it just all clicked in and sound was great...although maybe a touch bass heavier would have been cool. Managed to pull some stupid faces as well which was cool. So good night all round.  ✌️🧙‍♂️

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 18:40 by Salt on your Bass?

[EssexBuccaneer]

We played a 40th b’day party last night. Had punters up dancing from the first song - that’s a new and novel experience, so we enjoyed that. Except we later learned it was because the do started about 2.5 hours before we set up, and they were already well and truly lubricated with booze. By the second set, the families with young kids had gone home, and the remaining punters had largely passed out/thrown up or were harassing the pub staff.

 

Total mess of a night - even though we played well. Not a family we’ll be working for again.

[Gank Bass]

20 minutes ago, EssexBuccaneer said:

We played a 40th b’day party last night. Had punters up dancing from the first song - that’s a new and novel experience, so we enjoyed that. Except we later learned it was because the do started about 2.5 hours before we set up, and they were already well and truly lubricated with booze. By the second set, the families with young kids had gone home, and the remaining punters had largely passed out/thrown up or were harassing the pub staff.

 

Total mess of a night - even though we played well. Not a family we’ll be working for again.

 

If you made it home with money in your pocket and your gear safe and sound, a win is a win! 

[scalpy]

Just got some footage of the penultimate song- warning, Robbie content, we ain’t making musical fusion here.

[markbunney]

Played at Drakes in Maidstone on Saturday, and it was the first gig I’d had with this band since December.

 

It went well overall, but we were playing outside in the courtyard and it was freezing! I had to put a jumper back on a couple of songs in. There were plenty of people there, but mainly they stayed by the patio heaters rather than come up dancing. As usually happens, those people came to life at 11.30 just as we were heading towards the end of the set!

 

The outside area had had a makeover since we last played there, and decking had been installed, along with a raised stage area which was nice.

 

A good, but cold gig overall. We finished with a rocked up version of Livin La Vida Loca which was quite amusing.

 

I’d also installed some Schaller strap locks earlier in the day and was pleased with them.

[Norris]

17 minutes ago, markbunney said:

I’d also installed some Schaller strap locks earlier in the day and was pleased with them.

I had to give mine a little dab of vaseline the other week to lubricate them. They started to produce a bit of black dust as I was prancing about and I could feel it tight and binding on the button as I played. The tiny dab of vaseline was ideal and will hopefully stop them wearing out

[Norris]

3 hours ago, Salt on your Bass? said:

 

Great photo. What bass is that?

[Obrienp]

34 minutes ago, Norris said:

I had to give mine a little dab of vaseline the other week to lubricate them. They started to produce a bit of black dust as I was prancing about and I could feel it tight and binding on the button as I played. The tiny dab of vaseline was ideal and will hopefully stop them wearing out

I’ve given up on Schaller strap locks. I’ve found the strap buttons gradually unscrew themselves; perhaps from binding  as you describe. I had them suddenly come off twice during gigs. I didn’t think I moved around that much. I’ve gone over to Loxx now and not had any issues with them.

[Salt on your Bass?]

1 hour ago, Norris said:

Great photo. What bass is that?

Cheers dude. It's a custom built thunderbird by Feline guitars. 5 string, neck through active. ✌️

[Bluewine]

17 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Had the Shure wireless for a couple of years now and had a SmoothHound before  that for few yrs. Probably about 5-6 yrs Daryl. Wearing platform boots on stage is hard enough and tripping over leads on stage was an issue at the start of the Glam thing so decided to try wireless and love it. The Shure GLXD is an amazing bit of kit. Never had any issues with it at all.

Having the built in tuner as a floor pedal makes it very handy. If the transmitter ever fails at a gig you just plug a lead into the receiver and its just like any other foot pedal which is a good back up.

Its probably the one bit of kit i would most recommend these days. Very impressed with Shure quality. 

Dave

 

 

I use a Line 6 G-50. It's never failed me. I've been wireless since 2007. I could never go back to using a lead..

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, scalpy said:

Just got some footage of the penultimate song- warning, Robbie content, we ain’t making musical fusion here.

 

Very cool. Very nice vocal harmony. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 08/03/2025 at 19:48, dmccombe7 said:

Slow down and take your time. Thinking about where you're going at all times certainly helps me Daryl.

Dave

 

That's what makes this so difficult.  I never actually know where I'm going. Lol

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 07/03/2025 at 20:58, Bluewine said:

Maple Road, we're returning to The Twisted Pair this Sunday, 3-6.

 

Daryl

 

The Twisted Pair gig was very good. I didn't think we sounded all that great, but still a good gig. We're still working in a dep drummer. He's not the best drummer I've played with. However he understands the band and what we're trying to do. I arrived at 1:45 the place was packed. I couldn't find one open parking space.

 

The reason I say it was a good gig is solely based on the number of people that came out. Very generous tippers too.

I asked the manager if they always have a big crowd on Sunday afternoon.  He told me they had a band last Sunday and the place was dead. So I was feeling pretty "stoked".

 

I've attached a few pics. I bet many of you have rolled up to one of these venues sitting out in the " boon docks"

 

Daryl

Edited yesterday at 04:36 by Bluewine