How was your gig last night?

[dmccombe7]

9 hours ago, Gank Bass said:

Everything came up Milhouse tonight 

 

Venue 5 minute drive from my house

Repeat customer and a great crowd

And most importantly their limiter was broken so no sound issues!

That's a very colourful and eye-catching bass.

Dave

[bassbiscuits]

Good gig with the Andy Wales Band at Leicester’s Dos Hermanos Bar. Second time we’ve played there and word seems to have got around as it was pretty busy. First band gig I’ve done since Christmas so I felt a bit off match fitness (hands tiring by halfway through the second half but powering on thru on adrenaline etc - we’ve all been there surely.) 

Ready for bed now. 
 

Edit for gear: Yamaha BB604, Little Mark II head, Markbass STD102F cab, various pedals. 

Edited 21 hours ago by bassbiscuits

[mikebass456]

Just back from tonight (last night's?) gig down at the local. Just a 10 minute drive from home, and using the Kala and Ortega U basses and Phil Jones Double Four amp so an easy load in and out for me! 

Full set of Irish standards (Pogues etc) and Levellers stuff went down really well, few deviations from the right notes here and there, but overall a great evening.

[dmccombe7]

8 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

Just back from tonight (last night's?) gig down at the local. Just a 10 minute drive from home, and using the Kala and Ortega U basses and Phil Jones Double Four amp so an easy load in and out for me! 

Full set of Irish standards (Pogues etc) and Levellers stuff went down really well, few deviations from the right notes here and there, but overall a great evening.

Love the band name. 👍

Dave

[ezbass]

First on in a 5 band line up, for the A92 scooter club March of the Mods, charity gig at Beat Generator, in Dundee (I hadn’t realised how many proper name bands have played there previously, quite the alumni). Played the same event here a couple of years ago and didn’t enjoy it as our hour set was cut to 50mins before going on and turned out to be about 40mins, due to over running/poor organisation, earlier - utter waste of time. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I approached this return with trepidation. However, we were a replacement band, doing a favour, so we angled for going on first to avoid a repeat of the situation. It’s a nice sized stage and was good for throwing a few shapes, especially as the rest of the band are fairly static, when playing. Proper sound check and we kicked off at 5:30. You’d think that would be playing to staff and walls, but no, plenty of folks in (it was sold out) and our set had them dancing from the get go. In short, it was great, despite the drummer messing up Town Called Malice for the last verse. Home by 8:00! Played my custom, Maruszczyk Elwood L, with gig appropriate scratchplate, through my usual MXR M82 comp, Tech21 VTDI (for grind on the appropriate songs), into the provided Peavey backline, which sounded absolutely fine. Footwear was Adidas Samba-alike, skate shoes (no pics ).

 

 

[dmccombe7]

12 minutes ago, ezbass said:

First on in a 5 band line up, for the A92 scooter club March of the Mods, charity gig at Beat Generator, in Dundee (I hadn’t realised how many proper name bands have played there previously, quite the alumni). Played the same event here a couple of years ago and didn’t enjoy it as our hour set was cut to 50mins before going on and turned out to be about 40mins, due to over running/poor organisation, earlier - utter waste of time. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I approached this return with trepidation. However, we were a replacement band, doing a favour, so we angled for going on first to avoid a repeat of the situation. It’s a nice sized stage and was good for throwing a few shapes, especially as the rest of the band are fairly static, when playing. Proper sound check and we kicked off at 5:30. You’d think that would be playing to staff and walls, but no, plenty of folks in (it was sold out) and our set had them dancing from the get go. In short, it was great, despite the drummer messing up Town Called Malice for the last verse. Home by 8:00! Played my custom, Maruszczyk Elwood L, with gig appropriate scratchplate, through my usual MXR M82 comp, Tech21 VTDI (for grind on the appropriate songs), into the provided Peavey backline, which sounded absolutely fine. Footwear was Adidas Samba-alike, skate shoes (no pics ).

 

 

Great venue apart from the 3 flights of stairs. I'm due back in the summer with Glam band and might just use their backline to save a bit of lifting.

It does have an amazing musical history based on the various posters on the walls.

 

Dave

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Great venue apart from the 3 flights of stairs. I'm due back in the summer with Glam band and might just use their backline to save a bit of lifting.

It does have an amazing musical history based on the various posters on the walls.

 

Dave

Saw a Blockbustarz poster there 👍.

[Stub Mandrel]

Bendricks Rock played Slipping Jimmy's in Newport last night. It was already busy due to rugby and got busier. Proper stage, which is cool for a pub.  Dancing pretty much fom the off. The even danced to What Is and What Should Never Be.

 

 

A bit of excitement at the end with a punter getting ejected, then mord drama outside while we were loading out.

 

New Quecha hiking shoes with my orthopedic inserts, but my dodgy ankle was angry by the end.

[ezbass]

A couple of live shots from last night, complete with footwear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by ezbass

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, ezbass said:

A couple of live shots from last night, complete with footwear.

 

 

Liking that bass altho not sold on the scratch plate but i'm guessing it fits the music you play.

Pretty good pics there too.

Dave 

[ezbass]

3 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Liking that bass altho not sold on the scratch plate but i'm guessing it fits the music you play.

Pretty good pics there too.

Dave 

It was fitted purely for that gig. It's a clear scratchplate, so I can go with all sorts. My fave normally is straight black, but I'm currently really liking the look of this:

 

[warwickhunt]

Superb gig at The Bungalow in Paisley (Glasgow) for INXS UK.  Great venue, staff who know their stuff (esp the engineer SJ) and 'fans' who were absolutely busting it.  

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

From last night. My gloriously scrappy technique...

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GvQLRgHdF/

[stewblack]

First of 3 today done. One hour set at a St Patrick's day thing in Bristol. 

Travelling light today because of all the travel.

[neepheid]

Last night at Wilsons, Aberdeen with Nine Lives.  Weird gig, definitely a game of two halves.  First half was rank rotten - sound in the room was awful - could barely get the vocals loud enough without feeding back, started five mins late because of all the mucking about (not Axl Rose levels of lateness, but it still bugs me).  It was passable out front, and people could clearly hear the words because I could see them mouthing along, but there was very little coming back making it hard to hear where we were in a song.  No room for monitors in this pub, we basically had to rely upon reflected sound.

 

So spooked I was that I didn't change basses at half time - I didn't want to introduce another variable to an already tenuous situation.

 

But we sorted it.  The table nearest the right PA speaker emptied at half time, so we took the opportunity to move it forward, not much - couple of feet maybe, but what a difference it made - it opened up the possibility of increasing the gain of the singer's vox without feeding back and made for a much better sounding second half.  It got busy too, and it was much more fun. Went for a couple of walkabouts in the crowd which went down well.
 

Lesson learned - kick people out of the way if you have to to get your PA far enough in front of the band.

So, it was the BB1200 for the whole night, into the usual Markbass rig.  Footwear - Vans calf hair checkerboard slipons.  Hmm, quite colour coordinated last night, just realised.

[dmccombe7]

50 minutes ago, ezbass said:

It was fitted purely for that gig. It's a clear scratchplate, so I can go with all sorts. My fave normally is straight black, but I'm currently really liking the look of this:

 

Oh yes that is nice indeed.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

42 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

Superb gig at The Bungalow in Paisley (Glasgow) for INXS UK.  Great venue, staff who know their stuff (esp the engineer SJ) and 'fans' who were absolutely busting it.  

 

 

If i had known i would have taken a run in to see you guys. 

Dave

[wateroftyne]

Another Bootleg Eagles show, this time in Saltburn, North Yorkshire.

 

18 months of prep is finally paying off... lots of dates in the diary now. Great tunes, great bunch of lads.

 

 

[ezbass]

9 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

 

 

 

Maruszczyk Jake hiding in the background there.

[warwickhunt]

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

If i had known i would have taken a run in to see you guys. 

Dave

 

Bloody great venue/crowd if that is how it is on any other week. 

 

[asingardenof]

First gig of the year after NYE's paid rehearsal, at regular haunt Spen Victoria CC. On the basis that the Siredowsky needed new strings (a Jazz with rounds isn't supposed to sound like a 60s P with flats!) and I hadn't had a chance to do that yet, I went with the Squier P as last night's axe. After thinking I was getting lost in the mix at previous gigs, I decided to forego my compressor this time, and holy cow my tone has returned. I think I need to use the compressor a bit more sparingly, as using it as an "always on" pedal isn't working. I went with the ABM despite the small venue, and decided to give the valve drive a go, and the fates all combined to make my tone sound, if you'll forgive my entirely unbiased opinion, fecking amazing - deep and thunderous while also clear as a bell when it needed to be.

 

Things were a bit shaken up as we'd decided to mix our standard set up a bit, as we're at the point we don't need to look at set lists to know what song is coming next. Our singist, who normally favours a vaguely Adam Ant-esque getup decided to forego all that for an old band t-shirt - it can't be uncool to wear your own band's merch if you don't actually have any, this is one someone made many years ago. For the most part the running order seemed to go well, and new songs Alright and Mr Brightside went over very well, and using Two Tribes as our second encore song was a great choice. Only a couple of minor mishaps, where our keyboardist started his section of A Town Called Malice in the wrong key and dropped out for a verse until he could recover himself, and he lost the patch he was using for the guitar solo in Alright (I still don't know why our guitarist can't play it) so had to stay with the piano sound he was using for the rest of the song, which sounded, well, crap.

 

But all in all a good start to our year of gigs. They're starting to trickle in now, and we might end up with about seven over the year, which will be good and manageable for me with a new baby on the way. A couple of shots but none of my footwear I'm afraid; I was only in scruffy Merrells so hardly worth showing.

 

 

(it did get a bit busier than this...)

[MichaelDean]

I played at Exchange on Thursday night and it was really good fun. We were local support for a sold out show of Dopethrone and Wallowing who are on tour together. 

 

Managed to get free on street parking not far away, so load in with bass, pedalboard and head wasn't bad at all. Gear was the usual Dingwall Combustion, Gx-100, MojoMojo, Bass Big Muff and Laney Digbeth head into a borrowed Ampeg 610. 

 

Soundcheck was a bit late, but we got it done with time to spare before we went on, so that was good. Always good working with a competent sound guy!

 

Our set was good. A few gaffs, but nothing disastrous. I was running the sample pedal for the first time, but that turned out to be fine! I think we went down pretty well. I didn't see anyone leave while we were playing, so that's always a good sign! It wasn't full capacity for us, but we must have had 50/60 people there. 

 

Wallowing were really cool and nice guys. Much more dynamic playing and less straight metal sounding in person than on their recorded material. We're playing with them again at Southwest Heavy Fest in May. 

 

Dopethrone were very good for what they do, but after a late practice the night before plus perpetual early mornings as I've got a 3 year old, I was not prepared for them to be always up on every song. Would have preferred some more nuance to the songs 😅 

 

I've grabbed a pic we got tagged in on Instagram. It's a shame it wasn't one of my more enthusiastic poses!

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

 

Bloody great venue/crowd if that is how it is on any other week. 

 

I've never actually been in it but played a few other venues in that area but it does pull in a decent audience with several well known acts playing there over the years.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, asingardenof said:

After thinking I was getting lost in the mix at previous gigs, I decided to forego my compressor this time, and holy cow my tone has returned. I think I need to use the compressor a bit more sparingly, as using it as an "always on" pedal isn't working. I went with the ABM despite the small venue, and decided to give the valve drive a go, and the fates all combined to make my tone sound, if you'll forgive my entirely unbiased opinion, fecking amazing - deep and thunderous while also clear as a bell when it needed to be.

 

Yep i only use my comp as more a limiter than compression. It only just triggers when i hit the strings slightly harder or i add a bit more treble or bass on the actual bass. On normal playing with bass EQ running flat the led never triggers.

Dave

[Boodang]

8 hours ago, ezbass said:

A couple of live shots from last night, complete with footwear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mid rack tom looks like it's about to fall off the bass drum! An extreme angle but looks like it's mic'd up that way.