How was your gig last night?

[obbm]

First pub gig for me in about 8 years and first gig with new band. For those who know the expression it was a bit like the Curate’s egg.  On the plus side my Sadowsky Metro UV70 sounded great through the Ashdown Pre-DI and Bose L2 PA. I had one of the speakers next to me for monitoring plus Backbeat for bass and Eich stool for drums. On the negative side I’m finding it very difficult using pre-recorded drum tracks compared to a live drummer who I can watch and communicate with.  At the moment I have no trust in the drums, a bit like getting up with a novice drummer at a Jam night. Timing is fine, just a bit erratic. The most recent tracks are fine but some were created by the band leader during the first Lockdown when the bass parts were played on his keyboard. We’re on the case and will be addressing the issue this week. It’s good to be back.

[Lozz196]

First gig with my new band, The Spacewasters last night. At a charity fund raiser for cancer in The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden. Seeing as our drummer has had two brain tumours, and had a kidney removed, and still had cancer of the renal gland it was close to the bands heart.

 

Got there 5ish as had to work, fortunately there was a backstage room to store the gear whilst we waited til our slot at 6:30.

 

Went on, provided amp stack of Genz Benz Streamliner with matching 410/115, so all I had to use was trusty Precision & Sansamp. Went really well, didn’t feel nervous at all, was just so happy to be back gigging. Lots of compliments afterwards about how my playing held the band together which was nice. I had a blast, I’m back!

Edited February 6, 2022 by Lozz196

[dmccombe7]

17 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

First gig with my new band, The Spacewasters last night. At a charity fund raiser for cancer in The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden. Seeing as our drummer has had two brain tumours, and had a kidney removed, and still had cancer of the renal glad it was close to the bands heart.

 

Got there 5ish as had to work, fortunately there was a backstage room to store the gear whilst we waited til our slot at 6:30.

 

Went on, provided amp stack of Genz Benz Streamliner with matching 410/115, so all I had to use was trusty Precision & Sansamp. Went really well, didn’t feel nervous at all, was just so happy to be back gigging. Lots of compliments afterwards about how my playing held the band together which was nice. I had a blast, I’m back!

Nice one @Lozz196

[martthebass]

4 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

First gig with my new band, The Spacewasters last night. At a charity fund raiser for cancer in The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden. Seeing as our drummer has had two brain tumours, and had a kidney removed, and still had cancer of the renal gland it was close to the bands heart.

 

Got there 5ish as had to work, fortunately there was a backstage room to store the gear whilst we waited til our slot at 6:30.

 

Went on, provided amp stack of Genz Benz Streamliner with matching 410/115, so all I had to use was trusty Precision & Sansamp. Went really well, didn’t feel nervous at all, was just so happy to be back gigging. Lots of compliments afterwards about how my playing held the band together which was nice. I had a blast, I’m back!

Nice one Lozz. 

[Paul S]

Well done Lozz.  Genuinely heart warming story from a genuinely nice guy.  

[stewblack]

Great stuff @Lozz196 really glad you're back doing what you love.

[KevB]

Saturday night. Back at the pub we did last year where you get a very small amount up front from the venue but then they pass round a collection each set to bump up your takings. It's a nice set up (not much space but OK for a trio) with their own PA and monitors which actually work properly and landlady is very helpful with soundcheck (they have to be careful with volume levels). Main drawback is it is a 60+ mile trip each way and with petrol prices being what they are it is borderline as a financially feasible venue now. Went down well though, landlady was happy and had good feedback from punters who upped the total take for the night to close to what we would normally get anyway especially the gigs via an agent taking 15%. They want us back later in year anyway so can't have been too bad. I got cramp in my fretting hand halfway through final encore, had to improvise using pinkie only but don't think it was too obvious.

Edited February 7, 2022 by KevB

[Graham]

From Saturday night in a busy pub, this sounds a lot better than I thought it did when I was playing

 

https://fb.watch/b0VIjLHeDt/

[EJWW]

50 minutes ago, Graham said:

From Saturday night in a busy pub, this sounds a lot better than I thought it did when I was playing

 

https://fb.watch/b0VIjLHeDt/

Some awesome playing there @Graham, enjoyed that!

[casapete]

We played our monthly gig at The Lookout in Scarborough. Another full house of lovely people in the audience, it's my favourite current gig.

First time I've used my Ibanez PNB14E short scale electro acoustic, and was well pleased with the result into my Fender Rumble 100.

[dclaassen]

On 30/01/2022 at 20:11, BCH said:

It wasn't last night...but someone posted on our FB page last night...a gig before the interruption..ha

 

Nice job! It takes some serious mojo to do that type of medley with a trio.....

[Leonard Smalls]

Had a decent gig last night at the most excellent Percy's in Whitchurch, Shropshire... Well received, folks were dancing and there was a visitation by our very own @lurksalot, his brother and m8 Dave. Only one proper pink torpedo up, when the drummer started off what was meant to be our most complex song bass-wise as a double speed punkthing. Eventually muddles through, but don't think I've ever played so fast in my life!

Anyway, here's one we didn't balls up too much, our opening number...

 

 

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Good one in the Two Brewers, Chepstow last night. We chopped the set around a bit because people started dancing, our 'Frijid Pink - style House of the Rising Sun would probably have cleared the floor...) Instead we did a majorly extended version of Let's Stick Together with a random drum solo 🙂

 

We also started the second set with Happy Birthday for the landlords 18 YO son, so a good time was had by all🙂

[Quilly]

Just home , the audience enjoyed the band but my sound was terrible 😞. Just one of those night where you can’t hear yourself right at all and you can’t stop the gig to sort it.  Think it was an issue with the pedal chain 

Edited February 14, 2022 by Quilly

[cheddatom]

Ace gig at Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge last night. I don't think we played our best, but the energy in the room more than made up for that. I think the fact I'd decided to record the set might have put us on edge a little

 

I was photographing my cymbals and remote recording setup but our (excellent) bassist decided to spice up the photo a bit

 

 

[dmccombe7]

6 minutes ago, cheddatom said:

Ace gig at Katie Fitzgerald's in Stourbridge last night. I don't think we played our best, but the energy in the room more than made up for that. I think the fact I'd decided to record the set might have put us on edge a little

 

I was photographing my cymbals and remote recording setup but our (excellent) bassist decided to spice up the photo a bit

 

 

Putting a comment to that pic............................"I told you not to record it" just comes to mind 

Dave

[steantval]

“ look at the size of my blister” 😀

[wateroftyne]

A strange one for me today...

 

A gig with band I regularly dep with, who specialise in playing Eagles / CSNY stuff. In a pub. In a Newcastle suburb.

 

...at 3:30pm. On a Thursday afternoon.

 

Yep, just a normal midweek afternoon pub gig. And there were people there to watch us, too.

 

So confusing. I was home with a Chinese for 6:30pm.

 

Wouldn't mind doing it again sometime, actually.

 

Anyway, this is what I used:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dmccombe7]

Got a Sunday afternoon 1pm gig this Sunday coming with the 70's punk covers band........... in a converted church.

 

What amp is that in the pic @wateroftyne. Dont recognise it at all. ?

 

Dave

[knirirr]

The acoustic pub jam I normally do each month was under threat due to the landlord leaving, but luckily the new one turned out to be very keen to have us carry on. Good session this week - the audience even commented on how cool my "cello" looked.

 

House rhythm section setting up:

 

[FinnDave]

1 hour ago, knirirr said:

The acoustic pub jam I normally do each month was under threat due to the landlord leaving, but luckily the new one turned out to be very keen to have us carry on. Good session this week - the audience even commented on how cool my "cello" looked.

 

Which part of Oxfordshire is that, or have you crossed a county border?

 

I had my first time out this year at Stanford in the Vale, rehearsal first, then we walked our gear round the corner to the social club and played 4 songs. First time out with our new drummer - I think he's going to be just what we need!

[wateroftyne]

3 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Got a Sunday afternoon 1pm gig this Sunday coming with the 70's punk covers band........... in a converted church.

 

What amp is that in the pic @wateroftyne. Dont recognise it at all. ?

 

Dave

 

Cheers! It's a Maruszczyk Basstank, built by Handbox. Solid state, two channels - one of which is geared to DB use. I don't use that channel.

 

It's a lovely head.

[knirirr]

1 hour ago, FinnDave said:

Which part of Oxfordshire is that, or have you crossed a county border?

Near Banbury, but still within Oxfordshire. 

[FinnDave]

15 minutes ago, knirirr said:

Near Banbury, but still within Oxfordshire. 

The place looks familiar, not the Brasenose Arms, is it? 

[knirirr]

15 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

The place looks familiar, not the Brasenose Arms, is it? 

 

It's The White Horse, so the other side of Banbury from where you're thinking, if I've got the right Brasenose Arms.