How was your gig last night?

[Thor]

16 hours ago, Mickeyboro said:

Always take a gig! Our new singer was on holiday so a friend from a band I depped in stepped up, as did a harmonica player. We just jammed it, great fun!

Otis Jay Blues Band, Flea Jazz into an Elf/Barefaced One10 combination. 

Looks a great venue 🙂

[Mickeyboro]

It is, @Thor, but struggling to make ends meet with town centre costs. 
 

We played a Tuesday night blues club which is an attempt to add to the weekend offering. 

Not as lucrative as a Sunday afternoon but we are now a minor ‘name’ and drew a good midweek crowd. So a win on all counts. 

[Wilson_51_]

On 23/09/2024 at 15:11, urbanx said:

Metal stage at Baldock: 

Tent at the bottom of a beer garden - is what it is. 

Well received though, we're not that 'metal' and I think we were a welcome interlude. 

 

 

 

 

Nice action shots, we played this too (last band on Erronaut), we got there about halfway through your set and it was a great watch . luckily you didn't have the downpour that we has when we played. Ha! 

[Norris]

We played at a small pub tonight. So small that if it was called the Dog and Duck, there would only be room for the duck. We have played there a few times before. We are not a loud band by any means, but in the compact room and with the low ceiling we have struggled to keep the volume down. So last time we were there we agreed to do the next one "acoustically". Obviously there are still amplifiers, but we can keep it much quieter.

 

A few years ago there was a bit of a craze for Stagg EUBs. I bought one myself, played it occasionally, but mostly it's spent the last couple of years standing in the corner of the music room. Well of course, tonight was its big chance...

 

 

What a great night we had! Relaxed, low volume and such fun. I did take my normal bass along just in case, but it stayed in the case and I played the EUB all night. I'd quite got the hang of it after an hour or so.

 

We did our usual repertoire of 70s rock and pop, a few highlights being...

Band on the Run (Wings)

Hurricane (Neil Young)

Warpigs (Black Sabbath)

I Feel Good (James Brown)

Come Up And See Me (Steve Harley)

 

Not quite so good... Maggie May (Rod Stewart) - it was a bit of a sod playing the riff up the dusty end of the EUB!

 

We all thoroughly enjoyed it, the landlady enjoyed it, the punters enjoyed it and I can't wait to play there again

[dmccombe7]

7 hours ago, Norris said:

We played at a small pub tonight. So small that if it was called the Dog and Duck, there would only be room for the duck. We have played there a few times before. We are not a loud band by any means, but in the compact room and with the low ceiling we have struggled to keep the volume down. So last time we were there we agreed to do the next one "acoustically". Obviously there are still amplifiers, but we can keep it much quieter.

 

A few years ago there was a bit of a craze for Stagg EUBs. I bought one myself, played it occasionally, but mostly it's spent the last couple of years standing in the corner of the music room. Well of course, tonight was its big chance...

 

 

What a great night we had! Relaxed, low volume and such fun. I did take my normal bass along just in case, but it stayed in the case and I played the EUB all night. I'd quite got the hang of it after an hour or so.

 

We did our usual repertoire of 70s rock and pop, a few highlights being...

Band on the Run (Wings)

Hurricane (Neil Young)

Warpigs (Black Sabbath)

I Feel Good (James Brown)

Come Up And See Me (Steve Harley)

 

Not quite so good... Maggie May (Rod Stewart) - it was a bit of a sod playing the riff up the dusty end of the EUB!

 

We all thoroughly enjoyed it, the landlady enjoyed it, the punters enjoyed it and I can't wait to play there again

I think that's such a different way for bands to play those kind of songs that its just a welcome change and as you say a bit more relaxed.

Mates Led Zep band went down this route with just acoustic guitar and vocals altho they did bring in 2 cello players with one graphite cello and the other classic wood cello (both sounded quite different. They were playing theatre type gigs but it came across exceptionally well and were always very busy gigs.

Dave

Edited September 28, 2024 by dmccombe7

[Mickeyboro]

10 hours ago, Norris said:

Not quite so good... Maggie May (Rod Stewart) - it was a bit of a sod playing the riff up the dusty end of the EUB!

Have a feeling that was Ronnie Wood noodling away! 

Edited September 28, 2024 by Mickeyboro

[Mykesbass]

7 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Have a feeling that was Ronnie Wood noodling away! 

Having to keep up with John Peel's virtuoso performance.

[casapete]

11 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Have a feeling that was Ronnie Wood noodling away! 

A wonderful bit of bass too IMO. I remember trying to learn it when I was a teenager, and

struggling to get the same loose feel. I play it still with my acoustic duo, but we have to 

change the key to ‘A’ down from ‘D’ with the guitar capoed to try and keep the same 

feel. Such a radical key change ( for the vocal obvs) makes playing it more of an 

homage….😄

 

6 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

Having to keep up with John Peel's virtuoso performance.

Classic bit of TOTP footage. Bit like the time Ronnie Lane couldn’t make it so they had

a cardboard cutout of him. 

I remember on the album sleeve Rod Stewart didn’t even give the mandolin player a proper

credit, just referring to Ray Jackson as ‘the mandolin player in Lindisfarne, the name slips

my mind’. Ray was only paid £15 for the session , but in later years he tried to get a writing

credit after contributing a lot to the song , including the classic intro. 

[Mickeyboro]

And then there was Mandolin Wind…

 

Mind you, there’s tablets you can get for that these days😂

[Norris]

5 hours ago, Mickeyboro said:

Have a feeling that was Ronnie Wood noodling away! 

Not on an EUB, he wasn't 😂

[Bluewine]

OMG!

Private Party today. Tough spot for me. I always brag about my short commutes to gigs compared to some of the commutes you guys make. We're providing sound & lights  so there's no room in the van for me. I have to drive. 

 

It's an hour and a half one way. I know nothing about this private party. We don't usually book gigs this far away unless it pays well.

 

We're all going to a Brewers Game at . American Family Field ( formerly Miller Park) on Sunday. The Brewers are already in the playoffs. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 24/09/2024 at 02:55, dmccombe7 said:

 

Mart,

I'll stick  with my white Sandberg VM4 as i can get  more variation in tone from it plus its a very comfy bass to play. Its my goto bass for most things. Would consider a 2nd one as a back up its that good.

 

Daryl,

I'm more a 70's rock / prog guy but i did enjoy a lot of the 80's "hair" rock. 

Could be fun.

Dave

 

 

Was Brand X 70s prog?

 

Daryl

[dmccombe7]

12 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

OMG!

Private Party today. Tough spot for me. I always brag about my short commutes to gigs compared to some of the commutes you guys make. We're providing sound & lights  so there's no room in the van for me. I have to drive. 

 

It's an hour and a half one way. I know nothing about this private party. We don't usually book gigs this far away unless it pays well.

 

We're all going to a Brewers Game at . American Family Field ( formerly Miller Park) on Sunday. The Brewers are already in the playoffs. 

 

Daryl

Brilliant stuff Daryl. Look forward to your comments after the gig. Have a good one mate.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

10 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Was Brand X 70s prog?

 

Daryl

Not so much Prog but more a Jazz rock fusion kind of band. Hard to describe. Phil Collins was the drummer with them for a while. Joanna Lumley's brother Robin was the keys player too at one point.

I used to really like them and tried hard to copy some of Percy Jones runs and style for a few yrs. Whether i was successful or not is a different story.

Percy Jones and Jeff Berlin were like bass gods to me back in late 70's early 80's.

I literally only listened to them to learn from the bass playing plus i was a big Genesis fan at that time. 

Happy Days 

Dave

Edited September 28, 2024 by dmccombe7

[Stub Mandrel]

41 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

OMG!

Private Party today. Tough spot for me. I always brag about my short commutes to gigs compared to some of the commutes you guys make. We're providing sound & lights  so there's no room in the van for me. I have to drive. 

 

It's an hour and a half one way. I know nothing about this private party. We don't usually book gigs this far away unless it pays well.

 

We're all going to a Brewers Game at . American Family Field ( formerly Miller Park) on Sunday. The Brewers are already in the playoffs. 

 

Daryl

 

So utterly different to any sportsground in the uk!

[musicbassman]

35 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I used to really like them and tried hard to copy some of Percy Jones runs and style for a few yrs.

 

Just in case any BC ers haven't heard of this, here's Percy Jones in full flow. Brilliant.

 

 

[Bluewine]

20 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

So utterly different to any sportsground in the uk!

 

Really, I didn't know that?

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

45 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Not so much Prog but more a Jazz rock fusion kind of band. Hard to describe. Phil Collins was the drummer with them for a while. Joanna Lumley's brother Robin was the keys player too at one point.

I used to really like them and tried hard to copy some of Percy Jones runs and style for a few yrs. Whether i was successful or not is a different story.

Percy Jones and Jeff Berlin were like bass gods to me back in late 70's early 80's.

I literally only listened to them to learn from the bass playing plus i was a big Genesis fan at that time. 

Happy Days 

Dave

My good friend and bandmate Chuck Burgi played drums for them for a while.

 

Daryl

[rwillett]

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

OMG!

Private Party today. Tough spot for me. I always brag about my short commutes to gigs compared to some of the commutes you guys make. We're providing sound & lights  so there's no room in the van for me. I have to drive. 

 

It's an hour and a half one way. I know nothing about this private party. We don't usually book gigs this far away unless it pays well.

 

We're all going to a Brewers Game at . American Family Field ( formerly Miller Park) on Sunday. The Brewers are already in the playoffs. 

 

Daryl

Didn't realise rounders was so big in the USA...

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, musicbassman said:

 

Just in case any BC ers haven't heard of this, here's Percy Jones in full flow. Brilliant.

 

 

Brilliant album. That was the first one i bought.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Bluewine said:

My good friend and bandmate Chuck Burgi played drums for them for a while.

 

Daryl

He's had an interesting background of bands or musicians he's played with. Nice one.

Dave

[Bluewine]

6 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

He's had an interesting background of bands or musicians he's played with. Nice one.

Dave

Chuck has been with Billy Joel for the last 25 years.

 

Daryl

[ezbass]

We completely set up in the big room as we have previously last night, it was a bit cold. One of the then committee asks if we can set up again in the small bar! A quick reconnaissance of the area by the singer/guitarist gets a rapid negative (apparently it’s tiny, with probably room for just 20 people, without the band). That decided, the heating comes on in the big room and it even becomes a little too warm, very quickly. I can see why they wanted to move us, the audience is sparse, never more than 40 and mostly hovering in the 20-30 slot. That said, we give it our best, even with our drummer feeling under the weather. We try to keep it down, which is achieved, with only one request to come down a bit in the 2nd set, where I pretend to fiddle with my amp, but we don’t alter any levels and the drummer tries to play lighter, nothing more was said. 3 hour or so sets, interspersed with the ever present bingo. Some dancing (some very energetically, sadly they left after a while), lots of singing along and general grooving in their chairs. We had a great sound, confirmed by the keyboard player, who was set up at right angles, slightly in front of the PA. Really digging my sound with the VTDI engaged, very Geddy, Squire, Entwistle, JJB, but only use this where appropriate. Next gig in 2 weeks, without our keyboard player sadly.

 

[Woodinblack]

Local pub that is a  tiny venue where you get no room at all, but on the plus side, you get 20 people in and it feels like its crowded.

Easy setup, unusual as normally you have to persuade a load of people to move out of the way, so we have loads of space (of a small space!). Our keyboard player didn't realise we had the gig and went away, so we had to remove the keyboard songs from the list and bring back some of the old ones - however, it did give us more space.

Kick off a bit late, I thought it was a 9 start and it is 8:30l, but it is hard getting things setup in such a small area without people getting out of the way.

 

From pretty well the start, people were joining in, and very up for it, and when I said you get 20 people in it feels crowded, if you get 50 people in it feels like a stadium, except much more up close and personal. But they were singing and dancing along, I never heard a crowd singing the words of baker street before, and even some people doing harmonies of things. 

So notible interesting things, because the keyboard player was away, baker street has some keyboard trills that I always used to do with a loopman pedal. I brought that back, tested it before the gig, all good. Because I was going into the PA from the XLR on the Boss ME90B, and using a small amp for backline from the jack, I plugged into the send/return that Ihad never used before, it worked. But before the song, I tried it and it was making no volume, maybe dodgy jack or something. I turned the volumes up (I never remember which volume it is), still wasn't loud but oh well, whatever, no time, going into the song. Got to the first trill, kick the pedal and BLING!!!!! - massively loud. But the band thought it was fine!

I had reset the effects on my boss before I went, and near the end I thought that it seemed there was too much distortion, then went back to my normal clean patch for one song, and sure enough, distortion, then play that funky music, switched the autowah patch, nope, distortion, I realised this is my new bass I bought a few weeks back, hadn't even checked the battery, active only, it was running out! During the single note parts of the song I unzipped the bass bag that was next to me for my spare, then at the end quickly swapped bass, ready for surfin USA with no distortion at all! Schoolboy error. 

 

But don't know what it was about it, but it was the most enjoyable gig I have done in months, maybe just that noone was complaining about the sound.

[Cliff Edge]

I did the gig last night as a duo that I had thought we would have to cancel due to my impending surgery, but that has changed to next week. So a nice bar down by the sea we’ve played before. Good crowd singing along which is always encouraging, proves we picked a good set. I got to drive the HX Stomp live, recently bought from @maidens97 of this parish.  It works a treat, makes me play a lot better. Well probably only in my head so thanks again. My wife acted as my roady as I’m not supposed to lift anything over the weight of a bag sugar. Ridiculous as I spent the two and half hour gig, without a break, with a 10 pound Stingray round my neck. Anyway a member of the bar staff helped her load out and even insisted on loading up the car, under my supervision. Nice people. Next gig is mid November when I should have recovered

Edited September 29, 2024 by Cliff Edge