- Sep 5, 2014
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We had a gig Saturday night at a friends place, just a neighborhood block party kind of thing. All sorts of stuff just, well went bad on us...
To start off, it might be easier to tell you what went right, vs what went wrong...
For starters, the Rumble 500 V3 combo + 210 stack, Zoom B3, and SX Ursa 1 worked flawlessly.
My rhythm guitarists SX Hawk + my Behringer GTX-60 combo he seems to perpetually borrow, flawless.
Mics, mixer, powered speakers, again, flawless.
We even had a drummer this time, and his drum set did what it was supposed to do no problems.
Lighting was actually the high point of our evening. We just kind of set them daisy chained and in an auto rotating pattern and let it go. Worked great!
Mixer, my cheap Harbinger powered mains, borrowed Behringer powered subs, mics, etc... all worked great.
I've been fighting some sort of bug now for better part of a week. With the heat, humidity, and the smells of the party that usually wouldn't bug me, but for some reason the smell of beer and BBQ was just too much, I had to step behind the makeshift stage (Flat bed trailer) and amp stack to barf in the trash can, 3 times...
The lead guitarists Crate combo amp popped a fuse early in the first set, we scrambled and put him out of his zoom pedal straight to the board and out the PA. We lost a LOT of his sound that way.
The drummer fell off the stage when he kicked, and realized the stool was a bit too close to the edge. He just sort of tilted back and kept going. Good thing we were on the lawn! To top it off, he barely missed the trash can I was barfing in...
I had 1 song that I needed the B string of my 5 to play, and sadly, mid song the G string popped. I was able to transpose for the most part, but it was distracting, and made one heck of a sound out of the amp.
The friend who had us play the gig talked to me about it afterwards, I apologized. He said "no problem, everyone had fun and enjoyed the show!". So I guess no harm no foul...
We have some serious work to do before our next gig...
#1. Lead guitarist needs to get that amp in and fixed, replaced, or he needs to figure out how to get his sound out of the mains. He was looking into it this week.
#2. I need to re string the 5 string. I was still using the OE strings and I should know better...
#3. The drummer, assuming he decides to play with us again, this was a one gig thing for now, and we are going to talk with him later, I think so, but we need to make sure he gets a bit more forward room on the stage, or somehow figure out how to NOT fall over backwards. And no he was not drinking. At least at that point of the night. He had 2 beers, one between sets, and one after the second set.
#4. I need to get my a$$ in to see a Dr. whatever this dang bug is, is driving me nuts. Something has been making the rounds at my office and it just won't seem to go away...
To start off, it might be easier to tell you what went right, vs what went wrong...
For starters, the Rumble 500 V3 combo + 210 stack, Zoom B3, and SX Ursa 1 worked flawlessly.
My rhythm guitarists SX Hawk + my Behringer GTX-60 combo he seems to perpetually borrow, flawless.
Mics, mixer, powered speakers, again, flawless.
We even had a drummer this time, and his drum set did what it was supposed to do no problems.
Lighting was actually the high point of our evening. We just kind of set them daisy chained and in an auto rotating pattern and let it go. Worked great!
Mixer, my cheap Harbinger powered mains, borrowed Behringer powered subs, mics, etc... all worked great.
I've been fighting some sort of bug now for better part of a week. With the heat, humidity, and the smells of the party that usually wouldn't bug me, but for some reason the smell of beer and BBQ was just too much, I had to step behind the makeshift stage (Flat bed trailer) and amp stack to barf in the trash can, 3 times...
The lead guitarists Crate combo amp popped a fuse early in the first set, we scrambled and put him out of his zoom pedal straight to the board and out the PA. We lost a LOT of his sound that way.
The drummer fell off the stage when he kicked, and realized the stool was a bit too close to the edge. He just sort of tilted back and kept going. Good thing we were on the lawn! To top it off, he barely missed the trash can I was barfing in...
I had 1 song that I needed the B string of my 5 to play, and sadly, mid song the G string popped. I was able to transpose for the most part, but it was distracting, and made one heck of a sound out of the amp.
The friend who had us play the gig talked to me about it afterwards, I apologized. He said "no problem, everyone had fun and enjoyed the show!". So I guess no harm no foul...
We have some serious work to do before our next gig...
#1. Lead guitarist needs to get that amp in and fixed, replaced, or he needs to figure out how to get his sound out of the mains. He was looking into it this week.
#2. I need to re string the 5 string. I was still using the OE strings and I should know better...
#3. The drummer, assuming he decides to play with us again, this was a one gig thing for now, and we are going to talk with him later, I think so, but we need to make sure he gets a bit more forward room on the stage, or somehow figure out how to NOT fall over backwards. And no he was not drinking. At least at that point of the night. He had 2 beers, one between sets, and one after the second set.
#4. I need to get my a$$ in to see a Dr. whatever this dang bug is, is driving me nuts. Something has been making the rounds at my office and it just won't seem to go away...
