What do you bring to a gig?

[Skel]

When you go to a gig, what do you have with you? Sure you have your amp, basses, cables, probably a tuner, and any effects. But what else? I think this will be interesting! You can be honest and include any chemical substances as well.

Skel

[rllefebv]

Everything you mentioned, doubled, (Yeah, I bring spares of everything except for speaker cabinets...) Also, a set of drumsticks, guitar strings, and a four-pack of 9v batteries... The sticks, strings and batteries haven't been needed in my current band, (these guys are on top of their game), but I've saved the day with gear for other band members on more than one occasion... If I play a gig and somebody forgets a "What were you thinking?" item that they should have packed, it becomes part of my load...

Also Static Guard, pain relievers, ear-plugs, breath-mints, and a fan...

-robert

[Turock]

Duct tape.

[Lowtonejoe]

Originally Posted by Skel

When you go to a gig, what do you have with you? Sure you have your amp, basses, cables, probably a tuner, and any effects. But what else? I think this will be interesting! You can be honest and include any chemical substances as well.

Skel

Lately,

1. Bass
2. Tuner
3. Cable
4. Music
5. Stands

I've been running through our drummer's JBL G2. Not bad. Not bad at all.

This makes for a very light load in and load out.



Joe.

[BassChuck]

Duct tape. Spare cables. Sewing kit. First Aid kit. Rags. Strings. Stand lights. Sharpie markers. Clothes pins. Paper clips. Rubber bands. Asprins.

Anything I've needed once I'll always carry. You never know, do you?

[addylewis]

1) Main bass
2) Spare/Different bass
3) Amp
4) jacks (7-8)
5) XLRs (2-3)
6) Gaffer tape
7) Old Strings
8) Zoom 510 distortion box (with in-built, perfectly calibrated tuner)
9) Adapter for pedal

Other stuff I bring every now and then when I can be bothered...

10) Screwdrivers
11) Soldering iron
12) D.I. box or PodXT (my amps being temprimental at the minute, so I'd better remember to pack them for thursdays gig...)
13)...er...allen keys (well...I USED to bring them, but I've lost THE one I'm most likely to need! I gotta get me a new set)
14) Spare kettle lead

...thats about it innit? - May start taking some Superglue, and we're using 3 of my mics for the drumkit at the minute...and my earplugs of course... - I could go on forever remembering stuff like this so I'll stop now

[jrduer]

1) SM58 vocal mic
2) Couple of condenser mics
3) lots of mic cables
4) 2 mic stands (one w/boom)
5) DI box (especially since the time my amp fried right before a gig...)
6) Swiss Army knife
7) Batteries (9v and AA)
8) Allen wrenches (one set SAE; one set metric)
9) Chloraseptic (for sore, raspy throats)
10) Couple of towels
11) Lots of extra picks
12) Cigars/cigar cutter
13) A funny hat

~John

[Skel]

Originally Posted by rllefebv

Everything you mentioned, doubled, (Yeah, I bring spares of everything except for speaker cabinets...) Also, a set of drumsticks, guitar strings, and a four-pack of 9v batteries... The sticks, strings and batteries haven't been needed in my current band, (these guys are on top of their game), but I've saved the day with gear for other band members on more than one occasion... If I play a gig and somebody forgets a "What were you thinking?" item that they should have packed, it becomes part of my load...

Also Static Guard, pain relievers, ear-plugs, breath-mints, and a fan...

-robert

I only got to this post. You are a trooper, dude. I never would have thought to bring drumsticks. Did you play drums at one time?

Skel

[Skel]

Originally Posted by jrduer

1) SM58 vocal mic
2) Couple of condenser mics
3) lots of mic cables
4) 2 mic stands (one w/boom)
5) DI box (especially since the time my amp fried right before a gig...)
6) Swiss Army knife
7) Batteries (9v and AA)
8) Allen wrenches (one set SAE; one set metric)
9) Chloraseptic (for sore, raspy throats)
10) Couple of towels
11) Lots of extra picks
12) Cigars/cigar cutter
13) A funny hat

~John

Ha ha! Yea, you don't want to forget the Cigar stuff. Gigging really is about "what ever could go wrong, will", and you have to step up sometimes and cover for your bandmates who are irresponsible and don't bring the stuff *they* should be bringing. Hopefully I saw fuses mentioned. I even bring extra 12AX7 tubes, and even EL34's (of course it's my Marshall the guy is using). Nobody actually brings an extra bass cab do they?

Skel

[seanm]

Along with the normal stuff, I always bring an extension cord and a power bar. It seems there is *never* a plugin where you need it.

[keneds]

How about a little mag lite.

[fretlessrock]

Depends on the gig. I go to some gigs with a bass, cable, and a DI. Or like last night I had to bring the entire PA and my bass/gear. I could fill a page with what I had to load for that.

But the ditty-bag includes spare cables, mic cables, passive DI, wall wart, tuner, batteries, gum, some kind of emergency snack food (Clif Bar) and most importantly: guitar player stuff since that is usually the problem (I forgot my pick, slide, capo, forebrain....)

[rllefebv]

Originally Posted by Skel

I only got to this post. You are a trooper, dude. I never would have thought to bring drumsticks. Did you play drums at one time?

Skel

No, but I once played a 'drummer-less' half of a set while waiting for the drummer to run back to the practice space and get his stick bag... Luckily it was fairly local. After that, I took a set along with me... You'd think that once would be enough, but TWICE he had to use my back-ups... Good drummer though! He kind of fell off the face of the earth for a few years, but I recently played a fill-in gig with him and it was a blast...

In my current band, we all bring along spares of some sort... These guys have been playing long enough to realize that things will break-down at the most inopportune times... The harmonica player uses vintage amps, (he has 2 original '59 Bassman's) so he and the guitar player are set as long as one of them brings a spare...

-robert

[SuperDuck]

One handy-dandy thing to bring to a gig is a set of velcro tape rolls. They come in a pair, one roll of each of the two sides of velcro. Man, the uses for that stuff is endless!

I currently use velcro to hold my DI and compressor to the top of my carpet-covered amp.

[JansenW]

Don't forget a spare strap and extra copy of the music.

[Skel]

Oh yea - the spare strap - crucial. I'm writing all this stuff down - good ideas. I like the velcro, the maglite. But the sewing kit?

Skel

[syciprider]

A fully loaded Beretta 92F and two spare mags for a total of 45 rounds coz you never know when someone will Dimebag yer @$$.

[Hookus]

About everything I own besides multiple amps. I keep all my effects, cables, well, everything in a big plastic tote, cause I never want to forget to take anything. It has evrything from the little fold up guitar stand, to superglue, earplugs, flashlight, power strip, extension cord, picks, tools, strings, a hi-z to low-z adapter, a couple mics, cables, a couple straps, rags, tape, pens, paper, demos cd's...and so forth.

Drumsticks though, good call.

[seanm]

Originally Posted by JansenW

extra copy of the music.

That's one thing I don't have to bring (see my sig). But the one singer I gig with must have 100 pounds of binders. I actually don't know how many he has since he seems to keep bringing out more

[g00eY]

music, stands, earplugs, screwdriver, allen wrenche(s), strap, pick (i don't even use it, it's just there).