Outdoor gig in -16°C dergee cold

[jnel]

LongF - you make some very good points - very nice

[MR PC]

after all.....it's really just a big box with strings on it. Leave your good one at home. If the bass is damaged somehow (hard to imagine it won't be), it's nobody's fault but yours. And more importantly, make sure you don't hurt yourself, because if you hurt yourself, the same thing applies. Hope the gig went/goes well.

Aside from that, I suppose this thread has been was an opportunity for a few old TB members to do some cyber saber-rattling.

I'll never be out of here, that part of TB DB too entertaining!

[jnel]

we must assume that Brian, well, he didn't make it.
Oh well,

good night-we can all sleep better knowing that he followed his heart...

Good night mom
good night dad
good night sis
good night granpa
good night fat lady

[MR PC]

Not so fast jnel.......he followed his heart......how could you know that.....unless you are......

[forester]

-16 C tough room.

[Damon Rondeau]

It hasn't exactly been Nunavut weather in Calgary over the last week:

http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/c...lgary/historic

About a week ago they had a nighttime low dip down to about -18C , or about -8F. That's still good skiing weather, as far as I'm concerned. But the last few days in Calgary have been up around freezing. Typical Calgary winter weather: sometimes bitter cold but usually pretty mild as Canadian winters go.

[gerry grable]

Originally Posted by Damon Rondeau

It hasn't exactly been Nunavut weather in Calgary over the last week:

http://www.timeanddate.com/weather/c...lgary/historic

About a week ago they had a nighttime low dip down to about -18C , or about -8F. That's still good skiing weather, as far as I'm concerned. But the last few days in Calgary have been up around freezing. Typical Calgary winter weather: sometimes bitter cold but usually pretty mild as Canadian winters go.

Wow! Your weather on January 3rd was downright balmy. When we got a temperature rise that drastic in Greenland it usually indicated the coming of a "phase," an Arctic storm with very high hurricane-like winds, a virtual whiteout.

[jnel]

how did I know
well, just before our good nights-I heard the fat lady ring granpa's bell

and every time a bell rings, an angel gets their wings!

@ a boy Clarence!
@ a boy Brian

[Brian K]

Update: the gig was fun, the bass is fine. One spirocore is coming a bit unwound, who knows if that has anything to do with the temperature. Probably not.

The stage had heaters, but with no walls, their range was no more than a few feet, and I kept the bass far from them.

With the soundcheck and a rehearsal and a run-through, the bass was outside for about 12 hours. I put it together and took it apart in the cold too, so it maintained coldness from the flight there. Used the cold room in my house to ease the temp down the night before.

Thankfully, the weather was above seasonal norms, it was within 5 degrees of freezing (0C) all day.

Here's a video of the gig: http://video.citytv.com/video/detail...-2013-calgary/

[jnel]

Very Cool

pun intended

[longfinger]

Originally Posted by Brian K

Update: the gig was fun, the bass is fine. One spirocore is coming a bit unwound, who knows if that has anything to do with the temperature. Probably not.

The stage had heaters, but with no walls, their range was no more than a few feet, and I kept the bass far from them.

With the soundcheck and a rehearsal and a run-through, the bass was outside for about 12 hours. I put it together and took it apart in the cold too, so it maintained coldness from the flight there. Used the cold room in my house to ease the temp down the night before.

Thankfully, the weather was above seasonal norms, it was within 5 degrees of freezing (0C) all day.

Here's a video of the gig: http://video.citytv.com/video/detail...-2013-calgary/

Good to read about it. It seems all went well, nothing to be afraid of. Seems like you have a removable neck bass, must be awesome to travel with.

for the video for some weird reason Safari on Mac just kept looping the 1st TV commercial over and over again. Firefox worked fine.

Is that you with Serena Ryder? A few seconds of arco intro then off to the electric bass guitar...? Did you play the URB more on stage than that?

[Brian K]

Yes, we play a couple other songs later in the show, one of which is double bass.

[longfinger]

Originally Posted by Brian K

Yes, we play a couple other songs later in the show, one of which is double bass.

yeah, I'm watching it now, around the 1 hour mark. Arco URB in pop-rock. Congratulations for bringing that in! In ear monitors? How was that experience?

[Brian K]

I really like playing in ears for things like that - to bow on a noisy stage and know where one's pitch is at becomes much easier if there's no mic or pickup in an amp or wedges but only in the ears.

[Rigel42]

Cools show