| Letting someone use my bass on a gig, plus a stage on a rail
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Seems like every gig has its own story eh? Played an outdoor thing we do every year in Alabama on Sat night. A really senic spot. They built a permanant stage now, really great design, and a great onstage sound, plus super nice and competent sound crew there. So much easier and funner to play when it sounds good to ya on stage. But this stage they built, it's on this rail system, and has a motor, and they can move it over 100 feet or so when they don't want the stage there blocking the senic view. Never seen anything quite like it. Goes to show what can be accompolished when money is no object...heh
My bass rig somehow ended being the rig for all the bands on the show, i guess cuz we got there first and set up, but our gear being a backline wasn't an original plan, not that i minded. We went on 2nd to last. It was good in a way because i just got a new GK head, and this was my first big outdoor gig with it, so i got to hear how it sounded out front, with pa support of course. I thought it sounded great both onstage and outfront, so that was a good thing. It def passed the "test". There was a local band right before us, and this guy had a cool, funky looking old '69 Fender P. They're playing the show, and i wasn't really paying that much attention once they got going, but then i heard the bass totally cut out, then come back in, then cut out again. I look and see the soundguys doing the dance of panic up there, and i'm thinking ^%$%$$ my new amp is messing up. They tried a few things, then finally the sound man waves me over, i'm fearing the worst at this point. He tells me that the guys bass is messing up, either the pickups or the jack is broken. He didn't specifically ask if the guy could play my bass, but i could tell that's what he was driving at. I thought about it for just a second, then said sure. I hate to see anyone struggling on stage, and that's the worst feeling in the world when your gear breaks down on a gig. There was prob 2 thousand people there. So this guy picks up my bass, which is a G&L L-2500, and i could tell really quick that he wasn't familiar with playing a 5 string at all. He got thru it, but i'm sure he was real glad when the show was over. I was just real glad it wasn't my gear that was messing up. They all thanked me several times for the use of my bass during the show. On to the next "adventure" now...heh Trent | 
