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One of the bands I play in is called 3rd Power Project and we played saturday night to a packed house at the Tiki Bar. It was a CD release party with the CD of original music produced by Gilby Clark of Guns and Roses being finished and available on all the digital networks.

I know this isn’t an actual gig report, and it’s not about bass guitar, but I’m just so excited I don’t know what to do with myself. Later tonight, my cousin, John, is playing trombone (which uses a bass clef, amiright?) with The Who during the band’s tour kickoff in Grand Rapids, MI. (I live...

We played at this lil winery for the 2nd time on Sunday. Some guests joined us for a few tunes, trumpet, harmonica, and vocalist. All extra players added a lot! We nearly filled the place, at least we packed the little dining area where we play. Lots of dancing and most of the audience stayed...

Ohhhh boy I suppose I should start from the beginning... Well, my guitarist booked this gig a couple of months ago and it looked legit for all events and purposes. Langley, Arkansas... Where? ... exactly. Two hours from home into deeeeeep Arkansas. Satellite pic showed a convenience store a a...

Live from Every Buddy's Bar in Chippewa Falls, WI: Drove out to Chippewa Falls from the Twin Cities area on a sunny Saturday morning, checked into a hotel near the bar, and had the afternoon to get situated. We had dinner at the venue, and were able to load in a couple hours before doors. The...

so like my band played a local dive. We were coming up to end of the last song of the first set, playing to more chairs than people (and more people than teeth) when a rumble ran over the stage. One of the lighting trussed had fallen. So, we broke, fixed up the truss, and took five...

After being rained out last week, we had the chance to return to a great venue on Lake Murray in Chapin, SC. Beautiful spot on the lake, but during the summer months in South Carolina, it can become brutally hot and humid. Due to those conditions, we had avoided playing here since 2014, but a...

Well, I've gotta say we were so exited for this gig - Huge BBQ Festival, we were going to set up the whole sound system with all our subs and tops, all of the lighting system, Thunderfunk and multiple cabs, I was going to post all these BBQ pics and the day before really serious thunderstorms...

it was a small small crowd when Billy Joe Bob took the stage... blah blah blah

After last night's fill in gig for me, Interstate Exiles played a new room for us about 75 miles from the house on Lake Wateree, South Carolina. Cool signage and logo. This was another sign, so we were sure that we were in the right spot. And a quick photo of the lake. Good thing I took this...

I received a call from a friend of mine about filling in for his band at a small venue about a week ago, and since Interstate Exiles were off that night, jumped at the chance. I don't know about you guys, but I love fill in gigs. The night races by and I really have to concentrate on what I'm...

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I had an incredible rehearsal on Tuesday, but, I didn't want to start a whole new thread for it. The gig thread inspired me. Our band was energized. I thought it would be cool to check in and say how your rehearsals went, what you changed and what got better (or worse). I just finished a jazz...

Hopefully there's a WR aficionado here that can help me out. Did Zawinul write out - compose - all parts on the tune? Specifically in regards Shorter's sax sole. Or, did WS improvise his solo over the changes. Thanks.

Hey all of you TB'ers, I've been in this site since 2007 and have been gigging with the same band, with essentially the same personnel at the low end of the gig ladder the whole time. You know - Dive Bars, festivals, events that aren't the pricey kind. You get the gist. So, I guess about a year...

So here's a lesson in what it's like to pull together a bigger band for a one-off gig, and how what might look like a pickup gig turns into a major deal. (Yeah, this will be long, but if you have a short attention span you're probably not into doing this anyway.) A friend and collaborator of...

Colorado Green Band Loveland (Colorado) Garden Club Plant Sale At a church in Loveland. outdoors during the day. We got rained out. Yes, we had a pop up, but the patio where we were supposed to play was very damp. It was drizzling. We decided that death by electrocution wasn't what we wanted to...

I had great intentions of actually making my first gig report. But... it was cold! 37 degrees at noon when we started playing, a balmy 46 by the time we finished our second set at 3pm.... Spring in northern Wisconsin.... notice the snow bank on the left.....

I took five years off after my brother/co-band leader/lead singer died suddenly. We had played together for 45 years, and run the same band for 30 years. Last fall I decided that sitting around was not getting me anywhere, and I got back to it. I've been subbing, and running a jam. Last night...

First, I was the one who was going around and trying to find company, which will be willing to re-create Acoustic Black Widow. Some friends, I contacted did not see the benefit of it. Some said, GC might get on their back and sometime in last Summer I contacted Eastwood, who later decided to...

Last Thursday was a night of firsts: First time playing le Petit Campus, a very nice mid-sized venue in Montréal. Possibly the coolest place we've played so far. First time having an actual dressing room / storage area for our crap, our own washroom and a ton of COLD water bottles provided by...

So today I bought an audio interface, webcam, and learned how to mix the song and bass track together and tried to then mix that audio track with the video. I did take video at same time as I took audio, but it is difficult to sync 100% and seems almost unreal because the DI audio kind of takes...

So I’ve been fortunate enough to purchase several new G&L Basses in the past few weeks and took two of them to my rock gig tonight. I brought my new JB5 and L2000 and used the JB5 on the first two sets and the L2K on the third set. I ran them through my Fender Bassman 100T and Bassman Neo 410...

So I picked up one of these wee little buggers a while back as a splurge kind of gear purchase. Was actually looking for a small combo but didn't like any of the units I played and they had this thing in stock. I played it and it smoked most of the small combos I played. So I went for it and...

Whiskey Karma’s schedule has been rapidly filling up to the point where our 1 gig per month goal is easily being met, to the point where we are gigging more frequently than once per month for the next while. We try to not gig too often, as it gets harder to ensure a good turnout when we play...

My band decided to take December off and our January gig got pushed out to April for various reasons, so we had a 2 month break between our last gig and this show. Our venue for the evening was the (in)famous Byrd at the Flamingo Hotel in Surrey. The Byrd used to be a strip club for many, many...

This is my first attempt at a gig-report. I will not call it a @BassCliff -styled report, as there really are no food photos, but I will mention food! ;) Saturday was a cool experience as Invalid Link Removed performed at the inaugural "Stage on Stage" series at the beautiful State Theater in...

Well, this was an interesting evening... My first real gig back since my surgery at the end of September. We were scheduled for two nights at a place about a half hour from home, Friday and Saturday night. The weather was scheduled to be crap on Friday night, so we got cancelled Friday night...

So I brought the ELF to one of our medium/small shows last night (500 - 700 person room). I paired her up with a Schroeder 12L cab (4 ohm and just 20 lbs!). I have to admit that u was a bit concerned before the show that the rig wouldn't be enough... Good news is that I was wrong. I had my...

Ok, this happened about three weeks ago, but I hadn't really thought about it much until now... I had posted a thread back in Sept/Oct. about how I had transplant surgery and would be out of commission for a bit. We had a backup bass player planned for the time I was out, and had three gigs...

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12/16/2017 at California Citrus State Historic Park This ones a bit long because it’s got a back story. About 3 weeks ago I got a phone call from two great friends who I’ve been playing music on and off with for the last 10-12 years. They had a gig just a few days after I came home from...

Invalid Link Removed Happy to say I got to witness this master in action before he left us. HBD Cap'n! Weather Report at Stadthalle Sep 29, 1978 Offenbach, 05 Black Market Scarlet Woman Young and Fine The Pursuit of the Woman With the Feathered Hat A Remark You Made River People Thanks...

I answered a Craigslist ad to play a pickup gig at a venue about an hour away that has just gone through a change of management and major renovation. The BL is a transplant to the Southwest from Chicago, where he'd led bands for many years. I helped him connect with some local players on short...

This gig was a long time coming for about 3 months – every date the venue owner suggested we happened to have another gig the same weekend. We try to play about 1 time per month, so November is turning out to be a busy month, for us. The owner is trying to start up a Country night, and we had...

This one is a little late, mostly because I thought I'd have more to offer in terms of media...but it turns out the video footage taken during that night is being used for a music video, so the whole thing will take a little longer to edit than I was willing to wait. So here's the "pictures...

I practice in an apartment and use a solid state amp because using headphones with a tube amp is problematic. This led me to explore effects pedals, since even distortion, sustain & feedback must be created with pedals when you can't "turn it up". In my quest to learn modern effects (I hadn't...

We ain't all that. We ain't even SOME of that. We don't have a following and we don't "move units." We've been around for 18 years, no one knows our name, we refuse to break up in spite of living in different states, and hadn't played live (all together) in five years until a couple of weeks...

Our drummer had noticed an ad for a battle of the bands type contest at the Railway Stage and Beer café, the re-opened name of the locally legendary Railway Club. The Railway club was Vancouver’s longest continually operating nightclub from 1931 until 2016, when it closed down. It was...

First attempt at a Gig report, so go easy on me – BassCliff sets such a high standard for all of us to live up to. Anyhow, October 1, my band Whiskey Karma was offered the opening slot at the Roxy here in Vancouver. The Roxy is, of course, notorious as being the cause of the “Roxy Flu” for...