What's the story with that stage set up? It looks like you did something to make the other guys in the band mad so they stuck you in the back and took away your cover from the elements!
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Advice for Blues trio bass please!
- Thread starter Dr Improbable
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What's the story with that stage set up? It looks like you did something to make the other guys in the band mad so they stuck you in the back and took away your cover from the elements!
Nah, Just way too cramped for Drum Kit & Bass under the tent and Trailer too small for the whole band. Amazingly the sound was great up on the trailer. I could hear everything perfectly.
Have you ever listened to the live at the Whisky work that Joe Osborn did with Johnny Rivers? (considered by many to be the first modern power trios). He used a J with flats. Blues? Lots of them. All sounded good. my theory is that he would have sounded good with anything they handed him.
jimmy reed
good luck. it sounds like fun. bob
jimmy reed
good luck. it sounds like fun. bob
I play in a three piece blues band. I use bright roundwounds, some grind on the bass amp, lots of ghost notes and percussive "noise" to fill in between notes played, and a lot of cooperation between the guitar player, the drummer and me.
The guitar player likes my bass playing and in this band, lets the bass and drums fill much of the space, and plays more sparsely than he does in his other band, which is a 4 piece. We work on the mix of what we have, and it works well.
There isn't the hole left when he does a lead, because he doesn't overplay during the verses. He also plays more horn vamps and fills in this band. His leads are worked around more sparse instrumentation.
We don't need another guitar or a keyboard.
I use "Greenboy inspired" cabinets I built, using a 12/6/1 and a 12 sub and having such a full, wide range rig really helps fill things out. I wouldn't want to play in this band using 15's alone.
The guitar player likes my bass playing and in this band, lets the bass and drums fill much of the space, and plays more sparsely than he does in his other band, which is a 4 piece. We work on the mix of what we have, and it works well.
There isn't the hole left when he does a lead, because he doesn't overplay during the verses. He also plays more horn vamps and fills in this band. His leads are worked around more sparse instrumentation.
We don't need another guitar or a keyboard.
I use "Greenboy inspired" cabinets I built, using a 12/6/1 and a 12 sub and having such a full, wide range rig really helps fill things out. I wouldn't want to play in this band using 15's alone.
