"Check In" here before and after your gigs, set 3 - everyone's drunk now!

Glad you had a great show thanks for sharing

 

Just discovering this long running thread.

I play out a couple of times a month - sometimes more.

A gig coming up that is notable for me is - New Year's Eve.
First time I have ever had a gig for New Year's Eve.

Looking forward to it. I don't really normally do anything for NYE, so I'm glad to be out with a gig that night this year.

 

Show tonight in the East Bay with our Bowie tribute band. We are headlining for the 1st time in our (less than a year) history. Opening will be a band that formed for the occasion doing songs by T-Rex, Sweet, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro.

I have a new outfit (some sparking stuff) new color for the spray on hair coloring and sporting the stingray for the first time for this band. No the 'ray is not new but I've been using my CIJ P-bass up to this point due to trying to somewhat historically accurate. Should be a good un' And a few new songs including one co-written by a Mr. Lennon which should sound good on the 'ray (yes the infamous one note song)

 

GOOD LUCK WITH THE SHOW!

 

Followup from Friday's show. Went EXTREMELY well, we headlined and had a packed house, booker was happy audience was happy, many folks coming up to us afterwards and raving (which believe me does not happen at all our shows) I think performance wise we turned a corner, we had a fair amount of flubs but kept going. But the high points were pretty awesome.

Bass sound on stage was weird, the sound person put the bass in the monitor during our set which she did not do during the sound check, so I got a very detailed weird clean sound on stage which freaked me out a little as it was just clean bass signal and a little too loud. Only was it after the set did I realize it was the monitor and not the rig.

yes, we are a tribute band, but it is hard to argue with the fact that folks are into it, so you can say the audience is not into you but somebody's else songs, but I guess we had to pull it off and we did. It really does make me reevaluate the whole cover band thing in a big way, the people you play for a re happy (in our case that night VERY happy) so there is some payoff there.

 

Glad it turned out good for you. Bowie is one of my favorite rockers

 

Tonight we'll be playing a 50th birthday party at a local bar that we gig at often. The birthday boy is paying us instead of the bar, and more than the bar would. He asked us to play a bunch of George Harrison songs, so we've spent the last few weeks hashing them out. It should be a fun gig! It's going to be on the long side though...8:30-2am. 3 sets, each roughly 1 1/2 hrs. I hope it stops snowing before I have to head out to pack up my gear.

I'll be using my usual GB Streamliner 900 into Bag End S15D's. I'll be playing my G&L ASAT most of the night, but I haven't decided the other bass yet. Probably my Sadowsky 5er, but I thought of going all 4 string for the first time in a LONG time. I'll also be dragging my pedal board with me, I need my synth and octave on a few songs.

UPDATE: The gig was awesome. We only played until about 12:30 which was nice since we started so early. The bar was packed, which surprised me since it snowed the night before and the day of. We sounded great, got a bunch of compliments, and another gig.

I ended up playing my ASAT all night. My whole rig sounded KILLER! I had a smile on my face all night.

 

Congrats BassGod. sounds like an awesome time!

 

Tonight my country band will be playing at the Winchester VA Moose lodge. It's my first gig with them since NYE. Looking forward to the buffet, they have good food. Also the crowd is into us, so that's a big plus.

Only bummer is they allow smoking, because it's a private club. With the no-smoking rule @ the nightclubs, I'm spoiled!

 

Tonight my post-punkish band is playing out for the first time since last May...Our main guitarist has been dealing with serious health issues over the past few years so we haven't been very steadily active.

Anyway, we go on second, and the venue is a block and a half from my apartment, which makes my life easier tonight... I'll be playing guitar for the first three songs and then bass for the remainder (our main guitarist will play my bass for the first two songs, and then our lead vocalist will play it on the third song)...

 

So Luna, how was the show?

 

I totally forgot about my post here!

The show went OK I guess... The venue is notorious for having little to no ventilation, and the heat level rises fast in the room where the music takes place... It's a fairly small room with a low ceiling... I was feeling OK early in the evening, was kind of worn out and dehydrated by the time I finished loading my gear in, so I went home (a block away) and drank a load of V-8 and ate some rice to help absorb stomach acid. By the time the first band went on (we were second in the line up) I was feeling pretty good. Then it was time for us to set up. The stage is fairly small, and by the time we had finished cramming our gear and ourselves on it, I was starting to overheat and acid reflux started to kick in. I hoped that once playing, I would cool off a bit as I would just be standing mostly still, stuck in my little corner of the stage.

The first three songs were songs that I play guitar on (for the first two, our main guitarist plays my bass, and for the third our lead vocalist plays my bass). I was really starting to feel miserable during the third song, I was not cooling off at all, so I took off my jacket, which only helped a little bit. I managed to play bass OK for the next few songs and then things started getting really difficult. My glasses kept sliding off my head making it difficult to see, and the pick was really slippery. The body of my bass was also slippery with perspiration, so anchoring my arm like I normally do was impossible. My acid reflux was in high gear, so my throat was burning from stomach acid.... I had no trouble hearing myself, as I was standing right in front of my rig, and I could hear everyone else well enough to navigate, but my own playing ranged from just slightly sloppy to full-on caveman bashing away in the relative vicinity of the correct strings.

By the time the set was over, I was feeling miserable but victorious that I made it through the set without disaster. The audience response was very positive and even the soundguy was complimentary to me as we were breaking down our gear. The more objective listeners among our friends in the crowd said that we did indeed sound good that night (kudos to the soundguy!).

Here's a clip a friend took on his phone of a live debut of a song that our main guitarist sings lead on and our lead vocalist plays guitar on. I think the lyrics are about Santa being an evil bastard. I'm standing in the back of the scene with my Yamaha bass...
Razorblade Monalisa - Christmas Day - YouTube

 

First gig tonight! Not paid, but still, my first step beyond open mics.

Joined this band two weeks ago. Last Monday the BL asked spontaneously if we wanted to hit an open mic. I said I couldn't make it and would need more notice because of needing to care for kids etc.

So rehearsal last night, he says his friend asked if we could come open for them tonight... Playing at Pinucci's in Manchester NH.

I'm stoked!

EDIT: BL called, and he was in error. it's tomorrow, and the place is spelled Penuche's....

 

And it was a success! Just played 6 songs, about half an hour, opening for the other band. The next day, got a text from the BL that the place booked us for March 31. Which will officially be my first PAID gig.

Woo hoo!

 

Is this the same band where the singer chick hitchhikes from three hours away? Life seems so much more interesting in Poland....

Thumbs up for kids' music. I bang away on a mandolin for kids at my wife's library from time to time. Best audiences ever!

 

We played a great/terrible gig last night. It was a new place for us, so we got there nice and early. The soundguy was already there setting up his equipment so we introduced ourselves. He was really cool and a very nice guy. We bring in our gear and set up, then do soundcheck. This soundguy was phenomenal! No fussing around and he made us sound AWESOME. We were very happy.

There wasn't much of a crowd, and not a single person we knew showed up. So we basically played for the soundguy and a few random people. He kept telling us how good we were, but in reality we played like garbage. Our first set was great, then it just went downhill from there. At the end of the night the BL asked me what I thought and I just "we sucked..." He laughed and agreed.

The owner and soundguy were very receptive and kept on saying how good we were and they they'll book us again. Telling us about the gigs they would like us to do. The soundguy is basically freelance, so we made a good contact with him as well.

But we sucked