Getting to the Gig

[iriegnome]

OK. How do you get yourself, the others in the band, roadies, sound/Light crew, merchandise and everything else to a gig?

 

[chroma601]

Separately, or together?

 

[jsingles]

cars?

 

[iriegnome]

cars?

Cars would be in the everyone for themselves catagory.

 

[iriegnome]

Oh, My band just bought a retired 77 passanger school bus.
We love it.

 

[bigthemat]

my only gig right now (now that pep band is over) is just my combo. i might pick up a horn player, but pretty much all on our own. It was the same with my funk band. We had a pickup truck we would borrow for the pa, but I usually just drove myself, maybe one other.

 

[Frag]

I dont drive (broke my back in the parachute regiment) so I cadge a lift from either my drummer of guitarist lol

 

[satchelbsamia]

we ride with our equipment in our Dodge 3500 Van

 

[Elemetal]

I put Carrots because I usually drive there. And I wouldn't fit in the everyone for themselves because we always carpool as a band. We always take our stuff before. Then ride in style and its there for us to giv'er.

 

[southshoreconor]

conversion van and trailer. usually 5-7 people. 5 band members and one or two friends.

 

[Incognitus]

Depends, If it's in town we all just bring our own equipment and ourselves in our own cars, while maybe one or two carpool.

If it's an out of town gig we all pile into a pickup or passenger van and haul the gear in a trailer.

 

[fenderx55]

Lately I've been playing mostly city gigs so I've been taking the subway. But at home for the summer, my band from hs shoves as much stuff into 2 cars as possible and go that way.

 

[Dave R]

The gear always arrives in the guitarist's trailer.

People transport themselves, if its an "in town" gig. Out of town, we all go in the guitarist's big cab truck, with the trailer in back.

 

[edbass]

Lately I've been playing mostly city gigs so I've been taking the subway. But at home for the summer, my band from hs shoves as much stuff into 2 cars as possible and go that way.

I assume you use a DI instead of an amp on those subway gigs? I would imagine any kind of rig would prove... interesting on a train.

 

[kevteop]

Guitarist and singer in one car.
Horns in another.
Piano, bass, drums and percussion in another.
Gear in a van driven by whoever's girlfriend is the most star-struck.

In convoy preferably, so you can get creative with the car horns at busy intersections.

 

[Bassman822]

On local gigs its everyone in their own cars. Out of town we tend to carpool

 

[Fine Cut]

we usually convoy to gigs, 3 or 4 vehicles, then once we're there we set and then dispurse throughout the city for grub before the show starts

 

[MooseLumps]

Chevy astro panel van. Best 700 bucks i ever spent. Only two passenger, but i haul all the gear and get a per diem from the band for doing so. (is it obvious that I don't speak latin?)

 

[oyobass]

I ride the old mountain bike for local stuff. I go direct mostly, so it all fits in a gig bag. Not fun in a windstorm, a bass/bag make a great sail, but only with a tailwind.

oyo

 

[iriegnome]

We actually do not really play any gigs closer to home than about 100 miles round trip. Since we bought the bus, we have put about 4,000 miles on it. We have had it for 2 months. This last weekend alone (Thursday-Sunday) we played 3 states and put on 2,000 miles. What an awesome way to travel cheap and semi-comfortable.