One of you mod kinda guys... make a big fat sticky thread across every forum, or maybe a mass-email or mass-private-message.
There's three things I recommend:
1: THEFT-RECOVERY RECORDS OF YOUR GEAR. Serial numbers and photographs of every piece of your gear, especially your gigging gear. Take pictures, write the pertiment info and serial numbers on the backs of the pictures. When you sell gear to a new user, hand em over the picture.
2: FUSES FUSES FUSES. All your gear has fuses. Get replacements for them, cuz nobody ever seems to have fuses stored in the beer fridge at the bar of the gig.
3: TUBES, BATTERIES AND BACKUP CABLES. Any kind of strong road bump can blow a pre or power amp tube. If you're wireless, both fresh batteries and a cable are safety precautions. If you use cables, that usual cable of yours could get cut or sliced in the car door or crushed by an amp rolling over it on stage. If your basses have active preamps, those batteries could go dead as well and you'll never know it was getting low.
Any musician in a gigging band should have a band emergency kit. For example, I keep a drumkey on my keychain, and have needed it in an emergency more than a dozen legitimate times. Either my drummer's tom clamp is drifting down during a song, or a drummer's head gets cut transporting, or a cymbal stand needs tightening... anything man.
Duct tape. Electrical tape. Screwdrivers. FLASHLIGHTS. Guitar/bass strings are usually remembered and kept in a guitar case. Just go to Home Depot, get one of those 12" tool bags, and stuff it with anything you could possibly think of for a gig. And the sensitive stuff - tubes, fuses, fragile stuff - those should be tucked into something padded. Like a small bag or wrapped in a towel or rag, then inside a Ziplock bag.
There's three things I recommend:
1: THEFT-RECOVERY RECORDS OF YOUR GEAR. Serial numbers and photographs of every piece of your gear, especially your gigging gear. Take pictures, write the pertiment info and serial numbers on the backs of the pictures. When you sell gear to a new user, hand em over the picture.
2: FUSES FUSES FUSES. All your gear has fuses. Get replacements for them, cuz nobody ever seems to have fuses stored in the beer fridge at the bar of the gig.
3: TUBES, BATTERIES AND BACKUP CABLES. Any kind of strong road bump can blow a pre or power amp tube. If you're wireless, both fresh batteries and a cable are safety precautions. If you use cables, that usual cable of yours could get cut or sliced in the car door or crushed by an amp rolling over it on stage. If your basses have active preamps, those batteries could go dead as well and you'll never know it was getting low.
Any musician in a gigging band should have a band emergency kit. For example, I keep a drumkey on my keychain, and have needed it in an emergency more than a dozen legitimate times. Either my drummer's tom clamp is drifting down during a song, or a drummer's head gets cut transporting, or a cymbal stand needs tightening... anything man.
Duct tape. Electrical tape. Screwdrivers. FLASHLIGHTS. Guitar/bass strings are usually remembered and kept in a guitar case. Just go to Home Depot, get one of those 12" tool bags, and stuff it with anything you could possibly think of for a gig. And the sensitive stuff - tubes, fuses, fragile stuff - those should be tucked into something padded. Like a small bag or wrapped in a towel or rag, then inside a Ziplock bag.
