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My rented backline adventures

#141
Saw ASIA a couple of years ago in Peekskill NY. John Wetton was playing through a VERY small combo. I thought hey John appreciates portability, but maybe this was a backline fumble? I wonder if touring acts like ASIA get backline supplied or they haul their own?
 
#142
JimmyM said:
Well there wasn't much in the way of details, Jeff...I posted about it on Facebook, Roberta saw it and said she lived 5 minutes away, her and her husband came out, and we chatted a little bit about her dad
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Sorry for making you post twice but I don't Facebook. And just for the record I would have preferred a sex, drugs and rock n roll lie......you do realize us day job guys live vicariously through you cats who are out there on the road livin' the R&R dream?
 
#147
jeffbonny said:
Sorry for making you post twice but I don't Facebook. And just for the record I would have preferred a sex, drugs and rock n roll lie......you do realize us day job guys live vicariously through you cats who are out there on the road livin' the R&R dream?
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Oh, I meant I posted about my gig on Facebook the night before and Roberta saw it. Not complaining about posting twice. But since I'm married, then the stories are always bound to be pretty lame ;)
 
#148
Arnie said:
Saw ASIA a couple of years ago in Peekskill NY. John Wetton was playing through a VERY small combo. I thought hey John appreciates portability, but maybe this was a backline fumble? I wonder if touring acts like ASIA get backline supplied or they haul their own?
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Nope, that was John's choice. In an article on him in BP a few years ago, it said he used a little Roland combo for live and Ampeg tubers to record with.
 
#149
JBNeedsBeer said:
If I have learned anything from this thread, it is the importantance of owning a good DI.
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Yep, with accent on the good part. Even on some of the biggest gigs I do with the awesome line array setups, you'd be surprised how many times someone hands me a little $40 DI. It's especially tough when you're a fan of cab micing like I am. It's a DI world for bass, though, and I finally decided to quit swimming upstream and went for the gusto in a DI line since I knew it was the only way I'd be happy with DIing.
 
#150
It was at a show in Morzine France.... In the Alps....sort of between Lk Geneve and Switzerland.. Great show..

One cab was fine the monitors were superb.
The gear is always good on this promoters shows..

From the PA tower
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Sound Check looking Cross stage
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House Side system
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aledeville said:
Where was that? Considering the stage size I'm a little surprised that you seem to be surprised to get that cab...
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#153
Exactly...gotta love those passive whirlywinds :D:D
Actually they used a mic on the cab.. Not a fan of that AKG thing but with the language barrier... I thought i should just shut up while im ahead... Those euro engineers love to mic a bass cab:)

They also took the Genz Head DI out.. Worked out pretty well. There is a DVD somewhere of it in Europe floating around..

JimmyM said:
And a Whirlwind IMP 2 for the bass?

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#154
Well, I got to bring two great tastes together in one candy bar, so to speak. We played a benefit for St. Jude in a local town and for the 45 minutes we were onstage, I got tortured with this thing. The Hartke and the Ampeg didn't particularly sound good together. The Ampeg looked like it had been skinned alive. I sorta felt sad for it. All that being said, at least it worked and was relatively loud, albeit a bit muddy and farty.
 

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#156
My cab looks WAY worse than that and has the words "Eat S$!T" stenciled on the seriously ripped grill cloth. It's a 2006 "Dark Era" cab made from crap wood. Sounds freakin' amazing. Nothing dark or muddy about it.

I'm guessing this poor old cab in that pic would sound awesome with an SVT too.
 
#160
Hank Scorpio said:
I played a show last month where the provided backline was a very old looking (possibly keyboard?) amp with no brand or labels anywhere, and no volume knob. The promoter's idea was 'plug in and see if it's the right volume'. It obviously wasn't.

Luckily another band bought a full rig and let everyone else use it.
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Man, if a promoter is operating on such a shoestring that you're reduced to that, then maybe promoting concerts isn't such a good idea for him or her. At least I never got a keyboard amp. Knock on wood, I've always been able to get a bass amp. Nice of the other band to pitch in like that, though I'd have asked for a few hundy from the promoter ;)
 

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