TBPlayerOC with The Electric Co. at Tiki Bar, Costa Mesa - 6-7-19

This past Friday was the 1st gig with my new U2 Tribute band, The Electric Co. We got the middle slot of a 3 band gig at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, CA. This is the first time that I have played this venue. Rolling up it was cool to see our name on the marquee.



The stage was decent sized, and they had a pretty good PA and a sound guy! No humping a PA for me tonight.



I'm finishing up my setup dance. My rig was an Ampeg PF800 with GED 2112 Pre amp, PF 210HE and PF 115HE. I got to use my new Sansamp YYZ pedal. It added the right amount of growl to my tone (I can't recommend this pedal enough). I used my Geddy Lee bass for a few songs and then switched to my Honeyburst Precision with Geddy neck for the rest of the set.

Lighting wasn't that great so I don't have too many photos from the gig. I am working to get some video and see what I can pull from it.



This was our guitarist's first gig ever. He did a great job and even plays the keyboard parts during New Year's Day.



These guys are great to play with. We all stay in our sonic spaces so everyone shines. A couple of my friends that have seen me in other bands said I never sounded better.

We played for an hour and had a pretty good crowd toward the end. We got a lot of compliments on our sound. All in all it was a pretty good night.

We are just getting started and already have a line on two or three gigs.

Sorry, no food pics, I ate when I got home.

 

I know. Cliff sets the bar pretty high when it comes to gig reports

 

Thanks Cliff. I will keep you posted on our upcoming gigs.

This is a pretty easy gig for a bass player. Adam Clayton, for the most part, just holds down the bottom playing root notes. With or Without You is a decent song but the bass line is soooo boring

 

Besides my compressor, the YYZ is an "always on" pedal. In this setting it helps thicken up my sound to fill in the spaces during the guitar solos.

The two main U2 tributes in the area both playing to tracks and are heavily over produced, IMO. This might be a major factor in why they are where they are. Me, I prefer to do the songs live without backing tracks. For the moment we just have two samples that we trigger and they are fairly short.

 

We are just getting the band started. Right now we are just focusing on the local area but I am sure the band wouldn't mind doing some gigs in Vegas

 

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Hey Jim, the guitar sounds great in the mix and according to the guitarist is a lot lighter than his Les Paul.

Beyond that I can't say much more since I am just the bass player