Three hours to my first ever gig and...

[Kukulkan61]

He's just making sure he has his ducks all in line especially since its your first gig and first time on stage,remember they have a little more live playing experience than you do ,so what happened probably in their first gigs is they forgot to tune(lesson learned) its just knowledge being passed onto you,take it with a grain of salt and play your heart out...

 

[delta7fred]

Congrats on a successful first gig, it is one you will no doubt remember for the rest of your life.

 

[JCW308]

Tuning is an ongoing thing! I might tune 10x times a gig when playing guitar but it is always muted and during a part I'm not playing.

 

[hsech]

I remember when the Grateful Dead did almost a whole set of tuning......

They were famous enough to get by with it.

 

[hsech]

Tell him you can't tune yet. Your tech hasn't arrived.

 

[pbass6811]

Well it's a couple hours after the gig and it really couldn't have gone much better. Second band of a three band bill and we get the best crowd response of the night. Partly because 90 percent were there to see us though.

I totally agree with you guys. I tuned as usual and his clip on tuner got the job done, I think it was mainly nerves and him trying to get a smooth seamless set. It's was also the bands return to gigging after a couple months.
I've only got one crappy pic to share. We're waiting on the high quality ones from the drummers brother who is rather handily a photographer!

EDIT: The joy of being a black guy in front a black background

I feel your pain. That's why I move around a lot, and I make them hang our banner way up high...LOL!

Congrats on the gig, glad it went well, my man!

 

[noeinstein]

Ha, am i making it that obvious that we're a younger band?



They actually are a talented bunch of guys. We're just what I'd call musically immature still. In his defence i think he's just nervous or trying too hard to come across as the consummate professional as we're a young originals band doing quite well locally.

Thanks for the well wishes guys and I may report back with pics!

Def do that!

 

[mellowinman]

Well it's a couple hours after the gig and it really couldn't have gone much better. Second band of a three band bill and we get the best crowd response of the night. Partly because 90 percent were there to see us though.

I totally agree with you guys. I tuned as usual and his clip on tuner got the job done, I think it was mainly nerves and him trying to get a smooth seamless set. It's was also the bands return to gigging after a couple months.
I've only got one crappy pic to share. We're waiting on the high quality ones from the drummers brother who is rather handily a photographer!

EDIT: The joy of being a black guy in front a black background

 

[paparoof]

we need a facepalm smiley!!!

 

[joebar]

I left my bass in the car yesterday while I was at work. It was probably 10C outside, then ran off to practice in our guitard's basement. It needed a little tuning once I took it out

Regards
Mark

I have had a few responses to my thoughts and it seems people think I am not being sincere.

when I string a bass up, I take precautions to ensure no string twisting on its axis, I make good witness points at the saddles, I make sure there are enough windings, I make sure the string isn't hanging up in the nut, I make sure they are stretched out a tad. I am kind of anal about stringing up basses considering the cost of them.
even a fresh set of strings can be seated in within a half hour of playing and remain stable for me.
my basses rarely move out of tune.
especially the TI flats on my fender P- they stay in tune like nobodies business. I just shake my head.
usually the basses may need the smallest tweak here and there but never anything more than a cent or two in either direction.

 

[000_Unknown]

D standard?

I invented it my own self. Aint nothing standard about it..

 

[MaxJJK]

I invented it my own self. Aint nothing standard about it..

Invented tuning up in fourths from D? Sorry man, but people have been doing that for years.

D tuning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[zontar]

Nothing wrong with tuning whenever you need to do it.
Hendrix did it mid song for example.

A few years ago I was at a blues festival when the temperature got up above 40 celsius (so about 104 Fahrenheit--and hotter)
There was a lot of retuning that day--just due to the heat.

 

[friendlybass]

Love me some goofy guitarists! Glad you had a good gig. Sounds like the value of the bassists' ancient art, the smile and nod, is not lost on you my friend!

 

[sissy kathy]

Help yourself, Einstein said it, I'm just repeating it.

Norman or Albert?

 

[kcole4001]

I ALWAYS tune before our sound check, and whenever I may suspect something's a little off (you know, smacked the headstock against something, etc.).
Did I say ALWAYS?
I meant absolutely EVERY SINGLE FRIKKIN TIME!

 

[Munjibunga]

I get this text from the guitarist

"Make sure you tune your bass now. Don't want to be tuning in stage before we start our set. Bad image"

I don't even know where to begin

Again, since I don't have any words, I must respond with interpretive dance. Wish you were here.