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Yeah, I Wore Shorts!

#104
glocke1 said:
With the heat we are having on the east cost I'd be wearing shorts or playing naked even...People in my area are getting outdoor gigs cancelled due to the heat.

On another note, I've got that same rig. 2 Bag End 15's and a D800+, though a demeter setup is driving the BE's at the moment and is serving duty as my living room practice rig.

Whats on the chair in the fourth photo?

Also, you are a braver man than I for trusting stands to those nice basses. I really can't bring myself to trust a stand to anything buy my Fender Jazz Elite. Certainly not my Alembics
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Like I told someone else a little ways upthread; if I can't play 'em, I don't want 'em. Seriously, I am careful/protective of my stuff to the nth degree, (as you know, I'm a part-time repair guy) but I play these things every weekend somewhere. I would not have flinched at bringing my '77 Series I right out there. I just wanted to play a fretted 5-string Friday night is all. If my basses are in a stand, I'm not further away than I was when I took that picture... TRUST ME. By the way, those Guardian stands are very stable, wide stance, rubber feet, and will hold a Series bass with a Standard Point body. ;)

And yeah, of all the rigs I've ever run, that D-800/Bag End combination is flat-out the best ever for an uncolored, violently powerful, cleanest clean headroom I can get, short of lugging my F-1X/SF-2 and power-amp rack around.

Oh yeah, the chair... first, note the proximity of the chair to my basses... another safety measure. :smug: The chair has a nice pillow. It's to rest my osteoarthritis-riddled upper-spine between sets. :laugh: The bicycle decor was intended as a little reminder to me while I was off for 5 months recovering from that last cervical fusion... "you didn't forget how to do this."
 
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#105
EdwardofHuncote said:
That's Right, my TalkBass Brothers & Sisters... I broke The Rule!

Furthermore, I'm not sorry! It was hotter than dad-gummit here in Southwest Virginia yesterday evening, and I had an outdoor gig from 6:30 - 8:30 last night. Invalid Link Removed

Here's our guitar player, Josh, at load-in. Yeah, the stage is a floating boat dock. Show me the shade. Please. :help:

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So I dutifully rolled my rig out that gangway, and set up... in the blistering sun. SPF 60, aerosol. Jeannie made me. I don't wanna' hear it.

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Brought along my '89 Alembic 5-string for the main ax:

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...and my partly Alembicized '67 Guild Starfire, for a switch-off or back-up:

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The shorts (if you're wondering) are a very comfortable, breathable fabric. I'm not nearly as brand-name conscious about them as I am about my bass gear, but I'll check for anybody who's interested. Alembic, Guild, Mesa, BagEnd, that's how I roll. Oh, the cap is from Nike... my Grand-daddy gave it to me. Oh well... another TalkBass fashion faux-pas. :facepalm:

The concert area for the show of course, is the water, but a good many folks set up along the shoreline too. I'm told that the music carries nearly a mile across the lake.

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All trolling and jokes aside, it was a pretty fun thing. We had maybe 75-100 folks out on the water last night to play for, a few more on the land, and had a fantastic evening to throw down the newgrass, Harwell-Grice Band style. The Harwell Grice Band

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And thanks to a complete disregard of the TalkBass Code, I got through it just fine. :smug:

Go ahead y'all... lemme' have it! Flames?! Report to Mods?! Warning points?! Whatcha' got?! :laugh:
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Nothing wrong with shorts at a gig...for me I finish the ensemble with flip flops and a lightweight tropical shirt (doesn't have to be gaudy), though tbh, I prefer jeans
 
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#106
jtg said:
I'd be driving to my gigs today in the '87 245 but its still on jackstands in the garage after a heater core, blower motor, head gasket, timing belt job. Getting the dash back together is the hardest part, and there have been too many gigs to get in and finish it. So back seat of the work car it is.
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While you've got the dash apart you might as well fix the odometer. On Volvos, that's always the first thing to go.
 
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#108
EdwardofHuncote said:
It is a bunch of guys having fun... we're all pretty good friends, a couple of us have played music together for 30 years on, but were also a working band. Dress code for each gig is discussed ahead of time. We knew what this one was about, and we knew nobody would care what we wore. The bandleader did a backflip off one of the mains into the Lake at the finale'.

I just thought I'd have a little fun with some of the gang around here with a good-natured troll post mixed with a gig report. ;)

Here we are on another gig a little while back... not dressy, but no shorts.

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With an electric and no DB. That's worse than the shorts.
 
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#109
agedhorse said:
Nope, but we have had amps crushed in car accidents, lift gate accidents and ramp accidents.

Many years ago, I was the system provider for a 3 week long gig where one of the stages was on a small peninsula and the mix position was across about 50 feet of water. Had to run a copper 24 pair snake under the water (new quality cable was quite water proof back then if you buy the good stuff, not true today with the cable from China so don't try it) and the venue kindly provided a dinghy for us to get to the stage for set change. Otherwise, it was like a 1/4-mile walk around the lagoon. This was an IA (union) gig, and I ended up paddling back and forth because the FOH guy assigned to the stage by the union didn't swim and was terrified of the water. The acts were both surprised and appreciative of the effort. They could load in to the stage with their trucks, but couldn't get to our side. I had to paddle a few band engineers to the mix position, a first for all of us. The only real downer about this gig is that the union guy who was assigned to the stage ended up perishing in a car versus train accident later that year.

There was another gig I did, this one put the stage on a barge in the Sacramento River about 100 feet from shore. This was a little more difficult as there was a current to contend with. Fortunately, they provided a small "motor skiff" service to get us to and from the barge. The act that day was Ray Charles, and while the show went fine it became obvious that this was not a practical way to do things.
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That’s awesome! Makes me think of the cameraman on #17 at Sawgrass at The Players golf tournament. They row him out to a small island and retrieve him after the round.
 
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#111
GretschWretch said:
While you've got the dash apart you might as well fix the odometer. On Volvos, that's always the first thing to go.
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Tried. Failed. Broke the speedo needle (don't ask). Replaced the whole cluster with one from a '91 with the right speedo gearing and lubed the odo. The car got 125k younger by magic! Now to find LEDs with the right base for the main console illumination so I don't spend my life reaching up to replace those Flossers. I could use some of those car-go shorts.

And if you hadn't noticed, Talkbass, Turbobricks, and tuberculosis all get shortened to TB.
 
#115
EdwardofHuncote said:
That's Right, my TalkBass Brothers & Sisters... I broke The Rule!

Furthermore, I'm not sorry! It was hotter than dad-gummit here in Southwest Virginia yesterday evening, and I had an outdoor gig from 6:30 - 8:30 last night. Invalid Link Removed
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Now let's see what we have here really; exceedingly hot day, near the water and your legs look good in shorts. I don't see a problem. I think what I said in my last post about this is that my legs can't do shorts, not unless you want half the crowd running away screaming and the other half throwing up. Now I wish I had "shorts" legs but I just don't so I think the rule may apply to me 100% of the time. :)
 
#116
Kipp Harrington said:
If it’s hot enough to wear shorts, I’m wearing flip-flops! Ought oh... TB fashion police are hot on my tail!
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Shardik said:
Never flip flops in public. At home though, I live in them. Only take them off for sleeping.
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I have a nice pair of leather flip flops (Aussies call them thongs and Kiwi's call them jandals) and they actually look decent with jeans or shorts. If you grow up in Australia then everyone has seen you in your thongs at some stage.
 
#117
BAG said:
I have a nice pair of leather flip flops (Aussies call them thongs and Kiwi's call them jandals) and they actually look decent with jeans or shorts. If you grow up in Australia then everyone has seen you in your thongs at some stage.
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I always like picking up some Aussie words... in case I ever make it over thataway for a visit. Thanks @BAG, and goo'day. :)
 
#118
BAG said:
I have a nice pair of leather flip flops (Aussies call them thongs and Kiwi's call them jandals) and they actually look decent with jeans or shorts. If you grow up in Australia then everyone has seen you in your thongs at some stage.
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See, now I am NO fan of thongs/flip flops, whatever you call them. I just find the idea of that piece jammed between my toes horrifyingly uncomfortable. But if it works for you, go for it.

It's not my place to tell you what to wear anymore than it's yours to tell me. I don't know why but this is the one issue on TB that really ticks me off, like shorts, don't like shorts on stage, your opinion. But that's all it is so zip it on what other people do.

Really I don't know why it bugs me so much, it just does. :cool:
 

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