Jimi75
October 24th, 2008, 04:57 AM
Hi Folks, last Friday we played our first official gig with the Blues band. The gig was sold out! The location we played is located right in the middle of an old cole mine area that now serves as an office area for media companies.
Our program consisted of 11 songs and the set was 60 minutes long.
The promoter offered to hire amps for us and I ordered a 59 Bassman or a Marshall Bluesbraker. The instruments company delivered a 65 Fender Twin Reverb. The amp didn't like my Tubescreamer TS9 and due to the fact that they recorded the gig through a P.A. (no good idea for a first gig), I couldnt turn the amp up to get a good sound. The PA guy said that volume on 2 is too loud. I offered to turn around the amp and put it off stage, but he said 1,5 volume is the maximum. I wasn't eager to start a discussion, so I just accepted and played the gig. Man, everybody knows that the Twin is one darn clean amp. Although I am used to play very clean I missed a little drive which made me feel like I had to work like three times more for every note. My 62 Strat is a monster to play, but it pays off with beautiful tone! Anyways, the gig was excellent, the audience took our Blues for serious and the reactions after the gig were overwhelming.
During one song I play a solo that I totally fell in love with. It's Sean Costello's "Have you no shame" and the solo is quite challenging as you have to follow the chords. My brother was in the audience and in the beginning ofthe solo he looked over to me and smiled, I had to smile back and from there on I totally lost the plot! This is the first time such a thing happened to me. I was lost, had no idea where I was on the fretboard, every note I played sounded terrible. There was only one way - keep cool and pretend that you know what you do - that is what I did. I destroyed the biggest part of this beautiful song, but hey nobody's perfect.
We have received three more offers to play gigs still in 2008 and it feels good. But next time I definitely check the amph stock before having to play again with the Twin.
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Our program consisted of 11 songs and the set was 60 minutes long.
The promoter offered to hire amps for us and I ordered a 59 Bassman or a Marshall Bluesbraker. The instruments company delivered a 65 Fender Twin Reverb. The amp didn't like my Tubescreamer TS9 and due to the fact that they recorded the gig through a P.A. (no good idea for a first gig), I couldnt turn the amp up to get a good sound. The PA guy said that volume on 2 is too loud. I offered to turn around the amp and put it off stage, but he said 1,5 volume is the maximum. I wasn't eager to start a discussion, so I just accepted and played the gig. Man, everybody knows that the Twin is one darn clean amp. Although I am used to play very clean I missed a little drive which made me feel like I had to work like three times more for every note. My 62 Strat is a monster to play, but it pays off with beautiful tone! Anyways, the gig was excellent, the audience took our Blues for serious and the reactions after the gig were overwhelming.
During one song I play a solo that I totally fell in love with. It's Sean Costello's "Have you no shame" and the solo is quite challenging as you have to follow the chords. My brother was in the audience and in the beginning ofthe solo he looked over to me and smiled, I had to smile back and from there on I totally lost the plot! This is the first time such a thing happened to me. I was lost, had no idea where I was on the fretboard, every note I played sounded terrible. There was only one way - keep cool and pretend that you know what you do - that is what I did. I destroyed the biggest part of this beautiful song, but hey nobody's perfect.
We have received three more offers to play gigs still in 2008 and it feels good. But next time I definitely check the amph stock before having to play again with the Twin.
http://img124.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img7347gj6.jpg
http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img7358dm5.jpg