What is your weapon?

[NWBasser]

Hey C64, congrats on the gig!

That's sort of how it goes with crowds, sometimes you'll sound like crap and the crowd is cheering and fully into the show and other times you're on fire and they just stand back and yawn. Once in a while it all comes together for a night that you'll never forget.

Sounds like a lot of fun though.

[deeaa*]

That sounds like a normal amount of equipment...but there's many of you so it should not be a problem.

I just got a memory trip of our gigs in the past...six of us...drumset, pa with two huge peacetime tops and two subs...amp rack with poweramps, crossovers, power...four monitor wedges...two big cases for cables etc...mixer...DX rack with 6 compressor channels, two TX boxes...keyboard and stand...bass rig with 2x15"...two Marshall rigs one with 2x12 one with 4x10"...box of microphones, half a dozen stage lights, toolboxes and Michael and light stands...six guitars in all...usually took over 2 hours to set up, one to soundcheck etc ..but we could pack it up in half hour. And somehow we managed to squeeze it all in a full-size Chevy van and also travel in it...I still wonder how we did it...

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[Eric***]

I realized on Saturday that it also limits the potential places we could gig. We had a TON of equipment. We could never open for another band, or play after another band.

It's funny, that whole thing. The last few weeks, I've been playing with this other electric guitarist who's really awesome at this semi-regular thing I play at for my former church. It's the first time I've ever played with another 'real' electric guitarist (the others always played their electrics like acoustics), and while it opens up tons of things, it takes a lot more time for the band to get in a groove. I can only imagine what it's like with 7 people. That's the thing with more people: it gives you way more options and opportunities, but it takes a lot more time to coordinate and sync up that many moving parts.

[NWBasser]

...it takes a lot more time to coordinate and sync up that many moving parts.

I think the term "herding cats" comes to mind!

[sixstringdrug]

No matter what I do, its all about the humbuckers for me. And I have considered harming myself every day since I had to sell my LP for food. Now I live every breath saving to buy it back, All my axes have bucker's but none compare to my beloved lost gibby!

[deeaa*]

Buckers, yeah...at least bridge bucker :-) I've been toying with an idea of getting an LP again too, but I just can't find good ones and they're too pricey. If I came across a chambered and pretty one super cheap I might go for it again.

[Sniffy]

Got to be my Epiphone LP custom, I put some new pups in it and changed nearly all the hardware! It may not be a gibson but I loves it!

[player***]

Voted "Other" I keep re igniting my love for my Maton BB1200 every time I start playing it again. I think, at least for this week, semi-hollow's are really my thing.

same here with my strat coming in as a second fiddle as it were.go to is my semi Wildwood depending on the project at hand.I never count out any of the four guitars I have.

[ndes1]

My Suhr Standard....chambered mahogany body & neck, quilted AAAAA top (fireburst) s-s-h config. single coil silencing system, tremol-no, coil tapped HB, blower switch. I get can a strat quack and a LP roar. Wish I could afford about 6 vintage guitars, but this covers most sounds I want to get. I know Robert uses a Suhr classic sometimes. They are just fine to the last detail

[Tig***]

My Suhr Standard....chambered mahogany body & neck, quilted AAAAA top (fireburst) s-s-h config. single coil silencing system, tremol-no, coil tapped HB, blower switch. I get can a strat quack and a LP roar. Wish I could afford about 6 vintage guitars, but this covers most sounds I want to get. I know Robert uses a Suhr classic sometimes. They are just fine to the last detail

Certainly a great all around guitar that would be hard to beat. Further up the thread, Mark Wein is showing his number one that he uses for gigs.

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[NWBasser]

A bit of a change-up for me now that I'm playing in the jazz-fusion band.

I now mostly play my Clement fretless. It's quite a treat to play all the tunes on fretless.

[Eric***]

A bit of a change-up for me now that I'm playing in the jazz-fusion band.

I now mostly play my Clement fretless. It's quite a treat to play all the tunes on fretless.

Cool. When did that happen? Is that your only active band right now?

[Brian Krashpad]

Cool. When did that happen? Is that your only active band right now?

And what would such a "Clement" thingy look like?

[Eric***]

And what would such a "Clement" thingy look like?

Here's my guess:



Squint really hard.

[Brian Krashpad]

Here's my guess:



Squint really hard.

Ah. So, a neck-through, P/J pups, Jazz body.

I'm guessing here.

[NWBasser]

Ah. So, a neck-through, P/J pups, Jazz body.

I'm guessing here.

All correct except the neck-through part.

Details are an ash body with spalted maple top, Nordstrand P/J pickups, Bartolini NMBT preamp, and Hipshot hardware.

I've probably written about this bass before. It's my go-to-my-grave-with-me bass.

[Brian Krashpad]

All correct except the neck-through part.

Details are an ash body with spalted maple top, Nordstrand P/J pickups, Bartolini NMBT preamp, and Hipshot hardware.

I've probably written about this bass before. It's my go-to-my-grave-with-me bass.

Ah, those stripes on the body fooled me.

Now, we needs to see your bass, sir!

[NWBasser]

Cool. When did that happen? Is that your only active band right now?

I posted about it a while ago. I quit The Mediocres because I was getting too bored playing two or three note songs. I could hardly stay awake for practices. Plus, it seemed that nobody was listening to me about song selection, arrangements, gigs, and other matters.

So, I found this new band called Portrait that does sort of jazz fusion - George Benson (way cool guitar stuff), Steely Dan, Chicago (way cool bass parts), and old Santana.

They really like my bass playing and it's a very positive band atmosphere where I have a lot of input on things like song arrangements.

We'll be going into the studio next month to record a demo and I'll share that when it's done. It's all done as instrumentals with the drummer's wife doing the vocal parts with a viola.

The guitarist, Wayne, is very good. He's a treat to listen to while I zing out my bass parts.

[NWBasser]

Ah, those stripes on the body fooled me.

Now, we needs to see your bass, sir!

This thread has it:

http://www.thefret.net/showthread.ph...-desire-indeed