First Gig With New Band

monquixote

Played the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre yesterday. 

Went pretty well, we got loads of positive comments and the sound engineers said we were one of the best bands they had heard locally and they might use us for testing out some new PA gear if we were up for it.

Only have a minute of audio to show for it. 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10104374852068318&set=vb.13701219&type=2&theater

Really glad to be back out. It's been about 6 months since the last band went tits up and it's been quite a task putting something new together. Was great to hear so many people who saw the old band at the same event last year saying how much better we were.

Megii

Sounds great! Really solid time as well, I would agree with the sound engineers - an impressive band, with excellent musicianship. So nice one, and glad you're out and about again.

Danny1969

Nice job man, sounds great 

You might get 2 overheads for the kit next time

randomhandclaps

Great job. There's nothing better than when one project goes bang that you come back better.

TTony

I've only I'd known ...

Sounds good Monqui.

stickyfiddle

Good stuff. I could definitely listen to some more of that. Clearly a tight, well rehearsed bunch you've put together.

DGT sounding lovely too

monquixote

Danny1969 said:

Nice job man, sounds great 

You might get 2 overheads for the kit next time

Cheers fella. 

We just let the sound dude use whatever gear they wanted (though I used my Redbox for guitar). I suspect we would set up differently given the choice.

monquixote

TTony said:

I've only I'd known ...

Sounds good Monqui.

Balls sorry @TTony I did mean to do a "Come to my gig" thread, but I forgot.

monquixote

stickyfiddle said:

Good stuff. I could definitely listen to some more of that. Clearly a tight, well rehearsed bunch you've put together.

DGT sounding lovely too

Cheers Sticky

Yeah the DGT is wonderful. It's so easy to play and as well as doing a brilliant Les Paul type sound it also does a convincing single coil sound. 

On that track I'm using the coil split with both pickups with just an SP Comp which I use to push the level back up to the same as the buckers.

DesVegas

Nice solo Tex.

monquixote

DesVegas said:

Nice solo Tex.

Cheers dude .

It's a Wampler Velvet doing the duties for all you pedal geeks

DesVegas

So very shmoove.
It's also nice to hear the funk without a wah or an auto wah.

monquixote

The trickiest bit in that song is trying to play both guitar parts at the same time in the verse. 

It really needs the guitar playing the single note riff and the one playing the 9th chords. It took me ages to work out a part that does some bits of each and I still bugger it up now and again

DesVegas

It sounded good. I did look for the rythmn guitarist until i realised you were playing both bits. Nice job hombre.

RocknRollDave

monquixote said:

The trickiest bit in that song is trying to play both guitar parts at the same time in the verse. 

It really needs the guitar playing the single note riff and the one playing the 9th chords. It took me ages to work out a part that does some bits of each and I still bugger it up now and again

Actually, I came back to this thread after watching the video specifically to comment on what a good job you did on combining the two guitar parts - I play this mostly in a two guitar band, but do sometimes dep in a trio, so I shall be studying (stealing) this!

EricTheWeary

Nice Xmas jumper!

monquixote

EricTheWeary said:

Nice Xmas jumper!

Well it was a Chritmas gig

monquixote

RocknRollDave said:

monquixote said:

The trickiest bit in that song is trying to play both guitar parts at the same time in the verse. 

It really needs the guitar playing the single note riff and the one playing the 9th chords. It took me ages to work out a part that does some bits of each and I still bugger it up now and again

Actually, I came back to this thread after watching the video specifically to comment on what a good job you did on combining the two guitar parts - I play this mostly in a two guitar band, but do sometimes dep in a trio, so I shall be studying (stealing) this!

Cool if you want some info on what I'm playing let me know.

EricTheWeary

monquixote said:

EricTheWeary said:

Nice Xmas jumper!

Well it was a Chritmas gig

I did enjoy the clip as well :-) it's a great song, one of those things I would have been ignoring back in the day but love now.

markslade07

DesVegas said:

It sounded good. I did look for the rythmn guitarist until i realised you were playing both bits. Nice job hombre.

I did exactly the same....and didn't even realise you were playing both bits! Thought there was another dude hiding round the corner! Nice playing bud!

TheOtherDennis

Impressive stuff. I can tell you live in a posh area - we never see bands that good doing open air thingies like that round our way! :-D