Rare Friday / Saturday double for my pub / function band at the weekend.
Friday we played a pub on the coast - dance floor heaving from the get go - very rarely see that with us. Why can't they all be like that.? "Healthy" volume (Hot Rod Deluxe just under halfway on clean / single coils) and some ridiculous tempos but when the audience respond like that everyone gets carried away. Came away buzzing.
Last night was a return to reality - tumbleweed in a 1/5 full pub. We were noticeably tighter and sporadic applause but this was just one of those gigs where you tighten stuff up and keep the machinery moving.
Gentleman came up during break and we talked guitar mods and vintage guitars for 10 minutes or so.
...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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Took a 1x12 cab last night rather than a 2x12 and really struggled with like the sound. And required a brief board rewire to lose the delay in the lop when the signal went at the end of a song - looks like either a dodgy lead or more likely the input jack on the DD3 needs a clean.
We are quite selective of pubs we play now - audience reaction is what makes it fun!
Did a Superheroes gig last night at a little venue above a bar in Petersfield / Hampshire and it was £5 on the door. At 8:30 there was only about 5 people in there and I was wondering what would happen but in the next half hour 50 or so people came in so it was all right. First gig I had done with that band since last August so I was a bit rough playing wise.
I was exceptionally tired all day and I knew I was going to struggle. Right from the start I had amp issues and nothing sounded right. I think this threw me off even more and I just kept blanking on songs I know inside out and have played hundreds of times before. I kinda ‘styled it out’ but it’s still very frustrating when you know you’re not anywhere near your best.
They were doing cheese and wine with the £15 tickets and they sold it out. Probably 50 people. They listened and enjoyed it and sang and danced along with the handful of covers we did. Whole thing went well band wise and I got away with only a couple of bum notes all night for a change!
Really missing my chorus pedal (a Boss waza DC-2W - told it's unrepairable after 2 weeks have elapsed from being sent and now have to wait for next shipment to UK to replace it - really Boss.?!?! you haven't got a single unit in the UK to post me !?! ).
Bloke in a salmon pink suit, matching sparkly shoes and hat danced in front us the whole gig. Not hallucinating - this really did happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/04/scottish-singer-plucked-from-obscurity-to-support-take-that-in-glasgow-olly-murs-daniel-rooney
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Wedding gig on lead guitar for a friend of the singer. Do you ever have a gig where it feels like an invisible force is making you sound and play better? That was last night. I had a head start with the gear - Custom Shop Strat and a self-pimped Tele Deluxe into Matchless Lightning Reverb. I don’t normally use that Strat for such a rocky set but a lot of the time I was stacking a Peacekeeper into a RevivalDrive (with clean blend) and the thing just sang. The Mids switch on the RD really came into its own for fattening things up.