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Business cards
Paper
Tape (duct tape and lots of it)
Cable ties
Pencil and sharpie (buy the proper ones)
Screw drivers (all sizes and proper ones, not the combi tools)
Pliers
Hammer
Scissors
Truss rod adjuster for all your gigging guitars
Spare cables (guitar and xlr)
Jack converter (big to little and little to big)
Strings (full set x 2) and string winder
Lemon oil and cloth
Batteries (square 9v, aa and aaa)
Microphone
Lead for plugging phone into your pa desk
Ive have had use for ALL of these in some way shape or form
A capo
Pics
Ear plugs (sealed bags for punters because at weddings they always stick the old folk right up front)
Asprin (or whatever you normally use)
Various lenght kettle leads
Extension cables and sockets
String vest
Bog roll
May I ask a couple of why's? - the hammer? the lemon oil?
At least 4 sets of cables
String winder/cutter
Screwdrivers (cross and flat head)
Spare batteries 9v and AAA etc
Guitar polish/cleaner
WD-40
Servisol contact cleaner
Gaffer tape
Spanners (for tightening input jacks/pedal inputs)
Cloth
Spare speaker cable (if you use a head and cab)
Basically 2 of everything cos one WILL fail at one point and NEVER lend anything out to anyone!
spare preamp tubes - particularly if you're not carrying spare amp or into pa substitute
phone / tablet charger ..
torch
batteries or spare fx pedal power supply - one spot or equivalent n modify stomp boxes in use to suit
spare strap ..
lipsalve, 4b pencil or nut lube .. :-)
phone - obvious but we've all been calling the bass player etc with 5 mins to go !
powerstrip with decent protection / isolation ...
mini guitar stand
allen keys for those with floyds or other difficult bridges
beer tokens ..
spare car key or electronic finder
crib sheet for that hastily learned new song that we must simply play tonight cos its someones birthday / vocalists new squeezes favourite ...
donor card - you never know ??
spare T shirt
microfibre towel
When you hear the opposite "...why would I need a spare guitar?..." it makes my teeth itch!
2nd guitar always.
2nd amp if we're the only band.
A couple of spare guitar cables
Spare one spot power adaptor*
Spare daisy chain
9V Battery
Gaffer tape
Strings, mini screwdrivers, picks, spare strap that live in guitar cases
White Insulating tape**
*always carry one after I dropped one on a wooden stage and a pin sheared off. Thankfully it was after the gig!
**this is for cutting out little 'fret marker squares' that I tape to the back of the neck. Only used for vintage-style tiny dot fret markers on my Tele and Jag. I learned the hard way the first time I gigged my vintage Jag - faded clay dots go invisible under stage lights!
And lemon oil as the back up guitar doesnt get the love it deserves and goes abit dry ...
I don't repair amps or guitars on stage, I bring backups.
That's for weekend gigging, touring is a different matter!
Spare patch lead
Spare set of strings
Small guitar stand
Spare 9v power supply
A few spare plectrums
That's about it.