I do agree with that; however two things were factored in at that show:

- it was kind of spur of the moment
- I was loaded, and therefore not in shape to drive home to get my earplugs. :(

Nevertheless, I always have a backpack with me with the essentials; shower gear, toothbrush and paste, spare clothes should I need them, and now that bag proudly houses some earplugs as well.

Also when the band practices I more often than not insist on playing at half-volume anyways so we can kinda hear the nuances of the instrument, and tell easier if something is off or not working with the music.

Toothbrush? Man all you need to be ready for anything is a survival knife and a rubber band*.

* For holstering it to your penis.

.... WOAH, WOAH WOAH.

WHAT exactly am I holstering to my penis?

I do have a lighter and extra TP as well... fire-starting for the win. it helps that I bike time and again, so I kinda know all the emergency stuff I'd want to have plus the special amenities like your shower gear and whatnot.

I guess it started when I was delivering trucks to a branch of the company out of town this winter and I realized that in minus 40, I'd want a blanket and extra clothes and tuque, gloves, fire-starter and whatnot should the trucks ever break down. Just preparing for my own personal apocalypse, I guess.

[quote=gaslight;18124486]To be [un]fair, the kind of person impressed by a wall of empty Marshall boxes is the kind of person who is genuinely fooled by the "got your nose" trick."[/quote]

I have had an amp which isn't always visible to a crowd becase it's so low down. Don't want a single 2x12 again really. It's quite emasculating :(

Out of mostly boredom and curiosity I was poking around here. Nice to see a few familiar faces at least.

How the hell is everyone nowadays?

What the hell. MX. Weird.

And suddenly, I lust after that Conklin again.

[QUOTE=fatbandit;18124790]I have had an amp which isn't always visible to a crowd becase it's so low down. Don't want a single 2x12 again really. It's quite emasculating :([/QUOTE]

I used to have just a single 210. THAT was emasculating.

[quote=fatbandit;18124424]Well I don't want wasted money tied up in two cabs if I'm only using one. I wouldn't get a big cab unless we get a van, when space becomes a non-issue. I think it'd be nice to have the top two speakers raised up like that too - won't complain at an extra 18" of elevation or anything, especially without decoupling the cab from the floor! Can't forget the visual aspect of it either to be fair. Bit like bands using walls of Marshall cabs with nothing in them.

It's only an idea anyway. Though I guess set up like that, it'd be possible to run it as a bi-amp cab too?

EDIT: volume knobs are for wimps. how am i gonna get power valve drive then? ;p[/quote]


It's really just a pointless mod. You wont gain anything from only having two speakers running instead of all 4.

Doesn't your Matamp have a gain and a volume knob so that you can control them separately?

I built a pickguard for that OLP today. It's a lot harder than you would think, and impossible without a good MDF template. All in all, it came out pretty good. With some better initial cutting around the neck and pickups as well as honing in on my dremel-routing skills, I think I could get pretty good at them.

[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18124763].... WOAH, WOAH WOAH.

WHAT exactly am I holstering to my penis?[/QUOTE]

A sturdy K-Bar knife or similar. Just point the sharp end the right way so you don't puncture your scrotum.

[QUOTE]Just preparing for my own personal apocalypse, I guess.[/QUOTE]

Yeah that's more or less what this is preparing for in a kind of roundabout way.

[QUOTE=fatbandit;18124790]I have had an amp which isn't always visible to a crowd becase it's so low down. Don't want a single 2x12 again really. It's quite emasculating :([/QUOTE]

Haha.

212s are not emasculating :angry:.

I want a 2x12,

:upset:

I got the OLP wired up. Everything seems to be working, but I wired the volume control backwards. **smacks foreahead** It sounds great, though, both passive and active. Now I just need to route a batter cavity, tighten up the wiring, and give it a setup. I've only put $65 into it so far (including the cost of the bass), and I probably wont put more than $10 more into it. It's been a fun project thus far. I'm excited to try to fix the paint chips.

Yes, it has a Gain and a Master. But they kind of work together. They both produce different kinds of drive really. It isn't a clean amp.

I also don't think it's that pointless. When you think about it, it has a tilt bar and wheels, so providing there's no stairs (which it has skids for), it's a single one hand trip to a venue with it. With 2 2x12s, that's two two hand trips. Or even one two handed lift for a single 2x12.

So it would look better, stand closer to my ears, be more convenient to move, look better and have some versatility ;)

I think I've just convinced myself to be honest :p

I think I broke my thumb at practice tonight. Music cans be t3h dangerows.

How did you do that you scamp?

Whoof. That bites, funky. I too am curious.

the group had a bit of a show last night, the last with our current drummer. Because I play guitar in that band I was going all wtf and losing picks left, right and center. I ended up just about cutting my hand open trying to strum... it's my electric/acoustic which I never play anymore, thanks to my Jazzmaster. but hey, nobody cared because you know I just played seven nation army's guitar solo and all the women were all over me.

[QUOTE=FlamingCouch;18125883]Whoof. That bites, funky. I, too am curious.

the group had a bit of a show last night, the last with our current drummer. Because I play guitar in that band I was going all wtf and losing picks left, right and center. I ended up just about cutting my hand open trying to strum... it's my electric/acoustic which I never play anymore, thanks to my Jazzmaster. but hey, nobody cared because you know [B][U]I just played seven nation army's guitar solo and all the women were all over me.[/U][/B][/QUOTE]

Edited to highlight lies.

Well, obviously. Who actually plays seven nation army, it's like the hardest song ever to play amirite.

besides, when I have my own tunes to play, playing covers is just kind of a bummer... with the exception of Last Chance for a Slow Dance by Fugazi. That song rules.

so anyways, I got a phone call from my mother a little while ago and she told me a bit of news to me... my dad was heading out to a business meeting at a golf course and was in a truck crash. Considering she's back in Ontario and he and I are both in two different (but close) towns in BC, I was pretty surprised not to have heard this first. But then she told me he hadn't called since shortly after the wreck, and didn't call this morning either. That was when a panic button went off in my head.

Fortunately, we got ahold of the driver of the vehicle Dad was in, and everything's okay. They're back out on the links again today with some Imperial clients or something. but either way, it got me thinking, you know. but before I wax too philosophical let me just say Uh oh, fart. Uh oh, Fart. course I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinnati. They've got my name on them. Yeah.

Oh, also I forgot to specify: the reason I almost cut my hand open is because the action on the electric/acoustic is a bit of a bitch and it's hell to play and adjust. so when the pick is lost, watch out. at least with the Jazzmaster I can still fingerpick and feel a little more like I'm still playing bass.

I feel like a total homo talking about gigging as a guitarist in the bass forum. :upset:

Good thing he's all right.

What Jazzmaster do you have? I have the Lee Ranaldo sig. I'm not a big Sonic Youth fan or anything, but it's a damn fine guitar.
I may be mod of the bass forum, but I don't play bass much these days. Talk to me about guitar stuff.

Covers are great money, just not the kind of thing everyone has fun doing.

We have K-Mart here too and I believe I may have purchased boxer shorts from them at some point.

If we're talking guitar tonight, I have a PRS SE in S/S/S configuration, a Maton acoustic EM225C, a Blackstar HT-5 amp and that's about all my guitar stories finished already.

Hoping to have a Holy Grail reverb added to the family soon :).

We play a few covers, generally more obscure stuff that we really like. We do a few Brainiac covers, we've done Turnover by Fugazi, we've done an At The Drive-In cover, we've also done Gouge Away by The Pixies. I generally like to stay away from them unless I'm really into the song.

Oh yeah, one time we did Paper Planes by MIA. We got a lot of love for it.

Covers as part of an original band set are a very delicate matter for sure.

I just meant covers as part of a working band, different kettle of fish that way.

Gaslight: yeah, I totally agree. and I actually do have a lot of fun playing some covers... thing is I always play totally obscure covers, stuff nobody else has heard of. Well I shouldn't say that, but more like your average top-40 bar-goer or whatever place I happen to be playing at... they haven't heard of them.

The K-Mart reference is from Rain Man, because Dustin Hoffman f'n rules.

Spiff: Very, very nice on the Renaldo Jazzmaster. That thing looks absolutely bad-ace and I would love to tear it up on one. I'm pretty sure I have like the standard run-of-the-mill '62 reissue... or maybe it's the classic player, I'm really not sure.

[IMG]http://www.fender.com/themes/products/images/prod_images/guitars/0141600300_md.jpg[/IMG]

That's basically my pimp cane right there. I've got loads of pics of my actual one, but because I don't have an online presence on teh webbernets anymore very little of it is online save for like facebook. Although my buddy Simon (the bass player in the band at the moment) put up some live videos of us at [url]http://www.hotdogstorm.com/riders/WHITE STAR PARACHUTE[/url]... I don't know if they ever did work, but whatever.

if they did work, it should be a very interesting show to watch... hahah. Jordan, the guy on drums, replaced Chris for that show and tore it up, with only like two practices beforehand. That was our last real big show, per se, and the funniest part was it was such a wreck... improperly booked, improperly promoted, improperly managed (the co-ordinator called to confirm us a week before the gig, and a month after we announced our intention to play the gig) so there were only 20-30 people there but it was still a great time. Plus it started raining midway through our last song and that was just fuc[SIZE="2"]king spiritual, man.[/SIZE] Unbelievable.

I told the crowd before we started the last tune to turn around and look up at the sky and told them basically mother nature was coming in for a landing or something totally gay, hahah. it was a great time.

Anyways. Yeah, I dunno. playing guitar right now is more out of necessity than anything... I still would way rather be playing bass but because it's my material and Simon wants me to write it all for whatever reason, I'm pretty much stuck on guitar. Which is funny because he's primarily a guitarist and he's better than me on guitar, and I'm probably a little better than him on bass if only for the natural flow of how I play, I guess. but whatever, I s'pose. Whatever gets the music out.

It's weird like that hey. I always play bass at gigs but I do play guitar a lot at home and write heaps on guitar, but I've never played guitar as part of a band. I don't know who I'd get to play bass if I was busy on the guitar at the time.

Right. Well, my band focuses on originals. We're finishing up our fourth album right now. Our shows are generally about 45-60 minutes and we'll have two or three covers thrown in. Lately we've taken a Brainiac song that we always do ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5DMQq4GXKE[/url]) and inserted it into this noise jam/song that's on our new album.

Oh yeah, we're preparing to play the new album front to back for our CD release show.

What's the new album called?

I don't think I've heard the first three.

[QUOTE=gaslight;18125966]If we're talking guitar tonight...[/QUOTE]

Woah, woah, woah. It's 1000 (Ten A.M.) here in Canadia. Wowzers.

uh oh, if we're on gear... I just bought a BF-3 flanger last week from this gal who's selling her father-in-law's gear, and this week comes a Boss phase shifter. Simon quizzed me about the pedals and when I told him she had a phase shifter in the mix too he basically said "Oh sh[SIZE="2"]it,[/SIZE] go for it dude. You'll become the Mars Volta with that thing."

So of course, I laughed hard for a while.

WARNING: only Spiff might get this part - when we play, I always use goofy psuedonyms to introduce us (at our first gig Chris on drums was Dave Collins, Simon on bass was Tom Beacon, Rhett on keys was Ludwig Amadeus Chopin and I was Timmy Page) so after I get that phase shifter when I make my introductions you know I'll have to call myself Omar Khadriquez-Lopez.

[QUOTE=gaslight;18125978]It's weird like that hey. I always play bass at gigs but I do play guitar a lot at home and write heaps on guitar, but I've never played guitar as part of a band. I don't know who I'd get to play bass if I was busy on the guitar at the time.[/QUOTE]

I know [B]exactly[/B] what you mean. I play as much of a 'lead bass guitar' as I can - my stuff is always full of notes and variation. I basically try and make it as pumped up as possible. So anytime I have to do it live and someone is playing bass for me, they don't play what I've done on bass so my powers go down a little because I keep thinking "god damn, I could be absolutely tearing it up on my bass right now!" But hey, whatever. Simon does a great job on the four strings and he's an absolute wunderkind at conducting and all... pretty much the man behind the scenes.

At the same time, though, as I expand as a guitar player I have a hard time seeing someone else playing my guitar parts too. heh. narcissism. it's rough.

Spiff - FOUR albums? holy crap, man! are they still in print?

turnover - very, very nice.

[QUOTE=gaslight;18125980]What's the new album called?

I don't think I've heard the first three.[/QUOTE]

Our albums:
Generique Pop Musique - 2008
Population Control - 2008
Collapse - 2009
The Fields - 2010

We only printed Population Control due to... general disagreement and unhappiness by certain members in the band. We're not signed or anything, we just write and record a lot of music.
We'll be getting The Fields printed when it's done, though, because we all feel that it's actually good.