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Topic: forgetting to bring something to a gig can be a good thing |
Bo Legg
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 1:22 pm |
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Well all and all I had a very enlightening evening.
It started out with running late to a gig which without exception always leads to forgetting something when you load up (no I don’t have cartage service).
So I didn't load one case with my floor Fxs and I grabbed the wrong rack case so there I was without all my pickin’ crutches.
After the panic subsided from being sure that my Stage One was just not going to be fat enough to sound good without all my FX, I plugged into the Vocal processor I brought instead of my Peavey TubeFex.
I thought maybe it would have some delay in it but a big fat NO to that.
So I just scan thru the presets till I came to Male Vocal and it was now time to start playing.
I couldn’t believe the sound or the fact that I was playing without any delay and liking it and the amp had no hiss or 60 cycle. I’ve never had a noise free clean amp sound before this ever.
So I had a good night when I least expected it.
The processor is a Tascam TA-1VP. I’m not suggesting anyone else use this.
Just going to use it to get off the hard FX till I can get down to just a Steel, volume pedal and amp.
Let’s think about this for awhile and I’ll get to a couple other things I learned last evening!! |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 6:58 pm
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After the gig Stuart and I went to Wal-Mart because that and McDonald's is the only food places open after a gig in a one horse town.
This guy comes up to me with a hang dog look and asks me if I might have or knew of someone who had found a $5 dollar bill that fell out of his pocket onto the floor while he was shopping. He said he got his groceries and put them in the car and notice he had lost all the money he had a $5 bill and that he was almost out of gas and needed it to buy gas because he lived 20 miles out of town. So who could resist forking over $5 bucks right.
I gave him $5 even though I knew it was a scam but the guy gave such a great performance that it was so entertaining it was worthy of at least $5 dollars.
It occurred to me:
He more than likely was going to over a few hours this evening make more money with this gig than I made with my gig. |
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Alex Cattaneo
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 7:43 pm
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| Two great stories for the price of one! Thanks for sharing. |
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Joe Casey
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Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 17 Mar 2014 8:30 am
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BO we have several of those scams daily. The one that got me once was a young man approached me at a Grocery store parking lot and he has two young kids with him. Said they were hungry and that he lost his job a couple of weeks ago and had no money. he just wanted 5 bucks to take them to a McDonalds. I gave him 10. About a week later I ran into the guy at a different store (Wal-Mart)and he had a different kid with him ,only thing he had a $100,000 camper parked in the corner of a lot. I did my shopping and as I was leaving he approached me with a different story about losing his home and was homeless. I just told him that this was my side of the lot to work the other side. He left very quickly.  |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Mar 2014 9:26 am
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Forgetting something for a gig can be an adventure. It's a really big adventure if it's your steel guitar you forgot. 
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 17 Mar 2014 2:07 pm
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| I just told him that this was my side of the lot to work the other side. He left very quickly. |
Good one, Joe - I gotta remember that..  |
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2014 4:19 pm
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I saw a western movie once where they were organizing to rob a circus. The lead thief was giving the others their instructions..... He said: "that's the musicians wagons over there. Don't bother with them cause they never have any money"
RC |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 17 Mar 2014 5:30 pm
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The third thing I learned at 3AM at home after the gig is don't fire up that computer and just go straight to bed.
I was feeling lucky so I decided before I check the "stupid deal of the day" email from Musicians Friend I'll kick some PC butt and just get rid of this Start up program my computer has to block every time it boots up.
So I go in the with my sleeves rolled up I find it and I decide to check the little disable box on it (it plainly stated that by disabling it did not delete it, it only disabled it) so I figured hey! what could go wrong there????
Well it totally shut almost everything off on my PC.
So You think OK I'll just go back in there and un-check that. But no the PC tells me it has to have my permission and that's been disabled.
2hrs later I found what to un-check but it was not just 1 check now it was 263 files that had to be changed.
So I slept about 5hrs and got up and started again and 3 1/2 hrs later got it going but now it takes 10 times as long to start up before I started messing with it trying to speed up the start up.
I learned I'm no match for a PC, it kicked my butt all over the place and left a message ringing in my ear "I'll teach you to *%#$&* with me".
Now every time I turn it on I swear I can hear it laughing!! |
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