What's in your gig kit?

[kris]

Last my gig I have problems with power cable .
I thaught that my expensive AER out but it was ok(knock on wood!).
Now I know - ...take backing power cable.
I think about backing amp.
kris

[bleakanddivine]

What, may I ask, is a kettlelead?

A technically inaccurate but widely used (in the UK at least) term for a detachable mains power lead for e.g. an amplifier. They are very similar to a kettle power lead, which can be used in a pinch.

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[sgosnell]

I thought I was marginally fluent in UKisms, but that was probably optimistic.

[christianm77]

Chocolate biscuits
Spare trousers
Jim jams

[christianm77]

Spare valves for my valve amp

[christianm77]

What about a towel?

Good point.

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I think Mos Def/Yasiin Bey is possibly the only person to have ever ‘rocked’ a towel.

[Boston Joe]

A copy of Ulysses, maybe? For set breaks?

[destinytot]

Your mama's drawers.

[mr. beaumont]

Spare valves for my valve amp

You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.

[Peter C]

One guitar, a Microcube amp, bungee straps, looper pedal, cables, spare picks, batteries and strings .... the cube sounds ok thru a PA, if need be. ....and a setlist on my cell phone because I'm absent-minded. I ride a bicycle.

I have never clipped replacement string ends, they just dangle there for the rest of the gig.

BTW, a soldering iron??

[bleakanddivine]

Good point.

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I think Mos Def/Yasiin Bey is possibly the only person to have ever ‘rocked’ a towel.

Danny Gatton would dispute that:

[Stevebol]

All the booze they have in Love Hotel refrigerators.
A girl from Chile who worked a peep show took me to a Love Hotel my 2nd night in Osaka. Her dime. When we left I lied to myself and said look at this fridge full of booze! It must be a present so I loaded my guitar case.
We go to the counter to check out and naturally they did inventory by the time we got there.
I was so f$@ing embarrassed unloading all these bottles from my guitar case that I never stole anything again in my life.

P.S.
I have taken a roll of toilet paper or scotch brite pad from work a few times but I refuse to beat myself up about it.

[christianm77]

Danny Gatton would dispute that:

Differently rocking

[christianm77]

You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.

I usually keep an AER in the boot of my motor.

[Sam Sherry]

Lot of people have the obvious covered. Outside of the typical list:

Wallet
. Pay for band
. Extra picks

I play home-built amps so I bring an emergency unit:
. Pencil box -- yes, really -- with EHX 44 Magnum amp, power supply, speaker-cord w/adapter to fit combo cab
. Sometimes another pencil box with Hall of Fame Mini reverb, power supply & cord

[Stevebol]

Big girls.

[pcsanwald]

Considering you're in NY it makes sense to travel light.

Well, I do live in SF now, but, I still bring the minimum because there is basically nowhere in SF that I would park and leave anything of value in my car. Car break-ins (via a smashed window) are a huge problem and happen constantly. I run to work, and it's very rare for me not to see a car with a smashed window on my way to work. You can also see people openly shooting up on Market and 7th pretty much 24/7, which is probably not unrelated to the theft problem. The whole situation is very sad.

[rpjazzguitar]

I play with a band in that neighborhood occasionally. Several musicians have suffered break-ins.

I leave nothing in the car and I still worry about it.

I feel safer on the streets of NYC (at least, everywhere I've gone) than I do in that part of SF.

[Sam Sherry]

You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.

No point playing an amp somebody else built, so tubes it is.

[TKO]

I haven't gigged with a guitar, but on the gigs I've done as a bassist (note: electric, not upright) I pretty much take only the stuff that fits in the bass case.

Usually they are so spacious you can fit all the pedals (1-4), tools, spare batteries, picks, cords, strings (spares also), strap, towel etc. inside the hard case. Less stuff to carry and worry about.

[jazzbow]

Soldering iron!
Last gig the bass players amp blew up so we used me Cube 60 amp lined out to the bass cabinet.
But the cab had a twist connector! Managed to locate a soldering iron for a fix just as we were due to go on stage for the first sesh.
So now I take a soldering iron.

[sgosnell]

Better to just have some adapter cables. I always have some Speakon to 1/4" adapters available, both ways (male and female) and a Speakon female/female connector to make an extension cable. I prefer Speakon by far, and I hate using 1/4" plugs for speakers, but sometimes you have to, depending on the amp or cabinet.