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  1. #26

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    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

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  3. #27

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgosnell
    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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    I thought I was marginally fluent in UKisms, but that was probably optimistic.

  5. #29

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    Chocolate biscuits
    Spare trousers
    Jim jams

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    Spare valves for my valve amp

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    Quote Originally Posted by John A.
    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.

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    A copy of Ulysses, maybe? For set breaks?

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    Your mama's drawers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    Spare valves for my valve amp
    You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.

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    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??

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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    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:


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    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.
    Last edited by Stevebol; 12-12-2017 at 05:51 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bleakanddivine
    Danny Gatton would dispute that:

    Differently rocking

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
    You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.
    I usually keep an AER in the boot of my motor.

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    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

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    Big girls.


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    Quote Originally Posted by docbop
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
    You gig with a tube amp? Masochist.
    No point playing an amp somebody else built, so tubes it is.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.