Hi guys,
My band played a gig last night at a local pub that was a lot of fun. It was our band and then 3 sort of, comedy grind style acts - not my thing at all. The drummer from the last 2 bands was actually the drummer from The Berzerker so he was really good to watch and a really nice guy as well.
We played our set and then the next band came up and asked Nic (Bekanor) how many gigs we've played. Nic responded with "oh, about 8 or so?" and the guy came back with "oh you can tell because you're taking ages to move your shit off the stage". I would like to add that we really weren't taking ages!
They sucked anyway and had more of an emphasis on comedy rather than being a serious band. The band who was after them actually told us that they were playing a gig in Sydney the night before (about 2 hours drive from here) with the band who had a go at us and were sitting in Sydney at the time of soundcheck and the shit band hadn't even left our city yet. Go figure...
Anyway...the band 3rd band needed to use my guitar rig, which I am always happy to do because I like the idea of people plugging into something decent and having decent tone because SO many bands around here have shitty very loud bedroom tone and it just sounds awful. I had my Dual Recto and Stiletto cab all ready to go with my Decimator and OD and the guy INSISTED on just plugging into the clean channel and using his Korg multi-fx unit of some sort.
I tried to tell him that it'd just be easier to go through how I had it running because it sounded really good but he just didn't want any part of it. I understand that he might want to use what he was familiar with, but it was the most over-gained/over-scooped tone ever. It was just awful...my poor amp! Nic said he's glad it was my Recto and not the clean channel on his brand-spanking-new Mark V!
The guys after them needed my rig as well. The guitar player rocked up wanting to plug his metalzone into the clean channel but I insisted on him running my rig my way. He sounded much better for it too.
My band played a gig last night at a local pub that was a lot of fun. It was our band and then 3 sort of, comedy grind style acts - not my thing at all. The drummer from the last 2 bands was actually the drummer from The Berzerker so he was really good to watch and a really nice guy as well.
We played our set and then the next band came up and asked Nic (Bekanor) how many gigs we've played. Nic responded with "oh, about 8 or so?" and the guy came back with "oh you can tell because you're taking ages to move your shit off the stage". I would like to add that we really weren't taking ages!
They sucked anyway and had more of an emphasis on comedy rather than being a serious band. The band who was after them actually told us that they were playing a gig in Sydney the night before (about 2 hours drive from here) with the band who had a go at us and were sitting in Sydney at the time of soundcheck and the shit band hadn't even left our city yet. Go figure...
Anyway...the band 3rd band needed to use my guitar rig, which I am always happy to do because I like the idea of people plugging into something decent and having decent tone because SO many bands around here have shitty very loud bedroom tone and it just sounds awful. I had my Dual Recto and Stiletto cab all ready to go with my Decimator and OD and the guy INSISTED on just plugging into the clean channel and using his Korg multi-fx unit of some sort.
I tried to tell him that it'd just be easier to go through how I had it running because it sounded really good but he just didn't want any part of it. I understand that he might want to use what he was familiar with, but it was the most over-gained/over-scooped tone ever. It was just awful...my poor amp! Nic said he's glad it was my Recto and not the clean channel on his brand-spanking-new Mark V!
The guys after them needed my rig as well. The guitar player rocked up wanting to plug his metalzone into the clean channel but I insisted on him running my rig my way. He sounded much better for it too.
