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Musician thread

I mean, I don't wanna spend ox box prices haha. I am hoping to get away spending around 100-200 on one. I had my eye on a bugera one but I'm kinda noobish when it comes to attenuators
 
Sweetwater has a few that fall into that price range, I believe. I can't speak to their quality, though. You'd have to rely on reviews and ratings, I suppose.
 
Kornholio said:
Right arm!
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kelsodeez said:
Yess I've been playing lead in a stone temple pilots cover band and we've been making really good money. Cover bands are where it's at for the working musician.
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Thx fellas. I’ve been trying to find a home for almost 2yrs, and it looks like I found one. Set list isn’t my jam at all, but if I played what I like to listen to nobody would show up.

Re attenuators I use the captor x. I bought it to record the 5150iii without mic’ing up so it prob overkill for playing out. Also, keep in mind the Ironman mini is only rated at 35watts. Your marshall will go kablooey. And the 100w Ironman 2 is a foot long, 15lbs, and $800. I hear Weber is what the cool kids use.

TGP, is prolly a better source of info if you can stomach a bunch of frightened old white guys who like to waste their meaningless lives presenting their opinions as fact in a desperate attempt to win the internets. Oh wait…:laughing
 
^^^hey man! Hope alls well with you and yorn….

Settling into week 8 in my new dadband lead guitar role. We’ve got 24 tunes down and 24 to go for 4 complete sets. Then we’ll start adding a few specialties here and there to throw in at the right time(volbeat and Tallica for the testosterone crowd, Chris Isaac for the romantics, a bunch of skynrd/ZZ/Gov’t Mule for the Harley folks, etc). We have gigs lined up 3x/month starting 5/28. *Most* of em actually pay decent.:laughing

The vocalist(he’s new to the band too)and I have some history, so dealing with his ego driven agenda has been a bit of a challenge. The usual shit, 2 alphas butting heads over band direction. So I reached out to a friend with massive touring/recording experience hoping he’d validate my position, what I got instead was excellent advice:
-Humble yourself to your new role. You’re not the master of the universe sitting at your DAW anymore.
-Shut your fucking mouth and play your ass off.

I’ve adopted these two tenets and I gotta say, they’ve set me free. I’m having much more fun now. And the truth is, the guys behavior patterns that had me getting double twisted are slowly getting sorted by the other fellas. Just give him enough rope, sit back and enjoy.
 
So i recently came into possession an old harmonica that was previously owned by my uncle who passed away in Vietnam. My grandma had been holding on to it and apparently was pretty good playing it. She had passed away about a decade+ ago or so.

Does anyone have any good youtube recommendations to get a basic idea on how to play it? I'm not looking to be great or even good. I just want to be able to make it sound nice while i reminisce about my grandma. I never knew my uncle unfortunately, gone before my time.

I still have a hard time imagining my grandma playing it. She was this tiny okinawan lady who bare spoke english, japanese or Uchināguchi. Not quite the instrument you'd think of when you think of her.

thanks in advance!
 
Folks,

I've decided to offload some of the collection due to our forthcoming move to Tennessee. Pictures of the guitars below. If you're interested, contact me via PM. :cool

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Been teaching myself tin whistle just bought a fife to mess around with as well working my way up to the pipes lol



Took me a couple of days just to get a sound out of it lol

Have a new respect for flute players
 
It’s been about 1.5yrs since I last checked in. Hope y’all musician types are still playing/growing/having fun with music. While I’ve worked through many changes for sure, my overall trajectory is the same as when I last posted:
-Still heavily involved with a working cover band(though not the same one)and playing 25-30 shows a year. Mostly festivals, casino shows, brewery’s, and lakeside marina stuff with a the odd biker bar and dive bar thrown in for grins.
-Less classic rock and more danceable tunes with this new project(INXS/Depeche Mode/Bowie/simple minds, etc). Also some heavier stuff that fits my wheelhouse much better(VH/Whitesnek/Maiden, etc) But as usual, I’m mostly playing tunes the patrons want to hear. In other words, very few tune I would ever choose to listen to myself.
-switched show rigs from a big cumbersome 5150iii+4x12 to a Kemper+Mission engineering 2x12frfr(sometimes just straight into FOH)and a fractal fm3 backup.
-Extensive IEM use nowadays to support backing tracks and silent stage upon occasion.
-Switched from a Tele #1 and Ibby AZ backup to a corona built evh #1 and a Les Paul standard backup.
-Started taking vocal lessons to make myself more marketable. Not really working out as I’ve found I really really suck at it

And to bliss out at home I picked up an EBMM Luke IV Steamroller I discovered at NAMM and flatout fell in love with and play through a Mesa mkVII I grabbed last summer through my 30yr old Marshall 4x12

Not sure how much longer I want to play out though. It’s a lot of fun on one hand, but on the other hand…though it’s made me a better player, learning 200 crappy songs to play for a bunch of (mostly) drunk folks has got me a little jaded. Plus, after two years of playing out I’m really itching to get back to writing/playing my own stuff at home. You know, that comfy warm place where I don’t have to load in/load out and there aren’t any inebriated middle aged women who think it’s ok to cop a feel.

So, anything new with you folks?
 
Mesa Dual Rectifier is still my dream head, but I pretty much love everything they produce. Good choice.

I picked up an ESP1000 Vintage Black that I really love. Soo easy to play and really fun to throw around. That said, still a bassist at heart. My go-to is my Musicman Stingray, but I just got a Charvel ProMod PJV that should be arriving any day now. Love the sound that comes out of it. My 6-string custom doesn't get much love anymore. I tried to test out the new Ibanez SR 6-string lines but none of them had the tone I wanted. I think I'm getting old and just prefer than J pickup sound now which the occasional P growl.

Soon as my boy gets older and I have more time, I'm going to find a band out here. Hoping to gig with some older dudes who really dig instrumentals and aren't some cookie cutter cover band who wanna play for their friends on the ski slopes. We'll see...
 
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