Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Dmoney on August 01, 2010, 11:48:17 PM
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just got back from my first tour as a bassist.
The BKP loaded P-Bass sounded great!
played in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and England. shows were a real mixed bag but hanging out with friends was fun.
Highlights involved swapping from Bass to Guitar for a show and playing half way up a staircase (the show was run so poorly everything became a joke)
Dancing across the stage during our tour buddies set with a banana in my hand before stage diving into nothingness.
A biker doing a burnout after we finished a set in hull in the middle of the venue (a bike gang hangout) and filling the place with smoke and the smell of burnt rubber.
low points included some poor turnouts, the bass drum getting bust, our bass speaker getting blown by some guy with all the gear but no idea, busting my hand on a wall instead of busting his face (actually that guy came good in the end) and getting ripped off by a runaway promoter... but... i'll see that guy around, and then we can have a calm conversation about how he does his business.
I watched a welsh band called Ark Of The Covenant a few nights on the run. They're good. They used these heads
http://www.morganamplification.com/MV45/index.html
They sounded really good! Worth checking out if you want a simple single channel beast.
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Sounds cool beside the problems that happened... Hope you get that runaway promoter, hate these kind of cr@p people
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thumbs up on the good time!
i think touring can be dangerously addictive..
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i do want to tour again. I think i enjoy being transient.
i need to do a new project still. i want to do something different but I have no idea who with or what exactly.
right now im tinkering with amps more than anything else.
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Sounds like a good tour!
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in a style typical of me... today i will be going to the hospital about my hand... a week and a half after the event!
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Turn out I broke my hand part way through tour. Now my hand is in a quick cast and messed up. Ormskirk hospital couldn't sort me out and told me to get it looked at back in London. Weird
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shite! but it seems like you got away with it so :D
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doubt it.
i broken the bone behind my little finger knuckle in my right hand.
rotated my little finger so know it doesn't open of close fully, and kind of opens diagonally left to right.
hospital said it could get stuck like that for the rest of my life, then told me id have to have a temp cast for a week until i could get my hand sorted properly. they messed up the first cast, so i had to go back and get it done again, and the one i have now isn't support the correct bones in my hand, its just annoying me. got to go st mary's at paddington with my CDR of x-rays next week. at which point it will be 3 weeks since i injured it.
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A biker doing a burnout after we finished a set in hull in the middle of the venue (a bike gang hangout) and filling the place with smoke and the smell of burnt rubber.
LOL, I experienced the exact same things in my early twens when we played a Biker Meeting, and yes, as the tire was at full smoke we broke into a punk version of Born To Be Wild. Epic moment of my life!
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doubt it.
i broken the bone behind my little finger knuckle in my right hand.
rotated my little finger so know it doesn't open of close fully, and kind of opens diagonally left to right.
hospital said it could get stuck like that for the rest of my life, then told me id have to have a temp cast for a week until i could get my hand sorted properly. they messed up the first cast, so i had to go back and get it done again, and the one i have now isn't support the correct bones in my hand, its just annoying me. got to go st mary's at paddington with my CDR of x-rays next week. at which point it will be 3 weeks since i injured it.
oh man :( i'm sorry there are these complications..