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Goodness knows what we sounded like. Though actually I doubt anyone could hear it amongst the noise - I certainly couldn’t.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
However, on Saturday he was stood right in front of me while I was doing the talkbox, and was very obviously looking for a rise from me. I'd had enough at the end of the set, and was actually trying to find him to knock him out; thankfully, he wasn't around.
I'd argue that's a fair response, but some might call it an amateur-ish thing to do..!
(As it turns out, he also grabbed random women's arses and grabbed the breasts of the drummer's wife that night.... at which point the drummer had to be held back from lamping him).
So in a way it was both amateurish (the capo falling off) and yet also stunningly professional (having a spare frickin capo ready to go!)
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"Is this one of those weird half-capos? It doesn't cover all the strings, won't work for this one..."
The guy just reached over and turned it round. I'd been trying to put it on upside down.
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My second gig singing with our old AC/DC band was a belter as well. We were supporting a very well known local covers band and we were using some of their gear. The singer gave me some really good tips and just before he walked off the stage he said "all you've got to do is flick the switch on the floor monitor and you're good to go".....I forgot.
We took a video of it and amazingly it turned out not three bad
For 2.5 hours, I was frustrated at my tone with the Axe FX3. It was wooly, woofy and bassy; nothing like the tones I'd dialed in at home, and no matter what I did on the amp settings, it didn't fix it.
We then had a quick break, and I dialled the Les Paul bridge volume knob down. When we came back, I dialled it back up.... and suddenly noticed I'd accidentally set the bridge tone to 0. turns out I thought I was dialling down the volume at the beginning of the night when it was the tone.
D'oh.
I did, however, discover that with tone at 0 and using a plexi model, I could nail Gary Moore's tone on Murder in the Skies.
I also once played a song in a band with two guitars where we we both supposed to be capo'd at 3 and the song started with unison open power chords. I got it right that time, but the other guitarist had hers on at 2 - hilarious clashing atonal noise resulted . It's on video too!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
So at work there are a few musos or former musos, and we formed a one off band for a single gig, the work Xmas party. We made a playlist of stuff that would appeal to most people, on the heavy rock side of things, and threw a few personal choices in there as well. The most technical song we agreed on was Get the Funk Out..... you can see where this is going!
So rehearsals.... we had 3 guitarists and two of us could play that solo, we chatted, and decided to play it in unison, or at least as closely as we could. I learned it up to 15% faster than the record just in case, no idea what the other guitarist did, and we rehearsed it separately as he didn't have it together by final rehearsal.
Night of the gig....
I had 4 pints or so, he had 8-9.....what could go wrong eh?
Well, firstly, the drummer was pissed and excited and he started it significantly too fast. The singer was struggling to enunciate all the words it was so much quicker than it should have been. It wasn't quite Slayer territory but it wasn't a slow funky groove anymore! I was already laughing and yelling 'I can't play it this fast!!!' during the song as we all struggled to play the parts at speed.
It came time for the solo and the other guitar player who was absorbed in his craft and utterly oblivous to the world started it around 1.5 beats too early and a semitone down, I came in and was yelling at him that he was in the wrong place and key....we clashed appallingly for about 10 seconds then I just packed in and turned my volume down and laughed drinking my pint (wearing a kimono) It was a total clusterf*ck, however the gig itself was awesome and I had a great time, I woulnd't change a thing!
Here's proof I could actually play the b*stard solo before the gig!
Hands up, who's set their gear up with the wah switched on, and then spent ages reconfiguring the amp and rest of the pedalboard because it sounds terrible? I've done that at least twice and now use wahs that have an LED or are spring-loaded.
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