The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
So the lead guitarist in our band gets us a gig here for last Saturday night;
It's a very expensive Adult Community named "The Channel Club". He and the other guitarist went over to meet the people and to get the lay of the land. The gig is for their "Summer Party" and they were very concerned about the volume. We assured them everything will be fine. Set up is to be by the kiddy pool where the arrow is.
So the average age of the party goers will be around 70 years old. We start looking at our current song list and we realize there's a lot of songs that aren't going to work. So I break out my monster book and start looking for songs from 1955 to 1965. We fine about ten new songs and have two rehearsals to work them up.
So as I'm listening to all these songs to learn the bass lines, I'm also noticing the tone of the basses. So then it dawns on me that I need to break out some of me vintage basses for the gig. I figure there shouldn't be too much wear and tear imparted on them as the band will be in "Lounge" mode. So much so that the drummer played with Hot Rods.
For the first set which was really mellow, I played this one;
Then for the second a little more up tempo set I played this one;
And finally for the "rock" set I played my "Sheryl Crow bass;
Now a lot of the songs we did had a "walking blues" bass line that spans four frets. Normally after such songs as "Carol", Lucille", and "I Saw Her Standing There", I get some pretty good cramps in my left hand. Now on Saturday, I experienced almost no hand cramps at all.
Hmmm,
Maybe there is something to that short scale thing? :?
It's a very expensive Adult Community named "The Channel Club". He and the other guitarist went over to meet the people and to get the lay of the land. The gig is for their "Summer Party" and they were very concerned about the volume. We assured them everything will be fine. Set up is to be by the kiddy pool where the arrow is.
So the average age of the party goers will be around 70 years old. We start looking at our current song list and we realize there's a lot of songs that aren't going to work. So I break out my monster book and start looking for songs from 1955 to 1965. We fine about ten new songs and have two rehearsals to work them up.
So as I'm listening to all these songs to learn the bass lines, I'm also noticing the tone of the basses. So then it dawns on me that I need to break out some of me vintage basses for the gig. I figure there shouldn't be too much wear and tear imparted on them as the band will be in "Lounge" mode. So much so that the drummer played with Hot Rods.
For the first set which was really mellow, I played this one;
Then for the second a little more up tempo set I played this one;
And finally for the "rock" set I played my "Sheryl Crow bass;
Now a lot of the songs we did had a "walking blues" bass line that spans four frets. Normally after such songs as "Carol", Lucille", and "I Saw Her Standing There", I get some pretty good cramps in my left hand. Now on Saturday, I experienced almost no hand cramps at all.
Hmmm,
Maybe there is something to that short scale thing? :?