| Author | Message | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3308 Registered: 10-2002 |
2013 has now kicked off and Big Tuna will be starting this years performances with back to back gigs this week. Thursday we're at Whistlebinkies from 10pm Friday we're at Finnegan's Wake from 10pm Both venues are Edinburgh city centre. Graeme (we've been asked to play an Ex-Pat oilman's party in Dubai in April all expenses paid - negotiations are on-going but it looks like I'll be needing a flight case) | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1694 Registered: 6-2002 |
Have fun this week, Graeme. Good luck on the Dubai plans! MIke | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3313 Registered: 10-2002 |
Thursday was quiet. Only around 30 folk in the bar and not too many up dancing. Friday, in complete contrast was packed to the gunnels. Ulster were playing Glasgow (rugby) and the bar was showing the match on the big screen so every irishman for miles was in cheering on Ulster. Our lead guitarist made a huge mistake by wearing a t'shirt depicting a stylised Union Jack - the security guys suggested he wear it inside out to avoid any trouble although for the most part, the crowd were pretty well natured. We ended up having dancers all night and played long enough to be told to stop by the management sometime after 1:30am. It was also one of those rare gigs when we got the sound spot on right from the start with no complaints from the guitarist about the Bass being too loud. If every gig could be like that I'd be a very happy man:-) This Saturday coming we're playing at PJ Molloys in Dunfermline. We haven't been here for a few years so it'll be interesting. Especially seeing as they now have two bands on and we can't load in to set up till after 10:30. I think we're playing from midnight till 2am :-( Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3314 Registered: 10-2002 |
Looks like our Dubai gig has fallen through. message from the promoter this morning... "the client has decided to push their event back until Q1 next year " Wonder if they've just decided they don't really want to fly a covers band out from the UK. Ho Hum. Graeme | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3282 Registered: 6-2002 |
Shame. | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1705 Registered: 6-2002 |
Awww! Sorry, Graeme. Travel can be broadening, but staying home lets you keep up with "Dancing with the Stars".  Mike | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3318 Registered: 10-2002 |
Tonight we'll be back in Whistlebinkies in Edinburgh from 10pm. Then we have about 3 weeks off gigging so it'll be back into the rehearsal rooms to work up some new nembers. Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3330 Registered: 10-2002 |
Whistlebinkies tonight then Finnegan's wake saturday. both Edinburgh , both from around 10pm. I've swapped the strings on my fretless rogue from DR neon's to flatwound D'addario chromes and lowered the action a bit. Loving the new feel and tone. Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3340 Registered: 10-2002 |
We're back in PJ Molloy's in Dunfermline at 11pm this coming saturday. It'll be my first gig since losing my brother so I guess I'll be thinking of him a lot while I'm up on stage. Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3341 Registered: 10-2002 |
Wasn't a bad gig at all. Used the house Ampeg B2Re and 410 which sounded reasonable but nowhere near as flexible as my Mesa rig. the dancefloor was packed from start to finish so I guess it would count as a great gig but I was feeling pretty worn out before we started playing and kind of lost interest about 4 songs from the end. A very late gig - 11:30 till 2am. Thankfully we won't be back there till late june This thursday 28th we're back in Whistlebinkies Edinburgh for our usual thursday night gig. 10pm start midnight finish and Friday is a holiday so I get to lie in ;-) Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3366 Registered: 10-2002 |
It's been a while since we played (due in no small part to our drummer's procreative efforts) but this week we're more than making up for it with three private functions.. Tonight we're playing a charity fundraiser for an equity firm in Glasgow Saturday we'll be playing a charity fundraiser for falkirk round table Sunday we're playing at a wedding in North berwick Next friday we have another wedding in Edinburgh Wish we could get back to Pub gigs - I really don't like playing functions. Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1740 Registered: 6-2002 |
Sounds like a busy weekend Graeme. Weekends like this remind us why "downsizing rigs can be a good thing. ;) Have a great gig! Mike | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3480 Registered: 6-2002 |
I hope it all goes well Jako, it's been ages since I've done gigs back to back like that. Functions aren't really my thing either if I'm honest. However many of my friends who are full time muso's do quite a lot of them as they pay more than pub or small venue gigs and it's bread and butter. But when you get them on a jazz session they let out all the stops. Jazzyvee | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3481 Registered: 6-2002 |
I hope it all goes well Jako, it's been ages since I've done gigs back to back like that. Functions aren't really my thing either if I'm honest. However here's hoping you get some pub gigs soon. Jazzyvee | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3370 Registered: 10-2002 |
Well, I've had enough and after nearly 9 years handed in my notice. Thursday night no-one in the audience was interested and Sunday night we might as well not have turned up until 11:30. Saturday night was ok as the audience were mostly drunk and in fancy dress but I just wasn't feeling the magic and my Mesa Titan cut out right before the end of the gig (after having been shipped back to the states to have the exact same issue fixed). This sort of thing has been going on for over a year so I guess it's time to try something new. Hopefully we'll part on reasonable terms - I've agreed to cover some gigs until they can find a replacement (must have van and warehouse). Meanwhile, at our last rehearsal the studio guy slipped me a note from a grateful dead tribute who want me to try out with them so I'll see how that goes. Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1741 Registered: 6-2002 |
Wow! Changes keep coming in life, so ride out the tide and here's hoping you find some compatible bandmates and lucrative opportunities again soon! All the best, Mike | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 2306 Registered: 10-2003 |
Best of luck. Onward and upward! John | ||
| jcdlc72
Advanced Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 255 Registered: 11-2009 |
Well, that happens every once in a while. Right now I am taking over a similar situation where I will be replacing a friend who has been playing for 11 years in a duet. The guy grew tired and decided it was time to flee (literally, he even took the decision to fly to another country, that sick he got of it all!) and was trying to quit the outfit for almost three years already. In good terms -or at least it seems- and with some previous preparation (I've played with them a handful times before, and so I know their set list), so it is not a complete disaster. Maybe the time is right for a change, Graeme. Just be sure of bringing good, renewing energies to the new venture! | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3485 Registered: 6-2002 |
A change is as good as a rest. But don't sell your alembics.... :-) Jazzyvee | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3373 Registered: 10-2002 |
... and now I'm having second thoughts :-( and jazzy.. to paraphrase mel gibsons version of scottish history 'You can take my titan (cos it's still cutting out) but you'll never take my alembics' :-) Graeme | ||
| georgie_boy
Senior Member Username: georgie_boy Post Number: 1077 Registered: 8-2005 |
Stick with it Graeme!! | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 3383 Registered: 10-2002 |
I've agreed to cover gigs up until mid-september (last wedding booking this year) so this month I have 3 pub gigs in Edinburgh; July 2 weddings then September a couple of pubs and a wedding. Hopefully they'll have found another bass player by then. Meanwhile, last night I had a great jam session with the 'Deadbeats'. One guitarist, the drummer and keys are the remnants of 'Workingman's dead', a fairly successful dead tribute band who played quite a lot of the smaller festivals up till last Christmas. With myself, another guitarist and a singer we made a respectable effort at the handful of songs we'd learnt for the occasion.... Ramble On Rose Truckin' Goin' Down The Road Big Boss Man Friend Of The Devil Stella Blue Mostly variations an a twelve bar in E but a couple have interesting changes - stella blue in particular (which will lend itself to fretless) but the keyboard guy kept me in the right place calling out the chord changes when I looked lost. It's interesting how different playing this stuff is to just listening - and I get beyond the 7th fret! So that looks like it'll take off - we have another jam in a fortnight. Also, I have an audition in a week or so for a Glaswegian covers band who are resurrecting themselves from the ashes of red zephyrz who were playing around glasgow pubs but also travelling as far afield as the Berlin beer festival to perform. hopefully that'll work out too so I'm in a much brighter place than I was a couple of weeks ago. Graeme |
