"What, No Bass Amp?"

Saturday
December 02, 2006
Hank's Grill
McKinney, Texas


Well, as the title suggests, we get to the club and realize that we had no bass amp in the trailer. Up until recently, I had been using Eric's vintage Fender Bassman head with a couple of large cabinets (4x10, and 1x15) for most of the shows that we have played over the course of the last year or so - that is, until it finally farted out during the last song of our last L&W show in Plano. I'm hoping that it's only an "old tube issue" and I can get Eric some new ones to hopefully call it even.



Thank you, E., for letting me use it for so long... I'm still on the lookout for a head that's similar, but they're just so hard to find. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to end up biting the proverbial bullet and just shell out about $1,700 on some brand-new "hot-rod" rig that hopefully won't blow up my old speakers!

Until then, I'll be using the Fender Rumble that O'Neal ended up buying from former bassist/guitar abuser, Brock Huggins. That amp actually has a good sound, but when you are trying to fight the drums that some wild animal is pounding away on 6 feet from your head, along with two ear-splitting electric guitar players, well, that amp gets a bit lost in the mix on the stage...

Indeed.


New gear is definitely needed on my end, and at the cost of roughly $1,700, then it should only take me about 9 more months to save the bread to purchase the meat...

Ahh... 9 more months, and I'll have a brand-new baby - but this baby only screams when I want it to!