I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
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ErikH
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I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
Did that for a few years. Taking a break from it all. Left the band after our NYE gig. I used a 1x12 combo but still used a dolly. Trimmed the rig back big time. When I decide to get back in it, my practice setup might just end up being my iPhone using Amplitube straight in to the PA. I use it at home now anyway.
Did that for a few years. Taking a break from it all. Left the band after our NYE gig. I used a 1x12 combo but still used a dolly. Trimmed the rig back big time. When I decide to get back in it, my practice setup might just end up being my iPhone using Amplitube straight in to the PA. I use it at home now anyway.
Matt42
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Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
I hate it. I live in the 3rd floor of my apartment complex, and it's a long walk from the car to the elevator and then again to my door. I got a dolly for Christmas, and it's the best present I've ever gotten. I've taken to leaving a Roland Cube 60 at our practice spot, so I only have to take my guitar and pedal board to practice. For gigging, I use a 1x12 combo, and don't see myself switching to anything else anytime soon.
This weekend my band played an outdoor gig for an Earth Day benefit and we had the worst load out ever, even though our cars were parked right behind the stage. It started snowing about 5 minutes before we finished, and by the time we had everything packed up it was a full on blizzard.
I hate it. I live in the 3rd floor of my apartment complex, and it's a long walk from the car to the elevator and then again to my door. I got a dolly for Christmas, and it's the best present I've ever gotten. I've taken to leaving a Roland Cube 60 at our practice spot, so I only have to take my guitar and pedal board to practice. For gigging, I use a 1x12 combo, and don't see myself switching to anything else anytime soon.
This weekend my band played an outdoor gig for an Earth Day benefit and we had the worst load out ever, even though our cars were parked right behind the stage. It started snowing about 5 minutes before we finished, and by the time we had everything packed up it was a full on blizzard.
CTN
The Drama Dude
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
oh quit yer bellyachin'.
It's the price you pay for being privileged enough to get up on stage, rock out at high volumes and be a proper gigging musician. The only way to do it properly is love every minute of it :headbang:
Besides...Tetris is fun!
oh quit yer bellyachin'.
It's the price you pay for being privileged enough to get up on stage, rock out at high volumes and be a proper gigging musician. The only way to do it properly is love every minute of it :headbang:
Besides...Tetris is fun!
sosomething
Seymour Duncan Customer Support
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
Why don't you wussies try lugging a 6x12 up two flights of narrow stairs and report back?
Why don't you wussies try lugging a 6x12 up two flights of narrow stairs and report back?
CTN
The Drama Dude
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
or two 4x12s, a 2x10/1x15 bass cab, 2x100W heads, drum kit, guitars and basses up a rickety old wooden "fire escape" staircase outdoors, up 3 stories.
it's like being on one of those roller coasters that goes down a huge incline into water, except instead of water, it's liquefied terror.
or two 4x12s, a 2x10/1x15 bass cab, 2x100W heads, drum kit, guitars and basses up a rickety old wooden "fire escape" staircase outdoors, up 3 stories.
it's like being on one of those roller coasters that goes down a huge incline into water, except instead of water, it's liquefied terror.
DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
Try working in a factory for 12 hours a day, wishing you were out playing the music you enjoy instead, going home in the morning and being too tired and sore to pick up a guitar, sleeping away your day off because you're so tired and don't get to enjoy playing anything more involved than a radio.
Yeah, you active giggers got it soooooo rough.
Try working in a factory for 12 hours a day, wishing you were out playing the music you enjoy instead, going home in the morning and being too tired and sore to pick up a guitar, sleeping away your day off because you're so tired and don't get to enjoy playing anything more involved than a radio.
Yeah, you active giggers got it soooooo rough.
ItsaBass
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Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
I don't mind the actual carting of the crap so much. What I do mind is that bull**** some clubs pull where they make everyone load in at once four or five hours early. So you have to get off of work early for an 11 o'clock gig. WTF? Then you stand around and do nothing for hours with nobody in the joint and terrible music blaring through their speakers...or you have to leave your gear unattended while you go eat (or whatever else). And they say they do all this to give you a sound check...but the sound is still ****ty when you play.
I don't mind the actual carting of the crap so much. What I do mind is that bull**** some clubs pull where they make everyone load in at once four or five hours early. So you have to get off of work early for an 11 o'clock gig. WTF? Then you stand around and do nothing for hours with nobody in the joint and terrible music blaring through their speakers...or you have to leave your gear unattended while you go eat (or whatever else). And they say they do all this to give you a sound check...but the sound is still ****ty when you play.
Edgecrusher
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Dayeeeve
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Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
I enjoy it to a degree, I think My band & myself have conditioned ourselves and we just kind of put up with it. We are also experts at car Tetris!
I recently toured with Phil X and Rob Chapman, I always thought it was funny that they had a tour bus a crew and a tech etc then there was us in a 30 year old camper van, playing, stripping down our gear on stage, tetris-ing it in to the tiny door of the camper then driving ourselves 5 hours to the next venue (often situated down a narrow back alley or where there, of course, was no area to load in!).
It was probably the most fun two weeks of my entire life.
I enjoy it to a degree, I think My band & myself have conditioned ourselves and we just kind of put up with it. We are also experts at car Tetris!
I recently toured with Phil X and Rob Chapman, I always thought it was funny that they had a tour bus a crew and a tech etc then there was us in a 30 year old camper van, playing, stripping down our gear on stage, tetris-ing it in to the tiny door of the camper then driving ourselves 5 hours to the next venue (often situated down a narrow back alley or where there, of course, was no area to load in!).
It was probably the most fun two weeks of my entire life.
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Kamanda~SD
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Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
I don't think anyone enjoys it, but that's just part of what it takes to be able to gig....and I love gigging way more than I hate loading in/out so no complaints here. the real complaint? How only one band member besides me loads out!
DrNewcenstein: relax, this isn't a one-up and most of us work the day of the gig as well, and we certainly wish we were playing the music we wanted instead of working. If you don't pick up a guitar/ want to sleep that's your choice.
This seems like such a 'first world problem'...
I don't think anyone enjoys it, but that's just part of what it takes to be able to gig....and I love gigging way more than I hate loading in/out so no complaints here. the real complaint? How only one band member besides me loads out!
DrNewcenstein: relax, this isn't a one-up and most of us work the day of the gig as well, and we certainly wish we were playing the music we wanted instead of working. If you don't pick up a guitar/ want to sleep that's your choice.
This seems like such a 'first world problem'...
CTN
The Drama Dude
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
nah i'd be fine. It gets properly hot here too. And I used to live in the middle east so I'm used to sweltering temperatures and ludicrously high humidity.
and you would melt in the heat during a load in in texas
nah i'd be fine. It gets properly hot here too. And I used to live in the middle east so I'm used to sweltering temperatures and ludicrously high humidity.
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
It's a small price to pay for the glory of Rock n Roll!
Seriously, though, I bought 2 Multicarts about 15 years ago and they have proven to be the best musical investment I have ever made!
It's a small price to pay for the glory of Rock n Roll!
Seriously, though, I bought 2 Multicarts about 15 years ago and they have proven to be the best musical investment I have ever made!
Re: I hate Load In / Load Out of Amps and stuff
I don't like it either. The older I get the less I want to do it. But, I still use pretty heavy gear because I like the tones. I have found road cases really help hauling my Twin. I am getting one for my Super too. It's a breeze for two guys to pick up instead of being a total back breaker for one. Also, when it's raining or snowing they stay dry, and they roll nice & easy.
I don't like it either. The older I get the less I want to do it. But, I still use pretty heavy gear because I like the tones. I have found road cases really help hauling my Twin. I am getting one for my Super too. It's a breeze for two guys to pick up instead of being a total back breaker for one. Also, when it's raining or snowing they stay dry, and they roll nice & easy.
