DinoTrousers
New member
It all started with a thrown-together outdoor show. It was one of those poorly managed situations that couldn't seem to get anything right. It started an hour late, it had a hard cut-off time, we were the fourth of 7 bands to play in like a 5 hour time frame, and two bands played sets twice as long as they were told to play. Things end up running incredibly behind. Two bands get dropped from the bill, another gets moved to another show that night, and all of sudden we're the last act to get thrown on stage. We go to set up as fast as we can, and come to find out that the only electricity run on stage was an extension cord with a three-way splitter despite me giving them our specific backline needs. Normally, no problem, I would go to my car and get a power strip from the gear bag, but there's no time. So we plug in our two guitar amps and the bass amp, and I just go without the pedalboard.
And it was amazing. I hadn't played out without a pedalboard in years. I forgot how freeing it is just to use the guitar and a fairly clean amp to just rock with.
A couple weeks later I was getting ready to do a show when I realized my A Rig and amp was in my wife's car two towns over. My B Rig was at the church, so I start trying to put something together out of some random pedals only to realize I can't find any power supplies or batteries. So I go without a board again and plug straight into my Twin Reverb. This is normally a group I leave an overdrive on constantly and add fuzz and gain on top. But playing (mostly) completely clean sounded and felt amazing!
I'm still using (and loving) pedals for most of my gigs, but ever since then I've started paring down my larger board to less and less, and I'm looking for more opportunities to plug straight in.
So, My name is DinoTrousers, and I'm a recovering Pedal Junkie.
And it was amazing. I hadn't played out without a pedalboard in years. I forgot how freeing it is just to use the guitar and a fairly clean amp to just rock with.
A couple weeks later I was getting ready to do a show when I realized my A Rig and amp was in my wife's car two towns over. My B Rig was at the church, so I start trying to put something together out of some random pedals only to realize I can't find any power supplies or batteries. So I go without a board again and plug straight into my Twin Reverb. This is normally a group I leave an overdrive on constantly and add fuzz and gain on top. But playing (mostly) completely clean sounded and felt amazing!
I'm still using (and loving) pedals for most of my gigs, but ever since then I've started paring down my larger board to less and less, and I'm looking for more opportunities to plug straight in.
So, My name is DinoTrousers, and I'm a recovering Pedal Junkie.
