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phildodd wrote:You guys should totally swap shows, like the British Lords put on American accents and everything, that would really confuse those label bigwigs...

My idea is a split single and we all mix up the line ups and put the labels on the wrong sides.

honeyisfunny wrote:

phildodd wrote:You guys should totally swap shows, like the British Lords put on American accents and everything, that would really confuse those label bigwigs...

My idea is a split single and we all mix up the line ups and put the labels on the wrong sides.

You've obviously thought about this more than me, so I'll just let you get on with it...

Lords US vs Lords UK on boxing canvas.

Musical warfare.

Lords of the ring.

6079smith wrote:A few years ago, a friend of mine saw <very popular thrash metal band>, big festival, huge stage etc. After the show two roadies came and picked up the (empty) Marshall stacks, revealing a 50 watt H+K combo.

I think some of it might have to do with 'because I can'. Someone's springing for eight roadies and a guitar and bass tech? Fair enough, I'll take the whole dang studio.

In case anyone's interested. I love the Fender for the 'offstage guitar tech'.

metallica?
they did this at a feastival near where I live.
they were making jokes about how it was fake though.

Boombats wrote:A larf is a laugh when you're extremely cool.


I started a band with a drummer who was born the same day and year that John Bonham died. He carries the spirit of percussive battery. I'd have complained about the volume but it just sounds so good! So I started out with a 600 W combo that had kicked ass in the last band. Not loud enough to compete with the drums. Got a 1200 W 4-channel power amp, ran to 4 cabs! Still not loud enough. Had to get a 2000 W head, running to a 2000 W 4x12 and a 1000 W 2x12. Now it's loud enough and the band broke up. Feh


Still, it rules to be heard. Go Big

you are joking, right? a 600W combo??



edit: oh and the stories about people carrying expensive shit around without intetnion of pluggin it, just to look cool blows my mind. i can see band like u2 doing this, but regular people?

emmanuelle cunt wrote:you are joking, right? a 600W combo??

Epifani or KBG or Ampeg or Mesa Boogie

Or are you just stunned because 600w is so weak.

For real, let's bust out 20,000 watts.

see? i'm a retard. but how come a 600W can be not enough to out-loud a drummer, no matter how hard he plays? or are these different kind of watts?

emmanuelle cunt wrote:see? i'm a retard. but how come a 600W can be not enough to out-loud a drummer, no matter how hard he plays? or are these different kind of watts?

Well, bass does need significantly more wattage than guitar to even begin to compete. Im sure you know that.

That said, 600 watts is a lot -- this drummer must have been a bear. I mean that literally, a real bear, maybe playing with ball peen hammers on a kit made of chromed steel and gunpowder.

I think it was either a crappy 600-watt amp (600 Peavey watts, maybe) or terribly, terribly inefficient speakers combined with an acoustically bass-sucking practice space position for said amp and the now-deaf band members who couldnt hear it.

I mean, an SVT peaks at 600 watts and Ive yet to meet the drummer that can drown one of them out. Compete with? Sure. Make the amp work hard? Definitely. Make the bass player inaudible? No way.

:awaits tales of drummers who regularly drown out SVTs:

a friend of mine plays an SVT rig - f*ck, I always forget which head model, the hybrid one, i think it's an SVT3 pro - thru Ampeg 810AV box. There's enough growl, of course, but when I learnt the head was 400W.. and the dude has it almost always dimed or nearly so.. I expected much more noise, to tell you the truth. There's more then enough of that clearly bass originated low end, actually, even with two guitars screeching along, but to say it can totally drown out a drummer -

may be the damin thing is broken, i dunno

endofanera wrote:

emmanuelle cunt wrote:see? i'm a retard. but how come a 600W can be not enough to out-loud a drummer, no matter how hard he plays? or are these different kind of watts?

Well, bass does need significantly more wattage than guitar to even begin to compete. Im sure you know that.

i missed the fact we're talking about bass amps.