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hi,
just wanted to let you know that thursday a week ago (didn't get to
posting earlier) my band the mono-tones did our first real gig in a
local stage in Tilburg, netherlands. about 75 people showed up, and
we played a 50 minutes set of trad surf songs (margaya, surf party,
pipeline a.o.), 3th wave covers (intensity, $50 a midget, surfin'
tamales a.o.)and a couple of our own songs. I'm proud to say that it
was sort of a big succes, the audiance really liked it (and some even
danced!). We did play very well, and what's more, we weren't complete
nervous wrecks but actually managed to put on a show. For us, that
was the biggest accomplishment.
Also we got a lot of positive comments on our sound, which made me
very happy because it's pretty el cheapo backline, but a lot of work
went into it. bassman 100 for the bass, heavily modded twin in
bassman-matching-top-cab. both rest on identical custom made fender
style 22" x 37" cabs with 15" ALtecs .... it looks like a set
of 'piggybacks-on-steroids'! A Squier strat with duncans into a
cosmoverb tube reverb for me (with occasional danecho and boss od)
and an ibanez lawsuit rickenbacker copy for bass, loaded with a huge
fender pup. Laura backing guitar played a tokai strat with some
fender replacement pup straight into a fender 75 combo... her wearing
a silver glitter dress made up for using that amp ;-) We played
without PA and managed to fill the medium sized room.
anyway, we had lots of fun, and with all the applause and five free-
drink tickets each we felt well paid. I was happy as a kid with a new
toy!
wannes
