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How is your live gig? Is it good?
I'm curious about live performers on this forum.
Past / present / future gigs, in a shady street or a packed stadium, a cappella with no iPad or with a setup that’d make NASA jealous, solo or accompanied with 10 handpan players. Maybe you live stream ?
Share your disasters, successes or even the everyday stories. Pics, videos or social media are all welcome.
Show yourselves!
I’ll start :
We did a tight 1 hour set last month in-between DJs at an urban art gallery in Toulouse, France. Didn’t break a string this time, hooray!
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@Etienne thats a great photo and cool spot for a gig. Spent lots of time in early 2000’s in Toulouse with my then girlfriend who lived there
Don't get much opportunity to play live where I currently work due to visa rules but did get a few small gigs under my belt.
This at my old school:
And a local bar gig:
Thanks @dblonde ! That's a crazy coincidence, I didn't expect someone here to know this town.
May I ask where you're at now ? Also, cool instrument you got there, do you play bluesy stuff ?
Yes some blues but mainly trying to get a new take on the lapsteel guitar - it can fit very nicely into modern music with synths etc.
I’ve been playing trumpet at a couple of local jam sessions over the past year or 2, my iPad comes along to display lead sheets, Quartet apps have been brought out for backings sometimes.
This is my main gig setup. Sometimes I switch things around. I always have a hardware synth so I can easily play with the knobs during performance. Usually Korg minilogue XD, more recently the SH-4D which works great for live as it’s multi-timbral.
Hey cool! Another trumpeter here. Looks like you’re using a lotus mouthpiece. I’ve never played with one before but have heard some good things. How do you like it?
Awesome @MadGav. In 2013 I went to my first jam session at the Ronnie Scott jazz club in London, but I never jumped in because the 300bpm jams with chord modulations everywhere froze my arse. Now I know it's not about performance but communication and having fun
@reezygle That's a killer setup, and very cool spots, congrats. You do lives regularly? I too love tweaking, but made it so I can still use instrument plugins & a lot of knobs !
My twice-a-week residency at the "Bistro on the Glen" is great. Fantastic bosses and coworkers and clientele who love my music and others' music as well. Will be 9 years this June since I first started there.
Hi Dav, I played that Lotus 2XL B from early 2024 through to autumn… at which point I decided it was giving me trouble and started to look elsewhere. Specifically slotting top line F/F# which quite possibly is a me+mouthpiece+horn thing overall, but also it was limiting my range harder than I was comfortable with. General thought on Lotus is high on BS low on consistency of product. I’m now playing a Pickett 5B 10-2/27 which was a slightly random lucky eBay find - it’s smaller diameter similar to the Shew 2 I played back in the day (that piece I can play fine, just too shrill), problems essentially gone, and it’s the most comfortable piece I own. I still have that Lotus because it does sound good, the 2L2 N I bought never got played much and was sold on just recently.
@MadGav: thanks for the mouthpiece insights. Pickett is another that I’ve never tried but have heard others brag on, they follow the Bach numbering system I believe. I use Schilke mouthpieces mostly, as my trumpet professor in college was a big fan of them and I got use to the comfortable rim they have. I sometimes use a Bach 1 1/2 C with the throat opened up. For jazz I play a custom mouthpiece made for me by a friend.
Glad to know another trumpeter here!
Thank you @Etienne! I don’t play as often as I’d like. Maybe once every couple of months or so. It’s a blast when I do.
I also use the LaunchControl to map knobs and sliders to apps on the iPad. Sometimes I add a DJ controller (Pioneer FLX 4) running Rekordbox on a laptop, Ableton Linked to the iPad where I can DJ songs, and simultaneously play instruments and launch clips BPM synced on the iPad.
I'm pretty fortunate that my smallish town has a very vibrant live scene. There's lots of competition for gigs, but they actually pay well and I've been lucky that my little unique take on live electronic music is a bit of a novelty here. I can bounce between 20 person shows at a small outdoor food court, to 800+ person packed concert venues, to renegade parties in the woods or desert all within a couple weeks.
@Dav I have a stock Bach 1 1/4C which I played from age 10-ish until switching to the Shew for a lead chair boost, and went back to for the first 6 months or so of my comeback. The safari last year is suggesting that the most important thing is to find a rim which works, then other points can be sorted out.
You boys should form a duett, the name is a given: Dav n Gav. DavGav .. GavDav .. shite, I lost it..
Not sure where I got the idea but I thought you were in Seattle.
You have the recording studio, right?
I recently played a small gig at a local bar-it was a bit nerve-racking, but everyone was super chill and really enjoyed the music.
I moved a few years ago to Central Oregon, though I still make it up to Seattle every once in awhile for a gig too.
It feels like a gold deal dude. I looked up the website and indeed that's a place I would go to enjoy food and music. Maybe one day!
That's something I want to do with a mate of mine : doing some improvised beats and sometimes doing DJ in the set with everything synced up!
Hell yeah, sounds like paradise. Great pics also. Now I want a live map of the live players of the forum.
Reading your message brought back a little pre-gig stress in me lol. Congrats!
in 2025 Q4 i'm planning to play live at my 50th birthday party and release the live recording of it.
setup: iPad (with an audio interface) running Groove Rider 2 + Launchpad + Circuit Tracks … probably + TB-3.
genre: something in between EBM, acid techno and early goa trance, 123–132 bpm.