We do the whole Dillinger thing at shows. We don't practice doing it, we like to keep that sense of unpredictability, but when we used to do it in the practice room we'd do our set over and over again and record it to see where we'd go wrong and work on the mistakes.
Best thing to do before...
I have a live in on casters with a 6u and it's fucking huge, I don't bother using it for smaller shows. Me and the other guitarist are ordering live-ins with 4u racks and no casters next month, I find they're easier to get around, and we have this little dolly thing (to push our Orange cabs...
Regarding mics, I THINK that Shure SM57's are regarded as a sort of industry 'standard' to record guitars with. I'm probably wrong but I'm sure I read that somewhere!
Soooo I've been looking at Blackstar amps for a long long time, and I had a bunch of people try and sell me some but the price was never right (and I couldn't really afford to). About a week ago a dude got in touch and told me he had recently scored a Peavey endorsement and had got himself...
The beauty of social networking is the staggering amount of promoters that use it these days. Why wouldn't they? Over 100 million people at their fingertips at any one time! This is why I don't understand bands who don't use Facebook to promote their band...
...ANYWAY first thing to do is get...
Haha fair enough! My pedalboard's a mess but it works, there's no point in me being OCD about it because most shows it gets something spilt on it or someone accidently stomps on it or whatever, I wish it was neat though!
Here's a pic of my best friend tattooing my mums family crest on my foot!
Getting my dads this weekend. I'm really not stoked that, or the colouring, seriously it was the worst pain I've ever felt in my life, horrible!
I love it now though, now it's started healing :D