Why are guitar players so weak?

[Karl Houseknecht]

I remember piling up all my gear in front of the stage to load up after gigs. 412, 2 100 watt heads in road cases, pedal board in road case, wireless rack, guitar stands, bag of cables, 3 or 4 guitars in hard cases. Just exhausting schlepping that crap around.

Now I have a guitar on my back and one of those “heavy” Fractal floor units in one hand. The other hand is free. Don’t even know what to do with myself. I guess if my modeler was smaller I could gesture more wildly while I talk to people?

 

[Alex Kenivel]

never confuse TGP with guitar players more generally. We skew a little older around here

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I read it as you schlepping all the gear; not your talent carrying the band

I read it as him schlepping his PA around because backing tracks.

 

[ian_dissonance]

I read it as him schlepping his PA around because backing tracks.

And tracked bass because who has time to wait around to find people. Fuck, we even run the vocals through a second laptop just for random delays and reverbs and distortions and shit. And there’s live synth on top of the tracks. When the PA supports it we even have the LFEs on their own channel. Ya know, like a band.

 

[laxu]

Now I have a guitar on my back and one of those “heavy” Fractal floor units in one hand. The other hand is free. Don’t even know what to do with myself. I guess if my modeler was smaller I could gesture more wildly while I talk to people?

If you were Italian you'd really appreciate being able to gesture more wildly.

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

If you were Italian you'd really appreciate being able to gesture more wildly.

While my name gives away my German heritage, I have a fondness for my eye-talian brothers. I seem to attract them as bass players for some reason.

 

[ragingplatypi]

I just had a flashback to 15 years of carrying the PA head, speakers and monitors, a heavy ass VHT Pittbull 2x12, 2 guitars, a keyboard, and the graceful bag of cables and stands to every gig.

 

[ejecta]

I suspect for a lot of us who gig it’s more an issue of how much we can carry in a single trip.

Yeah because two trips is just not doable.

 

[HomespunEffects]

If you were Italian you'd really appreciate being able to gesture more wildly.

 

[ChordInversion]

Sorry. TGF. Muscle memory.

 

[Frankencat]

Fuggeddaboddit.

 

[mbenigni]

Also, never confuse TGP with guitar players more generally. We skew a little older around here.

More importantly, references to "FRFR" and Helix in the OP suggest he's referring to comments posted to the Digital & Modeling section. No one ever sold their old school tube amps and bought a modeler in hopes that the modeler would be bigger and heavier. Convenience was part of that tradeoff from day one.

LOL autoquotes on "FRFR" got me.

 

[Piing]

No trolling, I just don’t get the fixation with everybody demanding everything to be as light as possible. Okay, I get why you don’t want to haul a 4x12 up the stairs by yourself, but switching from a Helix to a QC to save a few kg etc? I just don’t get it.

To what extents does that affect your your feelings, your thoughts and your life?

 

[JiveTurkey]

I remember piling up all my gear in front of the stage to load up after gigs. 412, 2 100 watt heads in road cases, pedal board in road case, wireless rack, guitar stands, bag of cables, 3 or 4 guitars in hard cases. Just exhausting schlepping that crap around.

Now I have a guitar on my back and one of those “heavy” Fractal floor units in one hand. The other hand is free. Don’t even know what to do with myself. I guess if my modeler was smaller I could gesture more wildly while I talk to people?

Way too much gear Karl. This is coming from someone who carries way too much on the reg

 

[Alex Kenivel]

And tracked bass because who has time to wait around to find people. Fuck, we even run the vocals through a second laptop just for random delays and reverbs and distortions and shit. And there’s live synth on top of the tracks. When the PA supports it we even have the LFEs on their own channel. Ya know, like a band.

Much easier than carrying around your bassist and synth player I'd imagine.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Much easier than carrying around your bassist and synth player I'd imagine.

@ian_dissonance probably just a pipe dream but you guys should get a cardboard celebrity cutout and hang a fake bass on them during your sets. In between songs you could chastize the bassist. That would make for a great show

 

[ian_dissonance]

Much easier than carrying around your bassist and synth player I'd imagine.

Much

 

[GuitarBilly74]

I remember driving through Ocala a few times and seeing 2 story residences in horse country down there, but yeah it’s nothing like here in NJ.
I just counted the stairs here.
14 steps from the lower level to the upper level

My home studio is on the house upper level, so I bought cabs just for it and I keep my gig cabs downstairs by the front door. So the answer is always more cabs.

 

[Whizzinby]

Keeping that rock n roll spirit alive, by plugging in to a laptop on a silent stage.

 

[ian_dissonance]

Keeping that rock n roll spirit alive, by plugging in to a laptop on a silent stage.

Rock n roll is whatever I say it is while I’m doing it.