It makes far more sense than massive complex and pointless changeovers after every set.

We're happy to lend others our stuff and I feel others should do the same. Obviously not everyone does and you have to respect that (although I rarely encounter it) but frankly people not sharing equipment at small gigs is just a bit silly...

When someone let's us use their gear. We don;t have any transport to get our gear far. Short lifts to local venues is no probs. When we played Brum our mates came and played before us and lent us their amps. I have no probs with anyone using my gear as long as they are careful with it.

i think if you are coming from afar it should only be the decent thing to do to offer the use of your bass amp or kit.

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(we took the bag bit off)

and some of these each

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And made ourselves possibly the least popular people on the tube on every gig day.

but yeh, I'm always happy to lend amps, most bands that don't are cunts. S'not like they're going to ruin them by playing guitars through them. Never really understood the concern.

to my reply.

Trolleys can only work with certain amp sizes. Our current bass amp is one of the only good one's I've ever seen that can actually be manhandled onto public transport.

Saying that, I've carried a full drumkit on buses and done similar so I also agree with your point. But it was so much trouble. The idea that somehow bands can just get there easily is wrong.

But the gigs I dread are the 7-8 band bills, when the promoters just dumped you all there and people are asking stupid stuff. Or hiding their gear so they can use .yours I had a guy ask to borrow a guitat strap last year....fucking ridiculous.

Im always happy to lend 4 x 12 cabs as it assists changeover.

Our guitar rigs are fairly specific to us in their set up but I have lent mine to people. The real cunts are the ones who whinge and complain that its "not a Fender Twin" and I just think what selfish self obsessed cunts they truly are. Buy yer own amp you cunts

One band came, made a point of avoiding to talk to us and just asked the promoter if they could use our gear..the promoter told them to talk to us..they didn't..they declined to sound check...came back and used our gear..

Only travelled far to another city once.

There we hired amps from a local shop and the promoter took it to the venue in the van and contributed from his own money

but at the same time think it's something to be agreed with the other bands beforehand.

That said I think it's even less out of order, if everyone is sharing, to ask the promoter to contribute to the taxi cost (again provided it's done before the gig).

Basically getting equipment to a venue is a cost that must be met before any gig can go ahead so if the promoter is relying on one band to bring that equipment (and the band had to spend more getting to the venue than they would if they had not brought the equipment) I think that band are more than within their rights to point this out to the promoter and request that he or she covers, or at least contributes to, the cost.

That's exactly what it's like up here. I played at Levenshulme Bowls Club last week, it was wild.

I'll bet your tubes are completely rammed with errant musicians wheeling around the Fender Twin they've haphazardly loaded into a shopping trolley.

The best bet ias just contact other bands before the gigs, talk to promoters. Work it out before hand. That's what we do. Well i do anyway, the others just leave me to it, bastards :P

The Go! Club is the venue. :O