Gig Bags

mike d. went "undercover" --> to trap who?

Moral of story:
gig bag = classic
gig bag + mullet + bumping = dud

LAMA

The coolest is when you have one of those little two-wheeled old lady carts with your amp and gigbag bungee'd to it, on you way to the 'gig.'

This is my favorite one of all of them, cause "deluxe" just means it has more pockets or you can wear it as a backpack or something. It's still not going to protect the guitar from much in the way of accidents. Hell, sometimes "deluxe" doesn't appear to mean anything at all.

!! Dammit! I have a cart for gigs (and yes I call them "gigs" without the ironic guotes), but the cart is for speed and so I can move amp + 2 guitars + pedalboards etc all in one trip instead of leaving part of it in my car. I have played many gigs by myself, and I don't like feeling like someone might be interested in hitting up my car for the rest of the gear after they see me pull out something that looks like it could be expensive.

My cart's not two wheeled though. It's more like a plank of wood with a handle and four casters.

But all this stuff we're talking about is bullshit-what if some sniper wants to shoot your axe on your way to the gig-it happened to Mott the Hoople! Kevlar is the only way to go!

I've noticed that gigbags are popular with Delta bluesmen - at least those from the Sacramento delta, who travel to the gigs in PT Cruisers and are haunted by hellhounds on their trail and late mortgage payments.

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Okay, it's hard to make out in this picture, but that's none other than king-of-cool Fred Neil carrying a gig back in the Village.

Martin, you're forgiven for "gig" and "axe" as long as you understand that "Guitarsenal" is to forever remain in ironic quotes.

NO ONE TOUCHES MY CHEMICALS SET

No, I'm not saying that at all... I think it's more fucking rock to play a guitar that cost less than $300 in the first place. However, if you simply have to capture the sound of that '69 Jaquar for some album you've been hired to play on, don't bring that guitar to the studio in a gig bag.

Everybody knows that the only cool cases are tweed-covered and velvet lined, but the velvet has to be so old that it's all bare, and the tweed has to have been spraypainted black back when you went through your badass phase. And since the tweed is shot by the bad paintjob, you might as well put a bunch of stickers on the fucker...

Martin, you're forgiven for "gig" and "axe" as long as you understand that "Guitarsenal" is to forever remain in ironic quotes.

Don't just put it in ironic quotes. Never say it again. I hurts my ears.

imagine all the weight!

Martin, I have a tweed case (but it's not painted black).

• Soft case with bass drum
• Soft case with other drums
• Cymbal bag
• Corpse-sized drum hardware bag
• Guitar amp
• Guitar numba one (ye EpiPaul)
• Guitar numba two (ye MexiStrat)
• Bass amp (because I own it)
• Bag of miscellanea (cables, effects, mics, recorder, preamp, DI box, tape, CDs...)

Drum-related stuff goes onto my nifty folding cart and takes up a cartload. Amps are a second cartload.

Ye EpiPaul goes in its case because I like it very very much. I hereby confess that I will SOMETIMES slip ye comparatively expendable MexiStrat into a bag so that I can put it on my back, thus potentially saving myself an extra trip to and from the car.

Dude, if you have a keytar, you are required by dork law to wear it at all times, preferably jamming on Black Sabbath's "The Wizard".

With my current band, I primarily drum but then come out from behind the kit for the few songs on which I play the geetar. Plus I just generally have a lot of equipment (see above) and you can never really be sure what you're going to need.

(The bass player's amp is a wimpy starter practice amp, and I have a 100-watt Fender from a deluded period a few years back when I thought I should take up the bass.)

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Fuck Roxy, I now have a song stuck in my head with alternate lyrics. (vis "I see a tweed case and I want to paint it black")

For the record I have two nice tweed cases which are not painted. I do, however, have a severely fucked up tweed case which was spraypainted more than once and is covered with stickers and was the model I had in mind when I made that post. I have a couple of those hard cases that were black to begin with too.

Um, and I think I own four gigbags. Possibly five. All except for one of them were simply included with the guitar (whether I bought it new or used). I mostly use them as dust covers for guitars sitting on stands in the studio.

Hm, Puffin, I feel sad for ye Mexistrat. But, as a Fender guy I value a Mexistrat more than an Epipaul, so there you go. (My favorite strat started life as a Mexistrat actually, but now it's, I dunno. I hybrid I guess. Other than the neck, body & frets, nothing on it is stock.)

Watch me carry this bass in my gigbackpack!

Bass gigbags look even more ridiculous because they are so long. The only reason you should ever wear something that tall on your back is if you are hiking Mt. Everest or if your backpack actually involves thrusters and allows you to fly.

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I also say "fuck y'all."

So, yeah, the 545 Filter is one of the few I don't have a nice specimen of. I have two of them, one of which is a serious beater and one which is both a serious beater and doesn't work. It lives in the gargantuan pile of pedals I haven't yet gotten around to diagnosing and fixing.

Hooboy I'm starting to write like all the ebay auctions I've been looking at recently.

Now that's what I call a gig bag!