Music Man Rigs at the Gig!

Here's a new topic... post pictures of your Music Man rig at a gig you played. Here is one of mine I ran across. This was at a summer backyard jam party at a friend's house a few years ago.
The guitars were plugged directly into the Music Man 410-65 for clean and through the effects rack for other tones. The effects rack includes a Mesa Studio tube preamp, ART SGE Mach II (for micro pitch-shifting), a Behringer Autocom Pro compressor, an MXR 175 1000ms Digital Delay and a Rocktron Velocity 120 power amp.
The guitars were plugged into the Mesa preamp whose A output drove the Music Man 410-65 directly and B output driving the effects chain. The output of the effects drove the Velocity power amp which sent the "wet" effects to the Avatar 212 cabinet in stereo. So this is actually a 3-channel guitar set-up.
A sample mp3 file (mono from a cassette) of me noodling around on this rig at the jam can be found here:Steve Foolin'.mp3
You are mostly listening to the Mesa preamp and effects after a few beers but at least the sound clip and photo match!
Steve

Nice clip-the amp's too clean to be in a bar though! My gawd, how do you keep that stuff that nice. My 2-10 looks good but your stuff looks new!

Forgot to ask-which guitar?

The sound clip was played on the Les Paul. The 410-65 looks almost new because I bought this one from a church that had it for the first 20 years of its life and it got pushed off a stage and landed on its face!
Since it had cosmetic and electronic damage but was otherwise in pretty clean condition, I put new grill cloth on it, cleaned up everything else and straightened out the chassis and replaced the knobs and one pot. It needed new speakers as well so you can see, much of what you CAN see in the photo was recently replaced or cleaned so it does look good (and sound good too).
Also, while I currently play in a band, we only practice about once every 2 weeks and play out only a few times a year. Since I am playing bass in this band, my guitar stuff doesn't go too many places so it is easier to keep it in good shape!
Steve

To bad-you had some nice chops in there. We are the exact oposite-we're practiced twice in two years and play almost every week. WE work out new songs between breaks! It's sometimes amazing how we all remember the original arrangements years after the songs are out. I used to play part time bass in the last incarnation of our act but this bass player is a BASS player so we don't need me to switch.

I used to play out every week and get in some practice about once a week or so but that was before I was married! 21 years later I don't have the time or energy to play out all the time.
The reason I didn't miss it as much as I thought was because it got to be too involved, I felt like a furniture mover who got to play guitar for a few hours in exchange for moving all this equipment for twice as many hours!
When I was looking for some guys to play with locally (in the present timeframe) I found that EVERYBODY thinks they are a lead guitar player! Tons of Lead Guitar players were looking for bands while all the bands were looking for Bass and Keyboards! I switched over to Bass for that reason, although I have played bass on and off all my musical life so it wasn't a stretch, just a mental rearrangement of my musical priorities.
I still play guitar with friends every so often or on Jam Band nights at a few of the local clubs.
Steve

This isn't exactly a brag out about amp thingy, but I did want to post the pics of my MM amp(along with my other junk). Unfortunately, due to how stinking LOUD we get, my MM isn't my first line amp any more. I've had to go back to the twin because of our stuff. Rest assured, when something's broke(like it was last week when the Twin blew up) the MM is along for backup. THe Twin o'd last week but luckily when the OT broke loose and was hanging by the wires and swung around and broke a tube off, the MM was there to cover my a$$! Luckily, I tried it the night before and after fixing the transformer, fired it up and immediately smoked a plate resistor or two. Back to the basement for a quick fix! Anyway, I KNEW my MM would work so it was in the trailer and went in to the job as backup. Didn't need it but it's nice to know it's there. Anyway, I've been spouting about my little 2-10 65 for a while, just thought I'd put the link up for the pics.http://webpages.charter.net/cnmkaus/mike equip.html
There are links to my band page too in case anybody's REAL bored. Mike.

Here a couple of shots that show the HD130 and RH210 that I use with my bass. And my skinny legs....
When we play these multi band gigs I always get comments like "Wow, Music Man! My brother (or uncle, etc.) used to have one of those. Those things are great."

To Mike:
I had to laugh about the morphing Twin Reverb... a number of years ago I helped a guy do the very same thing for weight reduction (except he had an original cabinet that was damaged by standing water so we converted it to a head using that cabinet).
I was disappointed to find that you didn't label the tuner mounted on your pedalboard "Modified for Tone". That would be a great inside joke!
I see we do a few of the same songs your band does... but I REALLY liked your main picture (when you were less clean shaven)! That's a classic!
To Steve P: Great photos! While I do not have Music Man bass amps, we do have a similar taste in bass guitars. I have 2 Fender Precision Bass Specials, both with maple Jazz-sized necks (my favorite). Here is a picture of me playing the black one:
I alternate between the black one and the cream colored version of this same bass that really looks a lot like yours (except for the anodized pickguard):
In related news (with Music Man content), I recently played a gig with a bunch of guys I haven't played with in about 30 years! Our high-school Stage Band group got back together (missing a lot of horns) and did a few numbers at an Alumni BBQ.
The interesting thing about this gig was that earlier in the evening I played Bass with my band at this year's Vernonia Oregon event (outdoor gig) that is pictured above and we played "Proud Mary" in that 1.5 hour continuous set. We finished at 7:00PM, I ran home (40 miles), unloaded all my bass gear, loaded some lightweight guitar equipment and headed off to the Alumni BBQ gig (20 miles away in the opposite direction, also an outdoor gig... venue shown below) to play by 9:30PM!
I barely made it in time but it was a GAS! I played lead guitar (Except for "Proud Mary" which we did at THIS gig too!) and Bass at two widely separated outdoor gigs in the same evening and played "Proud Mary" at both of them. This is definitely a first for me!
One of the other lead guitarists was playing through his Music Man 110RD-50:
Since I don't have a small lightweight Music Man for emergency conditions like this I played through my Groove Tubes Solo 45 and a Nady TD-1 tube driver.
I put up a new web site for these guys (just in the last week... most of them don't even know about it yet) and I posted an MP3 taken from a recording my son made with a home video camera.CC Ram Jam web site... click on the bass
The quality isn't great but I'm the lead guitar that is more bassy and on the left side while Dave and his MM 110RD-50 are on the right with wah tones. Too cool! I haven't had that much fun playing in a single day for years!
Note that you can barely make out the same Music Man 110RD-50 below, in the shadows next to that Fender Cyber Twin.
Steve

how do you post a MP3 here?
thanks
Ed

In order to post an .mp3 sound file or an .avi video file you must already have these files posted to a server or some other web site.
Then, you simply post a LINK to that file in your message using the correct formatting as found in Help/Instructions link at the bottom of every page (found in the "Formatting"/Other Formatting section).
This system will host photos but the big files have to live somewhere else.
Steve

Here's a shot of my 4x10 hd 65 at on the chair behind me at the (sadly now out of business) Rynborn Blues Club.
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that didn't work. How do we post pics in here?

i see the note how to do it, i will post tonight. Thanks, Chuck

Alrighty - here's the beast
Here's a link to a video of it on the gig, from a night last summer. This was music man with lots of verb, zen drive, and teleslow blues

Geez, I guess I missed these posts! never did see these pics of you steve. Yeah, I SHOULD have modified the tuner description! That's about as goofy as some people get. I don't remember which pic you're talking about steve. Must have been a few pages ago. I change stuff whenever I get a minute to re-write a page and just make up stuff as I go so there'e no telling where THAT pic was from. Actually, now the twin is retired too and the main guitar amp is a bassman head through 2-1x12 cabs with jbl's in them. Bass rig is hartke 3500 through a kappa pro15LF and 2-10 cab with delta 10's in it. Guess I could take pic this weekend. It's been a while since I did THAT. I play part of the night on keys so it gets crowded sometimes with the little dumps that we play sometimes. I'll try to get some pis though. Have to hold up my end!

I snapped a better pic a few nights ago at the gig.

It looks like we have the same 410-65 model. Does yours have the solid-state phase splitter? My 410-65 doesn't get used everytime I play but it is one of my favorite amps for tone AND the most reliable. I have never had a problem with it and I haven't worked on it in 10 or 12 years!
Steve

12ax7 phase splitter. There's a little bit of magic in it, that's for sure.

Hi
This is a picture of my favourite rig. Two identical 112 RD Fifty in white. They are both equipped with Celestion V30 speakers and Mesa Boogie STR440 tubes and they sounds wonderful.
/Stefan