Boomer Surf Band - Sunday June 4 , 2017 Pismo Beach, CA

[Elantric]

https://www.facebook.com/winewavesandbeyond/




Alongside the Surf Contest, there will be the 805 Classic Beach Party featuring a FREE concert on the beach with Live Music by Boomer Surf Band 12:30pm-2:30pm
and Shane Stoneman on Sunday, June 4th at The Beach House in front of the SeaVenture Resort!
Enjoy our festive Beer Garden featuring the brews of local favorite Firestone Walker Brewing Company and delicious tastes from these local food trucks: Grilled Cheese Incident, Shaka Shack, Pairing Knife, & the Ribline. Additionally, there will be a Vintage VW display! #WineWavesBeyond

[whippinpost91850]

Looks like a fun gig

[Elantric]

Boomer Surf Band @ Pismo Beach - Limbo contest 

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Good to see a healthy disregard for the UV rating...   

...how did your gear fare, Steve ?

Peter

[Elantric]

 Sun blocker was applied !


The bass player used his genuine 1957 fender PBase

I  played  my Squier Jazz Master  and Dipinto Galaxie  4
It went well- the crowd was spread across the beach so there's more people who  attended than the pics depict

I actually used my typical pedal board (fender tube reverb, Boss LS-20 as a solo boost) feeding a Roland Cube 80 XL ( self-contained enclosed speaker cab  wins for this tone ) with its line out feeding a Palmer PDI-O9 as a DI box to PA


I love my PDI-09, I use it as a PA DI box from the Line Output on a Cube 80XL

- No Attenuation and EQ switch on "Normal" - but GND is Lifted = no hum guitar audio feed to the PA, works great for me.



Hope to post a couple videos soon

[whippinpost91850]

Sounds , good looking forward to seeing them

[Elantric]

[Elantric]

[chrish]

 

Good to see a healthy disregard for the UV rating...   

...how did your gear fare, Steve ?

Peter

"J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. "

[whippinpost91850]

Steve, you guys sounded very good.  Cool video as seen from the stage

[gumbo]

"J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. "

...yeah...if only that were true...   

[gumbo]

Steve, you guys sounded very good.  Cool video as seen from the stage

I second that !  ...well done Steve !   

[chrish]

...yeah...if only that were true...   

that quote in my previous post is of course from the cult  movie classic "Repo Man".

Steve's band reminded me of that movie. Especially that sweeping Bass line.

[gumbo]

that quote in my previous post is of course from the cult  movie classic "Repo Man".

Steve's band reminded me of that movie. Especially that sweeping Bass line.

...yep, did unnerstand that..   

...here in Oz we get constantly bombarded with warnings about the UV Radiation levels each day..
...given the fact that I believe we are World Leaders in skin cancer, they've probably got a point.

Although I guess it's great to finally be World Leaders in something..   

[Elantric]

I'm Playing in a vintage surf / blues Trio at age 63.

But playing smaller venues ( local wineries) and must play at lower volume , so Good warm Tone is what its all about - so  last night I decided to skip the Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster , (which employs Seymour P90 voiced pickups under Jazzmaster PU covers)  and instead ( thanks to the CME sale last year!)  use my recently acquired Gibson Les Paul ES P90 with Bigsby



http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2016/Memphis/ES-Les-Paul-Gold-top-P-90-w-Bigsby-VOS.aspx

What a great guitar !

Big factor is the 24 3/4" scale length and fatter neck on the ES LP vs the Squier.

If I play the Squier ( or any guitar with a thin neck profile) more than an hour, I tend to develop left hand cramps, as in a trio  - I need to cover a lot of ground =   a lot of chords and string bending

Played 3 hour gig full throttle and ( finally) - no hand cramps, and it stayed in tune all night  - doing lots of trem bar use  - still with the factory 010-46 strings

I used my Les Paul ES P90 > 63 Fender Spring Reverb > Barber Tone Press > EHX OD Glove > Fender Super Champ XD w/ Celestion G10 Vintage 10"  on clean channel (Volume on "2")

This worked very well, and ( compared to my Fender type guitars) discovered a more balanced tone for my D,G,B, strings when playing arpeggios - and the Gibson Hollowbody LP had a nice woody "Les Piercing" tone which works much better when playing the low volume required at the venues I play.

Played everything from Los Straightjackets / Dick Dale / Downey Records catalog tunes to new orleans blues  - the Gibson Les Paul ES P90 with Bigsby covered it all - bone stock guitar, it has a reverse magnet on the neck PU which means when both PU's provide humbucking action - same tone as a stock '57 LP with P90's  - but I have no noise problems with this guitar

Neck is not as big as my '58 VOS gibson custom shop guitars, but still comfortable.
I grew up playing Gibsons and there is a lot to be said for "muscle memory"  - the Controls were all in the right place , and band had a full tip jar and I got several compliments on my sound.
Nice woody tone with excellent clarity for all strings - great guitar

[whippinpost91850]

Sounds good. I've been playing gibsons all my life and find then very comfortable for a 5 set bar gig

[admin]

Boomer Surf Band  - Friday July 27 , 2018 ( 5pm-8pm)
https://www.facebook.com/events/228050947842821/


http://www.wolffvineyards.com/specialevents.php
6238 Orcutt Road San Luis Obispo, California 93401

[Elantric]

Recent gig rig for surf band   - low volume gig this past Saturday for private party  at winery

Signal flow : Guitar > Fender Tube Reverb> Barber Tone Press > EHX OD Glove >VB-2 > LS-2 (Booster)> Echo Park > Fender Super Champ XD w/ Celestion G10 Vintage Speaker

[Elantric]