The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Let's start a list here so Spud has something to copy onto the official site.

fluffy:
ukulele
capo
electric violin
kazoos
12-string acoustic guitar (Ovation)

Minty Handy:
piano (Yamaha P-120 88 key weighted action digital piano)
electric ukulele
ukulele

Spud:
8-string fretless bass
4-string fretless bass (the Basso del Stinko)
Nord Lead 2x (with stand) (Spud's Nord Lead 2x has no decent piano patch)

Lunkhead:
guitar amp (Fender solid state 100W 1x12" combo amp)
guitar effects pedals (tuner, distortion, delay)
electric guitar (Gibson Les Paul Studio)
bass amp (Fender solid state ???W 1x10" combo amp, or possibly an Ashdown head/cab)
bass guitar (Fender 4-string fretted P-bass "Lyte")
acoustic guitar (Epiphone 6-string acoustic-electric)
guitar stands
music stands
shaker/tambo
capo
(I can bring Erin's accordion too if someone is really going to use it)

Jon Eric:
harmonicas

Ken:
drums
electric guitar (Fender Telecaster)

Glennny:
guitar amp (Fender tube 40W 1x12" combo amp)

I'll be bringing my harmonicas. I've got a set of cheap ones (C, D, E, F, G, A, & Bb - they're not spectacular, but they all work and they should be fine for live performances), and a chromatic (centered on C). I would bring more, but, frankly, I don't trust the airlines with anything bigger.

For me also don't forget the following:
- Cello
- Acoustic w/pickup (and also a soundhole pickup)
- Semihollow electric
- Electric bass
- Glockenspiel
- Casio Privia PX-400 digital piano (88-key, hammer action)
- Loop pedal and other miscellaneous effects
- Marshall MG30DFX guitar amp

I also have an electric drumkit (Ion/Alesis) but I don't think it's suitable for performance purposes.

Also, SoCha has an upright piano, although they keep it in the front of the house and won't move it to the back, and it's tuned suitably for a jazz club (i.e. not very)

In addition to the piano, I'm bringing an electric uke and an acoustic uke. Surprise, surprise.

I was planning on bringing my yellow tele but it looks like I'm coming directly from CBS so I'll be in a suit instead. If there's still a need for another electric I'll try and hide it under my jacket.

I should add that I have a bunch of mics (mostly condenser but I have a few dynamics including a ribbon) and cables that I can bring, and a few mic stands. I suspect that the stands will be more necessary than the mics since that's usually the case.

Any word on drums yet? Ken?

Add to the list an Ovation 12-string acoustic I just bought.

Ken said in email the other day:

Of course. My telecaster has been at many SF Lives. I also plan on
providing the drum kit and anything else that is needed.

First post updated accordingly, plus fluffy's 12-string, etc.

Okay, I was more looking at the gear page at http://www.songfight.org/sf10/bio.php

Since Minty is bringing his piano I don't see much point to bringing mine too, especially if I'm going to be bringing my cello and multiple guitars and amp and possibly helping to drive people there and so on. My car has cargo space but not THAT much.

Fluffy, I'll ping you directly as well, but in the last 24 hours my ability to show up to Live has gone from 99% to 20% likely -- thanks, day job! -- so you might have to bring your piano after all. The alternative is that someone else coming up from the Los Angeles area can grab it on the way and drop it off on the way back, still happy to loan it out even if I can't be physically there.

Hey, random request I should have thought of sooner.

Will anyone be providing an acoustic guitar with a body shaped such that the 12th-14th frets are accessible, such as a "dreadnought" shape?

I was planing on bringing my Alvarez acoustic with builtin pickup (same one I brought to Spokane). It's got a cutout.

I think my Ibanez is playable in that range, barely.

Does anyone want/need the use of my 12-string? I'm trying to prioritize what's going to go into my car, especially if I'm going to be transporting people as well.

Also, is anyone playing on Sunday that needs my cello? So far as I know, my cello is only needed for Saturday. And who was going to use the piano? It looks like I'm going to need to bring mine, but if I only have to bring it on Sunday, that would be better (again, for cargo space reasons).

fluffy wrote:I think my Ibanez is playable in that range, barely.

Does anyone want/need the use of my 12-string? I'm trying to prioritize what's going to go into my car, especially if I'm going to be transporting people as well.

Also, is anyone playing on Sunday that needs my cello? So far as I know, my cello is only needed for Saturday. And who was going to use the piano? It looks like I'm going to need to bring mine, but if I only have to bring it on Sunday, that would be better (again, for cargo space reasons).

I'll need the piano. Incidentally, does it have a pedal, or attachment for the same? If not, I can supply a cheap-o one.

It has two pedals, both sustain and sostenuto (which is also switchable to una corda, although that's not really useful in an electric piano context, or anywhere else for that matter).

We'll need a keyboard for Saturday, too, at least for Frankie's set.

I'm bringing an acoustic-electric with a single cutaway, though the action is a bit high on it. Still, it's got fresh strings and sounds decent. It's one of these Epiphones, though it's ~15 years old:

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=518640

fluffy wrote: Does anyone want/need the use of my 12-string?

Yes - I plan on using it on Saturday.

Okay, hopefully I can make everything fit. I guess I'm not bringing THAT much more than I brought to Long Beach. My big concern right now is how many people I'll also be driving.

Lunkhead wrote:We'll need a keyboard for Saturday, too, at least for Frankie's set.

I'm bringing an acoustic-electric with a single cutaway, though the action is a bit high on it. Still, it's got fresh strings and sounds decent. It's one of these Epiphones, though it's ~15 years old:

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=518640

That guitar would be perfect, if I could borrow it.

Actually, duh, the more conventional instruments should be the first to go. Is there any particular reason why I should bring my Ibanez 6-string acoustic or my Epiphone semihollow electric or my fretless bass? It sounds like others are already bringing equivalents.

fluffy, I don't think we need those three particular instruments. We've got normal electric and bass guitar covered, and I think Spud said he's bringing a fretless bass, so maybe he'd be willing to share that in case anybody else needed to use a fretless bass for whatever reason.