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>Some Michael or other:
That would be me...
>>Well, well... Finally the folkies come out of the closet. And a happy
>>threesome we are!
>Well, fol-de-rol! Hey-nonny-nonny!
Well! I like that!
>I actually don't have a folky background, but have consistently played it
>since about 1993! My current band is a Ceilidh (scottish dance music)
>outfit - yes, we do have a fiddler - and my last band did Steeleye Span
>covers. I'll stick my neck out here and say that over here, Folk musos
>are
>fare more adventurous than the Jazz lot, snipppppp!
I've got more of a rock / euro-jazz background, but the whole British Ilse
folk
thing always did something for me. I loved Steeleye Span waaay back. That
I
haven't followed anything very regularly says a lot about my pocketbook as
well
as my diverse and diffuse interests. (Too many really waters down the
mix.)
I accidentally got re-involved with folk and fingerstyle when my son was
on his
way and I knew beyond a shadow that I was going to have a time and energy
crisis
and I'd better come up with a quick and simple way to make music through
it all.
He's almost three now and it's starting to work itself out.
>>I actually play out mucho more w/folk than electric. This I might
>attempt to
>>remedy in the near future! I have way too much electric gear to not
>somehow
>>gig with it to justify it all!
>No, go the whole hog and play folk ON your electic! Remember Richard
>Thompson et al...
Nah... I'll be back to pathological noisemaking soon I believe! (I still
love
folk, but it's true that around here, my electric variants don't exactly
thrill
the majority of the folk clan.) There IS a great, weird and wild
contingent of
electric goings-on though, so I can satisfy both desires if needed.
>On to cases:
>Everybody recommended the SKB pedalboard with rackspaces. Nice.. but four
>hundred dollars?????
Wow... that sounds like too much to me as well. I used to have a piece of
wood
with sticky back velcro that served well as a p-board. I then had 3 and 4
space
racks and they usually balanced nicely on the lid in front to slant them
upward
towards me. If the whole thing seemed unstable, I'd use a little gaffers
tape to
stabilize it. All for the price of the rack case and the velcro.
>>Trevor commented:
>>>My problem is that my rig always wants to tip forward. I have a Rolls
>>>Tube preamp, Jammy, and Quadroverb. My skb case is about three time as
>>>deep as it needs to be.
My SKB 10sp with the SKB caster plate magically balances on it's rear
wheels,
With perfect visibility of all the controls! It has never fallen over
either.
The rack has been dropped though from a height of about 5 feet by a roadie
who
will never, ever carry my rack again! 8->
>"Tell me what you want, what you really really want...."
>ZZZZZZOOOWWWMMMdakadakadakaBOOMwibblywibblywiblley..... :)
"Give me what I want, exactly what I want, forever, now, once upon a time!"
(from World Entertainment War and Rob Brezney)
Yours, - Miko