The Ultimate Set Up.

[rayc]

As seen in the picture - Coronet short scale EB Copy bass (one sold last night on AUS Ebay for AUS$175 + 40 postage - I paid 75 in '74) with flat wound strings through a Coronet 10watt 10" guitar amp competing with an SG through a Peavey 100 watt 4 x 10" combo. Vocals through a house P.A. (2 old boxes of 5 x 6" speakers perm hung on the wall powered by an old school hall tube amp) with no EQ or effects and a kit we found behind the drop set with no cymbals. The 2nd guitar is NOT PLUGGED IN as the player hadn't learnt the songs.
Just your amateur band in hard up rural Australia in 1977.
Name of the band - Ethnic Banana.
Anyone with a more amateur rig & better band name?
Audience? Yes there were about 100 people - sad university types mostly.
Punk may have been raging through the UK but flares, America and Supertramp were raging through NSW. Our little ditties like "Welcome to Utopia" & "Havabanana" didn't have the SoCal blend the audience were looking for I fear.

 

[stevieb]

Well, I dunno what to THINK, but that is cool! Thanks for sharing!

 

[danw]

Back in high school, I recall playing a strat copy, permanently on bridge pickup, through a peavey rage 158 run through the line out into an old borrowed Kustom 2x15 tuck-n-roll amp. Every chord sounded like a circular saw cutting into thick plywood. And I believe our "vocal PA" was just a couple of 10-dollar mics run through a radio shack mixer into my home stereo.

 

[starbuck26]

Can you please explain to me WTF the drummer COULD POSSIBLY BE READING on that music stand.

Guess it's a good sign. Most drummers can't read.

 

[rayc]

He's reading the lyrics! he was following the song & his place by reading them.

 

[Wireneck]

just waiting for the next shot where you guys drop your instruments and go all Zombie on the crowd.