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Played a gig tonight with the CAN tribute, we call it "Future Days." We realized it is now in it's 10th year. Time flies!
Both the guitarist and I are primarily leaning on BOSS pedals.
--He has a TR2, SD2, DM3, TU3. The rest are a Dunlop wah, Phase 90, TC delay and Digitech Jamman XT looper*. 50% BOSS.
--I use a BCB6 loaded with a PSM5, TU12H, LM2B, BB1X, BF2B, GE7B and Digitech Jamman XT looper*. 86% BOSS!
They all worked flawlessly and sounded spot on. As usual!
That's all!


*We use these loopers for the sync option. A simple 3.5MM trs cable connected between them allows me to set the master loop and him a perfectly synched slave loop. A cool feature for a looper as simple as the RC1. If the RC1 had that feature, we'd used them instead.

thats awesome! I got a "JMJ" mustang bass specifically to emulate tones from that era of can, I've been keeping up with the live archives releases theyve been rolling out recently too. I would love to be in a tribute.

chromandre wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 28, 2024 5:49 pm

thats awesome! I got a "JMJ" mustang bass specifically to emulate tones from that era of can, I've been keeping up with the live archives releases theyve been rolling out recently too. I would love to be in a tribute.

Awesome! Such a cool band. The JMJ is killer.
I didn't have a 'proper' short scale bass when this started, but used a Peavey Foundation and a modified Squier Bass VI (both with flats) to get my Holger Jazz and Mustang tones.
I picked up a Danelectro Dead On 58 Longhorn bass a while ago. It has the LaBella Deep Talkin' flats for Dano on it. It's really great, gets that perfect, thumpy Holger thing. I use it for the songs with a lighter touch like Sing Swan Song and the Foundation for the harder hitting stuff like Mother Sky.

It's funny, we started this band just because the three of us were all CAN fans an thought it would be a riot to get together and figure out how to play some songs as a 3 piece. The guitarist and I used the loopers to create the other layers lost by not having a keyboard or to loop our parts so we can play the extra drum parts. We switch off singing, the guitarist is more Malcolm, I'm more Damo. After a year of getting together and doing that, we had over a couple hours of material, so we started going out and playing. It's been interesting, usually 1/4 to 1/3 of the crowd is familiar with CAN, the rest not at all. Turned a good bit of people on to them. It's cool when you notice someone realizing that they have heard a song like Mushroom before, but didn't know who originally played it.

Plus, we often web search for other CAN cover or tribute bands and haven't found another, unless they fly way under the radar like we do.

Even more funny was that we played last night at a place right in the middle of, but not participating in, the Denver Underground Music Showcase. The UMS isn't as underground as it's indie and the venue we played (Mutiny Information Cafe) is a bookstore, record shop, coffee place, has a couple pinball machines, sells some board games... not a proper music venue. We were joking that not participating in the UMS and playing at Mutiny is quite underground, but playing tribute to CAN really drives it deep underground. haha

bigtone23 wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 28, 2024 7:03 am

--I use a BCB6 loaded with a PSM5, TU12H, LM2B, BB1X, BF2B, GE7B and Digitech Jamman XT looper*. 86% BOSS!

Bass player in me loves this board. BB-1X is one of the most underestimated ones IMHO and my forever overdrive.