My GK got to gig for the first time October 6th ! :-) And I'm glad we had already decided to take it instead of the 4x10 GK at the practice space because it was only me, the drummer and my 12yo to load the vehicles. The other guy (our lead guitar player got stuck at work).

We had my minivan and his small truck. We managed to pack in 2 mains, 2 kickbacks, 2 small boards and their amps, 9 mic stands, 3 of the heavy music stands, four guitar stands, the keyboard, and its stand, two guitar amps, an amp stand, my amp, my bass and my gear and all the drumset pieces, high hats, cymbals and cables, including the big mic snake! He was freaking, thinking we couldn't do it, and calling other people trying to get someone else to come help.

I just kept lugging stuff down the stairs (almost two flights) because i knew we had to be there by 10am to set up. (We were playing at the county swapmeet), us and 2 other bands that all share the same practice space and equipment. The 4x10 weighs like 80lbs, there was no way we could have carried it, and we sure didn't have room for it.

We had fun and my little 115 really rocked, we did run it through the mains because we ran everything into the board so we could record, but it held it's own anyway. We were playing w/o one guitar player, and we tanked one song because the singer usually cues off of him on that one, and she got lost, we waded through 2min of it and were all looking at the drummer who just gave it a big roll coming out of the chorus and we started the next song. ::shrug:: no big deal. It wasn't a song most of the people there knew anyway. They all seem to love Rockin In The Free World, so we stretched the heck out of that one :-) which gave me some freedom to move into the center and dance with the hot singer babe. Which of course we didn't get on video because i didn't realize my camera will only do video in 10min chunks :-(

One of the guys in the next band huffed at my amp and asked why we didn't bring the 4x10 GK and i told him "Cause no one else showed up to load". He STFU and said "I hear those 1x15's are pretty good" and went ahead and set up. I wasn't there when his band cleared off so i don't know if he said anything else about it, but when i wandered off to look around the swapmeet after they started he didn't look displeased any more.

Anyway, here's a couple pics, because i'm happy and proud and still floating from having played. The Angry Bird dogtag is in honor of my Army friend that bought the amp for me, it's his unit mascot. And it covers the minor grill damage that made the amp affordable.