Gig Day To Do List

Hello and welcome to June 3, 2017.  It is gig day.  The band is playing in Plaistow again and I need to write a to-do list for myself.

• Decide which guitar will be the #2 for the night.  It’s always been the ES-335, but tonight I am about 56% set on it being the Fender Strat.  With the exception of Tempest Fero’s first couple of appearances back in 1988, when my guitar was a very cheap Hondo strat copy, I have never played a non-Gibson guitar in front of people.  There were a couple of times when I played my friend Larry’s Epiphone, but that is still a Gibson product.  Will tonight be my first time with a Fender?  Will I take it but not use it?  I have no idea yet.
• Restring two guitars.
• Velcro the Tube Screamer Mini pedal to the board.  Right now it’s just sitting there, not tied down at all.  That could be a problem come show time.
• Set everything up at home for a warm up/practice/find a way to tame the mid range nonsense in my tone session.  Possibly use my new A/B/Y switch to let me play with my Fender Deluxe Reverb and my Fender Bassbreaker amps at the same time.  I don’t expect to do that at the show, I just want to do it because it’s awesome.
• Pack everything up, including the box of picks, the mic stand pick holding device, and the glass slide.  I don’t have any reason to play slide tonight, but the pick holding device is also a slide holding device, so I am taking it with me.
• Take a shower.  Very important.
• Go to Mike the Bass Player’s house and pick up the stuff I didn’t take with me after last weekend’s practice.
• Go to the bar.
• Unload the car and set everything up.  Will there be a Fender guitar?  I still haven’t decided.
• Soundcheck… maybe.
• Play the show, all three sets.
• Pack up the gear and load it back into the car.
• Get paid (assuming we are still getting paid).
• Go home.
• Unload the car.
• Go to bed and hope to sleep for 12 hour straight, but realistically only sleep for maybe four hours.
• Wake up tomorrow and call it a successful gig.

No problem!