What's In Your Gig Bag?

[john]

Hey

Way too many times, in my early gigging years, I turned up at a gig only to discover somethings was wrong, or needed tweaked with my guitar/guitar set up.

Do you have a gig bag full of useful bits and bobs you may just need? What is in it?

Cheers

John

[Steve]

I learned very early on what would be usefull. The top ten most usefull things to have are.

1. Screw drivers. Flat and Star, Large and Small in each.
   
2. Electrical Insulation tape.
   
3. Gaffa tape
   
4. At least 2 double plug sockets
   
5. At least 2 spare leads
   
6. At least 2 spare batteries
   
7. A spare mains adaptor
   
8. Spare strings of all sizes, 2 of the lighter guages!
   
9. A soldering iron and solder
   
10. Wire cutters, crow bar, hammer, (For breaking into the office when they don't pay you)
    

[Rudi]

1/ six x instrument leads and one speaker cable

2/ two x microphone leads

3/ Gaffa tape

4/ Spare strings

5/ two thumbpicks & a dozen picks (including a crap one to lend the bass player when he forgets his) in a tobbaco tin

6/ Switch cleaner spray can (for pickup selection switches)

7/ three power adapter cables. 1 long twin socket. 2 short quad socket.

8/ Band 'business' cards in a mustard tin

9/ guitar stand

10/ earplugs

11/ personal alarm

12/ Band demo CD

13/ wobble bar

14/ two apples

15/ bottle of water

16/ pack of various sized allen keys

17/ flathead & phillips screwdrivers

18/ carry strap

19/ three out of date french letters

20/ a pair of tinsnips

21/ a Moore & Wright 0-1" micrometer in spectacle case

22/ notebook & pencil

23/ a bar towel

24/ a microphone

[LeftyBass]

3 guitar cables

3 patch cables

MXR M80 bass preamp/distortion/DI

Bigshot A/B box

E/H Baseballs

Tuner

2 stands

Pair of mallets

Alarm clock

Picks

Capo

Flashlight

Incence

Lighter

Binder-lyric sheets

Music stand

Batteries

[typo]

Pretty impressed. 3 guitarists so far, and no one has mentioned cigarette papers lol