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I take spare sticks (obviously) and a spare skin for the snare. Anything else I can muddle by with the assistance of good old gaffer tape.

That said, my stick bag contains an assortment of tuning keys, ear plugs, gel pads and various other bits of trickery.

Batteries (for the mic of course), spare leads, a spare mic just in case, and a mic holder. And a setlist. Earplugs ala tinnittus.

roadie wrench!! winder, plecs and set of strings

couln't possibily tell you what's in my gig bag but Dean Casement usually borrows most of it!!!!

plyers, screw drivers, allen keys, strings, polish, cloths, capo, spare leads, a million picks, slide, instructions manuals, mic, the question should be, what's not in my gig bag lol.

I carry spare set of strings (god knows why though! not likely to break one) Tuner, Screwdriver, Spare batteries, Spare lead, Fast Fret and my lunch :)

Things and stuff.

You asked...

2 x earplugs
2 x 9 v batteries + tester (Active bass pickups)
2 x sets of old bass strings
Possi and cross head screwdriver
5 different allen keys (for bass bridge)
3 x T10A fuses
1 x T5A fuse
2 x 5A fuses
8 x T1A fuses
all them fuses are for the ashdown amp I have. I took it apart once to have a look at what fuse I needed and there was a total of 10 in there...maybe we should all open our amps up to take a look...there is more than the one at the back!

makes me now think why things aren't a bit more compatible?

iam always finding something new in mine, or is it just old and been there for years !

Tamborine, spare batteries, towel, gig clothes, mp3 recorder, water, cuddly toy, bolied sweets, etc etc etc ;-)

Best wishes

John

I'm Brian, and so's my wife.

Okay, here goes.....
Change of clothes
Change of Hair (yes you read that right, but sometimes the red looks better than the pink)
Spare shoes (in case the first ones hurt)
Duck Tape
Gaffer Tape
Hair Bobbles
Make Up
Deoderant
Diary
Stickers
Mobile (incase babysitter needs me)
and about a 1000 other 'essential' items....

The other half has:
strings, leads, plecs, string conditioner, guitar polish, lemon oil, tuner, fuses etc, tools etc,

You probably didn't need the entire contents of my handbag did you??

Whats the difference between gaffer tape and duck tape?

One quacks and the other doesn't duh!!!

no duck tape is my expensive shiny stuff that I buy from B&Q and repair my mic stand with, the gaffer tape is black and sticks the wires to the floor, and comes from the £1 shop!!!

Everything I know nobody else will bring?

We aint got a pound shop!
I pay about 4 quid for it!

Duck tape doesn't hurt your wrists as much as gaffer tape. He he he.

Hercules stands
guitar & speaker leads
tuner
batteries
Samson transmitter/receiver
Cutting tool (or "f*cking sharp knife")
Torch (or "black rubber stick", if battery runs out)
Spare strings
Old Nobels overdrive pedal I can't be arsed taking out
"How did that get in here" device. Changes from month to month.
"Mick, do you have a.." Spare leads.

Hercules stand rock.

Still got the scutters then Roj? Ours are the mini ones that take up about 12 inches of stage space. As I recall we could have launched the shuttle Discovery from yours. lmao.

Scutters evaporated at the last Launch mate. Got 2 new ones for single bats only. Fuckin great though.

We love the Hercs. Even Neil can't break them. Even if he directly stands on them. :o0

Well you know fookin clumsy I am mate, I have trod on it once and it still works.

got to agree with the hercules stands. I have 2 singles and a double at home. got sick of seeing £2000 basses take a dive!!! mega stands.

A human head.

"# Posted by AUGUST - 20/08/2009, 23:10 (GMT)

A human head."

How very Slipknot! :oO

2x 6 gang elecric power sockets.
Boss tuner and power supply
Wireless unit
Selection of batteries
Setlists
Connecting leads and main guitar lead
Connector for Ipod to PA
Mic and cable (Sennheiser main)
Mic and cable (Shure spare)
150 or so custom printed picks
Toolkit incl soldering iron
Spare bass strings
Speaker cables
Polish and cloths
Any contracts relevant to date
CD's to sell
Crumbs at the bottom

Right:-

fuses
small screwdriver flat
Large screwdriver flat
small screwdriver cross
large screwdriver cross
packet of mixed screwdrivers (various sizes)
1 broken screwdriver useful for stabbing things
soldering iron good
soldering iron, takes 3 hours to heat to a point which would melt and icecream
solder
oh and some more solder
oh and another pack of solder
pliers small
plier long nose
pliers very old that my dad gave me
snips small
snips big
snips blunt and useless
cable ties, lots and different colours
bulbs for something, not quite sure what
electrical tape, blue, green, yellow, black, white green/yellow
plastic sleaveing
scissors
sharp knife, for slashing with
blunt knife, (hurts more) (and a good screwdriver for XLR leads)
XLR plugs – various
Jack plugs, various, stereo, mono 3mm 1mm
Signal cable
Tuner / metronome (old one)
Batteries for tuner
Batteries for mics
Batteries for everyone else’s stuff
Spare mics
Spare mic leads
Gaffa tape
Masking tape
Knobs (I don’t know what from)
Spare drum sticks
Spare drum head snare
Spare tom heads
Clamp on mic stand
Mic clip, 3 sizes
The sawn off end of a mic stand. (stopped the guitarist winging that it kept stickin up his ar*e.
Plastic washers
Various nuts and bolts and screws
Small torch (that could be what the bulbs are for!)
Small hammer, just in case the drumsticks aren’t loud enough
New pack of Velcro cable ties,(really need to get round to putting them on the cables)
Guitar lead (when the guitarist forgets theirs)
Cd’s
Business cards
Oily
Oily rag (to stop oil getting on other stuff
Setlists
List of how fast I should be playing songs (rarely consulted to the annoyance of the bass player)
DI Box (cause the signal from my kick drum mic is too high)
Stick wax (ooh er misses)
Allen keys (but never one the right size)
Ear pugs (noisy guitarists)
Tuning keys – various
A mains adaptor that doesn’t fit anything I have
A jam block that should be in the other bag
Fruit pastels (squashed)
String, always handy
five pens (only one writes)
sticky lables (cause they were on sale in staples for 50p)

Now off to look in the other bag

Perhaps I'm not doing all this right...I just take a pair of shorts in case I get hot, then if a string snaps or whatever, I just manage without it lol

errrrrrr ... a Big Mac ....... must be at least 10 years old !!!!