this is so funny Bro.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

No, Church bands are G-A-Y.

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Thanks Solid...LOL..it was a painful experience and I couldn't get the heck out of that band quick enough...the worst part they kept stalking me all the time...I actually had to be really rude and tell them that the were bogus before they got the hint...I felt bad to be so blunt...but...

I play for the prince of darkness. All hail the Morning Star!

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10-4 good buddy, over and out!

I play in church pretty regularly. I'm in the rotation as a bassist and as a guitarist. Personally, I find worship much more satisfying than my secular gig, but it doesn't pay as well (or at all)

I find sweating on stage with hundreds of people moving their heads to every finger movement from my hand and getting what I'm saying at that point of being out of control but in control closer to god than I've ever been.

CC

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I played in a Lutheran church praise band for ten years, electric guitar and bass mainly. Here's a pic of my rig, used for both guitar and bass, the guitars changed from week to week:



We used our PA for vocals, keyboards, and acoustic guitar, but I stayed out of the PA and just used my rig.

A couple years ago there was a big row over selecting a new pastor and unfortunately it became impossible for us to stay there. After a year or so of trying different churches, we ended up at our prior church's sister church across town. This church has a crappy PA, and the Music Director (who seems averse to all contemporary music, and who is certainly unqualified to oversee a modern praise band, which fortunately he does not do-- directly) often will mess with the board to turn people up or down to his "tastes."

Here, I play electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, and acoustic-electric. Our core group is me, a rhythm guitarist/singer, a pianist/singer (praise band director), drums, and bass. From time to time we also have an additional singer and a flautist.

As a result of the Music Director being averse to some of what we're doing, using a pre-amp into the church PA would not be good for me. I use a Fender Super Champ XD 1x10 combo as a stage monitor (there are no stage monitors in our system), and line it out into a PA head (not the house PA, a head I brought as part of my rig). A separate channel in the PA head is used for when I play mandolin (I don't need a monitor for mandolin, since it's acoustic-electric, and our stage volume isn't high), and the bass also runs directly into my PA head; by using a PA head with separate channels I can set the volume and tone of the mando and bass independently of guitar, and leave the mandolin plugged in so switching instruments is not a hassle). The PA head then feeds into a 1x15 bass cab, which is used because: I wasn't using it on a regular basis and could leave it at church 24/7 (as is true of the PA head); bass cab cuts down on higher frequencies to smooth out tone and minimize volume complaints; and because in addition to having the bassist use my rig in church, I also use the rig (minus the SC XD monitor) as a bass rig in my side church band with the praise band leader, which usually practices after the praise band. My rig is not mic'd or otherwise in the house PA.

As noted, the PA head and big cab stay at church 24/7. I schlepp the Super Champ XD in for practice on Saturday and usually leave it overnight and then take it home Sunday after the service.

Yup.

Bass player.

172 Masses and services, to date in 3+ years. Audience weekly between 400 and 1500 people.

Good for discipline, helps to need to learn new stuff fast. 'Love it.

And do not in the least discount the spiritual aspect of it. Giving back some of what talent, capabilities...you have been blessed with.

I don't but two guys I work with do. They do a lot of gigs for charitable causes and such.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

And you're a bigot.

You know what all church bands are like?

No.