Now having seen fold-up guitars in briefcases, here’s another approach to what to put in your portable guitar rig, from our friend Kevin Johnsrude of The Nettles. Kevin plays both bass and guitar, but he has a more portable rig so he can play music everywhere. Kevin writes:
In the photo:
The diagonal headless guitar is an old-school Traveler headless guitar minus
the knee rest.The purple box is a Korg Pandora with tuner, multiple effects, crummy
sampler/looper and drum tracks. I have a modified jazz guitar dialled-in for
most of my practice and I use the drum tracks for my metronome when I’m not
playing with recordings.The headphones are Radio Shack folding headphones.
The small black box is a 1 GB Creative Nano which holds all the repertory that
I’m currently practicing plus an audiobook.Missing from photo:
Shubb capo (which fits on the head of the headless guitar)
iRiver ifp-799T which I keep with my gigging guitar for recording gigs for
future practice. Theoretically, I should be able to hookup a mic to the Nano
but I haven’t bothered with that yet.~50 double-sided xerox pages of practice tunes.
The nylon carry case which is about the length of a pool cue case but a bit
fatter.There you have it. Wherever I go, it goes. Life is too short not to play music.
Got a portable guitar/bass rig (or otherwise) you’re proud of? Let me know.