Auckland / Northland Gearfest: 14th August 2022

[Jay]

A penny for your thoughts?

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[Jay]

Compressed the photos for my poor rural upload speed.
No particular order. Videos tomorrow.







Jimi







Strummers with Arps



Slowy-Strummers-Francois-Rob



RobTheMac-Strummers





BSB


BSB




WavesOfFears' Goldtop











Whangarei Corner



Me in the mirror



Strummers



Jimi & Rob


WOF & BSB


Jimi



Rob



WOF



AMP



BSB Pedal Board

[blackstratblues]

Great pics Jay, thanks very much for documenting the hang!

[jeremyb]

Awesome pics, more please!

[crowbgood1]

Looks like a great fest! Nice to see.

[Jay]

Awesome pics, more please!

I have way more but thought this was enough to capture the spirit. Now wait till those videos are up, you'll see some awesome action from da boys. Sound quality not great but is the looks that count eh?

[Jay]

If anyone who appears in any of the videos I am putting up is not happy about being "in the public domain", let me know and I will remove it.

Slowly uploading.... Counting...

This is what Slowy is referring to:

Pity the boys didn't crank it, or did they

[StrummersOfThunder]

Great get together guys, sorry I had to scoot early, and sorry if I didn't get to say hi to everyone.
Thanks for the effort organizing this rob, and good work Jay for the the photo journalism
Slowy's 'little Jansen that could' was my highlight. That amp has some sort of magical clean compression. Worked well with the jag.
Jays DIY Gretsch style hollow body was great, and cool to hear Rob doing his hollowbody jazzbox thing with this and Jays Yamaha.
Rob's pink strat was pink and a strat

[robthemac]

Rob's pink strat was pink and a strat

Ticked a lot of your boxes.

[robthemac]

Thanks, everyone, for making the effort and being so generous with your gear. Nice to put some names to avatars.

I certainly had some contenders for 'Best In Show' awards:
Bruce's little Jansen that could.
Ant's blue Fender (non-Strat).
Jay's Princeton

My main takeaway was that there is an incredible amount of excellent gear in this group. And a reasonable bunch of blokes.

[robthemac]

Oh and if anyone wanted to chuck $10 into 12-3015-0622623-00 they'd be welcome to. Didn't keep track of who gave me cash. BG can consider his brief attendance a forum donation.

[wavesofffear]

Thanks for documenting it all Jay! Really captured the giddy delight of a cranked plexi

Thanks to blackstratblues for putting his speakers on the line (and having excellent taste), and to Rob for putting this whole thing together!

Apologies to the sophisticated jazzbos in the front room for the hijack...

It was a real pleasure to meet everyone and their gear. I'll be back... just gotta accumulate some more gear!

[Slowy]

If anyone who appears in any of the videos I am putting up is not happy about being "in the public domain", let me know and I will remove it.

Slowly uploading.... Counting...

This is what Slowy is referring to:

Pity the boys didn't crank it, or did they

No, that's wrong. It wasn't that quiet; not even close.
The rest of us still have earwax on our fingers.

[wavesofffear]

If anyone who appears in any of the videos I am putting up is not happy about being "in the public domain", let me know and I will remove it.

Slowly uploading.... Counting...

This is what Slowy is referring to:

Pity the boys didn't crank it, or did they

No, that's wrong. It wasn't that quiet; not even close.
The rest of us still have earwax on our fingers.

Very true. The camera obviously has a good compressor. Listen to how the noise floor rises when we start talking!

[Jay]

If anyone who appears in any of the videos I am putting up is not happy about being "in the public domain", let me know and I will remove it.

Slowly uploading.... Counting...

This is what Slowy is referring to:

Pity the boys didn't crank it, or did they

No, that's wrong. It wasn't that quiet; not even close.
The rest of us still have earwax on our fingers.

Just kidding, I think we all covered our ears except for those two in the video...