There are a few things that you learn when gigging around the country week in week out. One of those secrets is that you should always have a few doorstops in your bag to hold doors open when you are loading and unloading gear. The other great secret is to have a whole bunch of hook and loop cable ties with you at all times. Our band set-up includes 2 guitars, keys, bass, drums, 4 vocal mics etc. etc. plus our own PA and monitoring systems. You can just imagine how many different types of cable we have with us to link it all up. These ties are essential to keeping everything separate and neat. Hook and loop is the ideal fastening for these: it holds them in place in transit without becoming unstuck, but is easy to release when you come to use the cable. If you have an extremely long and thick speakon cable, for example, two of the cable ties can be joined together to form one, big, long one. Without a healthy supply off these velcro cable ties, I would hate to think what state our cable box would be in. Basically it saves a hell of a lot of time when you arrive for a gig with all your cables coiled, separate and not tangled together. It takes the headache out of setting up for a gig.