Reply With QuoteWell, good luck, and remember you'll play better if you relax, sound better, too.
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Gig tomorrow with Jaron
with my pal Jaron. Should be interesting. We are playing a bunch of his originals, and it's just him and myself. He plays piano on some songs and acoustic guitar on others. Not jamming this time, it's a more structured show.
I'm using all my gadgets and stuff to make it sound varied. I'll be playing slide, using lots of delay to make a big sound, volume pedal for swells, fat distorted sounds on some songs, clean blues licks on others, vibe, tremolo, chorus etc. Using my whole arsenal!: Just a lot of variation so that it will hopefully sound varied and professional. I'm little nervous, because this time, I have a HUGE role in our overall sound. We have made up several arrangements for the tunes this week. I just hope I remember them all when the time comes...
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The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
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Lefty O'lman
Well, good luck, and remember you'll play better if you relax, sound better, too.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
It was a success and I had a blast. I got some great, great tones out my Suhr and the amp tonight was the Hellhound, for portability purposes. People were standing up at the end demanding we play more. I have never received so much praise after a gig before. Incredible. A lady came up and said my guitar tone was so rich and wondered how I got such great tone!
I think we were playing for a definite music crowd. They were there for the music, and interacted with us the whole time; clapping after solos and laughing when we were joking around musically in songs.
Too bad I didn't have a recorder. Next time, I'll have a new hard drive based camcorder, which I think would work well for recording this. A Zoom H2 might be handy though...
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Master Guitar Academy - I also teach via SKYPE.
Lefty O'lman
That's great. Gigs like that really get you pumped, the crowd and the band bouncing that energy back and forth, the more they like it, the better you play, and vice versa. Glad you guys had a good time......I'll bet you sounded great.
Guitars
Wilburn Versatare, '52 FrankenTele(Fender licensed parts), Fender USA Roadhouse Strat, Fender USA Standard B-bender Telecaster, Agile AL 3000 w/ WCR pickups, Ibanez MIJ V300 Acoustic, Squier Precision Bass,
Amps
Ceriatone Overtone Special, Musicman 212 Sixty-Five, Fender Blues Jr., Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Reverb, Traynor YCV-40 WR Anniversary w/ matching 1x12 ext. cab, Epiphone SoCal 50w head w/ matching 4x12 cab (Lady Luck speakers), Avatar 2x12 semi-open back cab w/ Celestion speakers
Pedals
Digitech Bad Monkey, Digitech Jamman, DVM's ZYS, Goodrich volume pedal
Regular Fretter
Robert sounds like you and Jaron had a great show. I really think that many of todays are coming back for that great tone and good music with vocals that you can understand rather than the distorted-ear popping-what vocals? type of sound that has been sold as music.
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
People seemed to dig the material. Aside from originals, we did some Tom Waits songs, Tore Down, Halleluja, Jump 'n Jive. Jaron always throws me some new material I've never heard at a gig. Never fails. Luckily, they are usually simple, which helps since I have to learn it on the fly.
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
Master Guitar Academy - I also teach via SKYPE.
Contributing Member
Congrats Robert! I hope you get us some recordings sometime!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
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