These guys rock a little too. I have a soft spot for that knees knocking in front of the mic approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4Og...eature=related
Just one of my all time favorites. EC looks so young. The song is just great for when I am feeling lazy or need to get off my butt!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo
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. . .
- j. johnson
These guys rock a little too. I have a soft spot for that knees knocking in front of the mic approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym4Og...eature=related
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. . .
- j. johnson
EC is one of my all-time favorites.
The hobby band I'm does a mini-medley with Pump It Up as one of the songs. This is recorded off one of our practice sessions back in April:
http://home.comcast.net/~kitn13/music/pumpitup4-5.mp3
Cool!
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. . .
- j. johnson
Pump it up is one of the coolest Elvis Costello songs. He had a great band. Just listen to that bass line in that tune. They were really great. I wish I could have seen them back in their heyday.
-- Jim
Electrics: Hamer Newport, Fender Clapton Strat, Ibanez AF86, Line6 Variax 700
Acoustic Guitars: Taylor 514CE, Martin J40-M
Dobro: Regal "Black Lightning Dobro"
Mandolin: Morgan Monroe Mandolin
Amps: Egnater Rebel 30, Vox AD120VTX, Roland Cube 60
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandid=301718
I don`t know if you get any programs shown on BBC4 in the States but there was a night dedicated to the Stiff record label on a few weeks back {'If it ain`t Stiff it ain`t worth a f### ' I think it was called , like the T shirt my mum would`nt let me wear } . It just showed what a brilliantly eclectic mix of artists they had back then , you could start a thread on each of them from Nick Lowe , Dr Feelgood , Ian Dury , Madness , The Pogues , Elvis Costello even Tracy Ullman .
This is one of my all time faves
I was sure that he was going to break his ankles... I bet he couldn't do that now
"GAS never sleeps" - Gil Janus
"Now you got to pay your dues. Get that axe and play the blues." - Spudman
Gear: Epiphone Sheraton II, Epiphone Wildkat, Epiphone Emperor Joe Pass, Fender MIM Strat, Tacoma DR-14, Johnson JR-200 resonator; Fender Super Champ XD amp
For Friday, I am going to pump up this thread. I have been thinking about 1981-82, my first year in college and what I was listening to. It was a year that my taste radically shifted. I had moved from a blue collar longshore/port/pulp mill town to the University of Washington campus in Seattle, and MTV had fired up. Here are a few that caught my ear that year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hDhut69dh0
These guys caught my ear before The Stray Cats did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7u...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5W2Vr6HU7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1CLZ...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zLD6U1TtbQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BqLlVHlWA&feature=fvw
These guys were a huge influence for years. I particularly like the early years and albums. "Under a Blood Red Sky" remains an all time favorite album of mine.
The very early 80's music was quite a bit different than the music a few years later, much of which I also enjoyed. In the next year or so, this little Dublin group became much more popular, the Clash reached a much larger audience, and REM began shifting college alternative into a different sound, plus a lot more. But 80 through about 82 was different. In my eyes and ears anyway.
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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. . .
- j. johnson