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TR yea they are good and will get better, the singer only has been with them about 4 weeks or so.
I see our band as slowly going downhill, losing the other guitar player was the biggest mistake we could have made. The drummer and the new guy have this thing going on not sure what but it's going to slowly kill the band.
We started off great and thought we had close to 22 songs but the last couple times we practiced none of these guys did any homework and they still don't know the parts they don't know but they are all so worried about playing out.
Sorry I may not be the best musician but I do have a good enough ear to know if we are tight or not and we are not, at least on a bunch of songs we aren't and I know I have been putting in the time to learn my parts.
Seems like the new guy and I may be a bit wrong only wants to solo and he kind of half a@@es it when he has to play any rhythm. I thought we played well together but I'm slowly starting to change my mind.
We don't have a musical leader anymore. I've been playing way less than all these other guys who have been playing all their lives but none of them have any skills in actually organizing or running the band. So I seem to be the one always bringing up things I think are not right and I get flack or they just don't listen.
We've been playing the Day of the Eagle with the drummer for awhile now and I keep telling him he doesn't play the intro right it's a very specific 2 eigth notes, 3 triplets and then 2 eigth notes he just bangs out some sixteenth notes. Maybe I'm being to anal about it but..that's how I like it. :D
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 08/03/2012 2:42 pm
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Ok haven't posted much as we've been down for a couple weeks due to the drummer having surgey but we practiced Saturday and are ready for our 1 hr debut this Thursday night. Not sure how many songs we'll get to play but somewhere between 10 - 14.
Here's what I think we are playing
Back in the USSR
We're an American Band
Cumbersome
Are you gonna go my way
White Room
Plush
Sex Type Thing
You got another thing coming
Just what I needed
Day of the Eagle
Crossroads
Born to be Wild
Good
Beer Drinkers
Jailbreak
May not do Jailbreak but we'll see.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 02/04/2012 3:12 pm
Good luck!
Posted : 02/04/2012 8:18 pm
I was gonna say "Break a leg" but with your history Chris I'll settle for "Go get em"!
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
Posted : 02/04/2012 9:22 pm
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TR I hear you this is like what, the 1000th attempt at actually getting out there and playing. Well we've had two practices Sat and yesterday and I have to say they were probably the best two we have had in awhile or maybe ever so I think we will be OK unless we have some crazy unforseen calamity.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 03/04/2012 11:11 am
Good luck for Thursday, Chris - looking forward to the gig report!
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Posted : 03/04/2012 11:38 am
Yes good luck cnev!!!!!
Fingers crossed this is the first of many gigs!
"I like to play that guitar. I have to stare at it while I'm playing it because I'm not very good at playing it."
Noel Gallagher (who took the words right out of my mouth)
Posted : 03/04/2012 5:55 pm
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Thanks guys, I think we'll be OK. Let's see in the last few practices I broke a different string on my Strat each time, so I have at least 3 new ones...probably should change them but I won't have time today and I don't like them when they are brand new so I'll take a chance that I'll be good.
I did have to change all the strings on the Epi LP last weekend when I put the new pickup in and I'll bring that as a back up so I should be fine.
I haven't totally dialled hat guitar in yet but the new pickups make a difference and I think it's just a matter of tweaking from here on in. I still woul dlike to tighten up the bottom end a bit when I use the LP it's not a well defined sound and a bit flabby/farty.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 03/04/2012 7:10 pm
Still trying to figure out how your Les Paul can sound flabby/farty? I think some tweaking. You are probably dialed in for that Fender sound. Wish I lived closer. I'd have you up and running in no time. Marshall JCM 900 right? They are darker than Fender amps. are you using any processors or pedals? I run an OD pedal (Bad Monkey ... Tube Screamer clone) into my rig and it tightens and brightens it up nicely.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
Posted : 04/04/2012 4:30 am
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Yea TR I know what you mean it shouldn't sound that farty but it was much worse with the stock pickups. I do go through an ME-70 and might try some tweaking with the EQ on that to see if I can tighten it up but I have also been just playing straight into the Marshall and using the amp's distortion. I can do it with this amp as it has decent distortion never could with the Fender.
Plus the fact I'm not a tweaker by nature I don't play around with my sound enough, I have found a decent setting for the Strat and the Marshall they sound better together than I thought they would.
But playing next to the other guitar player with a brand new Gibson LP mine doesn't sound great.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 04/04/2012 11:15 am
I got a not so new Gibson Les Paul (1992 was new when I bought it) but I'm favoring my black Epiphone Les Paul. Go figure. Oh, you probably know but others might not, my amp is a Peavey Windsor so what's that got to do with a Marshall? It is a JCM 800 clone so it sounds very Marshallish. I'm sure you'll get your Les Paul sounding where you are happy with it.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
Posted : 04/04/2012 11:44 am
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I'm not so sure.. :lol:
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 04/04/2012 5:01 pm
cnev, I get that flabby/farty sensation with my much loved Epi LPs. My current theory is string tension being a little bit less on the shorter scale length guitars requiring less attack pressure on the strings to make them sound flabby. On the occasion that I'm rocking out, I find that I have to really pull back on the reigns with my picking hand to avoid.
The theory breaks when TR mentions his epi being more favorable than his gibby.
I use a thinner pick, lessen my pick attack depth, make sure my volume and tone knobs are maxed on the guitar. I dial the drive on whatever amp or pedal I'm using. I make everything really sensitive. On my old guitar processor, I increased the input sensitivity so that the small pick attack was more than enough to drive some rocking tones. almost too sensitive. I'm not sure what the setting is on the ME70, or even if it was there. It sounds coutner productive, but it ended up being the combination of things that worked for me.
My PRS has adjustable pole positions. I lower the low e and A a good bit and it's less farty than the LPs. Oh, one of the LPs has Seymour Duncans in it and is better for overdriven tones than the other LP and it's stock pickups. The opposite is true for me, too. The stock LP pickups sound better when I'm not rocking out than theone with the aftermarket pickups.
Anyhow, my experiences, for whatever it's worth. :) TR's obviously a much better authority than I am. :D
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Posted : 04/04/2012 7:49 pm
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Messed around with it last night before practice and I was able to dial some of that flabbiness out at least so it's playable to my ears.
Had another good practice last night and the show is tonight so it looks like all systems are go!!!!
It's almost unbeleivable that this is finally going to happen with everything that has gone on over the past year or so.
Not sure if I will be nervous or not hopefully not but sometimes I get nervous for no reason and other times nothing when I should be nervous so who knows. I'm confident about playing my parts but of course I want it to be perfect that's where the nervousness comes in thinking about what if I mess up a note or two or three..Ha
Anyway playing with the band makes that a lot easier.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
Posted : 05/04/2012 11:45 am
Go get 'em, Chris. All the best!
:)
Don
Posted : 05/04/2012 5:54 pm